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Topic: The Ashes Summer 2017-2018
Posted By: djebel
Subject: The Ashes Summer 2017-2018
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2017 at 10:54am


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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2017 at 11:00am
Australia squad for first two Ashes Test:

 David Warner, Cameron Bancroft, Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith (capt), Peter Handscomb, Shaun Marsh, Tim Paine, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon, Jackson Bird, Chadd Sayers.


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Posted By: djebel
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2017 at 11:00am
Test selectors throwing more darts than Weir.

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Posted By: stayer
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2017 at 5:00pm
Don't mind the bowling line-up.


Posted By: djebel
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2017 at 5:09pm
Originally posted by stayer stayer wrote:

Don't mind the bowling line-up.

LOL

Even the selectors could not stuff that one up. 


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Posted By: stayer
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2017 at 6:12pm


Posted By: Afros
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2017 at 8:52pm
Trevor Hohns excuse for picking Shaun Marsh is he's in career best form, guess he neglected to mention the photo's of several high profile people in CA in compromising positions. I guess Jake Lehmann and George Bailey (similar season aggregates and averages) must also be in career best form and next in line following Hohna logic.


Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2017 at 8:59pm
Hohns must be getting long in the tooth himself. Lived across the street from me at one time, I'm guessing mid 60's


Posted By: ExceedAndExcel
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2017 at 9:54pm
Why are Australia 1.4 to win this series? People are blowing up about how bad the side is yet they are still heavy favourites. Why?

I barely follow the sport these days so really have no idea here.


Posted By: djebel
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2017 at 9:56pm
Because Englands batting is less than ours and we have 4 world class bowlers to their 2.



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Posted By: ExceedAndExcel
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2017 at 10:06pm
Originally posted by djebel djebel wrote:

Because Englands batting is less than ours and we have 4 world class bowlers to their 2.





So it’s battle of the no-hopers then?


Posted By: Afros
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2017 at 9:20am
The series hasn't caught either side at a good time, Englands batting looks brittle outside of Cook, Root and perhaps Bairstow, Stoneman and Malan have got runs in the tour games but against pop gun attacks, of their bowlers Anderson and Broad are class on their day but there has tp be doubts if Anderson can play all 5 tests at full tilt, the bowling behind them has potential but is fairly unproven, Mason Crane is interesting but surely they don't throw him in early in the series and risk ruining his confidence early in his career. Ali will likely bat 7 with 4 quicks below him and be the spinner, this would also allow them to use Anderson in shorter spells. If they get Stokes back they'll be a chance but I doubt that'll happen.

Australia's side isn't one of the great runs but they still have proven runs (Khawaja, Smith, Warner) potential and current form in Bancroft and Handscombe and a dead weight in Marsh. Starc, Cummins and Hazelwood will be to good for Englands new guys in home conditions.

I reckon if England don't make a good go of it in Brisbane the series could be over before boxing day as their confidence will drop quickly.


Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2017 at 1:37pm
Guess Tim Paine's batting average over the series. I'll go 14.50


Posted By: saintly96
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 9:43am
Starts today....green top, Australia putting an excellent GABBA record against England on the line. First session vital, not only for this match, but potentially for the whole series.


Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 9:49am
Maxwell expected to play in place of Marsh in the First Test 




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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 9:50am
Match betting

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Posted By: saintly96
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 9:57am
Totally missed this thread.

A GABBA green top, and an excellent GABBA record against England on the line.

First session vital.


Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 9:59am
Some, but very little rain predicted for the last 3 days should just keep the air moist and make this an early finish, Australia's seamers should have a picnic at the Gabba this weekend, I reckon. 

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Posted By: cabosanlucas
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 10:25am
i was a cricket tragic as a kid. played, lived and breathed it every summer.

lost me through the 90's. will watch a few overs here and there...cmon aussie.




Posted By: JudgeHolden
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 10:31am
Cricket’s lost me. Sport’s been totally corrupted. Too much meaningless hit and giggle stuff, to the detriment of the peak form of the game. Interesting watching American pro sports, and despite the staggering amounts of money in the games they’ve remained true to their formats. The flood of money into the game is killing cricket.


Posted By: ExceedAndExcel
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 10:47am
Originally posted by cabosanlucas cabosanlucas wrote:

i was a cricket tragic as a kid. played, lived and breathed it every summer.

lost me through the 90's. will watch a few overs here and there...cmon aussie.
Rubbish.




