Re: ashes dangermen as rated by opposition fans

by PeterCS Tue 23 Jun 2009, 01:01

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:Prior
Panesar
Bell

England's demons for this series are just as likely to come from within as they are without.

After an "off" prawn curry?

by PeterCS Tue 23 Jun 2009, 01:02

JKLever wrote:Cynic

Spoken like a man wih a shudder in his voice.

by horace Tue 23 Jun 2009, 01:05

DJ_Smerk wrote:The subject of Nathan Hauritz is a bit of a hot potato.

Nobody knows how he'll go down this summer. Will he take a bag full and become Austraya's next great spinner, or will he be handled with ease by KP and his barmy army?

I suspect he'll be quite nervous going into the first Test, a lot of pressure on a young spearhead spin bowler on his first Ashes Campaign. However, it usually comes down to the old cliché of really coming to the fore in a pressure situation and performing a glorious spell to captivate the minds of everyone watching.

point of clarification - given mudge's likely interest... Horrie the Younger might play for NSW but this does not mean he plays for or with Sydneysiders or Trev or that he enjoys a special friendship with the Shermanator.....not that there would be anything wrong with the above...
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Horrie the Younger - who let me be quite clear - is no relation, comes from Qld

by JKLever Tue 23 Jun 2009, 01:06

PlanetPakistan wrote:London groundsmen

They did an excellent job in the T20 world cup but some of the pitches for test matches have been very flat

Don't agree at all, we generally have great test wickets with a little bit for everyone.

by Big_Bad_Bob Tue 23 Jun 2009, 01:12

JKLever wrote:
PlanetPakistan wrote:London groundsmen

They did an excellent job in the T20 world cup but some of the pitches for test matches have been very flat

Don't agree at all, we generally have great test wickets with a little bit for everyone.

Hmmmm . . . dunno about that one: -

England Sri Lanka drawn May 11-15, 2006 Test # 1802
England Pakistan drawn Jul 13-17, 2006 Test # 1809
England West Indies drawn May 17-21, 2007 Test # 1831
England India drawn Jul 19-23, 2007 Test # 1840
England New Zealand drawn May 15-19, 2008 Test # 1874
England South Africa drawn Jul 10-14, 2008 Test # 1880
England West Indies England 10 wickets May 6-8, 2009 Test # 1919

The win against the Windies last month was the first result at Lord's since the Australian victory there in the opening match of the 2005 Ashes, ending a sequence of six successive draws!

http://stats.cricinfo.com/england/engine/records/team/match_results.html?class=1;id=10;type=ground

by JKLever Tue 23 Jun 2009, 01:15

How many of those could and in some cases 'should' we have won though...

India & SL should have been England wins for starters

by Big_Bad_Bob Tue 23 Jun 2009, 01:18

True, though you could make the same case for the South Africa Test last year.

Trouble is it got flatter and flatter as the Test wore on . . . which kind of brings us back to the initial point. Smile

by JKLever Tue 23 Jun 2009, 01:21

I'd take a flattie at Lords right now tbh. We'll do well to get away from the neutral test and then Lords all square!!

by Henry Tue 23 Jun 2009, 03:08

Johnson, Hughes, and Clark.

by Henry Tue 23 Jun 2009, 03:08

Johnson, Hughes, and Clark.

by PeterCS Tue 23 Jun 2009, 03:10

Who else apart from Johnson and Hughes then?

by PeterCS Tue 23 Jun 2009, 03:10

Clark, maybe?

by PeterCS Tue 23 Jun 2009, 03:56

What do you get if you cross

ashes dangermen as rated by opposition fans - Page 2 Phil-cool

with

ashes dangermen as rated by opposition fans - Page 2 2003-january-sean-hughes

?

by PeterCS Tue 23 Jun 2009, 03:58

Answer:

Spoiler:

by skully Tue 23 Jun 2009, 04:14

taipan wrote:
Red wrote:KP, Freddie and Anderson if it's tenebrous overhead.

OMG, the return of "word of the day"

My Mum, a handy tennis player, used to use that word to describe "tennis elbow". Cool

by G.Wood Tue 23 Jun 2009, 04:42

Hilditch
Hughes
Boon
Cox

by skully Tue 23 Jun 2009, 05:07

Hehe, noice. And heavily sage.

by horace Tue 23 Jun 2009, 05:51

RD calls it right...two (albeit likeable) yobs, one decent state player (tho he had to move to the toxics) and one classical upper class twit...we are sooo doooomed

by skully Tue 23 Jun 2009, 05:57

Watson's fragility may have at least saved them from embarrassing themselves by choosing him in the T1 squad.

by Henry Tue 23 Jun 2009, 06:24

I think Aus will bat Haddin at six, and McDonald at seven, with three specialist quicks and Hauritz.

by skully Tue 23 Jun 2009, 06:40

Possibly not the worst outcome but an insult to Marcus North.

by embee Tue 23 Jun 2009, 07:21

Wozzies are used to being insulted

by Batman Tue 23 Jun 2009, 07:35

Both Freddie and Symonds, star all-rounders from both teams respectively are dangerous.

Playing an unfit Freddie is more dangerous for the Pommies.

Including Symonds in the team for any reason these days is dangerous for the Ozzies too.

And therein lies the tale of both the team's supposed all-rounders.....

Laughing

by skully Tue 23 Jun 2009, 07:55

embee wrote:Wozzies are used to being insulted

WA - the martyr state. Cool

by horace Tue 23 Jun 2009, 08:52

Worst Australia brings out the best in the rest of the country Very Happy

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