http://au.sports.yahoo.com/cricket/news/article/-/18763214/ahmed-wont-wear-beer-logo/

Any player objecting to the sponsorship on their shirt is a hypocritical dick.

Australia vs Scotland ODI:

Australia: 3/362.

Australia has a 246 run opening partnership between Finch and Marsh.

Finch: 148 (116)
Marsh: 151 (149)
Watson: 37 (24)
Clarke: 4 (5) NO
Bailey: 10 (7) NO

In reply, Scotland are currently: 3/59 in the 18th over, and needing 304 runs from 192 balls.

Edited by Heineken: 4/9/2013 01:01:58 AM

Playing Cricket against Scotland is like playing football against Tuvalu.

"Playing football for Australia is like surfing for England..."

Turns out Marsh and Finch now hold the 2nd highest opening wicket stand in a ODI for Australia.

In the End, Australia won by a solid 200 runs, bowling Scotland out for a meager 162 off 43.5 overs.

Yes, it's against Scotland - sure, but I wouldn't fancy us against anybody at the present moment.

New look domestic schedule announced


- Domestic formats are to be played in blocks
- RYOBI One-Day Cup to be played as a four-week tournament in Sydney during October and broadcast live on the Nine Network via HD Channel GEM
- Six rounds of the Bupa Sheffield Shield to be played before Christmas
- Three rounds of the Bupa Sheffield Shield to be played before first Commonwealth Bank Ashes Test
- KFC T20 Big Bash League finals window brought forward by a week providing a packed week of Finals action

http://www.cricket.com.au/news-list/2013/9/7/new-look-domestic-schedule-announced

You can't be fucking serious, playing the whole One-Day cup in Sydney. How can you possibly justify that!? More proof (as if any were needed) Cricket Australia is really Cricket New South Wales.

Sweet - looks like I now have an incentive to go watch live NSW cricket now. :lol:

That's probably the most retarded idea CA have ever had.

WTF. #-o

Clint McKay has just taken a hat trick against England to put Australia on top

Eight English Ashes tourists that Australian fans love to hate
News Limited Network
October 25, 20131:36PM


Ian Botham.
Source: AFP
STUART Broad is shaping as the great pantomime villain of this Ashes series on account of his actions in England a few months back. Here, we take a look at some of the other England tourists who have got under the skins of Australian audiences.

Ian Botham

Australia’s antipathy for Botham was born out of envy for his outrageous all-round talents. Botham menaced Australia over a 36-Test span with 148 wickets at 27.65 and 1,673 runs (usually belted to all corners of the ground) at 29.35. Few will forget the 1981 Ashes, during which Botham’s feats with bat and ball propelled England from 1-0 down in the series to an epic 3-1 triumph. But perhaps his most notable stoush with Australia occurred not on the field, but rather a carpark, when he scuffled with Ian Chappell in 1977.


Source: AP

Chris Broad

Clearly, it runs in the family. Stuart’s father was an obdurate opening batsman who played 25 Tests between 1984 and 1989. He scored a torpid 139 during the Bicentenary Test at the SCG and was bowled by Steve Waugh. Rather than accept his fate, Broad smashed the stumps with his bat. Australian fans of that era have never forgotten that particular dummy spit.


John Snow

Snow had brushes with officialdom, umpires and opponents over the course of his controversial 49 Test career. But Australian audiences will most remember him for bowling bouncers at tail-enders – a tactic deemed unsportsmanlike in the 1970s – all of which came to a head at the SCG in 1970-71. After Terry Jenner ducked into a bouncer and retired hurt, a member of the crowd grabbed Snow while he was fielding on the fence. Captain Ray Illingworth took the unprecedented move of taking his players from the field until the field was cleared of debris and the crowd subdued.


Geoff Boycott

Strike-rates weren’t statistically in vogue during Geoff Boycott’s 108-Test career. And that’s just as well, because Boycott’s leaps from defence to attack were as infrequent as Yorkshire sunshine. Against Australia, he proved a dreary menace, scoring 2,945 runs at 47.50 from 38 Tests. Fortunately, Boycott proved far more entertaining as a commentator and columnist in later life.


