All time Aussie choking XI

[morgieb]

It shows how little the OP knows about cricket, and let's be honest life, that he hasn't included Ian Healy here for the one wicket loss to his own nation in 1994 when the ball went for four byes between his legs for the winning runs.

Didn't he also drop Lara or someone when we were 9 down in that Bridgetown Test? Big time bottler.

 

[cnerd123]

You can't include Dennis Lillee who did, after all, have a financial interest on the outcome in '81

Yessss

 

[Daemon]

This was an ODI but remember when SL were 8 for 100 chasing 240 and Malinga's 50 helped them chase it down

 

[Burgey]

Didn't he also drop Lara or someone when we were 9 down in that Bridgetown Test? Big time bottler.

He did. Then again, he drop kicked Donald (I think) into the stands in SA to win a memorable and close chase for us too.

 

[Burgey]

This was an ODI but remember when SL were 8 for 100 chasing 240 and Malinga's 50 helped them chase it down

Sorry, but unless this was a WC KO game, it doesn't count.

 

[stephen]

I dunno how Hayden gets there. He was coming off the worst run of form in his career coming into that series. If anyone bottled it in that series it was Kasper/Gillespie/Warne. Kasper for the Edgbaston disaster, Gillespie for turning into a pie chucker and Warne for dropping Pieterson on the final day of the final test.

Although I blame Billy Corgan for the 05 Ashes loss. He played a concert in 05 just after the first test and commented on how he loved that Australia didn't just beat the English - we thrashed them. That was one monumental woof if ever there was one.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Gillespie was so bad that tour. Still not sure what happened to him. Should have never been picked for a Test after how badly he was bowling, shows the hubris of that Australian unit

 

[OverratedSanity]

Warne is such a massive bottler. Many of Australia's chokes involve an inept performance from him. 1999 Bridgetown, 01 Kolkata, 01 Chennai, dropping kp at the oval.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Warne is such a massive bottler. Many of Australia's chokes involve an inept performance from him. 1999 Bridgetown, 01 Kolkata, 01 Chennai, dropping kp at the oval.

Seriously though, compared to how many games he won off his own back, many of them thought unwinnable, it's a small price to pay. He anti-bottled a lot more than he bottled tbf.

 

[DriveClub]

Warne is such a massive bottler. Many of Australia's chokes involve an inept performance from him. 1999 Bridgetown, 01 Kolkata, 01 Chennai, dropping kp at the oval.

I remember Warne dropping a couple of catches in the 96 WC final. Can't remember who he dropped

 

[Burgey]

Warne is such a massive bottler. Many of Australia's chokes involve an inept performance from him. 1999 Bridgetown, 01 Kolkata, 01 Chennai, dropping kp at the oval.

yeah but he was literally the only reason they were still in the '05 series going into the Oval.

 

[TheJediBrah]

I remember Warne dropping a couple of catches in the 96 WC final. Can't remember who he dropped

Warne dropped a lot of big catches. Dropped Damien Fleming's hat-trick ball in 1999 lol

 

[OverratedSanity]

yeah but he was literally the only reason they were still in the '05 series going into the Oval.

Gassed up when it mattered most. His entire series was worthless because he couldn't deliver when he was needed. Dropped a dolly and was deposited into the stands by kp repeatedly with the match teetering in the balance. No one is going to GAF in 20 years time that he took X wickets in meaningless tests. He spudded up when the Ashes were actually decided and also every time he toured India. God-like in between when it doesn't matter and conspicuously mortal when it does.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Warne played an unusual shot when his first (and would have been,only) Test century was there for the taking.

 

[Burgey]

Gassed up when it mattered most. His entire series was worthless because he couldn't deliver when he was needed. Dropped a dolly and was deposited into the stands by kp repeatedly with the match teetering in the balance. No one is going to GAF in 20 years time that he took X wickets in meaningless tests. He spudded up when the Ashes were actually decided and also every time he toured India. God-like in between when it doesn't matter and conspicuously mortal when it does.

Correct wrt to the 2005 Ashes, and I'm very glad you finally have come around to the correct way of thinking regarding these things. He does, however, have very good records in the series in 93, 94/95, 97, 98/99, 2001, 02/03 and 2007 - all of which his team won. He's a bit like Viv I suppose - missed out in 75 but well and truly atoned in 1979, and rightly regarded as the GOAT in his discipline.

You're not so correct re touring India, because subcontinental records don't count, being that they're second rate cricket nations and no one really cares about them.

 

[Burgey]

Warne played an unusual shot when his first (and would have been,only) Test century was there for the taking.

Are you suggesting it would be unusual for someone as narcissistic as Warne to want to bring up his ton by bombing one instead of taking a single?

Or are you referring to the shot he played in 05 when he was on 90 odd as well? I think he was caught near the fence then too.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Gassed up when it mattered most. His entire series was worthless because he couldn't deliver when he was needed. Dropped a dolly and was deposited into the stands by kp repeatedly with the match teetering in the balance. No one is going to GAF in 20 years time that he took X wickets in meaningless tests. He spudded up when the Ashes were actually decided and also every time he toured India. God-like in between when it doesn't matter and conspicuously mortal when it does.

You'd have a point if he didn't perform brilliantly in many, many other important matches and series to more than makeup for it.

 

[a massive zebra]

Warne was often talked about as an excellent slip fielder which I always thought as nothing but baseless hero worship. He certainly took plenty of blinders, but in my experience he wasn't a reliable catcher and his proportion of successful catches was lower than a lot of other slip fielders.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Warne was often talked about as an excellent slip fielder which I always thought as nothing but baseless hero worship. He certainly took plenty of blinders, but in my experience he wasn't a reliable catcher and his proportion of successful catches was lower than a lot of other slip fielders.

This echoes my thoughts exactly. I always raised my eyebrow when the commentators would talk about him being a great slip fielder. He was probably better than most players would be at slip, but he was mostly just there and took catches at a reasonable, but not spectacular, rate.

Commentators have the habit of doing this about players all the time. Everyone is a "great fielder" according to commentators at some stage.

 

[Burgey]

It’s the cricketing equivalent of the afl, where a 19 yo plays three decent games and is ordained a “superstar.”