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

Fiery

Fiery

Banned
Perm said:
Agreed, New Zealand are better at chasing anyway so hopefully we get to see the Australian batsman get some time in the middle.
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I would rather the Aussie batsman all got ducks for some reason. Does that make me a bad person?

Andre Adams has just broken the record for best bowling figures in a 20/20 match with 4 overs for 13. Shame he has to wait to go down a level in competition to do it but nice way to thumb his nose at the selectors. Surely Marshall should have been sent home before him.
 
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pup11

pup11

International Coach
I think Lee and clark would be rested today.

I think lee and clark will rest today and bracks and pidge might play. But i think in these dead rubber games aussies should give chance to most of their 30 probable players.
 
pup11

pup11

International Coach
Ponting recently said his team needs to "beware the injured bull"(England). He thinks a team could be really at their most dangerous when they are really hurt. So finally someone has anything positive to say about the england team.
 
Craig

Craig

World Traveller
ohtani's jacket said:
The Chappell-Hadlee series will either see us:

1) get a hiding in the first game, come ridiculously close to winning the second (only to choke), then win the dead rubber.

or

2) win the first ODI by some miracle, lose the second in agonising fashion, waking Australia up in time to thrash us in the decider.

That's if it doesn't rain in the decider.
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I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but it doesn't rain in Australia so you may be dreaming a little bit there :p
 
NZTailender

NZTailender

I can't believe I ate the whole thing
FaaipDeOiad said:
Only thing I can think is that maybe he meant that Australia would literally be the better side man-for-man - as in, every man.
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By positions or overall?


Bond > Stuart Clark, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Bracken (though it's close with Bracken. Bond's pace beats him).
 
FaaipDeOiad

FaaipDeOiad

Hall of Fame Member
pup11 said:
Ponting recently said his team needs to "beware the injured bull"(England). He thinks a team could be really at their most dangerous when they are really hurt. So finally someone has anything positive to say about the england team.
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Well, I can see the bull.
 
Fiery

Fiery

Banned
FaaipDeOiad said:
Only thing I can think is that maybe he meant that Australia would literally be the better side man-for-man - as in, every man.
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Ah, of course. Took me a while to work that out eh? Sorry Macka but usually when you say man-for-man it's not meant literally "every" man. It's a bit of a worry though that that is now the case. I guess it's a similar situation when you compare the All Blacks to the Wallabies with Latham (who's injured) the only guy you could say would possibly be an exception
 
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Craig

Craig

World Traveller
Slow Love™ said:
Wow, was Hayden at one-time ranked best ODI bat in the world? I missed that completely.

Anyhow, some extreme remarks aside, I pretty much agree with kwigibo and Clapo - seriously, given the crap opposition, it's a bit of an idictment to go on about Hayden getting some confidence or some form for the rest of the tourney.

The main thing to me is what's the idea behind him playing in these games? It's obviously (you would think) not prep-work for the World Cup, so I struggle to see the reasoning. Perhaps the selectors felt at the time that Jaques had run foul of form at just the wrong time (obviously he's just made a score now) but if you wanted someone to scratch around and find confidence and form why not throw him in against this dispirited opposition anyway? Or play somebody else in the middle order and slide Clarke up.

The only thing I can really think of is that they're determined to literally reserve a place for Watson, and they don't want to give somebody else false hope by selecting them, so Hayden's effectively one of those metal thingamejigs you put up to stop someone parking in your space on weekends.

Anyway, rotten effort from the Poms again, it goes without saying. Heard that the crowd booed all round the ground when it came out that Freddie won the toss and England were batting first. Says it all, really.
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Well what was Flintoff meant to do, bowl first?

Anyway some interesting stuff in today's paper with Stuart Law can not believe England keep on picking "little timid creatures" like Ian Bell and are better off with goes who will go down swinging. Perhaps England were best to call up Law as a short term replacement until the World Cup or so. If nothing else because it would have been funny seeing Quensland's favoure sons play for England :laugh:

And another article was believe it or not was that England have claimed they have been trying to hard. Yeah ok :blink:
 
Fiery

Fiery

Banned
Craig said:
Well what was Flintoff meant to do, bowl first?

Anyway some interesting stuff in today's paper with Stuart Law can not believe England keep on picking "little timid creatures" like Ian Bell and are better off with goes who will go down swinging. Perhaps England were best to call up Law as a short term replacement until the World Cup or so. If nothing else because it would have been funny seeing Quensland's favoure sons play for England :laugh:

And another article was believe it or not was that England have claimed they have been trying to hard. Yeah ok :blink:
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Haha. What's even worse is that "little timid creature" was their most aggressive and best batsman in the last game
 
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