Trevor Bailey. Source: AP

Trevor Bailey

Trevor could bore for his country – and did. Whether scoring at a run-a-week, bowling negative lines down leg-side or lengthening his run-up to intentionally slow the over-rate, Bailey proved a constant source of infuriation for Australian cricketers and audiences. During the first Test to be televised in Australia, Bailey scored an agonising 50 in five hours and 57 minutes – capped by an uncharacteristic six off Ian Johnson.


Source: AP

Douglas Jardine

And, by extension, the England squad of 1932-33. Jardine’s “leg theory” tactic was designed to blunt the effectiveness of Sir Donald Bradman, but it almost tore down diplomatic relations between Australia and England. The MCC was branded “unsportsmanlike” after a Harold Larwood bouncer fractured the skull of Australian batsman Bert Oldfield during the third Test at Adelaide. Jardine threatened to withdraw his team from the final two Tests unless the statement was retracted. It was, but only after the intervention of Australian prime minister Joseph Lyons.


Source: AP

WG Grace

Stuart Broad’s refusal to walk at Trent Bridge has nothing on the good doctor. Grace was once bowled first ball in an exhibition match in England and defiantly stood his ground. “They’ve come to watch me bat, not you bowl,” he reportedly told the bowler. He hardly endeared himself to the Australian public, either, whether by refusing to allow the opposition runners or arguing the point with umpires. Joe Darling once remarked: “We were all told not to trust the old man as he was out to win every time and was a great bluffer.”


Phil Tuffnel Source: AP

Phil Tufnell (honourable mention)

Decent with the ball, dreadful with the bat and (somehow) worse in the field, Tufnell was the kind of English cricketer that modern Australian audiences yearn for. Aussies weren’t shy in pointing Tufnell’s flaws out to him, most notably when one wag at the MCG bellowed: “Oi, Tufnell! Lend us your brain. We’re building an idiot!” Tuffers will never rate among the more dastardly English villains of yore, but his pantomime status earns him an honourable mention on this list.


http://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/eight-english-ashes-tourists-that-australian-fans-love-to-hate/story-fndpt0dy-1226746719076

Them Bulls. :d

Hauritz and Harris as well.

Can only imagine the career Harris would have had without injury

Australia 6/350 India need 351 to win and keep the series alive :)

PS Hughes is shit.

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It looks like the FFA missed out to complement scheduling the fixtures in the towns where the test matches are scheduled

Only 3 matches in the A-League fixture complemented British travellers/ tourists who came downunder to Australia where they could watch Football in the evenings to complement cricket during the day time, which I reckon would be a killer sports tourist package

Those 3 matches were Adelaide United v Brisbane Roar playing on the 6th of December at Hindmarsh (after day 2 of play at the Adelaide Oval)

And during the Boxing day test match (26th to 30th) the English tourists get a choice of Melbourne Victory v WSW (after day 3 of the test match) and Melbourne Heart v Wellington Phoenix (after day 2)

There is no home game in the A-League in Brisbane when the Brisbane Test match nor when the Perth Test Match is on

But Most puzzlingly: English travellers in Sydney miss out for the January 3 to 7 test match, and Sydney is Australia's main gateway city.

Shane Watson injured, hopefully it is bad and he cannot play the Ashes.

Well aren't you a nice bloke

Yes I am, thank you. Glad you agree with me.

David Warner in some great form coming into the Ashes. Continuing on from his ridiculous One Day form he's just scored 104 off 87 balls against Victoria in the Shield game today. I think it's now pretty much guaranteed he will be playing in the Ashes, and rightly so imo.

Edited by sydneycroatia58: 7/11/2013 02:23:33 PM

Sachin Tendulkar has called it quits, the player may be gone, but the sport of cricket continues

Despite the Australian media trying to ram him up the ass with their love. Happens every time.

Agreed. One has to ask, though, where was this in England? I am quietly confident of the return of the ashes.

First time in my lifetime that Sachin Tendulkar isn't a professional cricketer. Weird Feeling.

Edited by Funky Munky: 16/11/2013 11:48:49 PM

With the likes of Kallis, Sangakkara, Jayawardene, Chanderpaul not far away from the end of their careers either, I don't remember a time when these guys weren't playing for their countries.

But the game or sport of cricket goes on

If it doesnt, then we have a problem now dont we?