Australia v New Zealand, t20, Perth, 11th Dec

official teams:
New Zealand 1 Brendon McCullum (wk), 2 Lou Vincent, 3 Ross Taylor, 4 Scott Styris, 5 Jamie How, 6 Mathew Sinclair, 7 Jacob Oram, 8 Daniel Vettori (capt), 9 Kyle Mills, 10 Mark Gillespie, 11 Jeetan Patel.

Australia 1 Adam Gilchrist (wk), 2 Adam Voges, 3 Michael Clarke (capt), 4 Michael Hussey, 5 Andrew Symonds, 6 Luke Pomersbach, 7 Brett Lee, 8 Ashley Noffke, 9 Nathan Bracken, 10 Mitchell Johnson, 11 Shaun Tait.

Hodge FFS out with injured back.

Aussies won the toss and will bat first.

(from CrocInfo) Further news filtering in, this from Cricket Australia, that Hodge injured in his back in the dressing room.

Now, just WTF was the useless fat vomit trying to do?

freddled gruntbuggly wrote:

(from CrocInfo) Further news filtering in, this from Cricket Australia, that Hodge injured in his back in the dressing room.

Now, just WTF was the useless fat vomit trying to do?

Maybe sometimes it is better not to know.

Can't blame Hodge for pulling out. I wouldn't want to be seen in one of those skin-tight shirts either.

Arsey by the snoozies.

FFS, that was a wicket maiden.


We really are shite at T20.

Game is over already. We're rubbish at rubbish cricket.

1/10 off 3.2 overs.

Seriously rubbish.

Just seen that Pombasher is playing. Isn't he suspended?

From memory his suspension runs out tomorrow. Sounds like a case of right place, right time. He had to pay to get into the ground like anybody else.

NLWL will be kicking himself.

Doc Patel has Clarke stumped.

Not exactly a Captains Innings by the new Grand Poo Bah but WGAFIOTT.

>>Doc Patel

Is that the same who killed 99 patients.

Meh it's JAMITT

Fred Nerk wrote:Doc Patel has Clarke stumped.

Not exactly a Captains Innings by the new Grand Poo Bah but WGAFIOTT.

Not too bad though. Symonds hitting massive sixes here.

freddled gruntbuggly wrote:

(from CrocInfo) Further news filtering in, this from Cricket Australia, that Hodge injured in his back in the dressing room.

Now, just WTF was the useless fat vomit trying to do?

(again from CrocInfo) : Speaking of tripping, Hodge fell over in the dressing room putting on his trousers, according to Andrew Symonds.

Useless bugger can't even dress himself, and he wants to play Test cricket?

Lee bags one early.

Yep, Lee just bagged Hodge . . .

He should be left permanently debagged if he can't get them on without falling over.

Only a meaningles game, but Tait picks up a wicket first ball.

And his third (legitimate) ball.

If there was any doubt about playing 4 quicks at the WACA - that has been dispelled tonight. The Subis will be sh1tting themselves.

JGK wrote:If there was any doubt about playing 4 quicks at the WACA - that has been dispelled tonight. The Subis will be sh1tting themselves.

But who'll notice . . . it'll look like they're melting

For those who can see this (assuming someone can) - is the pitch getting back to the standard fast bouncy WACA we knew and loved, or are the shaggers just being their usual mediocre selves?

HArd to tell with the snoozies Taily, but it does look the ball is hurrying through. Gilly has taken 3 catches from top edges that the batsman was late on the shot.