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*Official* Third Test at the WACA

Spikey

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Burgey said:
**** I love the Perth test. Like no other venue anywhere. Forget your unmanly subcontinental dust bowls where it doesn't bounce above your knee and spinners like Ashwin who wouldn't get a bowl in a Chinese restaurant any place else get wickets, or your poncy green seamers which are slow but which even Derek Pringle was hard to play on or your roads where bowling is a mindless chore.

It's just about pace and bounce. It's just raw, hard cricket. Outfield is lightning, light almost blinds you, slips a mile back, the Doctor in and no lbws because of the bounce. Man up or head home.

Oh, and Margaret River Sav Blanc while watching it over dinner.
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Nothing like a bouncer bouncing one bounce into the sightscreen
 
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Sorry bois, I forgot to mention the Gloucester Park trotting track in the distance. My bad.
 
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The scoreline makes me really happy. The 3-0 in the first series definitely flattered England as Australia easily had the better of the two drawn matches and would have won both if not for rain. Hoping for a 5-0 here, personally.
 
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Jassy said:
The scoreline makes me really happy. The 3-0 in the first series definitely flattered England as Australia easily had the better of the two drawn matches and would have won both if not for rain. Hoping for a 5-0 here, personally.
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Only one team got close to winning at The Oval and it wasn't Australia. It's impossible to say how that match would have panned out had it run its true course.

OT, of course, you're absolutely right.
 
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looking forward to greg chappell appearing on a current affair in the coming days
 
Spark

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GIMH said:
Only one team got close to winning at The Oval and it wasn't Australia. It's impossible to say how that match would have panned out had it run its true course.

OT, of course, you're absolutely right.
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I don't think you can use the words "true course" to describe anything that happened on that last day tbf, that was one of the most contrived days of Test cricket I've ever seen. Totally bizarre from the moment we started batting again. People were calling it a great advertisement of Tests - I strongly disagree, as if you did so you'd get pinged for false advertising on the basis that you'll probably never see anything that for a long, long time if ever again.
 
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GIMH said:
Only one team got close to winning at The Oval and it wasn't Australia. It's impossible to say how that match would have panned out had it run its true course.

OT, of course, you're absolutely right.
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They got close to winning because they were given the opportunity to, surely that is not even in doubt. It is of course "impossible" to say how anything could or would have happened without a certain amount of guess work and speculation. However, in this case I would think it fairly straight-forward. If the last day at Adelaide had got called off due to rain you could still argue that it would be impossible to say how that match would have panned out. Except death, taxes and Undertaker winning at Wrestlemania, nothing is certain in this world; but again, sometimes it is fairly obvious and in my mind this was one such case. For that matter not just the 2 drawn matches but I think with a little better application Australia could have won the first test also. They competed in England unlike England who have looked totally out of their depth here.
 
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Spark said:
I don't think you can use the words "true course" to describe anything that happened on that last day tbf, that was one of the most contrived days of Test cricket I've ever seen. Totally bizarre from the moment we started batting again. People were calling it a great advertisement of Tests - I strongly disagree, as if you did so you'd get pinged for false advertising on the basis that you'll probably never see anything that for a long, long time if ever again.
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note how that day was the only day faulkner looked good
 
Maximas

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The Oval test was very bizarre, but while Australia possibly had the better of the first three days (last day doesn't count due to being bull****) I don't think we would have necessarily won the match, England looked set to post a decent first innings total and who knows what would've happened next.

btw, I wouldn't have thought 17 wickets in the series is enough to get you no 4 on the all time ashes list...
 
Tangles

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Wonder if Clarke would consider putting England in? Probably just best to bat knowing they have guys who won't handle it when they bat.
 
BoyBrumby

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Talk in the paper today of Rankin and Bresnan coming in.

Obviously, WRT the Ulsterman, for God's sake no and all that, but moreover who misses out if both come in? Monty, obvz, but then who? Stokes? Swann?

Was kinda hoping we'd play an actual batsman at six this time too...

I'd go personally:

Cook*
Carberry
Root
Pietersen
Bell
Ballance
Prior+
Bresnan
Broad
Tremlett
Anderson

Have Root and KP if any spin is needed, after all. Swann's not exactly set the series alight and Perth won't be his kinda deck, I'm guessing.
 
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BoyBrumby said:
Talk in the paper today of Rankin and Bresnan coming in.

Obviously, WRT the Ulsterman, for God's sake no and all that, but moreover who misses out if both come in? Monty, obvz, but then who? Stokes? Swann?

Was kinda hoping we'd play an actual batsman at six this time too...

I'd go personally:

Cook*
Carberry
Root
Pietersen
Bell
Ballance
Prior+
Bresnan
Broad
Tremlett
Anderson

Have Root and KP if any spin is needed, after all. Swann's not exactly set the series alight and Perth won't be his kinda deck, I'm guessing.
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Yeah this is the side I would go with. As much as anything I just do not want to have to put up with watching Swann batting again.
 
Viscount Tom

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Maximas said:
The Oval test was very bizarre, but while Australia possibly had the better of the first three days (last day doesn't count due to being bull****) I don't think we would have necessarily won the match, England looked set to post a decent first innings total and who knows what would've happened next.

btw, I wouldn't have thought 17 wickets in the series is enough to get you no 4 on the all time ashes list...
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It isn't Warne got 40 in 05 and Alderman got about 40 in I think 81?
 
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