Bradman>>>>>>>>Daylight>>>Tendulkar>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Everyone else

In terms of just batting? Yes.

Will be massive when he does hit 100 hundreds, total of 229 hundreds in all forms of cricket :shock: Hope he never retires.

Haha. I think you may have overcounted slightly. Remember, Test hundreds count as FC hundreds, and ODI hundred's count as List-A hundreds.

Yeah, I'll admit I wasn't sure :lol:

In that case it's 133, list A counts as ODI hundreds too right?

Edited by gooner4life_8: 20/12/2010 03:34:04 PM

yeah that got me confused the other night. Can't remember what player I was looking at but his ODI HS was like 200, and I'm like wtf the world record is only 194. Then looked at his List-A records and it all made sense:lol:

Wait what this has confused me more.

The ODI record is 200. Set by the aforementioned Sachin.

My bad I thought it was still 194:oops:

India all out for 459. South Africa win by an innings and 25 runs. Sachin Tendulkar unbeaten on 111.

So England have won the toss and elected to bowl. Bresnan in for Finn while Australia remain unchanged.

When the camera panned across the players for the anthems just then, I could't Clarke see cos the 'milo kid' standing in front of him was taller when all the other kids were about half the size of the players :lol:

Pietersen LOL.

Fuck.

Watson c Pietersen b Tremlett 5

1/15

lol 39/3

100-3, 2-3, 134-3, 28-3, 64-3 and 37-3

That's been the scores this series, when Hussey has come to the crease.

Another top order fail by Australia. Can we drop Ponting already? Why is he even playing? His average this series is 19 and we're playing him injured? ](*,)

What a session, absolutely stoked Hussey's gone cheaply \:d/ :cool:

Yes, let's drop one of the greatest batsman of this generation, on the back of 3 games...

Pakistan 70-6 in the t20 against NZ after ten overs.

Southee got a hat trick and is 8-5 off 3 overs \:d/

Worth mentioning that those five wickets were in the space of eight deliveries.

Edited by thewestisland: 26/12/2010 12:51:01 PM

He's fucking injured! Why is he a) out of form, and b) injured, thus depriving a more fit and in form player the opportunity to make something of themself?

Australian selectors are picking him purely on reputation when the right thing to do is rest him, let him recover from his injury so he can play in Sydney and bring in someone who has an average a little higher than fucking 19!

If he's properly injured he wouldn't be playing, he was never really a serious doubt for this match and was fine in the nets in the lead up, he's fit to play no doubt.

He's not injured, he trained all week, passed a fitness test and was fine. His hand didn't bother him at all during his innings.

But yes, he is out of form. But who do you pick to replace him? Do you seriously suggest taking a risk on a debutant at 1-1 in an ashes series, where every test is a must win? Fact of the matter is, even out of form, Ponting is still more likely to succeed than a debutant is. Same with Clarke.

It wouldn't be an issue if the Australian selectors occasionally blooded new players instead of plodding on with the same old selections come rain, hail or shine.

You've got a littany of talent across the country that could and would be in better form than Ponting if they'd been given a chance. As I said, he's not playing well and no player in the Australian line-up should be untouchable.

Cricket is not like football in the sense that international teams can just blood youngsters and rotate the team whenever they like.

He's not untouchable, but at the same time, he deserves more than 3 tests of bad form. I mean shit, if we dropped every player who had a couple of bad tests in a row, Mike Hussey wouldn't be playing this series, and England would be 3-0 up.

Ponting deserves the chance to prove he regain form, and deserves more than 3 tests to do so.

YES!!! 5/66

He's been out of form all year. He's only broken triple figures twice in 12 months. I think it's probably more fatigue than poor form. Australia never rests its players, never bloods new players and Ponting shouldn't be out there if there's any doubt around him - which there is.

"we"? I thought you didn't support Australia.

Ponting had his chance to show he can regain form, he missed it.

I know that. But we should be resting players occasionally, bringing in new players occasionally instead of waiting for someone to retire and then going 'fuck, what do we do now?' - then at least we'd have someone pressuring Ponting and Clarke for their spots instead of them playing poorly and having no competition.

We get all out for 128. England get 352, We score 453, then get England all out for ~200.

yeah, you should be doing that in a match that could potentially decide the biggest series in world cricket.

YES!!!! 6/77