I’m the same. Watched everything as a kid and played a bit too despite being rubbish.
Towards the last 2000s I started to lose a bit of interest. Perhaps it was not having as much spare time as I got older combined with the other factors you mention. I don’t know. To me cricket reached the peak in that 2005 Ashes series and has been downhill since. Still, I would love to be there today with a few mates getting on the beers.


Posted By: Carioca
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 11:30am
Originally posted by ExceedAndExcel ExceedAndExcel wrote:

Originally posted by cabosanlucas cabosanlucas wrote:

i was a cricket tragic as a kid. played, lived and breathed it every summer.

lost me through the 90's. will watch a few overs here and there...cmon aussie.
Rubbish.




I’m the same. Watched everything as a kid and played a bit too despite being rubbish.
Towards the last 2000s I started to lose a bit of interest. Perhaps it was not having as much spare time as I got older combined with the other factors you mention. I don’t know. To me cricket reached the peak in that 2005 Ashes series and has been downhill since. Still, I would love to be there today with a few mates getting on the beers.


In the same boat myself, slowly have dropped off the game, maybe age dunno , but I do recall one year at the Royal Easter Show ( many a year ago) Bill Lawrie would come out at intervals and do a session in the nets for the patrons, my favourites were slasher McKay and Peter burge, both Queenslanders.


Posted By: cabosanlucas
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 12:43pm
for me, the game really changed. it became a massive business, and even one day internationals became boring and scripted. batsman 'worked their way towards 70 runs, hitting 5 singles on the last over. not only that...their seemed to be an international tourmament every few months. it was non stop cricket and results seemed to mean little if a new tournament was only a week away. the whole 'care factor' was lost. and so was i...


Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 12:54pm
Originally posted by Carioca Carioca wrote:


my favourites were slasher McKay and Peter burge, both Queenslanders.

Great players, but got nothing out of it financially. In fact, it would have cost them money, bosses don't want people who are wanting time off for other priorities. Both died relatively young.


Posted By: Xavier
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 1:52pm
South Africa.... sorry I mean England to win 3/2

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Posted By: cabosanlucas
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 1:56pm
Originally posted by max manewer max manewer wrote:

Originally posted by Carioca Carioca wrote:


my favourites were slasher McKay and Peter burge, both Queenslanders.

Great players, but got nothing out of it financially. In fact, it would have cost them money, bosses don't want people who are wanting time off for other priorities. Both died relatively young.


was julian weiner a queenslander? i had his cricket card or sticker...im thinking qld or sth aussie. ????


Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 1:58pm
Never heard of him, cabo.


Posted By: Xavier
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 2:00pm
Weiner was from Melbourne according to Wikipedia

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Posted By: cabosanlucas
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 2:09pm
Originally posted by Xavier Xavier wrote:

Weiner was from Melbourne according to Wikipedia


cheers. blonde haired batsman max, shield cricketer, mcdonalds cup...he may have played 1 or 2 tests for australia. sth african background???...i was only about 7 yrs old.


Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 3:20pm
That rain interruption was an anomaly, a small rain cloud and nothing else in sight for miles.


Posted By: Second Chance
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 5:07pm
Hohns says Neville wasn't selected as keeper because "he wasn't making enough runs".

Paine who wasn't even keeping for Tassie recently gets a guernsey and promptly drops a dead-set sitter off Lyon just when we needed a wicket.

Next thing you know Hohns will be saying that someone like Shaun Marsh could be dropped for the Adelaide test because he wasn't taking enough wickets.  Ermm  Clown


Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 7:16pm
What with the incessant appealing of the Australians, and the commentators on 9, don't see myself bothering with much cricket this summer.


Posted By: Second Chance
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 7:19pm
Few of us find the Aussies "appealing" per se.

But we still want them to flog the poms.  
 




Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 7:25pm
Listening to much of the Slater drivel would have me in need of Judge Holden's dysphoria psychiatrist mates.


Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2017 at 7:25pm
I can always switch to Jim Maxwell I guess !


Posted By: marble
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2017 at 5:59pm
steve smith pulling us out of the poo - one of the best! 


