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***Official*** Commonwealth Bank Tri-Series
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vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
It was a Chopper Read clip from the Ronnie Johns Half Hour. In other words, saying that Ponting needs to harden up. In less polite terms.
We once had a topic "Are women asking to be raped?" in a forum here. I certainly rate that disgusting, and I don't think a bit of bad language even rates close.
But that's me.
It's probably a fair call resting Ponting nonetheless. They've got a myriad of players that can step in and perform. It just shows Australia's excellent professionalism. We have NZ "resting" Fleming against Sri Lanka, and he was certainly not in form. That was leading into a series where we didn't have a settled top 4 (actually entire batting order). Australia are resting and rotating players while not changing game plans and batting positions.
And the big thing is they're resting players while they're in form and their team is on top. Again, huge questions must be asked of the Black Caps' management.
Just to be clear: it was meant as a joke. Australia's rotation policy > NZ's inept attempt at "resting" out-of-form players.
vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
Yeah, I understand it was meant as a joke. But to be honest, in Australia that show is rated MA15+ for a reason, and those segments with Chopper are a pretty major part of that.
Johnners
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Nah it's not, i wanted to see him play
TT Boy
Hall of Fame Member
Did we?
Anyways, I fancy us doing a number over New Zealand tonight, the top order will fire...
howardj
International Coach
I think it's relatively safe to say we'll make the Semi finals. After that, of course, it comes back to how you perform on the given day. In other words, I think we'd beat most teams 8 or 9 times out of ten at present. However, such is the nature of one-off matches, it could be that the one or two times out of ten, falls on the day of the Semi-final or Final.
superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
NZ by 75 or 6 wickets
New Zealand Team
BB McCullum, SP Fleming, NJ Astle, RL Taylor, PG Fulton, CD McMillan, DL Vettori, JEC Franklin, SE Bond, MR Gillespie, JS Patel
England Team
AJ Strauss, MP Vaughan, IR Bell, PD Collingwood, A Flintoff, EC Joyce, PA Nixon, JWM Dalrymple, MS Panesar, J Lewis, JM Anderson
NZ have won the toss and will bat first
BB McCullum, SP Fleming, NJ Astle, RL Taylor, PG Fulton, CD McMillan, DL Vettori, JEC Franklin, SE Bond, MR Gillespie, JS Patel
England Team
AJ Strauss, MP Vaughan, IR Bell, PD Collingwood, A Flintoff, EC Joyce, PA Nixon, JWM Dalrymple, MS Panesar, J Lewis, JM Anderson
NZ have won the toss and will bat first
superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
ha ha ha calamity so far.
