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4liters posted:He decided to sacrifice the joy of posting here in order to preserve his dignity from another AHAHAHA gently caress yes this is gonna be awesome for bowling 
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Mister Chief posted:What's the biggest test defeat ever? Innings and something like 576 runs
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Jan 2, 2013 12:47
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First innings lead in 11.2 overs - is that the quickest it's been done?
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Jan 2, 2013 12:55
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Burn Down Canberra posted:Hughes has his issues but he's bloody good through the off side from the backfoot. When he is at his best. c Guptill B Martin
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Jan 4, 2013 03:43
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Burn Down Canberra posted:Why are you looking forward to being beaten so much. Some weird fetish ? You cant seriously think this pack will beat England.
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You Am I posted:Bloody hell can Johnson ever string two games together where he is playing good cricket? To be fair (grudgingly) he didnt bowl badly. And to be fair (again grudgingly) he hasn't been spraying crap all over the place in any game since he's been back. Thankfully he'll be dropped when Pattinson is back. Bird's clearly quite good, Siddle is Siddle and Starc is clearly better than Johnson. And at some point Alister McDermott will also join the long line of good fast bowlers to play and Johnson will be carrying drinks. And then there's also the long line of injured top level quicks to come back that are clearly better than Johnson. So dont sweat it.
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Jan 4, 2013 10:40
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NZ will still lose badly but at least they are showing some fight this innings
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Jan 4, 2013 13:09
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Not exactly sure how Ch10 could be short of money when they have Gina the Hutt bankrolling them. Unlike other billionaires, most her wealth is liquid and very real, rather than debt financed against a nominal share value.
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Jan 7, 2013 05:53
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FC ave of 66 this season. Yeah unfortunantly he's genuinely better than almost all the alternatives. Aussie batting options really are that hosed up
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Jan 7, 2013 11:30
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fuckpot posted:I want Ryan Harris back. What about Pattinson? The only bright spo in any Ashes talk is the bowling line up for Australia and the reserves list is pretty good - Harris, Cummings, Pattinson, Bird, Starc, Siddle, Hilfenhaus to start with and a few others like McDermott who are just as good or better. IF Aust can hold a bowling attack together, most of them know how to swing a ball and are accurate. Lyon really needs to get better fast tho. He's got potential but he bowls too fast and aims to contain, rather than tryig to spin the ball. Frankly we're better off just going with a four prong pace attack - Bird, Pattinson, Harris and Siddle, Starc first in line to repalce any injured bowler. Cummings needs to have a year in FC
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Watson's mentally incapable of being a batsman only. All bowlers have to do is aim for his front leg and he's gone LBW or wait until he snaps in half. Again tho if he begins to score consistent 80's and 90's before hilariously getting ut, that's better than what the rest of FC batsmen have to offer. Whta a terrible situation. Lyon's literally the best spinner in the country and he's poo poo, Tim Paine's the best keeper option but he cant bat as well as Wade so he's not going to get a chance, the batting all oveer the country is terrible and no one other than Clarke has a clue how to play spin.
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Jan 8, 2013 00:14
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Burn Down Canberra posted:At present he is simply not good enough as a batsman to hold his place. Maxwell is also a bit of a plonker but if they must play him it would allow the selectors to play four quicks. We need a Colin Miller again - quite good pace bowler and more than handy offspinner.
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Jan 8, 2013 02:41
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Scylo posted:The media kept telling everybody that this was the B team, so nobody decided to turn up. Not doing bad for the B-Team
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Jan 11, 2013 11:19
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Hyperriker posted:He is a huge oval office though, that's why he got the job Is there a good cricketer who isnt a massive oval office?
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Jan 19, 2013 12:10
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What the hell was wrong with the outfield? Not like it was that much rain and only two days ago the ground was being blasted by a blowtorch. poo poo umpiring all round today.
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Jan 20, 2013 11:21
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Holy poo poo LOLstralia are bad at this batting thing
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Jan 23, 2013 06:05
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4liters posted:Nah, Hughes is actually good. All that poo poo technique and no feet movement arent a problem once the slips are gone. He's not crap against spinners. His FC limited overs stats are actually very good - I doubt he's got more than an off / on test career but ODI and T20, he'll do pretty well.
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Jan 23, 2013 11:18
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thepokey posted:"a wonderful communicator" ... first time I've heard Mark Taylor described that way. As a captain to his players? Yeah he was. He did a lot to turn an average side and some players with potential into something special that became the greatest team we ever had under Waugh.
