Pick 11 batsmen, if we win the toss, send them in and hope they make 900 + runs and then declare, then hope our 22 batsmen can survive 2 days and get an honourable draw.

Picking 2 spinners would be a start and tell the batsmen it is not a race and it is ok to play out a few maiden overs.

England beat India in India with patience, something our batsmen do not seem to have. Have a look at how Wade throws his wicket away.

Play it as it lies, get on with it, its not life or death, its just a game!

Picking the 11 batsmen was still the best option -

1/ they would not have bowled any worse than the “bowlers”
2/ it perhaps might have taken India longer to get 20 wickets

We will be lucky to last to lunch. The cupboard is pretty bare for decent Australian cricketers at the moment.

Have we been put out of our misery yet?

Well the game is over but I am still miserable. As I write Swann and Monty are spraying weed killer on every test pitch in England. No green tops in the up and coming Ashes series

Gornski …. fken hopeless : )

The English Cricket Board just approved the Visa for the Chennai curator and his 15 closest family members. He takes up the role of curator at Lords on Monday.

The test team is reaping the benefits of a poor Shield Competition. Once upon time the selectors need only look who was performing at that level and you had virtually an instant Test standard player.

The IPL and Big Bash and other competitions of this ilk have also meant young aspiring cricketers will not yearn for test caps (only 11 play at a time and 17 get contracts with CA).
As an example – Kane Richardson, Australian bowler, $700,000 in the recent IPL auction – 22 years old, handy bowler played a grand total of 6 first class matches

Why would he ever aspire to the hard slog of test cricket when there are no guarantees? Remember Shaun Tait – rolls hid arm over for 4 overs every few days for a couple of months

When the likes of these players probably have no desire to play Test cricket why would they bother with shield cricket? Standard of comp and players fall.

Test cricket is hard slog, 20/20 is not.

Do you think Maxwell cares too much about his performance, he has got his baggy green virtually unsoiled to keep forever and $1 million IPL contract to fall back on!

Current Aussies are far from the best team in recent years, but don’t be surprised if we jag one or more of the remaining tests.
Just sayin……...

Got nothing.

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Please lets all forget this lunatic comment …ok?

Do you think Maxwell cares too much about his performance, he has got his baggy green virtually unsoiled to keep forever and $1 million IPL contract to fall back on!

Play it as it lies, get on with it, its not life or death, its just a game!

It was a pretty nice C&B, dont you think?

Do you think Maxwell cares too much about his performance, he has got his baggy green virtually unsoiled to keep forever and $1 million IPL contract to fall back on!

Play it as it lies, get on with it, its not life or death, its just a game!

It was a pretty nice C&B, dont you think?

Got nothing.

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Did not see it, one of few highlights from the game for the Aussies.

Do you think Maxwell cares too much about his performance, he has got his baggy green virtually unsoiled to keep forever and $1 million IPL contract to fall back on!

Play it as it lies, get on with it, its not life or death, its just a game!

It was a pretty nice C&B, dont you think?

Got nothing.

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Did not see it, one of few highlights from the game for the Aussies.

Play it as it lies, get on with it, its not life or death, its just a game!

too true

what we need to do

Recruit Indian coaches to teach our spinners how to bowl spin….warne isnt interested in coaching as hes too busy tweating and complaining without doing anything

we need our spinners to learn from the best spinning coaches we can get our hands on…..

soccer uses European coaches yeah…...why because they are the best coaches

Dave warner – seeya

he has far too many technique flaws so too hughes

I would be investing in technically correct players….

Didn’t Inverarity state that Phil Hughes was the second best player of spin the in Australian team? What a joke. Who is the third best?

Dropping Lyon, sorry resting Lyon when he is our best spinner in Australia? What a joke.

No Clarke is promising changes? Its too late. They need to admit they stuffed up selection for both tests. The series in gone.

what we need to do

Recruit Indian coaches to teach our spinners how to bowl spin….warne isnt interested in coaching as hes too busy tweating and complaining without doing anything

we need our spinners to learn from the best spinning coaches we can get our hands on…..

soccer uses European coaches yeah……why because they are the best coaches

Dave warner – seeya

he has far too many technique flaws so too hughes

I would be investing in technically correct players….

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill

MacGill is the new spin coach, I think he knows a little about that.

You won’t find many technically correct batsmen, they are learning to hit 4 and 6’s to earn the big bucks at 20/20.

After the 1st test I wrote about positives and negatives. .......

This time. .......

Got nothing. ........

To effing embarrassment

Lack of heart and pride…..

Blind freddy could see this coming.

OZ sport at the monent has a foul odour about it and it is coming from the administration.

Crap team on Ashes eve.

After the 1st test I wrote about positives and negatives. .......

This time. .......

Got nothing. ........

.....

Clarke’s 91 was ok. He should have scored a big ton.

It is either scrap the big bash crap, it just encourages the Warner types, or scrap test cricket as they are incompatible. As an old fart who played the game for a long time, albeit at a very low level, test cricket is the only legitimate form of the game. Call 20/20 rounders or vigaro that the girls used to play at secondary school.

It is either scrap the big bash crap, it just encourages the Warner types, or scrap test cricket as they are incompatible. As an old fart who played the game for a long time, albeit at a very low level, test cricket is the only legitimate form of the game. Call 20/20 rounders or vigaro that the girls used to play at secondary school.

A Golfer until the day I die despite playing absolutely crap

Agree 20/20 is not real cricket but it is where the big bucks are for minimal effort and is where all the talented young bucks will head.

If I was a youngster I would learn how to bowl 4 overs at less than 6 runs an over or hit it big or preferably both, neither of which are particularly compatible to the longer version of the game.

The public in the end will decide if test cricket survives. 50 over cricket is in decline judging by attendances this last summer.

Could it be said that the decline in Test Cricket is obvious with twenty20 hindsight?

Could it be said that the decline in Test Cricket is obvious with twenty20 hindsight?

Too much slow play means that golf has a wait problem

Like that Mekat… : ^)
But then why is India (home of the 20/20) smacking our rears so easily?

After the 1st test I wrote about positives and negatives. .......

This time. .......

Got nothing. ........

.....

Clarke’s 91 was ok. He should have scored a big ton.

Handicap, I’m working on it. – Edit: Feb 2013 still, working on it.

I did say he had done well in 1st test and yes that was a good knock again but take his 2 scores out and where the flock would we be…...... at the bottom of the ocean playing tiddlie winks with the Kiwi cricket team…...

After the 1st test I wrote about positives and negatives. .......

This time. .......

Got nothing. ........

.....

Clarke’s 91 was ok. He should have scored a big ton.

Handicap, I’m working on it. – Edit: Feb 2013 still, working on it.

I did say he had done well in 1st test and yes that was a good knock again but take his 2 scores out and where the flock would we be……... at the bottom of the ocean playing tiddlie winks with the Kiwi cricket team……

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VISION TEST TEAM PILOT #006

Peg has Bear_Vision

and he was dropped early…easy catch

Could it be said that the decline in Test Cricket is obvious with twenty20 hindsight?

Too much slow play means that golf has a wait problem

Like that Mekat… : ^)
But then why is India (home of the 20/20) smacking our rears so easily?

Can the pieces of ground they serve up in India be legitimately called pitches?