Australia's WI tour

Crikey, it's hardly worth it!!!

May 30 - June 1, 2015 - Tour Match at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua
June 5-9, 2015 - 1st Test at Windsor Park, Roseau, Dominica
June 13-17, 2015 - 2nd Test at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica

A 19 day stop-over on the way to England for the Ashes.

Australia's Frank Worrell Trophy squad:

Michael Clarke (c), Steve Smith (vc), Fawad Ahmed, Brad Haddin, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Shaun Marsh, Peter Nevill, Chris Rogers, Peter Siddle, Mitchell Starc, Adam Voges, David Warner, Shane Watson

it's sad to see how far they have fallen. from 4-5 Test series to shoehorned 2-3 Tests at most.

It is a pretty sad indictment of where WI have fallen to.

But don't you think that at the moment 4 or 5 tests of WI versus Aus would just be too painful to watch? It's surely going to be a very lopsided affair - and outside of bolstering averages and putting another W in the column I don't think there's much to be gained by Aus playing them over a proper 4-5 match series.

spot on LNo2

Cheers Horace.

I'm tempted to suggest that shortened series should apply to England at the moment. Partially a facetious comment - but partially deadly serious.

I hope we can at least offer a bit of resistance to the Baggy Greens otherwise this Summer is going to be a real dud.

oh yeh. two quick tests in the west indies. the perfect way to prepare for an ashes tour

Shite tour. It's what you'd call one of the big three throwing some crumbs the way of one of the little guys

Perhaps the Windies would get longer test series if their money-hungry players stopped giving the IPL priority over tests.

Chris Gayle's back has been mysteriously playing up before pretty much every test series for the last two years, before he miraculously recovers to belt a 40 ball century in some domestic T20 tournament a week later.

Ethics? The Gall! wrote:oh yeh.  two quick tests in the west indies.  the perfect way to prepare for an ashes tour

Fair point guv.

I guess when the ACB sorted their WI tour out they did not know quite how weak England would be this year.

If we were a half decent team then you're right - a 2 test tour and a minimal build-up/acclimatisation in England could've left them looking pretty silly. But as it stands I think your grip on the urn is pretty safe.

Henry wrote:Perhaps the Windies would get longer test series if their money-hungry players stopped giving the IPL priority over tests.

They should take their cue from KP. He has serious dedication.

Lindsay no.2 wrote:But as it stands I think your grip on the urn is pretty safe.

superglue is safe. no team with watson in it can be guaranteed anything

skully wrote:Crikey, it's hardly worth it!!!

May 30 - June 1, 2015 - Tour Match at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua
June 5-9, 2015 - 1st Test at Windsor Park, Roseau, Dominica
June 13-17, 2015 - 2nd Test at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica

A 19 day stop-over on the way to England for the Ashes.

Australia's Frank Worrell Trophy squad:

Michael Clarke (c), Steve Smith (vc), Fawad Ahmed, Brad Haddin, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Shaun Marsh, Peter Nevill, Chris Rogers, Peter Siddle, Mitchell Starc, Adam Voges, David Warner, Shane Watson

Schedule has changed ... in a move that will annoy some Fanatics and other tourists.

All games have been brought forward by 2-3 days.

Ethics? The Gall! wrote:

Lindsay no.2 wrote:But as it stands I think your grip on the urn is pretty safe.

superglue is safe.  no team with watson in it can be guaranteed anything

I'll see your 'watson' and raise you with a 'cook'.

Lindsay no.2 wrote:

Ethics? The Gall! wrote:

Lindsay no.2 wrote:But as it stands I think your grip on the urn is pretty safe.

superglue is safe.  no team with watson in it can be guaranteed anything

I'll see your 'watson' and raise you with a 'cook'.

but we have the trump. bloody kountouris will crock every bowler we have and then make sure clarkes back seizes up at the worst possible moment

Ethics? The Gall! wrote:

Lindsay no.2 wrote:

Ethics? The Gall! wrote:

Lindsay no.2 wrote:But as it stands I think your grip on the urn is pretty safe.

superglue is safe.  no team with watson in it can be guaranteed anything

I'll see your 'watson' and raise you with a 'cook'.

but we have the trump.  bloody kountouris will crock every bowler we have and then make sure clarkes back seizes up at the worst possible moment

Sorry - I'm going to have to play my joker. Peter Moores. If there was a Top Trumps series for the most awful/destructive coaches ever he would win on all counts. He is the equivalent of the Doomsday Device in Dr. Strangelove.

Lindsay, I like your work.

Have you considered the strong possibility that England's management team has been recruited exclusively from the B Ark?

yeh. but only after theyd spent a couple hundred millennia devolving

For horace

thank you Wally...I could not find this. I concede I need braille fb ...btw hold the phone on all the accouterments I require,

On the radio we were advised this morning that both Lyon and Ahmed would play in the first match...

excluding Cam White - when was the time we selected a specialist offie and a leggie in the same international game?

horace wrote:thank you Wally...I could not find this. I concede I need braille fb ...btw hold the phone on all the accouterments I require,

On the radio we were advised this morning that both Lyon and Ahmed would play in the first match...

excluding Cam White - when was the time we selected a specialist offie and a leggie in the same international game?

TJ and Mallett?

Funky and SKW?

Big Curtly was over at the Lords NZ v Eng match and in a short interview intimated that the WI will struggle to match Aus - and that Aus are a much better opposition than Eng.

Is that Curtly doing his own variant of Colin Graves's 'they're mediocre' to motivate his boys?

Dan Cullen and Warne/MacGill vs the Bangers?

has been a while

WICB Presidents XI win the toss & elect to bat.