Hopefully test cricket will continue but maybe the pressures from the idiocy of twenty20 will eventually take their toll and test cricket will be changed for the worse forever.

Disappointed to see Australia select a much weaker team than possible for the first test.

Thank India for that.

I disagree. I reckon it's a reasonable team.

I don't think there's anyone who could really be brought in to improve it.

Although dropping Mitch Johnson for pretty much anyone would be a start.

I'm preying to the heavens he has actually improved or it's just pre-Ashes wank. I want to win this one and take it off the bastards.

It's pre-ashes wank. Johnson will never improve. If he hasn't figured out line, length and consistency by the age of 32 he never will.

MJ <3

Mitchell Johnson should not be in the test

Shane Watson is not completely fit so he should not be in the test team

Phil Hughes should be opening with Chris Rogers, it is the best possible opening combination.

When is Watto ever completely fit :lol:

If the true answer is never then never pick him.

Although the same could be said about Michael Clarke.

If Australia only selected players who were 100% fit then half the team would be out and we'd be even more shit.

Merv Hughes was constantly plagued by issues with his weight and questions around his fitness, and it eventually took its toll on his knees.

I watch that video about once every month at least. Absolutely love it.

On the topic of Mitchell Johnson, the only time I've seen him play live, he ripped through the English batting order at the WACA during the last Ashes here in two sessions :lol:

Had a chat to and watched the English lads have a hit today. They seemed pretty calm. Jonathon Trott was in a net next to Bell, and Bell was absolutely middling everything, but Trott could hardly get bat on ball. There were plenty of teammates watching and encouraging him, but there was a definite tension while he was batting.

Probably one of my favourite cricketing moment was when he tore through South Africa. =p~

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If he could get hot again I think we'd go close to winning the Ashes. Harris & MJ =p~ =p~

You can't continue to select Johnson on the basis that he had 2-3 good games on fast wickets.

Could have been 400 if he ever got his weight under control.

So you're saying the only reason Hughes didn't achieve what only 7 Pace bowlers in history have achieved, is his fitness?

He would have been called up younger if there weren't doubts about his fitness, he was cut twice for the same reason and he retired earlier than he could have because his weight was doing too much damage to his knees. Maybe I exaggerated but he could easily have taken 100 more wickets. I mean, look at what he did to England in '93.

One of the best days in world sport is here, first morning of the ashes! Time to win this son of a bitch back boys

Australia batting, Faulkner 12th man. It seems Watson might do some bowling.

Great time for shameless plugs for a mates Cricket Blog.

http://cricketfroth.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/the-little-masters-farewell-war-between-the-old-enemies/

-PB

I always get torn over who to support. I grew up hating Australia but then when you live here you begin to have a liking towards some of the players and towards Aus in general.

Aus have quite a few players i hate as well. So im pretty right down the middle. Lets just hope we get some cracking cricket.

For some reason I'm getting this feeling that our batsmen are gonna collapse in this first innings

Edited by mrmcjewpants: 21/11/2013 11:02:36 AM

Kamau Leverock, nephew of Dwayne Leverock, is a member of the current Bermuda team that is playing in ICC World Twenty20 Qualifiers that are currently on.

Fuck sake

Rogers gone.

Awful shot

First ball I watch is Rogers getting out :(