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    **Official** Australia in Bangladesh

    Well done, Dizzy. Hmm. After playing Australia so close in the first Test, to allow a night watchman to score a double century, Bangladesh must be infuriated.
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    Is This Where One Day Cricket Is Heading?

    There is an interesting statistical analysis of the match in today's copy of the Melbourne Age: http://www.theage.com.au/news/cricket/recordbreaking-wanderers-encounter-as-freakish-as-bradmansaverage/2006/03/14/1142098462738.html. The article makes a good argument that the match was a...
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    Mick Lewis Tribute Thread

    I have to admit that I didn't watch the game, not having cable tv. However, from what I've read and heard, you have to wonder (a) why Ponting persisted with Lewis when it was clear he was being smacked around the park, and (b) didn't Bracken drop Gibbs off Lewis' bowling early in the game. I...
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    ***Official Australia in South Africa***

    I think the context in which the squad was selected needs to be taken into account before we criticise/commend the selectors. IIRC, Ponting said at the end of the test series that this was only the first half of it, implying that Australia was leading 2-0 in the best of six tests. The...
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    ***Official Australia in South Africa***

    I think Lewis got a gig because the selectors think, rightly or wrongly, that he can bowl tightly at the end of an innings. He did so against NZ once in the Chappell-Hadlee series (the first game, IIRC) but was then carted (like the other Aussie bowlers) in one or both of the other games. But...
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    ***Official*** VB Series 2006

    Probably the only decision I reckon Long Tom got wrong was naming Vaas as vice-captain. He doesn't seem to have the authority to control the team when Attapattu went off the field, as it seemed there were about 5 Sri Lankans all wanting to tell Vaas what they thought he should be doing.
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    ***Official Australia in South Africa***

    Australia announced its ODI team to tour South Africa: Ponting (c) Gilchrist (vc) Bracken Clarke Clark Hogg M. Hussey Johnson Katich Lee Lewis Martyn Watson Symonds No McGrath, Jaques, Dorey or Hopes. Link to Cricket Australia release: http://cricket.com.au/default.aspx?s=newsdisplay&id=36520
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    ***Official*** VB Series 2006

    Has he? Not according to cricinfo. Australia's fielding an unchanged side from last time out against South Africa.
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    ***Official Australia in South Africa***

    Boje was dropped for Sydney, the so-called "spinners paradise", after a poor Melbourne Test. Would the South Africans go back to him if Botha is unavailable, or would they take a punt on another spinner?
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    World Cup - Australia first.... daylight second

    I have to admit, I didn't watch the Chappell-Hadlee series because I don't have pay-tv, though I listened to it on the radio. It seemed to me that the New Zealanders adopted the same approach in the two games where they were chasing over 300, ie. the swing freely approach, and it came off...
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    ***Official Australia in South Africa***

    So no Botha - who will bowl the tweakers for South Africa? Seriously, I hope that Dorey is left behind. He just isn't up to scratch yet, in terms of his international class.
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    The "I wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley" XI

    Simon O'Donnell. He beat cancer, he'll take you all on. Plus, in his hey-day, when he hit out, what he hit tended to stay hit.
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    ***Official*** VB Series 2006

    South Africa all out for 181, chasing 257/9.
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    ***Official*** VB Series 2006

    Yep, looks like Australia versus Sri Lanka for the finals with South Africa now 147/8 with Pollock and van der Wath going in quick succession.
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    ***Official*** VB Series 2006

    I'm sure I read 28 overs on cricinfo. Maybe it was after 22 overs and 28 to go. :mellow:
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    ***Official*** VB Series 2006

    Graeme Smith out now, caught by Murali off Bandara for 67, then Bandara gets Kemp first ball lbw. South Africa 114/5 after 27 overs.
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    ***Official*** VB Series 2006

    But Sri Lanka aren't doing too badly at the moment. South Africa 98/3 after 28 overs with Smith 58* and Prince 5*.
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    ***Official*** VB Series 2006

    Steyn has been subbed out for Botha.
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    ***Official*** VB Series 2006

    As I type that, cricinfo tells me that Sangakkara is out for 62, caught Dippenaar off van der Wath.
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    ***Official*** VB Series 2006

    Sri Lanka 175/1 in the 36th over, but Atapattu's strike rate is a fairly low 62.83 per 100 balls.

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