Posted By: maccamax
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2017 at 7:09pm
Originally posted by marble marble wrote:

steve smith pulling us out of the poo - one of the best! 

We aren't out yet.     Hope Marsh can keep going in support.


Posted By: cabosanlucas
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2017 at 11:10pm
Originally posted by max manewer max manewer wrote:

Listening to much of the Slater drivel would have me in need of Judge Holden's dysphoria psychiatrist mates.


the few overs here and there i do watch.....the commentators i like the most are two of the most despised - ian chappel and mark taylor.


Posted By: scamanda
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2017 at 3:55pm
Originally posted by marble marble wrote:

steve smith pulling us out of the poo - one of the best! 

Yet another ton to save Australia's chances. Clap



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Posted By: Smoke and Mirrors
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2017 at 3:55pm
AUS will lose by 87 runs

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"Go Hard or Go Home”


Posted By: maccamax
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2017 at 6:09pm
Steve Smith and Cummins may have injected some interest and faith back into this Series.
What a top Man is Steve.


Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2017 at 6:25pm
I recall going to the Gabba when the West Indies great sides of the 70's and 80's toured, got bored watching it, similarly when the poms were playing against Thomson and Lillee, I haven't got the attention span to watch even the best of test cricket.


Posted By: Magnolian Khan
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2017 at 7:17pm
Steve Smith for Qld Premier


Posted By: maccamax
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2017 at 8:53pm
Originally posted by max manewer max manewer wrote:

I recall going to the Gabba when the West Indies great sides of the 70's and 80's toured, got bored watching it, similarly when the poms were playing against Thomson and Lillee, I haven't got the attention span to watch even the best of test cricket.


MAX , You are a brainy Man .       . I watch Nothing direct.    Tape everything ,     2 at a time ....    NO ADDS.     . I haven't seen an add since they were selling Fur Coats .( always sus as to where the fur was coming from )
   

But I watch Current Affairs in 4 minutes.       The Fiji Football last night in about 10 minutes.       It's called Modern Technology.
   I must confess I do spend some time on the Trivago adds ... I fancy the beauty queen there.


Posted By: cabosanlucas
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2017 at 8:59pm
Originally posted by max manewer max manewer wrote:

I recall going to the Gabba when the West Indies great sides of the 70's and 80's toured, got bored watching it, similarly when the poms were playing against Thomson and Lillee, I haven't got the attention span to watch even the best of test cricket.


Great days.
haynes greenidge , viv, clive....and the mercurial larry gomes.


Posted By: maccamax
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2017 at 9:06pm
Originally posted by cabosanlucas cabosanlucas wrote:

Originally posted by max manewer max manewer wrote:

I recall going to the Gabba when the West Indies great sides of the 70's and 80's toured, got bored watching it, similarly when the poms were playing against Thomson and Lillee, I haven't got the attention span to watch even the best of test cricket.


Great days.
haynes greenidge , viv, clive....and the mercurial larry gomes.

How much medication did you need Cabo.     .To sit through 6 days of watching " cars in neutral" would need powerful tranquilisers .


Posted By: cabosanlucas
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2017 at 9:11pm
Originally posted by maccamax maccamax wrote:

Originally posted by cabosanlucas cabosanlucas wrote:

Originally posted by max manewer max manewer wrote:

I recall going to the Gabba when the West Indies great sides of the 70's and 80's toured, got bored watching it, similarly when the poms were playing against Thomson and Lillee, I haven't got the attention span to watch even the best of test cricket.


Great days.
haynes greenidge , viv, clive....and the mercurial larry gomes.

How much medication did you need Cabo.     .To sit through 6 days of watching " cars in neutral" would need powerful tranquilisers .


5 days macca. but still a draw.


Posted By: maccamax
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2017 at 11:18am
They're off on the run down the straight.

The Poms scored well 1st 2 overs.        > Appears to be plenty of runs on offer so the pitch is standing up.     2 for 50 at this stage.


Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2017 at 6:30pm
Not much fun for the Barmy Army today !


Posted By: maccamax
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2017 at 7:19pm
Originally posted by max manewer max manewer wrote:

Not much fun for the Barmy Army today !


Has really got away from them.

    Mary has the knickers on.



