Hayden calls it a day.

Take away the electricity from your Mum's basement and you're farked.

See . . . the monkey must be on holiday today . . .

Hilarious thread!
Has everything ... IQ, electricity, NFI, basements, monkeys, "England performning sensationally" - (not), Haydoes and, of course, TO !

And that's all on one page !!

You can't always make the assumption that a captain gets it right at the toss apropos the statement highlighting his average when the opposition has won the toss. IIRC England famously sent us in on a featherbed in Brissie. The Gabba pitch usually only does something if there's been inclement weather in the lead-up to the test.

Ruined by an attempt at logic.

That a FTB like Hayden could average 50 in Test cricket speaks volumes about how crap bowlers are and how flat pitches have become.

Yet on those same flat tracks against those same crap bowlers, Langer could only average 45.

JGK wrote:Yet on those same flat tracks against those same crap bowlers, Langer could only average 45.

Of the two, it's of no doubt who cashed in when the going was good and who scored the tougher runs.

Red wrote:You can't always make the assumption that a captain gets it right at the toss apropos the statement highlighting his average when the opposition has won the toss. IIRC England famously sent us in on a featherbed in Brissie. The Gabba pitch usually only does something if there's been inclement weather in the lead-up to the test.

It is a decent indicator

Hayden has 7 100's from 16 tests when the opposition has won the toss and fielded, those can't all be captain mistakes

Hayden has some canyon size holes on the C.V, but I would make him one of the 5 greats from the last 20 yrs alongside BCL, SRT, RP & tugga

Add Kallis to that list.

20 years covers a fair chunk of AB too, let alone Dravid, Sanga etc.

There's something peculiarly two-toned about IZ's current picture.

Sand on arse & legs

But Rambokitty has gone.

Heh.

OP Tipping wrote:There's something peculiarly two-toned about IZ's current picture.

IZ in still trying to prove his blokiness shocker...or IZ in "i'm really Martina Navratilova" shocker

horace wrote:OP...what is unclear is whether he will play for the Billies or not...has he accepted his potential 'promotion' to State cricket?

No horrie. said that he had retired from "representaive cricket"

So, do we miss the big selfish galoot yet?