ohnoitsyou
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yeah it is, but Australia have Short and Doran to come cause of the ****ed up teams, so its going to take a fair bit of luck for us to bowl them outTurning into quite an interesting run chase.
yeah it is, but Australia have Short and Doran to come cause of the ****ed up teams, so its going to take a fair bit of luck for us to bowl them outTurning into quite an interesting run chase.
Ben AshkenaziWho's the Brett Lee clone btw?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJUHf_1fU84What are your thoughts on Hunter, Kippax?
He dominated the second half of the club cricket season in Dunedin.
No, it doesn't count. I think the last two proper U19 tours I've seen scored on Cricinfo were England vs. South Africa both times, which I guess sums it up pretty well. Everyone else gears their whole program towards the next U19 WC, which provides a very tangible and convenient return on investment metric. This is much easier to record on a high performance balance sheet than some vague and toffy, set the tone pay-off.Good to see that we are teaching them young that 'test' matches should be nothing more than a 13 a-side warm-up for the one-dayers.
I take it this doesn't count from an official stats POV?
Yeah I'm going to have to assume the true intention there was to put a line through Arnel, McKay and Nethula and have a specific game to direct their enquiries to, then crack on with the youngsters next A tour. Likewise the county stint for Nicol tbh.But with an NZ A test v India A turned a little farcical by him and Littlejohn wanting to experiment with how 2 bowlers, who will never play another test, and who would never lead the attack if they did - would go leading the attack with no 3rd paceman.
Puntastic. Given that's a Jewish name, though, such puns will probably be highly inappropriate.
Lot of soft wickets given away by the kiwis. Especially in the first innings - only really that brute of a bouncer that got Gibbons seemed worthy of a wicket. I realise some of the later ones were deceleration wickets.All 30 Wickets, New Zealand U19 vs. Australia U19 - YouTube
Pity Weerasundara struggled with the short stuff and was a bit of an Unmukt Chand with his cut and offside drive bias. A very stylish little bat by Wgtn-raised standards.
Hey athlaiOn the subject of top blokes, Jeetan Patel is a right ____. Just putting that out there.
On the Australian side of things, McDermott looked pretty impressive behind the stumps from those dismissals.All 30 Wickets, New Zealand U19 vs. Australia U19 - YouTube
Pity Weerasundara struggled with the short stuff and was a bit of an Unmukt Chand with his cut and offside drive bias. A very stylish little bat by Wgtn-raised standards.
Possibly I'm having too high standards here, but my god, there's some appalling dismissals in there for both sides. Just great examples of really, really thick cricket. Getting run out because you've wandered out of your crease, or are practicing the sweep shot you've just hit. Hitting juicy full tosses to fielders. It's just so, so dumb.All 30 Wickets, New Zealand U19 vs. Australia U19 - YouTube
Pity Weerasundara struggled with the short stuff and was a bit of an Unmukt Chand with his cut and offside drive bias. A very stylish little bat by Wgtn-raised standards.
Yeah, had a good laugh at some of those dismissals.Possibly I'm having too high standards here, but my god, there's some appalling dismissals in there for both sides. Just great examples of really, really thick cricket. Getting run out because you've wandered out of your crease, or are practicing the sweep shot you've just hit. Hitting juicy full tosses to fielders. It's just so, so dumb.
The out-to-a-pie dismissal is something that happens far, far too often imo, particularly in youth cricket. If you get a big full toss or a long hop, just hit the ball along the ****ing ground.
Rakitha Weerasundara vs. Matt Fotia / Australia U19 - YouTubeWeerasundera did looks classy/elegant from the shots in that vid.