***Official*** Australia in South Africa

[Steulen]

referral system = ****

Not in this case. A very difficult decision to make, and probably the right choice in the end.

 

[Rant0r]

Hauritz, Heal, North and the Crayfish would all do a better job imo.

Out. Fantastic innings by Prince. Dominance personified.

none of whom have been taking as many consistent wickets as mcgain, on stats over 2- years, mcgain is the right choice, on todays form, he's not.

heal needs to move states to get any chance.

on the referral, what the **** ? you might as well just flip a ****ing coin

 

[Rant0r]

Not in this case. A very difficult decision to make, and probably the right choice in the end.

based on guesswork apparently

i did hear something along the lines of 'there needs to be definitive conclusive evidence to overturn the original decision' which i'm not sure there was

i'm going for the chook raffle option, far more accurate

 

[Nate]

none of whom have been taking as many consistent wickets as mcgain, on stats over 2- years, mcgain is the right choice, on todays form, he's not.

North has.

The game isn't played on paper mate. I've seen Darren Powell take wickets.

 

[Rant0r]

pretty sure mcgain has been prising out more batsmen in the shield over the last 3 years than north, which interestingly, is played on paper... i mean grass, oh who knows, you just tuck yourself in and convince yourself of your opinion

 

[Mister Wright]

Good to see the McGAin hype can now be put to bed. Let's have his file stamped as 'One Test Only' and move on.

 

[Rant0r]

which is unfortunate

but i don't think he'll be sleeping for a while, this is an awful punishing

 

[Nate]

pretty sure mcgain has been prising out more batsmen in the shield over the last 3 years than north, which interestingly, is played on paper... i mean grass, oh who knows, you just tuck yourself in and convince yourself of your opinion

Don't need to convince myself of anything, McGain has gone at almost ten a clip on debut.

Everyone has different gifts, and I believe one of mine is being able to pick things to do with cricket. I've put my opinion on the line a thousand times on Australian Cricketers, and get it right, imo, a stupidly huge amount.

Some bowlers just look the goods and you can tell they'll come good, despite the stats. Some bowlers get good stats without looking convincing at all. I believe McGain is best described in the second criteria when it comes to Test Match Cricket.

 

[Rant0r]

hindsight is a wonderful thing

i'm sure you would have made some brilliant inspired selection nostradamus, seeing how your awesome and stuff

 

[Prince EWS]

hindsight is a wonderful thing

Indeed.

Nath's always bagged McGain though, so it's hardly relevant in this situation.

 

[Nate]

Series Result: Aus 2-0
Top SA Runscorer: Smith
Top Aus Runscorer: Hughes
Top SA Wicket-taker: Ntini
Top Aus Wicket-taker: Bollinger
Player of the Series: Hughes
Surprise Packet: Hughes/Bollinger
Dropped Player(s): Morkel
Miscellaneous Event: Siddle gets injured.

Series result on track, Smith injured, Hughes on track, Ntini in contention, Bollinger injured, Hughes on track, Hughes on track/Bollinger injured, Morkel spot on, Siddle got injured but not as badly as I thought.

Injuries not my friend here.

 

[Nate]

hindsight is a wonderful thing

i'm sure you would have made some brilliant inspired selection nostradamus, seeing how your awesome and stuff

Haha, what a well thought out, constructive post.

Have never rated McGain, feel free to search through CC and find all the posts where I've said so.

Most recently I predicted North would go well when no-one else did, and well, what do you know?

I'm crap at a lot of things, but I can do this cricket lark alright imo.

 

[Rant0r]

and i spose you don't need to work with such amazing predictions like that

i'm not really interested in you enough to go trawling through your dribble, let alone read what you've said here

 

[Nate]

and i spose you don't need to work with such amazing predictions like that

i'm not really interested in you enough to go trawling through your dribble, let alone read what you've said here

Got offered a job at CricInfo. So we'll see how that goes.

Hilfenhaus all over the shop here. Get Sidz on at the other end asap please Ponting.

 

[Rant0r]

Got offered a job at CricInfo. So we'll see how that goes.

Hilfenhaus all over the shop here. Get Sidz on at the other end asap please Ponting.

and ?

 

[Nate]

and ?

???

Not wasting anymore time with you, let's shift this thread back to the match.


Kallis loving the pull here, going nuts with it. Might need to pull in his head though, his backfoot reliance could be his downfall.

 

[The Sean]

Got offered a job at CricInfo. So we'll see how that goes.

Really, doing what? That's very cool mate.

 

[Rant0r]

kallis isn't the only one enjoying the pull at the moment apparently

 

[Nate]

Really, doing what? That's very cool mate.

Live scorecards for next Aus Domestic Season and then some statistical analysis when that's not happening. Intend to talk about more it more when/if it happens, considering it won't be until next season.

 

[The Sean]

Live scorecards for next Aus Domestic Season and then some statistical analysis when that's not happening. Intend to talk about more it more when/if it happens, considering it won't be until next season.

Fair enough, well congrats - that's nice work.