Faisal1985
International Vice-Captain
you can't tell that live...only after hawk eye said it was clipping bails...it wasn't even that high on the pads....i don't mean to take away anything from his innings...just saying...
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*Official* Australia vs Pakistan in England
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Spark
Global Moderator
Precisely. I wouldn't have complained if it was given out - not offering a shot and in line - but you can't say it's an obvious decision.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Big difference between "probably should have been given" and "OMFG THAT WAS PLUMB WHAT A JOKE". Ponting's decision being the former.
Johnners
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Stoked with the way Watto has been bowling, showing the front line guys a thing or two. All 3 of Johnson/Dougy/Hilf have been waaay to short, and when they have pitched up, the line's been woeufl. Fingers crossed they sort it out in the 2nd dig if/when Ponting/Clarke give them a total to defend. Ponting was lucky, but there's no way it was "plumb", dunno what he was thinking padding up first ball again though. Looked awesome from there on though, wag 
Spark
Global Moderator
Won't be TBH, Pakistan's batting has made this very gettable. And that still doesn't solve the lower middle order thing.
EDIT: Unless of course Ponting/Clarke beat their Janurary record.
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pasag
RTDAS
Meh, we're not a perfect team but as long as we can show we have the spine to get out of tough situations I'd be happy. You can't expect the world from this side but you can ask for a bit of courage and if they show that today I'll be more than content.
Spark
Global Moderator
True. But I feel we've done that already this year, I don't doubt their courage.
GotSpin
Hall of Fame Member
There's a difference between absolutely plumb and should have been given out.
When I saw it live I thought it was reasonably high
Spark
Global Moderator
So did I. He got a long way forward.
GotSpin
Hall of Fame Member
These sort of decisions tend to favour the bowler when considering that Ponting decided to leave it but its certainly not a howler.
Spark
Global Moderator
Ah, makes more sense now.
I mean the difference between this and Sydney is that on Sydney we had two terrible days and one merely bad one so Pakistan had the advantage and the foot down for the best part of three days so recovery looked impossible, here we've had one terrible day and one OK one. A good day today will certainly give us the advantage.
A single day in test cricket very rarely decides the outcome of the test on its own, especially not Day 1.
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NUFAN
Y no Afghanistan flag
Yesterday was more than okay for Australia, even if some of the bowlers didn't look too good and our openers failed. Pakistan made 7/110 and Australia responded with 2/136. Definitely our day.
Spark
Global Moderator
Definitely our day, but I'm looking at this from the point of view of player-performances and while this has almost put the test back to neutral, Johnson/Bollinger is deeply concerning with their inability to adjust to the conditions. And their general inaccuracy.
But anyway. Hoping Clarke and Ponting make big ones today.
