lol Dhoni retired!

-PB

And set a field ffs.

-PB

Dhoni is not a test batsman. He's a wicket waiting to happen in the long format.

Smart move.

i know this isnt cricket related.

But i was checking soccerway and it says Saudi Arabia had a friendly match against Bahrain at the MCG. Which means it would have been straight after the cricket :-k :-k

http://au.soccerway.com/matches/2014/12/30/world/friendlies/bahrain/saudi-arabia/1979613/?ICID=HP_MS_02_01




Edited by griffindinho: 31/12/2014 03:32:25 AM

After taking off on to the other side of the ditch, ive missed most of this summer of cricket

but life still went on

Having said that: NZers are just as passionate about the game over here, we arent as resourceful or talented as the Aussies, in fact I often make jokes about New Zealand cricket (ie: "He caught that- like a New Zealand cricketer!")

The Kiwis have been playing some excellent cricket lately. They have Williamson, Taylor and McCullum with the bat, and Boult and Southee with the ball. Not a bad team.

Bit of a pummelling going on....................

Good opening day thus far.

Go into stumps @ 2 for and it'll be a very long day for India tomorrow.

-PB

boring one-sided contest

Century from smith. Get around him.

Fucking Tony Abbott on commentary atm.

Fuck off Channel Nine.

ABC Grandstand all the way.

-PB

That was awful.

Wish the Indian tail would hurry up and fuck off

Channel 9 is fucking shit as fuck at commentary.

Yep, always mute and put on ABC.

-PB

ABC had a guy who was vision impaired doing commentary the other day. Was still better than 9.

Have to say this test series has been terrible, all of the pitches are like roads and its just been so dull.

Yup.

Good to have big totals but then the bowling has suffered.

This is the first pitch that is turning well (more so than Adelaide).

-PB

The only problem is the pitches haven't done enough day 1. Day 2 and 3 should be good batting decks (still not as flat as they have been this series) with day 4 getting tough and day 5 turning and variable bounce. The day 1 decks have offered nothing though.

The actual matches have been great though. Adelaide was one of the best tests you'll ever see, the last day of melbourne was great and tomorrow should be a great finish.

Holy shit De Villiers, fastest ever ODI fifty, 57 off 17 and counting...

De Villiers is smashing it.
What is the record for fastest century?

He needs 18 off 9 (from 82 off 26 atm) to beat Corey Anderson's effort just last year.

Destroyed it with 5 balls to spare, 104 off 31 and counting, holy fucking shit.

31 balls to get to 104. Amazing batting

His second 50 came off 15 balls. Crazy now, the record for the century is less than double the record for the half century.

How many times has there been three centuries in an innings?
How many times has every batsman who bats got a century?

Current partnership 140 runs, 8 overs, 110 of which have come from the bat of De Villiers, disgusting :lol:

The bats they use are so good that it is crazy what they can do. Get them batting with bats from 20 years ago and I wonder how they would go.

Amla is playing a brilliant innings, but no one is going to remember it.

This is just stupid now.

Only 30 runs off that over.

And they are going to break the record for highest ever total as well.

Edited by Drunken_Fish: 18/1/2015 10:54:19 PM