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Must say I'm a little surprised Hilfenhaus has made the squad. Although he's done quite well for us this year. Happy for Cowan too, deserves to be there. Thankfully neither will miss any Tigers matches.
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I personally think it's rough on Khawaja, he is in no worse form then Ponting or Hussey, both of whom are at the end of their respective careers, it's time for those blokes to move over and let someone else have a bloody career! Both batsman have been epic for us over the years, but you can't trade on past glories forever!

And then Usman goes and opens against India today, and scores an unbeaten half century and apparently looked very good doing it, meanwhile Ponting has been timing them so badly in the nets that he's got his fingers smashed up!

Whats interesting though is the talk that if Ponting or Hussey gets dropped after all, it won't be Khawaja coming back in, but Dan Christian instead. With Watson still set to come back, and talk of him dropping down the order, can we presume that the selectors preferred long term top 6 is:

Warner
Cowan
Marsh
Clarke
Watson
Christian

?? Two all rounders would be pretty awesome, but only if they are genuinely in the top 6 best batsman in the country! Watson is, but is Christian really one of the 6 best batsman in the country? Not convinced...
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Christian and Watson should not be in the same side together, ever. Completely pointless.
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Funky Munky wrote:
Christian and Watson should not be in the same side together, ever. Completely pointless.


An all rounder who is a spinner rather then a quick would be better to go with Watson then?
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RJL25 wrote:
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Christian and Watson should not be in the same side together, ever. Completely pointless.


An all rounder who is a spinner rather then a quick would be better to go with Watson then?


No, I think if Watson is in the top 7, then there's no need for another All Rounder at all. With Watson in the team you have, 4 pace options, and a spinner, or 3 pace options and 2 spinners for turners. There's no reason to compromise the batting to include another all round if Watson is there.
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Funky Munky wrote:
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Christian and Watson should not be in the same side together, ever. Completely pointless.


An all rounder who is a spinner rather then a quick would be better to go with Watson then?


No, I think if Watson is in the top 7, then there's no need for another All Rounder at all. With Watson in the team you have, 4 pace options, and a spinner, or 3 pace options and 2 spinners for turners. There's no reason to compromise the batting to include another all round if Watson is there.

Worth noting that the batting is already compromised anyway...
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Funky Munky wrote:
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Christian and Watson should not be in the same side together, ever. Completely pointless.


An all rounder who is a spinner rather then a quick would be better to go with Watson then?


No, I think if Watson is in the top 7, then there's no need for another All Rounder at all. With Watson in the team you have, 4 pace options, and a spinner, or 3 pace options and 2 spinners for turners. There's no reason to compromise the batting to include another all round if Watson is there.


Oh I absolutely agree, as I said before, the Australian top 6 must be selected on batting merit, Watson is genuinely one of the 6 best batsman in the country, but I have big doubts that Christian would even be in the top 10
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Ed Cowan will make his debut. Hilfenhaus makes the team while Christian and Starc miss out.
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Warner starting well. Cowan typically slow. Off for "rain"
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It's just not cricket: big prices need looking at

Joel Gibson
December 26, 2011

Is cricket - the great leveller, that most inclusive of all national sports - now beyond the reach of many young Australians?

Tens of thousands of punters will today make the annual pilgrimage to the MCG for the Boxing Day Test match against India. Next week, more tragics will traipse to the SCG in Sydney. But it will cost them an arm and a leg.

In Melbourne, ticket prices for adults start at $36 in the stratospheric ''nose-bleeder'' seats, which seems reasonable enough but rises to $75 for an adult and $125 for a family in the mid-tier ''silver'' section.

The cheapest adult ticket in Sydney is $60. To take two kids along, you will need at least $130, plus about the same again to feed everyone from the famously-overpriced and under-warmed bain-maries.

The average weekly wage topped $1000 this year, so after tax, a family trip to the cricket is about one-third of a week's take-home pay for Average Joe, to say nothing of Joe Poor.

May God or Santa Claus help you if you want to watch all five days.

The hardheads will say Cricket Australia is running a business: players and security guards must be paid and goofy ads made. But they are also the custodians of a great Australian tradition, a rite of passage for many young Australians - and they are pricing too many of them out of it.

Do the prices reflect the cost of staging the event? A comparison with other cricket matches seems to suggest not. Tickets for the Big Bash League at the same ground start at $20 ($42.50 for a family). Admittedly, it's over in a few hours, but it's played by local and international stars at night and, unlike the Tests, requires floodlights, penalty rates for staff and the ''booming tunes, fireworks and entertainment'' that the marketers now call ''cricketainment''.

