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Burn Down Canberra posted:Wade is a bit of a tool. Honestly if they want someone to keep like poo poo and occasionally score some runs just slap the gloves on Hughes. Its no difference as far as I can see. Well the problem with that is that Hughes doesn't score runs. Not against test quality attacks, anyway.
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Unimpressed posted:Haha, fair enough. Very good keeper might be a case of absence making the heart grow fonder, but surely he was a level above Wade. Anyway, the Aussies don't seem to be making any breakthroughs, and Starc's omission in favour of Maxwell is looking dumber by the minute. Maybe they've given up on winning and just want to troll the morons who decided to pay a million dollars for him.
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Mar 3, 2013 10:12
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Doherty/Maxwell: Worst spin combination of all time? They'd have to be right up there.
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Surely the problem with Aus spinners at the moment is that 99% of the time they're used to tie up an end while Clarke rotates the seamers looking for whoever had the banned substances sprinkled on their Frosties that morning? So Lyon, Doherty, Maxwho? and anyone else your selectors pick don't actually know how to bowl to take wickets; just how to try to stop the batsmen scoring runs. Which doesn't really help them win games, and really doesn't help against India, whose batsmen face off against lovely spinners every week (like Harbhajan).
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Cocksmith posted:Doherty/Maxwell: Worst spin combination of all time? They'd have to be right up there. I've watched almost the whole day, and it is... embarrassing. They simply don't know what they're doing. Oh great and Warner's on. Rank full toss on leg stump is how he replies to an awful half tracker. Both dispatched for 4 with no issue. Record partnership for the 2nd wicket. It's not like the pitch is dead, Siddle got his wicket by getting movement away, and the ball is turning, they just have no idea how to use the flight or set up batsmen who know how to play them confidently. Hyperriker fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Mar 3, 2013 |
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Mar 3, 2013 10:54
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Hyperriker posted:I've watched almost the whole day, and it is... embarrassing. They simply don't know what they're doing. I grew up in Australia in the 80s/90s and literally every kid wanted to be a leg spinner because of Shane Warne. Based on this, why the hell does Australia have no spinners?
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Mar 3, 2013 11:01
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Look forward to India scoring 600 here, jesus they are cruising.
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Mar 3, 2013 11:02
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Australia are pathetic.
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So when the gently caress is the actual spinner in Australia (S O'Keefe) going to get a game?
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Mar 3, 2013 11:21
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RideTheSpiral posted:I grew up in Australia in the 80s/90s and literally every kid wanted to be a leg spinner because of Shane Warne. Based on this, why the hell does Australia have no spinners? Spin bowling is very hard to do. At every level of cricket a future test spin bowler plays he needs a supportive captain who isn't going to panic and take him out the attack if he gets a hiding. Especially an attacking leg spinner.
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Mar 3, 2013 11:31
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Burn Down Canberra posted:Spin bowling is very hard to do. Yes I am aware of that but the country was literally busting with aspiring spin bowlers, and the Warne generation should be in their mid-twenties. It is completely bizarre that Australia is the only country (New Zealand excepted, possibly South Africa) without a decent spinner. Even Zimbabwe had a good leg spinner against WI last week!
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Mar 3, 2013 11:38
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RideTheSpiral posted:Yes I am aware of that but the country was literally busting with aspiring spin bowlers, and the Warne generation should be in their mid-twenties. Man I hope Bruce Martin does well against the poms, I don't want to go back to Jeetan loving Patel again.
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Mar 3, 2013 11:48
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RideTheSpiral posted:It is completely bizarre that Australia is the only country (New Zealand excepted, possibly South Africa) without a decent spinner. Even Zimbabwe had a good leg spinner against WI last week! We might have one, if he would only be tried. FI average of 25. 30 odd games.
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Mar 3, 2013 11:53
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What the gently caress are you two even talking about?
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Mar 3, 2013 11:53
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Doherty's average: 130.33 and rising fast.
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Cocksmith posted:Doherty's average: 130.33 and rising fast. runs for the runs god!
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Mar 3, 2013 12:45
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Australia sure are bad at this cricket lark.
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Mar 3, 2013 13:26
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Remember the first time Xavier Doherty played a test? 1/517. Second time? 5/620. Now this is the third time...
