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***Official*** Commonwealth Bank Tri-Series

Macka

U19 Vice-Captain
Despite being hilarious, that link isn't appropriate for a family forum, Macka.
We once had a topic "Are women asking to be raped?" in a forum here. I certainly rate that disgusting, and I don't think a bit of bad language even rates close.

But that's me.

It's probably a fair call resting Ponting nonetheless. They've got a myriad of players that can step in and perform. It just shows Australia's excellent professionalism. We have NZ "resting" Fleming against Sri Lanka, and he was certainly not in form. That was leading into a series where we didn't have a settled top 4 (actually entire batting order). Australia are resting and rotating players while not changing game plans and batting positions.

And the big thing is they're resting players while they're in form and their team is on top. Again, huge questions must be asked of the Black Caps' management.
 

Macka

U19 Vice-Captain
It was a Chopper Read clip from the Ronnie Johns Half Hour. In other words, saying that Ponting needs to harden up. In less polite terms.
Just to be clear: it was meant as a joke. Australia's rotation policy > NZ's inept attempt at "resting" out-of-form players.
 

vic_orthdox

Global Moderator
Just to be clear: it was meant as a joke. Australia's rotation policy > NZ's inept attempt at "resting" out-of-form players.
Yeah, I understand it was meant as a joke. But to be honest, in Australia that show is rated MA15+ for a reason, and those segments with Chopper are a pretty major part of that.
 

TT Boy

Hall of Fame Member
We once had a topic "Are women asking to be raped?" in a forum here. I certainly rate that disgusting, and I don't think a bit of bad language even rates close.
Did we?

Anyways, I fancy us doing a number over New Zealand tonight, the top order will fire...:)
 

Natman20

International Debutant
I'm going to say that if we dont beat England then I think we may be seriously out of form for the world cup :)
 

howardj

International Coach
Australia has already won the World Cup imo, it is theirs to lose.
I think it's relatively safe to say we'll make the Semi finals. After that, of course, it comes back to how you perform on the given day. In other words, I think we'd beat most teams 8 or 9 times out of ten at present. However, such is the nature of one-off matches, it could be that the one or two times out of ten, falls on the day of the Semi-final or Final.
 

Sw1fty

School Boy/Girl Captain
New Zealand Team

BB McCullum, SP Fleming, NJ Astle, RL Taylor, PG Fulton, CD McMillan, DL Vettori, JEC Franklin, SE Bond, MR Gillespie, JS Patel

England Team

AJ Strauss, MP Vaughan, IR Bell, PD Collingwood, A Flintoff, EC Joyce, PA Nixon, JWM Dalrymple, MS Panesar, J Lewis, JM Anderson

NZ have won the toss and will bat first
 

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