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4liters posted:I don't mind guys like Maxwell being given a go then being sent away to deal with their deficiencies. Maxwell is probably going to be there for India as the second spinner no matter happens in this Sydney match. Hopefully he won't be poo poo. Watson's average with the bat for the last two years is 28. That would be perfectly fine if he was playing in the lower order as an all-rounder, but he's coming in at number 4 with no ability to get quick singles and twos and no ability to make big scores. He'll probably be kept in the middle order for a while after he gets fit though, the selectors seem obsessed with the idea that everybody needs to be able to bat and bowl.
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Bird is the best
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At least Brad Haddin won't ever be back now
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Bharatrocity posted:Wonder if those Gatorade segways could deliver some overpriced memorabilia to my seat on the Coca Cola beach. Sounds like that would be a Toyota memorable moment, perhaps leading to a hard earned thirst that can only be quenched by a VB.
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Wade being rested for the ODI's (or one game, I don't know). Haddin back in!quote:John Inverarity confirms that selectors have Wade and Haddin firmly as their to two keepers looking towards the India and the Ashes Please don't get injured Wade.
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Herath was well out of his crease at the bowlers end and he threw the ball over Johnson's head to mess up an easy run out.
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This could mean that this could be a potential ashes team. Warner Cowan Hughes Watson Clarke (c) Haddin (vc) Wade Starc Siddle Lyon Bird That would be the best series, even better if Johnson was in.
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quote:Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene (386) has played more ODIs than Australia's entire eleven (366). I wonder if that's ever happened before
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iajanus posted:"The wind blew them over?" I once played a junior game years ago where this exact thing happened. The batsmans bail got knocked off, everybody appealed, but the umpire at that time was the coach of the other team and he was also really loving drunk, so he said the wind or the wicket keeper had knocked the bail off.
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A refugee from Pakistan has been selected in the PM's XI. Presumably Today Tonight are already planning a "refugee invasion" story.
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There's this article on cricinfo about Healy being unhappy with Wade's glovework http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v-sri-lanka-2012/content/current/story/600442.html I find it interesting because I don't think I've ever seen Healy have a strong opinion on anything. quote:Healy said he could not understand why the selectors had chosen Wade ahead of Brad Haddin at the start of this summer. However, he also said that he believed Queensland's Chris Hartley, 30, was the best pure gloveman in the country but that he was unlikely to earn an opportunity at international level with Wade, Haddin and Tim Paine all ahead of him in the queue. He believes Hartley is the best gloveman and Hartley has a better one day batting average than Haddin this season. Makes me wonder why, if they're looking to the 2015 world cup, the selectors didn't choose Hartley over Haddin for this series.
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Mister Chief posted:Because all national selectors regardless or sport or nation are idiots. But these selectors were supposed to be better than the previous lot.  Phil Hughes, first Australian to make a century while on debut in an ODI.
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The media kept telling everybody that this was the B team, so nobody decided to turn up.
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The run rate is bad because the bowling was really good until Malinga and Perera came on. Putting Smith in for Khawaja has turned out to have been a terrible idea because in the early conditions we needed somebody like Khawaja.
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Yep. Dropped for a player that has an average of 22 after 32 matches and has never made a half century in an ODI.
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"Take away the beginning of his career, and if you take away the end and just look at the middle, he'd have a hell of a record." Thanks Mark Nicholas
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Mickey Arthur's explained the selection policy a bit. http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v-sri-lanka-2012/content/current/story/600755.htmlquote:clarified that Usman Khawaja was dropped for Steve Smith under a pre-defined plan to give each batsman one game. This seems to be a really bad way to select a team. Khawaja would clearly have been the better choice to play on last nights wicket, but because of something they decided on beforehand, they felt they had to drop him for Smith.
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Squad for the next two games Clarke (C), Bailey, Doherty, Henriques, Hughes, D.Hussey, Johnson, Maxwell, McKay, Starc, Wade & Warner I think this is the A team? I don't even know
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Back when he was 21 or so there were some articles calling him the next Steve Waugh or something. I don't know why, maybe it's just because Steve Waugh has (or had, idk)a house at Alfords Point and Smith lived there as well. I can't really see anything else that's possibly similar. I used to watch Smith play twice a week back in junior cricket when he and my brother played on the same teams. I couldn't even stand watching him back then. I usually just turn the TV off when he comes out to bat these days.
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No Bresnan for England. Which I think means they will probably win.
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Why are we playing an ODI series against the West Indies right after we play Sri Lanka? There will have been 10 ODI matches and 3 T20's in about a 1 month period..
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Windmill Hut posted:Ummm... we've been playing 10+ ODIs after the test series for an eternity now. If anything there are actually less games now, compared to back in the day when we had the tri-series tournaments of 12 games + finals (including ODIs not featuring Australia). Actually, last year was a return tri-series too from memory. That's a good point and I completely forgot about that somehow. I am an idiot. 
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Last over had a dropped catch, missed run-out and a no-ball on the last ball. The big bash is clearly fixed.
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Burn Down Canberra posted:He is a terrible odi batsman. Is a better test and t20 player. I fault him for that run out that made Cowan look like an idiot. If you call "1" you don't then run for a second unless it's really easy. edit: can we have the b team back Centusin fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Jan 18, 2013 |
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Jan 18, 2013 04:46
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When the ball is swinging in a lot, you probably shouldn't leave a big gap between bat and pad
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Cocksmith posted:What's the lowest odi score ever? 35 by Zimbabwe against Sri Lanka
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Everybody is going to blame this on the 3 "stars" having been rested in the previous games instead of blaming it on an inability to play swing
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Jan 18, 2013 05:58
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Nam Taf posted:The worst part of this is that some loving cock-jockey in the selection team will say 'well boys we lost by only 4 wickets. That's basically the tail and so we almost got em out! It was a close game!' and nothing will change. Tinkering with selections can only do so much though. Bailey has been our best batsman for 12 months and he was out first ball. Hughes made a century two games ago. You could make the argument that Clarke, Warner and Wade didn't have any recent matches under their belt so that affected their performance but Clarke was out resting his hamstring, so nothing could be done about that. If Wade and Warner weren't rested for the first two games then at some point we're expecting them to have played the 6 tests here, 10 ODI's and then the first test in India a week after the final T20 game here. Ideally Moises would not have been in the team, and it would have been Watson, but that wouldn't have mattered against a swinging ball homing in on his giant front pad. What it comes down to really is we're poo poo at ODI's and we're even more poo poo when the ball is swinging
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Well he was a bit of a oval office when he ran him out during the match
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Jan 18, 2013 12:46
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They showed replays and it clearly hit Starc in the helmet without touching his gloves, it left a big dent in his helmet and everybody was praising reiffel for the good decision.
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Jan 18, 2013 21:35
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The crowd broke the record for the longest beer snake apparently. Rain delay worth it
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Brad Hodge will never go awayquote:"Would I like to play for Australia? Of course, everyone would," Hodge said in Dhaka. "I probably deserved to play a little bit more when I had the opportunity. It seems that there seems to be a lot more rotating players then when I was in my prime.
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Glen Maxwell is in for Clarke. Replacing a specialist batsman with an all-rounder that averages 27 in a team that's a bit light on good batsman was clearly the most sensible thing to do.
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Jan 23, 2013 03:58
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I'm pretty sure this is the first time Ed Cowan has ever done commentary on Grandstand and I think he's already better than everyone at Channel Nine
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