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I don't know what insane asylum the selection panel escaped from but its time for them to return. Yes no one can bat in the entire country besides Clarke but its not helped by refusing to pick the best first class spinner in the country. Even game for game they are dumb. It would have made more sense to play Maxwell last test and starc this test based on the wickets.
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Mar 3, 2013 13:46
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Burn Down Canberra posted:Spin bowling is very hard to do. For instance, off-spinners were Strauss' worst nightmare, but look how much he got out of Swann. Meanwhile Clarke, a really good player of spin, is now having real trouble working out how to use his spinners properly in India.
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Paul.Power posted:I remember reading one time someone saying that, on the whole, the better a captain is at playing spin, the worse they'll be at captaining it - because they won't respect their spinner as an attacking force. It is amusing to watch Clarke batting against spin. He comes down the pitch and turns the first ball of the over away for a single. Then he has to watch -insert Australian batsman here- play 5 balls making Harbhajan look like he's bowling landmines. He must be groaning his face off inside his helmet every time he bats. I'm unironically sure Jason Gillespie would be more competent against spin than this team.
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Mar 3, 2013 15:03
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Watching any South African team trying to play limited overs cricket is a hilarious experience.
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Maxwell is so awful, I think I literally would have rathered any other player in the squad take his batting spot and bowl his 10 overs today. Thinking about it actually yes I would take anyone.
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Mar 3, 2013 16:11
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Holy flirking schnit what a depressing state of affairs the cricket is in.
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I'm slightly concerned that the mighty 500-1 of Cook and Trott might get done over here.
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Mar 3, 2013 22:44
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Bunch of flat track bullies.
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serious gaylord posted:I'm slightly concerned that the mighty 500-1 of Cook and Trott might get done over here. I honestly think if you mentioned that to a bunch of australians only a few would remember it. We've got such awful memories for how poo poo we are
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Hyperriker posted:I honestly think if you mentioned that to a bunch of australians only a few would remember it. We've got such awful memories for how poo poo we are Whats important is that I remember it. I remember the precise moment I posted it. I also remember the previous 2 days when there were a bunch of smug Aussies that havent posted since mocking England for being awful.
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Mar 3, 2013 23:10
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So when are we going to burn effigies of Micky Arthur and Inventary in the streets?
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Haven't they fast tracked citizenship for that asylum seeker who happens to be a reasonable spin bowler yet? Chop chop, there are important cricket games to be won!
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Lionel RichTea posted:Haven't they fast tracked citizenship for that asylum seeker who happens to be a reasonable spin bowler yet? Chop chop, there are important cricket games to be won! I mean we can't be beaten by the darkies, imagine what the rest of the white cricket world would think of us *sips tea*
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All those years of making kangaroos into boxers and replacement vehicles you should've been making them into cricketers lmbo
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The dearth of kangaroos in Australian cricket is worrying.
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this thread is now rated gold. well done guys we've made the best thread we really did it
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thehappyprince posted:this thread is now rated gold. well done guys we've made the best thread we really did it All it took was a legendary 'Spin twins' partnership.
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serious gaylord posted:Whats important is that I remember it. I remember the precise moment I posted it. I also remember the previous 2 days when there were a bunch of smug Aussies that havent posted since mocking England for being awful. Universal Victory
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Mickey Arther in the Australian: “I thought he went very well today, he toiled manfully, he went about three an over which was pretty decent. Xavier gave us what we know Xavier can." Yeah, he went loving awesome didn't he, must be getting ready for his man of the match speech. The levels of stupidity surrounding that team make the pre floods Wivenhoe Dam looks like a puddle of piss.
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Maybe they should just start rating everyone relative to Maxwell, they won't seem that bad then.
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Unimpressed posted:Mickey Arther in the Australian: Man I want to wear the rose tinted glasses that Arther has. They must make the Bombing of Dresden look like a fireworks display
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Unimpressed posted:Mickey Arther in the Australian: I wonder if Arthur thinks that economy rate is the only way to judge how well someone bowled. I'm sure the Indian batsman are happy for Doherty to go for around 3 an over, if they attack him too much, he might get taken off. Shane Warne released more nonsense on his site today, this is my favourite part quote:Here is a suggestion from left field that will help spin bowlers, in fact all bowlers for that matter, as everything is in favour of the batsmen: Make the stumps a bit wider and a bit taller. This will help in the battle between bat and ball as there will be more bowled and LBW’s.
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