*Official* First Test at the Gabba

[Spark]

Clanger.

We can't buy a decent slips cordon ATM.

 

[GotSpin]

omg.

that's it

 

[Furball]

lol Clarke. lol Watson.

 

[pskov]

Jesus, what an absolute shocker of a drop.

You get laughed off the ground if you dropped that on a Saturday for the club 3rd XI.

 

[Johnners]

Clarke

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Lovely drop.

Now go get the ton to rub it in even more.

 

[Somerset]

Terrible drop by Clarke - at least by the catch going down it keeps me in the game in the LMS...

 

[robelinda]

Pretty funny stuff. I dont think ive ever disliked so many players in the Aussie team as I do now.

 

[Spark]

That's basically why Clarke isn't a slips fielder. Was reaching for it, because he's late to pick up the ball.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Nicholas made it partially bearable:

'That's one of those 9 o' clock in the morning jobs that you swallow.'

 

[Son Of Coco]

I understand your thinking, but I guess the question is whether Krezja or Doherty is more likely to take wickets. I really am unsure. I don't see it as Johnson for Krezja.

On the quicks, pick your best three from Johnson, Siddle, Hilf, Bollinger, Harris.

I haven't seen much of Copeland, but I'm not sure why he wouldn't be half a chance at the moment either given how he's going.

Used to be a time when we'd pick these guys out of nowhere and back them to do well (see S.Waugh, G.McGrath, S.Warne as examples). Now they have to spend 3-4 years averaging 50+ or taking 50 wickets a season before they're considered...and I have no idea why, as we're not a team full of superstars anymore.

In the meantime, we shuffle the same 5 guys around and around and around.

 

[Spark]

Wow.

That pitched about two metres from his feet.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

FFS Johnson, go fail in Shield cricket.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

What was that by Johnson?

 

[pskov]

I can only assume that Johnson doesn't actually want to play in the next test and is trying to bowl himself out of contention.

 

[GotSpin]

This team is hopeless

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Johnson's Gatorade ad is pissing me off more and more, considering he's not 'running in 30 yards up to 120 times a day' now.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Those guys are still around - just so happens that most of them are more Heath Davis than Allan Donald, i.e, they've got the pace but they're so loose with it and such scatter guns that they can't reliably do a job for you, or in Shaun Tait's instance, so incredibly prone to injury that 2 over spells is all you get

Well, in Tait's case he gets injured a lot, and is also scatter gun when he bowls.

 

[outbreak]

The selectors seem to be happy with the mediocre players they know well rather then trying to risk improving. I guess they will keep justifying selections based on past results against poor sides. I imagine the whole ashes series will be like this (but without siddle and hussey pulling out massive performances) and after the series we'll see alot of players dropped ( i hope if it continues like this)

 

[LongHopCassidy]

England to declare, or bat all day and tire out whoever's lucky enough to keep their spot for Adelaide?