***Official*** West Indies in Australia

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

ive seen enough of him in both of his 2 tests to judge thank you. i dont see him being too much different from nagamootoo other than the obvious fact that he bowls with a different hand. i rate spinners based on their ability to use drift, flight and variations in pace along with accuracy and from ive seen from mohammad he was incapable of all of the above in his international career.

2 Tests. Spare me the ignorance.

 

[Maison]

I can't see any reason why Australia wont win easily, as usual over here

Lara whos 'probably' their best batsman does bugger-all over here. Then you have gayle, who is the biggest slogger ever, okay lastnight he batted well in the ICC match, but i swear he looked liked a baseballer, moving all around, hardly looked like a normal cricketer :P

i beleive he got a decent score due to 'undisciplined' bowling......... not disciplined batting

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

I can't see any reason why Australia wont win easily, as usual over here

Lara whos 'probably' their best batsman does bugger-all over here. Then you have gayle, who is the biggest slogger ever, okay lastnight he batted well in the ICC match, but i swear he looked liked a baseballer, moving all around, hardly looked like a normal cricketer :P

i beleive he got a decent score due to 'undisciplined' bowling......... not disciplined batting

Lara hasn't dominated the last couple of times he's been in Australia, but he's scored a century each time he's toured, one of which was 277. The others were 132 and, of course, a brilliant 182, when he was in terrible form otherwise. He averages 40.11 in Australia.

Second time for the morning, but thankfully a different person this time... spare me the ignorance.

Chris "Slogger" Gayle gets the job done. His SR is less than Brian "Double World Record Holder" Lara, Matthew "Slogger" Hayden, and Adam "Can Do Know Wrong When Slogging" Gilchrist.

Chris "Slogger" Gayle has passed 50 in 2 of his 4 innings against the mighty Australians. He scored 400 runs at 50 against the might English and 366 runs at 61 against South Africa.

Chris "Slogger" Gayle averages over 40 away from home - higher than his career average. He has 4 of his 7 centuries away from home, and 3 of his 5 against quality teams. Over his last 7 Tests abroad, in England and South Africa, Gayle has played 14 innings, scored 766 runs, averaged 54.71, and registered 3 hundreds and 4 fifties.

Chris "Slogger" Gayle may not have an amazing series in Australia - an off-series could happen to anyone, even the might Australians - but if his slogging is doing the job, and it has been lately, I'd take it. It's when Gayle doesn't play his natural game that he looks ordinary.

 

[Maison]

"Think" what you "reckon" about Chris "Slogger" Gayle.

I reckon it's unco the way he bats enough said.

KP and Gilchrist have it all over him still.....

Can't wait till warne gets ripping to him this summer, the b*****d.

 

[SquidAU]

I like Chris Gayle's power game. I've seen some of the highlights of the England tour to the Windies last year and his cover drives make the ball go like lightning to the fence. No one moves.

And the 6 4's he hit in one Hoggard over in England last year.......didn't look like any effort at all but they raced to the fence.

 

[aussie]

despite taking wickets with mediocre balls and not doing anything threatening throughout his spell?

please....

 

[tooextracool]

please....

oh yes and his wickets in the first game came from such fabulous balls didnt they?
sangakkara getting himself out going cutting it to ponting, flintoff going for the slog and pietersen missing a ball that came back into him?

 

[tooextracool]

well, even given all that, it is too harsh to judge a guy from 2 tests. I have seen Bell over 5 tests and I still am willing to give him a chance.

there are players who you can judge from 2 tests as to whether they are good enough or not, which is why he got dropped ITFP. he may well have improved since then, but id be surprised if that happened, and it doesnt change the fact that he was useless then.

 

[tooextracool]

2 Tests. Spare me the ignorance.

and you cant make out from 2 tests whether someone is rubbish or not? a player who doesnt look close like being international class doesnt require too many games to show that.

 

[age_master]

Lara hasn't dominated the last couple of times he's been in Australia, but he's scored a century each time he's toured, one of which was 277. The others were 132 and, of course, a brilliant 182, when he was in terrible form otherwise. He averages 40.11 in Australia.

