Cricket

[The Artful Dodger]

10 hours ago, Azeem said:

Tim Paine to Murli Vijay

' I know he is your captain but you can't seriously like him as a bloke '

 

I doubt Vijay does...

An absolutely nothing incident, only in cricket would anything be made of it. 

Edited December 17, 2018 by The Artful Dodger

[Azeem]

7 minutes ago, The Artful Dodger said:

I doubt Vijay does...

An absolutely nothing incident, only in cricket would anything be made of it. 

That's sledging of the new era

[Devil-Dick Willie]

Matthews take a fucking bow. Sri Lanka draw the match because of a champion and some rain.

[Spike]

On 10/12/2018 at 16:47, Devil-Dick Willie said:

The 'new era' is vastly unpopular with the public. All the retarded bogans see the situation as 'act like cunts and win' or 'behave respectably and lose' They aren't aware that behaviour is independent of the results. Here are the top facebook comments on an article titled "Paine heralds new Aussie era" This is why I hate Australians 

" The “new era” is absolutely rubbish. Can’t believe the PC brigades have gotten to our national game. Embarrassing."

"Just be soft and keep losing. Not a good team, only about half of them should be there"

"New era looks crap"

"Hard to talk rubbish when your always loosing" 

 

 

 

 

You say public as if all of Australia is from Cronulla. Maybe it's because I'm a bushie but I never remember anyone caring about sledging from my youth. It's fucks living in low-income boondock suburbs that come up with that shit. Besides T-Pain is hardly 'new era', he is fucking 34.

You're right though, they think Glenn McGrath throwing tantrums is equivalent to success because it coincided with the greatest twenty years of Australian cricket that will probably ever happen.

[Devil-Dick Willie]

India setting themselves up for 500 here. Even with the king and the wall back in the sheds. Some runs at the top was nice too. Pitch is a shite one, but the odd ball standing up and plenty staying low should excite sir Jadeja 

[Azeem]

We're still in it

[Azeem]

This match has the potential to be really really interesting now.

[Azeem]

Fakhar Zaman is Afridi in the making. Playing a Test match like a T20

[Azeem]

Imam-ul-Haq was like lucky in the start with his poor selections but he is getting control of the game now. 

Edited December 27, 2018 by Azeem

[Azeem]

Shan Masood has really  improved his game in this innings 

[Stan]

10 hours ago, Devil-Dick Willie said:

India setting themselves up for 500 here. Even with the king and the wall back in the sheds. Some runs at the top was nice too. Pitch is a shite one, but the odd ball standing up and plenty staying low should excite sir Jadeja 

Strong batting performance throughout the order as well which was a nice change. Bit shocked at two new openers for an MCG Boxing Day test but they held their own, especially with the short balls and chin music attempts from Starc and Hazelwood and Cummins! Vihari took a big hit on the helmet which seemed to affect him. Aggarwal dealt with it better.

 

[Azeem]

We played three openers which gave us a great start 101-1 but than there was no middle order at all. SA need 149 to win 

[Devil-Dick Willie]

5 hours ago, Azeem said:

We played three openers which gave us a great start 101-1 but than there was no middle order at all. SA need 149 to win 

You never had a chance. 

[Azeem]

6 hours ago, Devil-Dick Willie said:

You never had a chance. 

Whu ? We were in position to control the game even a 220+ lead would have kept us in the game. 

[Devil-Dick Willie]

9 minutes ago, Azeem said:

Whu ? We were in position to control the game even a 220+ lead would have kept us in the game. 

Nope. If you ever thought you were a favourite at any point of this match you think very differently to me.

[Stan]

Australia bowled all out for a small 151. Managed to see the first 3 wickets within the first hour of play then fell asleep. 

Looks like the pitch is starting to take its toll but at the same time have more of an effect on the game. 

Lucky we have a big first innings total cos this second innings is a shambles

 

[Devil-Dick Willie]

Australia skittled for fuck all. India still have a 350 odd lead though. No way Aus are scoring any more than what, 250? On this track. Bar lots of rain this is done.

[Azeem]

Successive catches dropped really broke my heart and also one catch overturned by video umpire which i think was the wrong call. 

This test was similar to the one in Cape Town from our last tour here.

Edited December 28, 2018 by Azeem

[Devil-Dick Willie]

India need 2 on a day 5 pitch. Australia need 141. No batsmen left. This should be open and shut. Imagine losing after declaring twice tho... 

[DeadLinesman]

Andrew Strauss’ wife has died aged 46 due to lung cancer. Always shite news around Christmas and New Year.

[CaaC (John)+]

4 hours ago, DeadLinesman said:

Andrew Strauss’ wife has died aged 46 due to lung cancer. Always shite news around Christmas and New Year.

Jesus, he gave up the role of the Director of England Cricket in October because "citing a wish to spend more time with his wife while she was undergoing treatment for cancer." she was only 46 when she passed away. 

R.I.P. Ruth, my thoughts go out to Andrew and all the loved ones you left behind. 

[Stan]

8 hours ago, Devil-Dick Willie said:

India need 2 on a day 5 pitch. Australia need 141. No batsmen left. This should be open and shut. Imagine losing after declaring twice tho... 

Madness if we lose this  

6 hours ago, DeadLinesman said:

Andrew Strauss’ wife has died aged 46 due to lung cancer. Always shite news around Christmas and New Year.

Very sad, that  

[Devil-Dick Willie]

An entire session rained out, then the clouds doth parted and the Indians rejoiced!

 

My Aussie team for the final match would be.

Harris

Burns

Khawaja 

Head

Wade

Maxwell

Paine

Cummins

Starc

Lyon 

Hazlewood

 

Finch and the swamps out, Maxwell (who should have played Melbourne) and the 2 form batsmen in Wade and Burns in. Burns should be in anyway. They won't bring Wade in though because if he's in people might realise how useless Paine is.

 

And if I were an Indian selector

R Sharma

Agarwal

Pujara

Kohli

Rahane

Pant

Ashwin

Sir RAJ

Shami

I Sharma

Bumrah

No need for 7 specialist batsmen. Spin em out, and if anyone can score a ton, the Aussies won't be able to out bat them. 

[Stan]

I'd be inclined to give Vihari another chance just because the game is a bit of a dead-rubber (moreso than others given we can't lose the series, but it'd be nice to win a series in Australia). 

It's something we've done before like other teams, bring in a few youngsters to see how they cope. 

Not sure how bad Ashwin's injury is but perhaps another spinner might get a chance. 

[Devil-Dick Willie]

1 hour ago, Stan said:

I'd be inclined to give Vihari another chance just because the game is a bit of a dead-rubber (moreso than others given we can't lose the series, but it'd be nice to win a series in Australia). 

It's something we've done before like other teams, bring in a few youngsters to see how they cope. 

Not sure how bad Ashwin's injury is but perhaps another spinner might get a chance. 

 

I'd play Vihari is Ashwin is out. This is no way near a dead rubber, you guys must win, it'd be historic.