Watched a bit of that. Couldnt believe Raina has scored 8 fifties vs England alone. and 25 in total.

Then again India do play alot of ODI's

India's player development has become geared towards the shorter forms of the game because that's where all the money is anyway.

So, New Zealand are probably the worst team in Cricket right now.

New Zealand cricket must be looking forward to the next time they play Bangladesh.

"Choice brew, chance to win a series!"

They are missing Ross Taylor, who is arguably their best batsman, but it is still no excuse for their form.

Would every one of our shield sides(without test players) beat NZ at the moment?\

Hesson out.

Perhaps in their currant form, that perhaps would be aiming a touch too high. Perhaps they should aim for a non-full time ICC member and play a 3-test series against Ireland, Kenya or Netherlands - heck, I daresay Kenya would give them a run for their money in current form.

STEVE SMITH = OVERRATED

Not looking good.

Edited by Roar_Brisbane: 13/1/2013 05:46:59 PM

What a catch by that young bloke in the crowd.

+1. All while hanging onto his food too in the other hand.

Churrrr.

They've been on a gradual slide for the better part of the last decade. These things happen.

To an extent, but the way the board has completely fucked things even more is ridiculous.

Consider the population size, the number of talented players coming though and the immense talent of Vettori, they were always going to put all their eggs in one basket and get dicked.

16 year old Peter Spurling, part of AIS-AFL Academy, 198 cm tall, has done himself no harm in getting drafted in the next couple of years, with an armful of food and refreshments, puts up the big left arm and catches it cleanly without flinching:

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What the fuck is happening... Australia are 6/30

lol we are going great

Really poor all round. No one really taking responsibility and trying to support the innings.

Well be beaten by 10 wickets.

This is bad really bad.

On a brighter note, mitchell starc is playing a brilliant innings

Doherty is starting to put the bad one away too!

At least channel 9 got their A team. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Well I was about to say 100 is defendable, but we're all out for 74

Wait, is this a twenty20?

Wait, is this a twenty20?

Jeeze australia...Sri Lanka aren't even playing that well...but damn!

:lol: Had an eye on the replay at work last night. Fuck we were cheap. Mind you, Sri Lanka bowled excellently.

Just looking at the BBL semi results...does the Duckworth-Lewis method need to be adjusted for T20?

It probably needs to be replaced with something completely different designed specifically for t20.

The way I understand it, it's a three-way ratio between runs, overs and wickets. You probably just need to give more weighting to overs in the formula.

Earlier this year the Heat had a really good first innings, can't remember who against or what the total was but it was a tough total to chase down.

Anyway it rained and as a result the opposition had to get 51 runs off 5 overs. 10 runs an over is a big ask, but when you have 10 wickets and only 5 overs, it's actually a pretty easy thing to do.

Heat were robbed, no question