Posted By: Dr E
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2017 at 7:33pm
The only Bancroft I know is Anne (still have daydreams about The GraduateHeart)

... but if Justin Langer reckons he's as tough as any player he knows, I'll have him in my team!Thumbs Up

Went to the Sydney test last Ashes series and when the Poms are doing well, the Barmy Army are more annoying than that mosquito on a summers night!Angry

You can appreciate what they bring to the series when we are whipping their asses though ... cant help laughing when they sing "God Save YOUR Queen"! (Malcolm and the other socialists must just quiver with rage!)LOL


Posted By: Dr E
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2017 at 7:39pm
... remember when it was 6 days with a rest day ... still watched - or listened to Allan on ABCradio.

Joel Garner and Viv walking home to their hotel across the Harbour Bridge after a big night out - still rates as one of my favourite jokes everLOL - I'm sure JA would know it, he should tell it at his next presser, he'll get a massive swing in his favor!Thumbs Up


Posted By: cabosanlucas
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2017 at 8:52pm
Originally posted by Dr E Dr E wrote:

... remember when it was 6 days with a rest day ... still watched - or listened to Allan on ABCradio.

Joel Garner and Viv walking home to their hotel across the Harbour Bridge after a big night out - still rates as one of my favourite jokes everLOL - I'm sure JA would know it, he should tell it at his next presser, he'll get a massive swing in his favor!Thumbs Up


thats right...i forgot about the rest day. and 8 ball overs.


Posted By: maccamax
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2017 at 12:14am
Originally posted by cabosanlucas cabosanlucas wrote:

Originally posted by Dr E Dr E wrote:

... remember when it was 6 days with a rest day ... still watched - or listened to Allan on ABCradio.

Joel Garner and Viv walking home to their hotel across the Harbour Bridge after a big night out - still rates as one of my favourite jokes everLOL - I'm sure JA would know it, he should tell it at his next presser, he'll get a massive swing in his favor!Thumbs Up


thats right...i forgot about the rest day. and 8 ball overs.


Unreal how life is so different .   Glued to an old radio with poor crackling reception.      The day War was declared The English announced an urgent message =    Tragedy strikes The Empire ,   Hutton is out for a Duck " ( yoke yoyce )
We had nothing better to do but I'm sure life was more simple and much happier.


Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2017 at 12:50pm
I hope no-one showed up to watch today. If so, should be made to undergo psychiatric testing.


Posted By: Shawy38
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2017 at 12:54pm
Originally posted by max manewer max manewer wrote:

I hope no-one showed up to watch today. If so, should be made to undergo psychiatric testing.


Was entry via gold coin, money going to Movember


Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2017 at 1:21pm
Mad enough to join the Barmy Army, if you went there today.


Posted By: maccamax
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2017 at 3:26pm
Originally posted by Shawy38 Shawy38 wrote:

Originally posted by max manewer max manewer wrote:

I hope no-one showed up to watch today. If so, should be made to undergo psychiatric testing.


Was entry via gold coin, money going to Movember


Mary had her trousers on , very early in this one.


Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2017 at 3:42pm
No idea what this Mary business is all about ?


Posted By: maccamax
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2017 at 3:44pm
Originally posted by max manewer max manewer wrote:

No idea what this Mary business is all about ?


OHHH Max I'm staggered . Surely you have heard the famous saying .

Put your knickers on Mary ,    It's all over.


Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2017 at 3:47pm
Not much in currency here in Qld, macca, that I can recall. If you had said knickers rather than trousers, maybe more self explanatory.


Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2017 at 3:49pm
Today the buzz expression is "put your big boy/girl pants on" which of course has a completely different meaning.


Posted By: scamanda
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2017 at 4:35pm
Originally posted by maccamax maccamax wrote:

Originally posted by max manewer max manewer wrote:

No idea what this Mary business is all about ?


OHHH Max I'm staggered . Surely you have heard the famous saying .

Put your knickers on Mary ,    It's all over.

Wasn't Mary your second wife macca? 



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Posted By: cabosanlucas
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2017 at 5:25pm
Originally posted by max manewer max manewer wrote:

Today the buzz expression is "put your big boy/girl pants on" which of course has a completely different meaning.


announcer : "ladies and gentleman, boys and girls..."

audience : "who????"

Year: 2018.


Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2017 at 5:28pm
Didn't you say there are only two genders? 

If not then boys, girls and??


