Australia v England, 1st ODI, Melbourne, 12 January, 2014

Big Dog wrote:

skully wrote:Consecutive 4s after Mr Dog's sledge.   

Thank you  

Keep up the good work.   

Have Aus ever had 3 more sloggy cow sloggers at the top of the order than Finch, Warner and Watson?

Best Sloggy XI for Aus?

Finch
Warner
Maddinson
Watson
White
Maxwell
Haddin
Faulkner
Johnson
Lee
Cutting

Another dropped catch.

Finch has a bit of the mighty Boonie about him when he stands up straight and drives.

skully wrote:Finch has a bit of the mighty Boonie about him when he stands up straight and drives.

Wash your mouth out. Finch is'nt worthy to empty Boonies slops tray.

Nice little dink by FW over sightboard.

I will extend a pardon to all those who rated Rankin prior to this tour.

You ill judgment is forgiven.

Seems awfully timid for such a giant.

Big Dog wrote:

skully wrote:Finch has a bit of the mighty Boonie about him when he stands up straight and drives.

Wash your mouth out. Finch is'nt worthy to empty Boonies slops tray.  

Ooh, no argument there. It was merely a similarity, not a class comparison. Wouldn't we kill for a Boonie in a Test side ATM?

50 up for Not-Boonie.

Warner nicks a half arsed back cut.

Warner walks   

Looks out.

Butler claims a non catch   

PMSL - not out. Can anything else go wrong for England?

Warner recalled

Didn't see it. Was it clearly not out?

Brezzy goes arse over tit. 0-100.

JGK wrote:Didn't see it.  Was it clearly not out?

No doubt.

Effort by Bressy was comical   

JGK wrote:Didn't see it.  Was it clearly not out?

Was one of those "bounce up off the tips of the fingers" jobs. But 3rd ump ruled that he couldn't be sure it hadn't hit the ground.

Clearly bounced in my view.

The scoreboard indicates so.

Misfields, dropped catches. Deary me, shot ducks or what?

skully wrote:

JGK wrote:Didn't see it.  Was it clearly not out?

Was one of those "bounce up off the tips of the fingers" jobs. But 3rd ump ruled that he couldn't be sure it hadn't hit the ground.

It was out. Warner looked pretty embarrassed about being called back - there's no way he would've walked off in the first place if he thought there was any chance Buttler didn't catch it.

Fingers under the ball, technology that has been proven time and again to be unfit for purpose adding nothing but grey to what was previously a clear cut decision, and the outcome was the predictable fudge.

Not going to make a shit of difference in the context of this match - England lost it in the first 10 over of their own batting - but using the third umpire to adjudicate on catches close to the ground should've been dumped ages ago. The technology has never been there for it.