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Jan 30, 2013 10:54
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Scylo posted:We're going to lose in India Oh gently caress me, we are so gonna get thrashed. What the hell does Steve O'Keefe have to do to get a go? Literally averaging 15 per wicket better than any other spinner in Australia at present, yet we have Doherty as backup to Lyon.
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Jan 31, 2013 03:32
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At least Starc is making sure that if we play a left handed bowler it'll be him, not Johnson
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Feb 1, 2013 05:11
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Burn Down Canberra posted:When Starc is on he is a terrific prospect. Way more upshot than Johnson. Its just he's obviously raw and is a touch impatient. Probably from playing too much short cricket. He is tall, fast and can move the ball. Starc really did look like just another Johnson when he first got into the side. But unlike Johnson, he's improved and gotten more consistent. Plus he's clearly not as mentally fragile.
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Feb 1, 2013 06:03
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Gorn Myson posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/news/9845947/Indians-ban-30-English-players-following-Test-defeat.html Let them rot in IPL hell by themesleves and the rest just play real cricket.
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Feb 6, 2013 00:08
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Pig in the City posted:Australia has an opening partnership. England you are ON NOTICE Not bad with the Spoonboy.
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Feb 6, 2013 05:39
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Feb 6, 2013 06:13
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Mister Chief posted:South Africa are sort of bad at 2/3 of the formats. Oh I dunno. They are pretty good at ODI. And who cares about the pretend format.
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Feb 6, 2013 10:22
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Smorgasbord posted:This viewpoint gets trottted out repeatedly in every SAS doping discussion and is always retarded. Allowing PEDs essentially makes it impossible for clean athletes to compete and will just lead to an arms race to find the newest unsanctioned/untested drug to stay ahead of the competition for the rest, resulting in death of players on the pitch or shortly after retirement. Just look at retired Eat German women who have huge health problems from doping or Armstrong's cancer was probably triggered by doping in the first place. Doping is rife in all sports with most countries, the report is just the first one that's actually put it in black and white how widespread it really is.
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Feb 8, 2013 09:05
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Scylo posted:Turns out the reason the BCCI are being poo poo about letting English county players play is because the ECB were poo poo about letting IPL teams play exhibition matches Anything that throws poo poo at the BCCI is alright with me
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Feb 10, 2013 03:56
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BlackShadow posted:I'm surprised they didn't shield Hughes from the vicious turning Indian pitches. Spin bowling is the least of Hughes problems. I'm fairly positive he'll be one of the better players in this tour Annnnnd #kissofdeath sees I'll be completely wrong. Why Henriques tho? Why pick him? Why not Jackson Bird instead, surely his bowling would be more effective?
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Feb 20, 2013 09:22
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What a bizarro start by Australia. Oh and Schewag gives Warner life.
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Feb 22, 2013 05:37
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Scylo posted:Nice 50 by Henriques. Rare to see an Australian come to the crease after a few wickets have fallen and make some runs. Henriques is still probably pinching himself that he got a test cap in the first place.
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Feb 22, 2013 11:12
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BlackShadow posted:Henriques looks composed and determined to stay there, making the opposition work hard for his wicket. Very impressive so far. Hmmmm. Not a bad Spoonboy there.
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Feb 22, 2013 11:44
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This Clarke guy seems to be half allright.
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Feb 22, 2013 12:05
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webmeister posted:380 seems like a decent first innings total, nice work. If the BCCI allowed DRS it's about 120 more than they would have got.
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webmeister posted:Yeah I know, but frankly I'm happy to see obvious DRS cases going against India. Dont we all?
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drat, Pattinson really is a cut above the other bowlers in this test match. Dunno why Bird aint playing, he'd be brilliant on this pitch
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Feb 23, 2013 10:42
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Scylo posted:Every delivery he bowls seems to be exactly the same, there's no reason why he can't vary his speed a bit more or something. He seems to have no idea how to bowl variety Clarke's bowler selection has been loving odd to say the least.
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Feb 23, 2013 12:32
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Hyperriker posted:That's all well and good except we have no spinners worth picking except for that one state guy everyone keeps talking about who never gets in the national side Can not possibly be worse than the dreck Lyon is bowling right now.
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Yeah, kiss of death on Hughes being able to play spin.
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Chemi posted:I hazard to raise this again but I can't see how it's good for Australia that Clarke comes in to save the day when Australia are 3 down for absolutely nothing. Unless it's proven that he can't bat for poo poo any higher than 5, I can't understand why he does. There's this really cool website with stats called Cricinfo you should have a look at sometime
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4liters posted:Oh and I heard that the reason O'Keefe isn't getting picked is because he's on a blacklist for telling a few people (Clarke, some CA folk) where to go. There's a few too many stories of Clarke being a vindictive prick to not be something to them.
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