***Official*** Australia in South Africa + South Africa in Australia 2016/17

[Jono]

Oh Cricinfo, how much I love you sometimes

hahaha i came here to post just this.


Sooooooooooooooooo good.

 

[Tangles]

Pic of the pitch taken yesterday:

Sweet. Lines should help the umps with lbws.

 

[Saurabh Sharma]

Going to be interesting encounter, a lot of test matches being played, expect a lot of topsy turvy moments in case of rankings........

 

[Crazy Sam]

I've heard Ch 9 are dropping back to just two commentators at a time instead of 3 per stint as it's been for the past few summers.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Really really hyped for this mid-table clash

 

[ajdude]

i mean yeah i hate Ch9 but new scorecard graphics usually get me pretty excited.

 

[Gnske]

Warne is looking delightfully plastic this summer.

Anyone interested in a story I heard recently from a reputable source about our legspinning legend?

 

[smash84]

I've heard Ch 9 are dropping back to just two commentators at a time instead of 3 per stint as it's been for the past few summers.

A welcome change back to the good ole days

 

[Spark]

New Ch9 graphics look neat, but that opening sequence was garish as hell

 

[ajdude]

that blue logo on the South African kits makes it look like an unlicensed kit from a video game.

 

[mr_mister]

Warne is looking delightfully plastic this summer.

Anyone interested in a story I heard recently from a reputable source about our legspinning legend?

yeah go on. does it involve tinder

 

[Nate]

Lyon to str00gle.

 

[Black_Warrior]

Wow finally cricket kicks off in 2016. So excited

 

[NUFAN]

It's really heart warming to see Cricket Australia living up to it's claims of being an equal opportunity employer.

You are lucky that CW has adopted the same philosophy.

 

[Gnske]

yeah go on. does it involve tinder

Was talking to this bloke from Melbourne, old sort. But one time our conversation moved to cricket and he mentioned this one time he met the King of Spin.

He was at some beach in Melbourne and some guy was blasting out unpleasant tunes from a boombox/iPhone, something of that sort. Anyway my old mate tells this guy to cut it out. The guy blasting the beats then leans over to the guy next to him and whispers something, the third guy sits up and peers down his glasses at my old mate, and what do you know its Shane Keith Warne.

Warnie gets up, puffed his chest out like pigeon apparently and marched over to my old mate. My old mate claims he looked him right in the eye as Warnie got down in front of him and started doing pushups in the sand, ending up doing a grand total of three before heading back to his friend and continuing their enjoyment of horrid beats at a reduced decibel level.

He later apparently went swimming and I have it on good faith he swims like a drowning dog.

But hey when you've taken 700 wickets

 

[morgieb]

It's good to see another cricket killing wicket at the WACA

Interesting that this PitchScan reckons this is rather dry. Could take turn later on?

 

[ajdude]

well that was bizarre. taking the piss surely

 

[Starfighter]

A flat wicket, good for batting/boring?

Colour me surprised...

 

[Crazy Sam]

Less than half an hour in and we can already mark this one off

(×) Warne's 99 getting mentioned at the WACA test.

 

[Nate]

Was picking my XI at the Fox Sports Team Selector, and somehow ended up with -

Warner
Darsh
Stoinis
Voges
Smith
Head
Nevill
Henriques
O'Keefe
Starc
Hazlewood

What have I become...