We won't win it with this bowling lineup and we never were thinking of the win once we picked White.
Australia's Tour Of India - 2008
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We won't win it with this bowling lineup and we never were thinking of the win once we picked White.
Australia's fielding has been way below the old standards also. Maybe it's because they've been out there for 1 and 2/3 days.
And in my opinion Haddin aint the best with the gloves. Lets a lot of byes through and seems to lack concentration at times. He's no Gilly. Eve the energy behind he stumps isn't good. You can always hear Gilly behind the stumps.
And in my opinion Haddin aint the best with the gloves. Lets a lot of byes through and seems to lack concentration at times. He's no Gilly. Eve the energy behind he stumps isn't good. You can always hear Gilly behind the stumps.
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Yeah the over rates are terrible. To fix it? I've a few ideas:
*They could introduce a 'bowl clock' where you have to bowl in 30 seconds after the ball hits the keepers gloves.
OR *Maximum 1 field change per over (of course wouldn't work if the batsman keeps changing strike)
OR *Any overs not bowled by scheduled stumps time (not the extra 30 minutes), incur a 10 or 20 run-per-over-not-bowled penalty to be added to extras. So that way teams would need to bowl at LEAST 90 overs by scheduled stumps time to avoid penalty. The penalties would be incurred after the days play and would be subject to appeal eg. Ganguly walks out without thigh pad and wastes 3 minutes getting one - the bowling team shouldn't be penalised for that wasted time.
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India are edging their way to a declaration.
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I'm surprised Haddin hasn't come under fire from the media. If this was Gilchrist, the media would be going nuts! "Why hasn't he been dropped, what's wrong with the selectors etc. etc.".
That's what age can do I guess.
Anyway, VVS is playing very well. 6 centuries against us. Amazing.
Our fielding is terrible. Some more overthrows there.
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Let's send an SOS to Gilly.
I'm surprised Haddin hasn't come under fire from the media. If this was Gilchrist, the media would be going nuts! "Why hasn't he been dropped, what's wrong with the selectors etc. etc.".
That's what age can do I guess.
Anyway, VVS is playing very well. 6 centuries against us. Amazing.
Our fielding is terrible. Some more overthrows there.
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He's had other moments of less than great umpiring. That said, he's not the worst.
However, it is clear that we suck, particularly our bowling. Siddle shouldn't have been dropped, Watson or White should have.
Can't drop Watson, he's been impressive. He managed to pick up wickets and played couple of good innings. Its white who should be dropped now. He's not been really good with the bowl and his batting's very bad. Putting him in the side doesn't make the batting too strong. Its better Siddle comes in and gets few wickets.
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Bollinger should have got chance and Roy should have been here. Bloody arrogant Selectors 
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:Don't know about adding runs as penalties but the suspension rule they use for ODI cricket (I think they still do it) wouldn't be too bad. For us it's to do with Ponting constantly changing fields every other ball.
aussie_ben91
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It's painful watching players continue to play on despite being obviously past their best.
Rahul Dravid for example, should've retired over a year ago and finished with a Test average of around 56-57 but his continued to play on and will probably play on for another year or so an finish with an average of 51-52.
Viv Richards did the same thing.
I hope Hayden doesn't play beyhond his best because his average will slowly detierate and it'll be harder for me to justify why his one of the best batsman of this era and why he is the greatest opener of all time. Lesser players like Jayawardena, Sangakkara, Mohammad Yousuf, etc will look like better players because they will finish with higher averages and most likely won't play past their best.
Hopefully Hayden can come out and play out the remainder of today's play and then build a massive score tomorrow. Laxman was in a similar position as Hayden was before he started his innings and hopefully Hayden can replicate what Laxman has done.
Rahul Dravid for example, should've retired over a year ago and finished with a Test average of around 56-57 but his continued to play on and will probably play on for another year or so an finish with an average of 51-52.
Viv Richards did the same thing.
I hope Hayden doesn't play beyhond his best because his average will slowly detierate and it'll be harder for me to justify why his one of the best batsman of this era and why he is the greatest opener of all time. Lesser players like Jayawardena, Sangakkara, Mohammad Yousuf, etc will look like better players because they will finish with higher averages and most likely won't play past their best.
Hopefully Hayden can come out and play out the remainder of today's play and then build a massive score tomorrow. Laxman was in a similar position as Hayden was before he started his innings and hopefully Hayden can replicate what Laxman has done.
Their decisions are better than our words.
.. They'll know when to retire and when to not. Afterall, there's a lot of difference between "watching cricket" and "playing cricket". So, let's leave it to them, who knows? It's just a matter of time that they need to get themselves bat on the track and play in beautiful form.Geez Johnson why can't you bowl more balls like that. Too few and far between those good deliveries.
We certainly should have had Siddle in our lineup over White. I wouldn't have minded Bollinger over Johnson or Lee. Just feel if we aren't going to play a specialist spinner we need line and length bowlers.
We certainly should have had Siddle in our lineup over White. I wouldn't have minded Bollinger over Johnson or Lee. Just feel if we aren't going to play a specialist spinner we need line and length bowlers.
Ayub 95
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Kumble's out decent ball by Johnson. Kumble is unlucky to miss out on 50
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What, bowl a ball on the stumps you mean? Wasn't a particularly brilliant delivery, just woeful batting from Kumble, going right across his stumps and missing it. Hawkeye proved the decision to be correct, but harsh, there's no way that the umpire could definitely tell that was out.
Johnson's proved my point and proved why he's not a class bowler in the past 2 overs. Ponting puts every fielder bar 2 on the Off Side. So, any normal, decent bowler would focus their line on the off-side. Not wiley Johnson, he offers a man in the 190's who's one of the best players on the leg-side in the world an easy shot through the on-side for another boundary, then 2 balls later gives him another. Superb bowling. =/ Get him out of the team ffs, I'd much rather have Siddle, Bollinger, Tait or Hilfenhaus in the team tbh, I don't rate Johnson at all.
Johnson's proved my point and proved why he's not a class bowler in the past 2 overs. Ponting puts every fielder bar 2 on the Off Side. So, any normal, decent bowler would focus their line on the off-side. Not wiley Johnson, he offers a man in the 190's who's one of the best players on the leg-side in the world an easy shot through the on-side for another boundary, then 2 balls later gives him another. Superb bowling. =/ Get him out of the team ffs, I'd much rather have Siddle, Bollinger, Tait or Hilfenhaus in the team tbh, I don't rate Johnson at all.
