Australia v India, 1st Test, Melbourne, 26-30 December (II)

Hands up who was taught, when first playing the game, the importance of not leaving a gap between bat and pad that you can drive a truck through when playing a forward defensive shot?

FFS!!!!

batting camp did a frickin' lot of good didn't it?

horace wrote:would have been ideal to bring Christian on now...

horrie, is Christian as good as say, Watson with the ball? If not, he's not good enough.

SACK.CLARKE.NOW!!!!

Zat wrote:Fair dinkum, Marsh and Warner both out playing shots that should only be used in t20 when you're 0/50 after 6 overs, not in a Test match where you've gone into the second dig with a handy, but not insurmountable, lead.

add bingles ex to that list big dog

can mr snicket rescue the wozzies from 3/3

FFFFFFAAAAAAAARRRRRRKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How can we possibly be this crap?

Everything rests with the two old men of cricket.....

Mick Sawyer wrote:

horace wrote:would have been ideal to bring Christian on now...

horrie, is Christian as good as say, Watson with the ball? If not, he's not good enough.

As Watson won't bowl again for at least another month, my long=dead grandmother would be better than him with the ball at the moment.

JGK wrote:FFFFFFAAAAAAAARRRRRRKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How can we possibly be this crap?

Answer here...

Big Dog wrote:Everything rests with the two old men of cricket.....

....of course Haddit will save the day

18 more required...

Mick Sawyer wrote:

horace wrote:would have been ideal to bring Christian on now...

horrie, is Christian as good as say, Watson with the ball? If not, he's not good enough.

no he is not...but he has some modicum of form with the bat, has not been overly exposed to Langer and is good in the field

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What the sh*tting sh*t is happening?!

Is this the most collapsible Aussie batting line up ever? Certainly for 20 + years.

skully wrote:1st Test Michelle for Milf!!! Well done, him.

[lardy mutters what an arseclown MS is]

Any reasonable judge would acknowledge that I was absolutely correct. If you bend it and attack the poles you will be successful. Hilf managed that, by and large this morning. The ball he took Dravid with is the best I can remember from him. Great length, tailed in and took the top of off. More of that thanks Hilf. Well bowled him.

It appears that we finally have a bowling coach that knows a bit about bowling. The change in the length being bowled by the Australian quicks is astonishing.

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Mick Sawyer wrote:It appears that we finally have a bowling coach that knows a bit about bowling. The change in the length being bowled by the Australian quicks is astonishing.

Now, can we have a batting coach with a similar mindset?

Zat wrote:6...

will Lyon get us over the line again?

We're not going to get anything beyond 150.

4/43, damp squib.

Zimbabwe have every chance to beat Australia, if their attack isn't good enough, they'll be gifted a sub 100 innings surely.

Zat wrote:

Mick Sawyer wrote:It appears that we finally have a bowling coach that knows a bit about bowling. The change in the length being bowled by the Australian quicks is astonishing.

Now, can we have a batting coach with a [u]similar[/u] mindset?

maybe it is time for my demo outside CA deadhead hq in jolimont