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Posted By: maccamax
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2017 at 5:39pm
Originally posted by scamanda scamanda wrote:

Originally posted by maccamax maccamax wrote:

Originally posted by max manewer max manewer wrote:

No idea what this Mary business is all about ?


OHHH Max I'm staggered . Surely you have heard the famous saying .

Put your knickers on Mary ,    It's all over.


Wasn't Mary your second wife macca? 



I don't think so Scamanda ,   I do put painful experiences out of my mind .

I'll have a look at my diary on Racecourses, Golf courses, Dinner courses, &
Inter views.    I'll let you know if a Mary is written in my color code.

That tells me what color they were wearing , in case they left a pair in the glove box.      .


Posted By: cabosanlucas
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2017 at 7:50pm
Originally posted by Passing Through Passing Through wrote:

Didn't you say there are only two genders? 

If not then boys, girls and??


nah, ive been converted. their are 288.


Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2017 at 8:07pm
It is a spectrum, there are an infinite number

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Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 6:31pm
Watching the Poms struggle in Adelaide, reminds me that the second show in the series about the EASYBEATS is on tonight.


Posted By: djebel
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 6:42pm


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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 6:43pm
100 no

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Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 6:51pm
You'd need your head examined paying money to watch those Poms play. How bad was that attempted slips catch.


Posted By: djebel
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 6:54pm
It is becoming a little comical. LOL

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Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 7:13pm
Becoming ? 


Posted By: Shrunk in the Wash
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 7:46pm
They've lost the plot, totally


Posted By: Afros
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 7:48pm
It'll be 5-0 again, Root sealed that by electing to bowl first on the Adelaide Oval Highway. That will go down in history as an even more stupidly bone headed decision then Hussein sending Aus in at the Gabba all those years ago.


Posted By: maccamax
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 8:01pm
Where it is due ..     Great Innings Mr Marsh.    One of the best.

Like WINX , They can only beat what lines up.


Posted By: djebel
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 8:19pm
Great photo.



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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 8:20pm
I am not sure I can make it through the whole Summer listening to Kevin Pieterson 

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Posted By: Afros
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 9:02pm
I find it odd so many people complain about KP yet say nothing about the blithering moron Healy.


Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2017 at 1:32pm
I see Lyon feigned injury, to deny the poms another over to bowl. What a surprise, an Australian cricketer behaving like an aarse ! And been that way for a very long time. It is that kind of game, folks.


Posted By: maccamax
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2017 at 1:48pm
Not much comment on the cricket ..   Paint drying = whatever.

WHY would Smith not enforce the follow on .      Appears stupid.



Posted By: scamanda
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2017 at 1:54pm
The Aussies only have to bat for half a day macca.

Then send the Poms in and win the test before the day ends.

Runs aren't a problem and the bowlers are getting a rest.


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Posted By: scamanda
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2017 at 1:57pm
Originally posted by Passing Through Passing Through wrote:

I am not sure I can make it through the whole Summer listening to Kevin Pieterson 

KP is our best weapon.

In the Brisbane test , once he told the channel 9 viewers the Aussies had a fragile batting lineup the game turned our way.



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Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2017 at 1:59pm
Ian Chappell and co. changed the culture in Australian test cricket. Even the schoolboy cricketers are into sledging these days. OK if it has a little humour attached. I was walking past a suburban cricket field where a lower grade fixture was being played. A fielder at long off was yelling abuse at the batsman from that far away, The next ball is skyed toward him, looking like a catch, he lurches forward a couple of steps, falls flat on his face before the ball arrives. I laughed my guts out. The don't call them boring cricket farts for nothing.


Posted By: ExceedAndExcel
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2017 at 2:39pm
Originally posted by max manewer max manewer wrote:

Ian Chappell and co. changed the culture in Australian test cricket. Even the schoolboy cricketers are into sledging these days. OK if it has a little humour attached. I was walking past a suburban cricket field where a lower grade fixture was being played. A fielder at long off was yelling abuse at the batsman from that far away, The next ball is skyed toward him, looking like a catch, he lurches forward a couple of steps, falls flat on his face before the ball arrives. I laughed my guts out. The don't call them boring cricket farts for nothing.




I’ve played a few seasons of warehouse cricket over years and what you say is 100% correct. I played in quite a low grade because, well, I was gelati.
Every game you get muppets trying to sledge the entire time. Newsflash guys, you’re playing C3 winter warehouse (light years from the test arena), you’re as gelati as the rest of us!


