Oh but Mitch Marsh is fairly untested at this level!

LOL.

-PB

He just took Ballance ;)

-PB

Johnson on fire.

It was, but a dreadful error by Stokes. Sums up their test.

What are the two things you're taught as a kid when running between wickets?

1) Never turn blind
2) Always ground your bat!

:lol:

Buttler gone first ball after tea! 6-64. Such an English batting collapse. :lol:

Farken demolished

-PB

I'm guessing Australian cricket is alive again? :lol:

Was an absolute destruction but we traditionally do well at Lords. Look forward to the next test match. Hopefully the poms will stop trying to take all the life out of their pitches to try and negate the fact that our bowlers are clearly better.

I'ma keep posting these here but links only so my mate's blog can get the traffic it deserves;

https://cricketfroth.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/birmingham-thriller-the-sprain-that-changed-modern-cricket/

-PB

So we may have lost the Ashes, but at least we're not playing South Africa and facing Dale Steyn. :lol:

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Anyway enough of this Clarke talk one of the real greats has just retired. Well done Sangakkara. =d> =d> =d>

Taking on Ireland on FS1

Burns looking very good.

Don't get why Khawaja isn't here as well.

Ireland have hit back very well here.

A shame the rain has spoiled this.

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Edited by melbourneboys: 28/8/2015 11:42:05 PM

Eng v Aus T20 just started.

Aus now chasing 183 to win.

lol @ the Stokes dismissal and all the drama stemming from it.

-PB

Fox sports taking the mickey at all the reviews jokes re watson. Funny but poor form at the same time. At his best Watto was fantastic.

Edited by TheSelectFew: 6/9/2015 10:41:51 PM

He reached around to his right side with his left hand as a "reflex".

:lol:

Also /cric/ seem happy that Watson's gone.

Swear that every time I watched him, he'd do something incredibly stupid.

Yea he was a beast around 2010ish, just couldn't convert those fifties into hundreds.

Averaged over 35 with the bat and under 35 with the ball. Not many can claim they've done that.

Bloke won 2 Alan Border medals. that says enough IMO. The shit he cops on social media is ridiculous.

Thus. Bunch of newage wankers who don't know anything about cricket. His past two years haven't been great.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/story/918349.html

Decent article on his career.

At his peak he was a pretty handy cricketer. He averaged 42 as an opener in tests, which is good. And his one day cricket ability is undisputed.

However I found him a very frustrating cricketer. He perpetually had an ability to do more, but almost always came up short. Even at his peak he failed to convert a lot of fifties into hundreds in tests.

I felt after Ponting lost the captaincy and Watson got dropped from the openers spot, he seemed to go on a three year long whinge. If I was playing test cricket for Australia I'd be thankful for every game I played. You could tell from his body language that he clearly looked like he didn't want to be there for the last 2 years.






Edited by lastbroadcast: 7/9/2015 07:28:53 PM

We have a cricket thread

As I've said before, can we change this to Limited Overs Thread?

Some people like both forms of the game. But some don't have much interest in First Class /Test cricket, whilst others have little interest in Limited Overs cricket.

Some people hate all cricket!:lol:

If only there were a way to discuss ODI and Test cricket in one thread