Second time for the morning, but thankfully a different person this time... spare me the ignorance.

Chris "Slogger" Gayle gets the job done. His SR is less than Brian "Double World Record Holder" Lara, Matthew "Slogger" Hayden, and Adam "Can Do Know Wrong When Slogging" Gilchrist.

Chris "Slogger" Gayle has passed 50 in 2 of his 4 innings against the mighty Australians. He scored 400 runs at 50 against the might English and 366 runs at 61 against South Africa.

Chris "Slogger" Gayle averages over 40 away from home - higher than his career average. He has 4 of his 7 centuries away from home, and 3 of his 5 against quality teams. Over his last 7 Tests abroad, in England and South Africa, Gayle has played 14 innings, scored 766 runs, averaged 54.71, and registered 3 hundreds and 4 fifties.

Chris "Slogger" Gayle may not have an amazing series in Australia - an off-series could happen to anyone, even the might Australians - but if his slogging is doing the job, and it has been lately, I'd take it. It's when Gayle doesn't play his natural game that he looks ordinary.

yeah Lara is always dangerous.

I love the way Gayle bats, he puts bowlers off and makes them uncomfortable bowling to him and than punishes them for him, not the most orthodox approach but it sure gets the job done.

 

[Maison]

yeah Lara is always dangerous.

I love the way Gayle bats, he puts bowlers off and makes them uncomfortable bowling to him and than punishes them for him, not the most orthodox approach but it sure gets the job done.

i guess he does 'put them off', but nevertheless all a good bowler has to do is pitch it up to him and keep it low (not so much a yorker, then again if someone can do yorkers all the time 'im all for it'.... but not nothing short and no full tosses please......omg)

god.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

i guess he does 'put them off', but nevertheless all a good bowler has to do is pitch it up to him and keep it low (not so much a yorker, then again if someone can do yorkers all the time 'im all for it'.... but not nothing short and no full tosses please......omg)

god.

Well I guess there aren't very many good bowlers in the ranks of South Africa, New Zealand, England '04, Australia '03, because Gayle has made scores against all those teams. Quite a shame really. He may not look as pretty as you'd like, but he's effective.

 

[Maison]

Well I guess there aren't very many good bowlers in the ranks of South Africa, New Zealand, England '04, Australia '03, because Gayle has made scores against all those teams. Quite a shame really. He may not look as pretty as you'd like, but he's effective.

*shrugs*

 

[aussie]

oh yes and his wickets in the first game came from such fabulous balls didnt they?
sangakkara getting himself out going cutting it to ponting, flintoff going for the slog and pietersen missing a ball that came back into him?

it may have came of poor deliveries but he bowled well in that came & in the series so far

 

[Buddhmaster]

yeah Lara is always dangerous.

I love the way Gayle bats, he puts bowlers off and makes them uncomfortable bowling to him and than punishes them for him, not the most orthodox approach but it sure gets the job done.

I love watching him too. His clobber down the ground is awesome.

 

[tooextracool]

it may have came of poor deliveries but he bowled well in that came & in the series so far

is that why he was so economical in those games?
he was wayward for the large part in both games, and the fact that he took 3 wickets from mediocre deliveries led people to think otherwise.

 

[Maison]

THATS WHY I RKN HES A CRAP BATSMAN (GAYLE)

bowlin lee!!!!

 

[tooextracool]

hes definetly not a crap batsman in ODIs.

 

[marc71178]

Well I guess there aren't very many good bowlers in the ranks of South Africa, New Zealand, England '04, Australia '03, because Gayle has made scores against all those teams. Quite a shame really. He may not look as pretty as you'd like, but he's effective.

Exactly - and at the end of the day that's what counts.

Hence Trescothick with his career average in the mid 40s is, contrary to what some people think, a damn fine Test player.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

THATS WHY I RKN HES A CRAP BATSMAN (GAYLE)

bowlin lee!!!!

That's why I reckon you should spare me the ignorance and get some grasp of what the sport is about.

That said, I reckon Lara's crap too. Bowlin' Lee.