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**Official** Australia in Bangladesh

FaaipDeOiad

FaaipDeOiad

Hall of Fame Member
honestbharani said:
Is he always injured when bowling on flat tracks? ;)
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If Warne's comments about Murali were out of line, I'd say this is too. Warne's had shoulder injuries his whole career, including ones severe enough to threaten his entire future in the game, and furthermore he's been a rock on dead wickets for his whole career. Just look at how many overs he bowls when the opposition manages a big score.

Warne was grabbing at his shoulder quite regularly all the way through the afternoon session yesterday, and then went off the ground. If he was just interested in protecting his figures, he wouldn't have bowled 20 overs and then left the field with no chance to take wickets and improve them.
 
Natman20

Natman20

International Debutant
Great work Bangladesh now they need to get 500. LMAO at Warnes figures :laugh: Maybe their latest wins and larger scores will mean they may become a great international team.
 
luckyeddie

luckyeddie

Cricket Web Staff Member
aussie said:
and the frustration continues, i just hope they dont get to 450.
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I hope they make 500 (and dream of them getting a first innings lead), because far too much has been made of Bangladesh not being ready to play international cricket owing to them being 'not competitive' (that's probably the kindest way of putting it).

Well, last year they beat Australia in an ODI, and the last 4 sessions have demonstrated that they can get their heads down in the big boys game too.

Good on you, Bangladesh - welcome to the big league. It's been worth the wait.
 
Ikki

Ikki

Hall of Fame Member
JBH001 said:
More to the point lets wait until the test and the series is over before bagging Warne.
Most likely he will end with a ton of wickets.

To be honest, I too was a little pleased with Warne getting the smack around by the Bangladeshi batsman. As HonestBharani said Warne' remarks were a little rude and uncouth - especially when he repeated them again. In very poor taste and not something that the greatest leg spinner in the game should be saying about the greatest off spinner.

Is Murali to blame for the fact that SL plays Bangladesh and Zim a lot?
Is he supposed to sit out the series, or not try his hardest to get wickets against any and all opposition? I dont know if professional cricket bowlers do that sort of thing.

Also, if we continued in that same vein we might expect Warne, if he were to be consistent, to state that Hayden should not take pride in that knock of 380 or for that matter Steve Waugh with 2 unbeaten tons against Bangladesh which really helped his average.

Getting the smackaround was a sort of ironic cricketing justice on Warney.
Still, he is too good a bowler not to come back.

As I said, he will probably take a packet against the Bangledeshi's and good luck to him.
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Beside the point, I'm not arguing the reason as to why they keep playing them. The fact remains to have SO MANY of your wickets from there is not just helping your test record, it's building it.

On the Warne point, I think you can see from Macgill's performance, being fresh does help...just a bit :p.
 
Blaze

Blaze

Banned
I feel for the Australian posters here. Ask yourself- If Bangladesh were 400/6 against your team how would you feel?

Sure you would say 'great stuff Bangladesh, it is good to see them make progress' but I know that I would also be more than a little dissapointed in my teams effort.
 
Son Of Coco

Son Of Coco

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
luckyeddie said:
Why is it his last post?

Do you have the authority to ban anyone?

:unsure:
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I didn't mean last post as in a form of written correspondence on here, I meant it was of such an exemplary nature it was the literary equivalent of that haunting tune played to mourn those lost on the battlefield.

I don't have the authority, no, but I should! If I did...you'd be the first to go. Preferably before the next weeks awards come around.
 
JBH001

JBH001

International Regular
FaaipDeOiad said:
If Warne's comments about Murali were out of line, I'd say this is too. Warne's had shoulder injuries his whole career, including ones severe enough to threaten his entire future in the game, and furthermore he's been a rock on dead wickets for his whole career. Just look at how many overs he bowls when the opposition manages a big score.

Warne was grabbing at his shoulder quite regularly all the way through the afternoon session yesterday, and then went off the ground. If he was just interested in protecting his figures, he wouldn't have bowled 20 overs and then left the field with no chance to take wickets and improve them.
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True - though Murali has also had his fair share of shoulder injuries and more.
And like Warne, he has bowled on regardless.

Though you are correct, Warne has - as far as I know - never backed off.
He is far too competitive for that. _b
 
FaaipDeOiad

FaaipDeOiad

Hall of Fame Member
Blaze said:
I feel for the Australian posters here. Ask yourself- If Bangladesh were 400/6 against your team how would you feel?

Sure you would say 'great stuff Bangladesh, it is good to see them make progress' but I know that I would also be more than a little dissapointed in my teams effort.
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Honestly, I'm not too disappointed. Australia are coming off an unbelievably long summer... since October they have played 10 tests and 16 ODIs. Warne and Lee have been bowled into the ground and look exhausted, and Clark is only playing his fourth test. MacGill and Gillespie have bowled perfectly well, but it's an unbelievably dead wicket, certainly one of the worst any of the Australians would have ever played on, and Bangladesh have batted very well.

The only area of Australia's play I am disappointed in is the catching, really. The catches which were put down on day 1 were all extremely tough (two by Gilchrist, one by Warne) and would have been dropped 9 times out of 10, but Gillespie dropped a pretty easy one earlier today, and Clark or Martyn should definitely have caught Rafique when they let it land between them. On a wicket like this, you have to catch everything.

I will be disappointed if Australia don't make a heap of runs on this pitch of course, but letting a team that has batted out of their skin make 450 odd isn't a major failure.
 
FaaipDeOiad

FaaipDeOiad

Hall of Fame Member
JBH001 said:
True - though Murali has also had his fair share of shoulder injuries and more.
And like Warne, he has bowled on regardless.

Though you are correct, Warne has - as far as I know - never backed off.
He is far too competitive for that. _b
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No doubt. Murali, like Warne, is a terrific competitor and nobody would ever accuse him of backing down from a contest, regardless of how they felt about him. Unfortunately it's considered fair game to accuse Warne of anything you like, regardless of how much validity it has.
 
vic_orthdox

vic_orthdox

Global Moderator
Blaze said:
I feel for the Australian posters here. Ask yourself- If Bangladesh were 400/6 against your team how would you feel?

Sure you would say 'great stuff Bangladesh, it is good to see them make progress' but I know that I would also be more than a little dissapointed in my teams effort.
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I won't get annoyed or disgruntled, unless we lose the series. Having said that, it's great fun watching these guys slap balls around everywhere.
 
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