ICC Super Series

[JamesyJames3]

From the early parts I heard on the radio, he was bowling alot fuller than he did during the Ashes. Apart from the first hour, I know nothing!

Never would of guessed you had free time to watch it stevie, i mean with your busy schedule and all :

 

[Stephen Bailey]

Never would of guessed you had free time to watch it stevie, i mean with your busy schedule and all :

SPIDERS!

I was listening to it, ABC radio or whatever it was, through the Super Series website. Can't remember who it was, but someone was having a major whinge about how 'had we won the 2nd test, we would've won 4-0.' Get over it, the Ashes is gone ffs!

 

[angryangy]

Those first overs from Harmy were priceless. The first ball was short of a length over off, the second was full around leg and had Langer falling over! The third was a perfect adjustment, off stump went down, Langer played outside it. After that first hour, the majority of play was focused on Murali. The other bowlers didn't bowl more than 17 overs, so you can imagine Harmison only had a couple of spells. The new ball was taken just as light was offered to Gilly and Warne, so expect him to wind up tomorrow morning.

The ABC Commentary team includes Jim Maxwell, Glenn Mitchell, Fazeer Mohammed,
Kerry O'Keeffe, Geoff Lawson and Peter Roebuck. Kerry adds a bit of irreverence, but his humour and indeed, perculiar laugh are off putting to some. It's usually pretty good, though and Jim Maxwell is much better to listen to than he is in the EA Cricket games.

Kim Hughes, Harsha Bhogle, Keith Stackpole, Jason Gillespie, Damien Fleming and others have commentated and generally, there's a guest or two that pop in for a chat.

 

[aussie1st]

Heres an article on the video debate.

Video debate hots up
By Robert Craddock
October 15, 2005

TEST cricket's open technology trial is only a day old and already a tangible fact has emerged - cameras can create as many problem areas as they solve.

You get nowhere in life if you don't experiment so you can't blame world officials for trialling the use of cameras in all decisions.

But neither could they be blamed for deciding it may be a leap too far.

Cricket has to be careful here.

The experiment has merit but the worst-case scenario of using it on the last day in a Test in India or Pakistan where there might be an appeal every other over would turn the game into a slow-fused farce.

Yesterday, at least, it had novelty value.

As umpire Darrell Hair sifted through countless replays of Michael Clarke's bat-pad catch, people in offices around Australia gathered around televisions to debate not simply the catch but whole issue of cameras in cricket.

Umpire Rudi Koertzen initially thought Clarke was out and started to raise his finger before he remembered the man upstairs which he decided to use.

Hair said he was unsure so he handed the decision back to Koertzen who went with his gut feeling and gave Clarke out.

Some pundits asked the fair question ... if there was enough doubt to go to the third umpire, do you need any more doubt to give the batsman not out?
This technology decision is huge because it will reshape careers and eras.

Australia probably would have won the Ashes if it was in in England because Michael Kasprowicz would have been given not out on the last ball of the Edgbaston Test which hit his glove when he was not holding the bat.

Damien Martyn would still have been playing Test cricket if two poor lbw decisions had been changed by the camera.

Even yesterday, Matthew Hayden, on 29, would have been left with his career in limbo if a confident lbw appeal that went upstairs had not revealed that the ball from Steve Harmison might just have cleared the stumps.

Hayden instantly thought he was "dead".

The sad thing about the use of cameras is that it could make umpires lazy.

Also, with "Big Brother" watching, umpires are all but obliged to perform as if they are motorists with a policeman on their tail and will start second- guessing obvious decisions such as Shane Watson's lbw last night.

Umpires will become machines just like tennis umpires who are basically glorified robots.

Cricket fans enjoys the human side of umpiring to the point where the game's top selling book was written not by Sir Donald Bradman or Sir Garfield Sobers but umpire Dickie Bird.

If Hawkeye ever put out its life story it would be lucky to sell 10 copies.

Some of the greatest minds in sport are split on the technology issue.

American sport is divided by it.

Baseball wants no part of it and lets the human eye play god. American football has gone completely the opposite way to the point where coaches are allowed to use the video to appeal against a decision but they sacrifice a time out if they are wrong.

Cricket, at the moment, is somewhere between and the balance seems just about right.

The Courier-Mail

http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,16920556-23212,00.html

 

[JamesyJames3]

what time is it on today? how many hours away from start? aussies plz tell

 

[aussie1st]

Same time as yesterday. Less than 6 hours away.

 

[JamesyJames3]

Same time as yesterday. Less than 6 hours away.

same time as yesterday means nothing to me

Im at university and didnt get to see it yesterday! but thnx anyway

 

[aussie1st]

If my calculations are right you are at uni at 1am in the morning?

 

[Stephen Bailey]

The ABC Commentary team includes Jim Maxwell, Glenn Mitchell, Fazeer Mohammed, Kerry O'Keeffe, Geoff Lawson and Peter Roebuck. Kerry adds a bit of irreverence, but his humour and indeed, perculiar laugh are off putting to some. It's usually pretty good, though and Jim Maxwell is much better to listen to than he is in the EA Cricket games.

On thw whole it was very good to listen too! Probably a laugh ever over or 2. Just 'that' sentence that got on my nerves, could well have been Lawson...

 

[JamesyJames3]

If my calculations are right you are at uni at 1am in the morning?

when i say im at uni, i mean im living there, with no digital tv, soo in one way you are correct, in another no

 

[Jarryd]

Christ the ICC have double standards. England want to send back their 12th man to play county cricket, its fine. We want to send Hodgie to play for Victoria, ICC say no. Ridiculous.

And having just seen Katichs run out, what the hell was Murali doing jumping back in his way?

 

[ZexyZahid]

World XI making a good comeback. Flintoff got two wickets in three overs.

Australia 339/8 (88.0 ov)

 

[Hariz]

Australia all out for 345 !!! Brilliant bowling spell by Flintoff mave prove vital !!! He finishes with figures of 4/59 !!!

 

[aussie1st]

World 11 lose 3 wickets including Smith, Lara and Dravid. Brillant bowling by McGrath.

 

[SaiSrini]

Rahul Dravid seems to be in disastrous form! Why had he to opt for this Super Series when he has tougher assignments ahead for India? All his good form from the Zimbabwe test series has gone into the wind!

Sehwag seems to be scoring some runs! Hope he gets a hundred just for the sake of India (though I suspect he would be out for 40+)! Awesome stuff from Mc Grath! What a champion he is!!!!! No wonder he is the role model for many young bowlers out there today!