***Official*** Australia in the West Indies 2012

[Spikey]

gee given wade hardly shined in the LO i'd be getting as much game time in him as possible

 

[Burgey]

Horrible news about Haddin's little one. Doesn't get any worse for a parent. What a burden to carry.

 

[Ruckus]

Some ranking tidbits I totally wasn't aware of:

-Michael Clarke is the no. 1 ranked test batsman (tied with ABdV, but nobody cares). What a man.
-Siddle is as high as 4 in the test bowling rankings.
-Australia will jump above England in the rankings if we win the WI series 3-0 and England lose their next match against SL. Would be an amazingly abrupt change if it happens, and one that I'm sure not many would have thought possible a year ago.

 

[Ruckus]

Horrible news about Haddin's little one. Doesn't get any worse for a parent. What a burden to carry.

Oh no... what happened?

 

[Spark]

To be fair, not sure many of us would have thought it possible for a Test-standard middle order to collectively average less than twelve in a series but it happened anyway.

 

[Spark]

Oh no... what happened?

One of his children has cancer.

 

[Ruckus]

To be fair, not sure many of us would have thought it possible for a Test-standard middle order to collectively average less than twelve in a series but it happened anyway.

ha that is abysmal.

One of his children has cancer.

Oh geez that really blows. Poor guy.

 

[Jayzamann]

Some ranking tidbits I totally wasn't aware of:

-Michael Clarke is the no. 1 ranked test batsman (tied with ABdV, but nobody cares). What a man.
-Siddle is as high as 4 in the test bowling rankings.
-Australia will jump above England in the rankings if we win the WI series 3-0 and England lose their next match against SL. Would be an amazingly abrupt change if it happens, and one that I'm sure not many would have thought possible a year ago.

1 and 2 make a bunch of sense, they've been really super awesome in their respective roles of late.

3 is just lols.

 

[Spikey]

took a few searches, but I found a guy twitting the match: Twitter

Australia fielding. Early chance for Nev to shine

 

[benchmark00]

took a few searches, but I found a guy twitting the match: Twitter

Australia fielding. Early chance for Nev to shine

#followseveryone

 

[Spark]

Right so the WICB Pres Xi is 0-18 after 14 overs. It's been a slow morning. Watto dropped Powell off Hilf in 4th over. That is all. #cricket

Ten bucks says he was at first slip.

 

[benchmark00]

Lyon joins the party. Has Corbin caught by Cowan at short leg. Easy dismissal. WICB Pres XI 6-78. They've lost 5-20 since lunch

.

 

[four_or_six]

I got a bit lost with what was going on over the winter. What's Australia's first choice attack these days?

 

[benchmark00]

Siddle
Pattinson
Hilfenhaus
Lyon
+Watson

Harris next in line and probably stiff to miss out.

 

[four_or_six]

Ta. Will be cool to see how Pattinson goes, could get a load of wickets and it'd set him up nicely for the future.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Official WI account is providing a more detailed commentary.

 

[Sylvester]

Harris 4 and Beer 4, the former probably booked himself a spot and Beer keeps the pressure on Lyon.
Nev dropped a catch, not what he needed.

 

[ajdude]

Says on twitter that Hilf took 4 instead of Harris, and well Beer took his wickets at like 5 an over, including a maiden :/

 

[Spark]

Clarke batting at 3? ITSTL

So confused as to the scorecard right now

 

[Ruckus]

Harris proving he is still the countries best bowler. Will be stupid if he is left out.