Posted By: maccamax
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2017 at 4:20pm
The bowlers aren't going to get much rest Scamanda .

I would love to see the Poms get up and win.

Smith won't sleep for a month if they do.


Posted By: djebel
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2017 at 5:37pm
Australia enforce the follow on last night they probably have this Test wrapped up by now.

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Posted By: Shrunk in the Wash
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2017 at 5:49pm
Originally posted by djebel djebel wrote:

Australia enforce the follow on last night they probably have this Test wrapped up by now.


Exactly


Posted By: stayer
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2017 at 7:03pm
I've actually enjoyed watching it a bit, which is great because I've had no interest in a game I loved for years. I saw why I turned off cricket some years ago during a rain delay in adelaide - they showed some old Ashes games of the 80s/90s and then one game of the team of deodorant/ hair-product selling tools of a few years ago.
I don't mind this Oz team and I think it's been interesting test cricket, even if England has been weak.


Posted By: Dr E
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2017 at 9:41pm
Time for a wicket!

Come on Aussie, come on!


Posted By: maccamax
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2017 at 11:32pm
Very interesting game now ..      Oz fav but not the good things they would have been with a follow on.


Posted By: Brudder_A
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2017 at 12:49am
Originally posted by maccamax maccamax wrote:

Very interesting game now ..      Oz fav but not the good things they would have been with a follow on.


Crazy not to have the POMs follow on with the pink ball in hand. Duh!

Last day's play will be very interesting!


Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2017 at 9:41am
What this "sport" needs is some powerful directional microphones, to pick up the chit-chat from the "sportsmen" on the Australian team. (May be both sides, but I'd say the Australians might have the better of it). They are at it continuously, and I'm tipping the content of it would curl the hair of a lot of people who "follow the cricket".


Posted By: JudgeHolden
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2017 at 10:05am
Went to the first three days, which was about all my time (not to mention my liver) could afford. Incredible stadium, amazing atmosphere, people from all over the world in a genuinely festive and positive atmosphere. Bit like the Melbourne Cup Carnival- you don’t even have to like cricket, though it certainly helps. If you ever get the chance...

Hopefully we now get the grandstand finish this match deserves, though suspect it might fizzle. Aussies by lunch.


Posted By: maccamax
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2017 at 11:46am
Originally posted by JudgeHolden JudgeHolden wrote:

Went to the first three days, which was about all my time (not to mention my liver) could afford. Incredible stadium, amazing atmosphere, people from all over the world in a genuinely festive and positive atmosphere. Bit like the Melbourne Cup Carnival- you don’t even have to like cricket, though it certainly helps. If you ever get the chance...

Hopefully we now get the grandstand finish this match deserves, though suspect it might fizzle. Aussies by lunch.


Your living on hope Judge.
The atmosphere would have to be magic at such a place, agreed.     Not a lot else to remember, except a crazy decision not to have the Poms follow on.     Paint drying or grass growing covers test cricket well.
   


Posted By: maccamax
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2017 at 3:12pm
Good call Judge Holden .     Lunch , it could well be .


Posted By: JudgeHolden
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2017 at 6:53pm
Was told by someone today that a lot of the acrimony around the two teams today stems from Australian targeting Bairstow. Bairstow's father committed suicide when his son was 8, and it was the young son who found the body.

I'm informed the Aussies have been using this. Now I have no idea if this is correct but if true it's an incredible new low, and I sincerely hope it's not. If it is, I hope someone has the guts to come out and expose it.


Posted By: max manewer
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2017 at 6:57pm
Ring up Jim Maxwell and see what he says.


Posted By: djebel
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2017 at 7:03pm
Originally posted by JudgeHolden JudgeHolden wrote:

Was told by someone today that a lot of the acrimony around the two teams today stems from Australian targeting Bairstow. Bairstow's father committed suicide when his son was 8, and it was the young son who found the body.

I'm informed the Aussies have been using this. Now I have no idea if this is correct but if true it's an incredible new low, and I sincerely hope it's not. If it is, I hope someone has the guts to come out and expose it.

That would indeed be a massive low.

I can not believe they would stoop that low.

I suspect if they were, England would be making far more of it than what has been made.




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