Australia v West Indies, 1st ODI, Melbourne, Feb 7

Sun is shining, the weather is sweet - Bob Marley.

Gayle has done a McGrath and predicted a 4-1 win to the Windies despite their injury crisis.

Red wrote:Gayle has done a McGrath and predicted a 4-1 win to the Windies despite their injury crisis.

McGrath never predicted 4 -1 in his life, It was always 5 - 0

Not quite Hawaii.

Gayle is Alaska 4-1

Australia:
Schoolgirl
Bog
Drunky
Bingle's Dingle
Kamran
Paris
Haddit
Midge
Haurie
Rhino
Bubbles

West Indies:
Gayle
Morton
Dowlin
Simmons
Deonarine
Pollard
Smith
Ramdin
Miller
Rampaul
Roach

WI win toss and bowl. Although crapinfo initially had the WI winning the toss and batting...

Hope WI play with a better mindset than PAK...

No choking PLEASE.

Is that the cricket I hear on the radio, or just crickets?

Bowden can hear snicks that aren't there.

If you leave harper out of the equation, he is the worst umpire on the panel imo.

Did we miss a trick by not playing McKay? His mix of slower balls might have proved effective

Nath wrote:Did we miss a trick by not playing McKay? His mix of slower balls might have proved effective

Who do you drop?

so I guess the Windies are going to win the next 4 games?

Yeah, that was the '1'.

Looks like the Windies could be even worse than Pakistan. Why did Gayle choose to face the Aussie bowlers under lights?

A wonderful advert for the 50 over variety of the great game.

A tedious and scratchy effort by Aus after SG and Drunky looked like they might take the Windies apart, and then a total crapulent "chase" by Crystal's boys that was done by the 6th over.

Well Gayle got the loss out of the way so now we can expect four wins on the trot.

Nein showing the ODI on delay in Perth...farking disgrace.

what was gayle thinking he won the toss he should have batted, but unless he didn't trust his batsmen to get a decent score to defend.

Oh dear.

The batting was fuggin awful. Gayle out for less than 80 runs = Australia landslide victory.

Red wrote:Well Gayle got the loss out of the way so now we can expect four wins on the trot.

Aussie in not getting sarcasm shocker...

Part of the problem is that AUS are a quality ODI side

JKLever wrote:

Red wrote:Well Gayle got the loss out of the way so now we can expect four wins on the trot.

Aussie in not getting sarcasm shocker...

It's really funny how many times the Aussie press has gone mad when Gayle has said something silly in a press conference because he's bored or they ask an annoying question. They really just don't get his humour.

In the last few months Gayle has fed them stories such as he would have been a Premiership footballer if he didn't make it at cricket (they ran an article on this when he was playing for WA) and that we will beat the Aussies 4-1 despite missing everyone who is even half decent apart from himself and Roach.

Yet they fall for it every time.

even the Nein commentators acknowledged Gayle's remarks were tongue in cheek . . .

Aye, but even so there would be something wrong if he said he expected to lose 4-1.

Journos are somewhat dim and need something to write about

Unanswered question from this match. Gayle is apparently more concerned about his team's batting than the bowling. Why then would he elect to bowl during the day, giving the Aus batsmen the best conditions to bat in, and teh WIndies batsmen the challenge of batting under lights? Sure, it might not have made much difference, but why make Drunky's job easier?