*Official* Sri Lanka in Australia 2010

[Lostman]

Fell asleep, during the middle of SL's innings.
Want to see the Clarke run out incident, sounds funny.

 

[stephen]

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Na

If my calculations are correct, we can't drop out of #1 until the 23rd of January and we'd have to lose all of our ODIs, including some against England.

Actually I'm wrong. India could overtake us on the 18th of January.

 

[Jono]

If Australia lose in Brisbane then Sri Lanka will have equal points to Sri Lanka I believe.

 

[marc71178]

If Australia lose in Brisbane then Sri Lanka will have equal points to Sri Lanka I believe.

I'd say that'd be the case if Australia win as well.

 

[social]

Yes, Perera got it big on him

"Got big" at all of 130 ks

Ponting has made a great career out of depositing that rubbish 10 rows back

Problem is that he's mid-30s, his feet and eyes are not what they were AND he's not followed by batsmen who would deposit the same stuff 20 rows back on the way to a hundred on the odd occasion he failed

IMO, he has to show the same discipline Sachin displayed at Sydney a few years ago and put some strokes into the locker permanently for the sake of scoring big runs for his side

Times have changed for him and his team

 

[Jarquis]

The club cricketer strikes.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Looking forward to Aaronk's unbiased summary

I'll have $10 on Ian Chappell being mentioned.

 

[Migara]

"Got big" at all of 130 ks

Ponting has made a great career out of depositing that rubbish 10 rows back

Problem is that he's mid-30s, his feet and eyes are not what they were AND he's not followed by batsmen who would deposit the same stuff 20 rows back on the way to a hundred on the odd occasion he failed

IMO, he has to show the same discipline Sachin displayed at Sydney a few years ago and put some strokes into the locker permanently for the sake of scoring big runs for his side

Times have changed for him and his team

Are we looking at a one eyed Ponting fanboy? I never said "got late" on the shot, which means beaten for pace. I said "got big" on him, which means he was beaten by the bounce. These terms are elementary
in cricket.

 

[social]

Arsenal goalkeeper lets another one in this week

At least we've won something in the last few years

 

[social]

Are we looking at a one eyed Ponting fanboy? I never said "got late" on the shot, which means beaten for pace. I said "got big" on him, which means he was beaten by the bounce. These terms are elementary
in cricket.

Glad you quoted an instance where I said "got late"

 

[Jarquis]

Arsenal goalkeeper lets another one in this week

At least we've won something in the last few years

Yes, because keeping cleansheets is down to the keeper and the keeper alone

<must.hold.tongue>

Jesus ****ing christ, Smith has a shocker so you get all defensive and then you call an International class bowler "club standard" even though he was better than everything Australia had to offer for a year.

It's ok to be wrong, don't worry about it. Also, people are allowed to laugh when a 21 year old batsman gets picked as a bowler because he bowls legspin and is then promptly taken to the cleaners.

 

[social]

Yes, because keeping cleansheets is down to the keeper and the keeper alone

You're deluded and what's worse is you're pathetic.

Jesus ****ing christ, Smith has a shocker so you get all defensive and then you call an International class bowler "club standard" even though he was better than everything Australia had to offer for a year.

It's ok to be wrong, don't worry about it. Also, people are allowed to laugh when a 21 year old batsman gets picked as a bowler because he bowls legspin and is then promptly taken to the cleaners.

Classic

Must kill you that the saviour of north London was meant to be an Australian from Fulham but you couldnt buy him because youre a small club with small aspirations

 

[Jarquis]

Classic

Must kill you that the saviour of north London was meant to be an Australian from Fulham but you couldnt buy him because youre a small club with small aspirations

He was never going to be a saviour, he was going to be a stopgap an improvement on what we had.
Dare I say it, we'd have been no better position had we signed him anyway...

If you're going to troll at least get it right ffs. Amateur hour.

But yet it obviously pains you too much to accept the fact that loverboy Smith is nothing more than a pie chucker at this stage and that a "club standard bowler" is currently enjoying dicking all over the might of Australia. Kulasekara is a better ODI bowler than any of the players you've used this series.

 

[social]

He was never going to be a saviour, he was going to be a stopgap an improvement on what we had.
Dare I say it, we'd have been no better position had we signed him anyway...

If you're going to troll at least get it right ffs. Amateur hour.

But yet it obviously pains you too much to accept the fact that loverboy Smith is nothing more than a pie chucker at this stage and that a "club standard bowler" is currently enjoying dicking all over the might of Australia. Kulasekara is a better ODI bowler than any of the players you've used this series.

In your dreams

 

[SJS]

Why Australian cricket is in crisis | The Daily Telegraph

I really am starting to get sick and tired of the Australian media and hence those sections of the public who buy it now.

The batting unit is having issues with consistency, the bowling unit is struggling to land balls in the right spot, and what's your concern

Whether players are popular or not with a bunch of ****ing bogans!

I don't care what car Michael Clarke drives. I don't care who his girlfriend is. I don't give a **** what a drunken yobbo like Symonds (I suppose that's what makes him relatable) thinks. I don't care what they look like. Lastly I don't ****ing care how many people are on the goddamn board But this lot think it's more important that taking wickets and scoring runs.

I think it was about three years ago that I had written on this forum about impending trouble with Australian cricket with detailed analysis of the seniors who had left without replacements and aging cricketers who would be leaving shortly and no replacements of quality being blooded for half a decade or more. At that time I had predicted that Australia.
's decline from the ranks of the top cricketing nations of the world was inevitable and would be prolonged.

Some worthies here had sought to underplay the issue and names of youngsters were bandied about who would be good enough to challenge the best in the world.

Well the time is upon us now. Australia has declined way below the position they have held for a decade and a half, not because the rest of the world has made great strides but because they have not been able to produce "quality" - real quality - cricketers for quite sometime. It is sad, not just for Australian cricket but for world cricket as a whole for we may soon be comparing players of much lower caliber against each other without young fans realizing standards have slipped, and how?

IFC may need to look more carefully at the declining standards and try and analyze how the shifting of emphasis from the longer version may have, over time, contributed to a drop in both the basics of the players techniques as well as the mental side which can be affected both by the less rigorous smaller version as well as the easy money available even if your standards are low.

 

[Ikki]

Disagree. The Australian Test squad certainly has quality. What it lacks is experience.

 

[Jono]

Which batsmen are inexperienced?

Ponting and Katich obviously not. Watson, Clarke and Hussey have been playing tests from 2005 or so.

That leaves North and Haddin, who are both above 30.

Not saying Australia don't have quality, but the inexperience excuse doesn't fly with their **** batting over the last 12 months.

 

[Prince EWS]

Social, please stop bringing up association football whenever Marcuss disagrees with something you say in a cricket thread.

 

[Ikki]

Well, first of all, I was talking about test level experience. Second of all, I was not only talking about the batsmen.

The batsmen who are experienced and not doing well do not go under "not talented" - just **** outta form. Well, apart from North.

 

[Jono]

The batting has been the primary reason for Australia's recent failings though. You can't just wash away the last 18 months down to inexperience IMO.