All of which makes it difficult not to conclude that Cricket Australia is charging what it can get away with.

As a naive boy, I always assumed a link between pricing and the cost of providing a service. Then a family friend who worked at one of Australia's ski resorts explained to me that lift ticket prices were based not on comparisons with other resorts, but on how high they could raise them before the mountain began to empty out. That is why skiing is an elitist sport. But cricket?

Here are a few other comparisons. A ticket to the opening day of the Australian Open tennis tournament: from $30, or $75 for a family. To sit in Rod Laver Arena, the centre court: about the same as the cheapest seat at the Sydney Test.

A Wallabies Test or a rugby league grand final: about the same as a cricket Test. But rugby knows its fans are cashed-up toffs, and a grand final comes along for two hours once a year, not over five days in each capital city every summer.

Some diehards still claim to recall a time when they opened the gates every day after the tea break so any keen kid could watch the final session. If that's considered archaic now, why not sell a $5 after 5pm ticket, or charge much less for days three and four, which are less popular, or for Tests against less popular opponents - or to watch an Australian team ranked halfway down the ladder?

The last time India played a Test in Sydney, the gates were thrown open for the final half-day, but only after radio commentator Kerry O'Keeffe petitioned on behalf of 100 people waiting outside.

I can almost hear Monty Python being quoted at me. ''Open t'gates? Luxury! In my day, we climbed over barbed wire fence, naked!''

Maybe I'm just showing the first signs of middle age. But I do wonder what it will cost to take my kids to a Test once they're old enough to heckle.

The price of a day at the cricket would be less remarkable if the summer's Test matches were sell-outs. But the first two against New Zealand were watched by a few tumbleweeds and there will be days at the next three where the stadium is half-full. Less remarkable, too, if all the marketing and regulations at the grounds weren't aimed at getting kids along to the cricket.

Why not drop the price, fill it up and make the game atmospheric and egalitarian again? Maybe then, more of us would swap the couch for the concourse


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/its-just-not-cricket-big-prices-need-looking-at-20111225-1p9ao.html#ixzz1hbVGVNgQ

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Hussey out to a fucking pathetic call, DRS surely has to be made compulsory, one poor decision has completely changed the game.
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manufan4life wrote:
Hussey out to a fucking pathetic call, DRS surely has to be made compulsory, one poor decision has completely changed the game.


+1. Just another example of India holding the cricket world at ransom.
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Now Cowan gets given out after missing a ball aswell, absolutely atrocious.
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Big Chance for Sids to ton up here. Wow id be excited
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Fucking Indians. Either no DRS in any match or DRS in all matches. Makes it shit
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buddha69 wrote:
Fucking Indians. Either no DRS in any match or DRS in all matches. Makes it shit


+1.

Why is there no DRS in this match anyway?
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MidfieldMaestro wrote:
Why is there no DRS in this match anyway?


Both sides have to agree to play with it, the Indians don't want it so you don't play with it.

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We got 333. India to get 500
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What is it with Australian bowlers and bowling a no-ball when they get someone out? So frustrating.
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Australia are no show here with the way they're bowling.
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What. A. Start
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Another huge wicket with Laxman gone.
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The 2 wickets this morning are good, but what's even better is who the wickets are. To get Dravid early instead of Sharma and then to get Laxman for only 2 is huge.
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Great bowling change, Hilfenhaus snags Kohli with a nice ball.
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Very interesting field set-up for Sharma. This should be a good spell to watch.
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RedKat wrote:
Now anticipating Hilfenhaus to get 0/a fair few.


You think so?

People forget he's more than capable of picking up a lot of wickets and just judge on that horror Ashes series he had last year. He's done a lot of hard work since that series with Ali de Winter down here and he seems to have come back quicker, stronger and with more variety in his deliveries.

It's nice to see Cowan and Hilfy doing well and thankfully neither will miss out on any matches for the Tigers, while we have enough bowling stocks to cover Hilfy, Cowan is especially crucial to our chances.
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:lol: Another Hilfy wicket.
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:lol: Glad Hilfenhaus is bowling well, hoping he gets his 5/

Pattinson back on, really good young bowler. I love watching him bowl.
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This really does throw up an interesting question for Australia now,

Siddle, Pattinson, Hilfenhaus, Harris, Cummins

Which three do you pick?
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