2nd Test: Australia v India at Sydney Jan 3-7, 2012

[wittyfan]

I cried for a week when Martin Crowe got out for 299 in a Test.

And I still say Cricket Max and not Twenty20 is the way of the future!

 

[typicalfan]

:lol: yes congrats you have 16 odd million or whatever more people than us is effectively what you are saying.

We are thrashing a team with over one billion people.

 

[Fast Eddie]

We are thrashing a team with over one billion people.

Comes down to how many actually play Cricket and have the opportuntiy to do so. I'd say more people play Cricket in Vic or NSW alone then in NZ but can't say for certain.

 

[hineyrulz]

We are thrashing a team with over one billion people.

Antigua has only around 50k people in it, in the 80's they would have beat most test nations.

 

[Fast Eddie]

I cried for a week when Martin Crowe got out for 299 in a Test.

And I still say Cricket Max and not Twenty20 is the way of the future!

Martin Crowe the innovator! He saw the future. Except he encouraged playing in the v.

 

[typicalfan]

He himself has said it was a choke.

Maybe there is another reason why we are better, what he calls a choke, we call a great knock. You guys get your thrills over drawn series, semi final appearances and beating us once since the dinosaurs died but call 299 a choke when the current side can barely make that many.

 

[Fast Eddie]

Antigua has only around 50k people in it, in the 80's they would have beat most test nations.

And how have they faired over the last 10 years? With a smaller pool to choooe from you are going to have periods obvisouly where you have good talent but then will go through just as long down periods.

 

[El Diablo]

I cried for a week when Martin Crowe got out for 299 in a Test.

And I still say Cricket Max and not Twenty20 is the way of the future!

:lol:

watching one of those games was the first time i saw that clown Bowden

he's still as f**ked now as he was then

 

[crawfs]

Its almost similar in ways to say Aus beating Team USA in a game of Basketball. Well not that big but heading that way. If that happened that would be a big deal for Australia for example.

Not really, it just exposes the fragility of your national psyche.

There's a guy on this site with a 'Warriors 2011 Grand Finalists banner' in his sig.

New Zealand...forever celebrating mediocrity.

 

[Fast Eddie]

Maybe there is another reason why we are better, what he calls a choke, we call a great knock. You guys get your thrills over drawn series, semi final appearances and beating us once since the dinosaurs died but call 299 a choke when the current side can barely make that many.

:lol:

 

[Fast Eddie]

Not really, it just exposes the fragility of your national psyche.

There's a guy on this site with a 'Warriors 2011 Grand Finalists banner' in his sig.

New Zealand...forever celebrating mediocrity.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: surely even the other Australian posters can see the irony in this. Nice sig buddy.

 

[El Diablo]

Not really, it just exposes the fragility of your national psyche.

There's a guy on this site with a 'Warriors 2011 Grand Finalists banner' in his sig.

New Zealand...forever celebrating mediocrity.

well NZ's greatest sportsman is a f**king caddy :lol:

 

[Fast Eddie]

I've banded El Diablo together with a 'Victorian' and had about 5 pages of 'arguing' about random stuff. You could say my job is done.

 

[crawfs]

well NZ's greatest sportsman is a f**king caddy :lol:

Serving the Australian who's an international sports star and banging a serbian tennis player.

Pretty much sums up the broader dynamic between the two nations.

 

[El Diablo]

Serving the Australian who's an international sports star and banging a serbian tennis player.

Pretty much sums up the broader dynamic between the two nations.

the lucky bastard

 

[Fast Eddie]

Meh Michael Campbell, now thats a great of the game!

Not one of the greatest chokers of all time like Greg Norman for example.

 

[El Diablo]

Meh Michael Campbell, now thats a great of the game!

Not one of the greatest chokers of all time like Greg Norman for example.

married an Aussie and lives here

 

[Horrie Is God]

No, we just gott beated by a much better team at the time. Its a choke to a degree because he should have been odds on to get to 400 and blew it. If the Steve Waugh story is true then I'd take it back for sure and that would actually explain what happened.

Hope this is good enough proof..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/3179152.stm

Hayden smashes Test record

Australian Matthew Hayden re-wrote the record books by pounding his way to the highest score in Test history with an innings of 380.

The left-hander beat the previous mark of 375, set by West Indian Brian Lara nine years ago against England, in the final over before tea.

Hayden was given the chance to go for 400 by skipper Steve Waugh but was brilliantly caught by Stuart Carlisle soon after the re-start.

His innings included 11 sixes and 38 fours and he shared a sixth wicket stand of 233 with Adam Gilchrist, who helped himself to an unbeaten 113 off only 94 balls.

Waugh declared as soon as Hayden had been dismissed, leaving Zimbabwe's batsmen to try to save face for their side.

The visitors fared well in 31 overs before stumps, compiling 79 runs for the loss of Dion Ebrahim, who was bowled by Jason Gillespie for 29.

Trevor Gripper was unbeaten on 37, while Mark Vermeulen was nine not out.

Hayden began the day on 183 and advanced it to 271 by the lunch interval as he unleashed a series of punishing strokes - beating his previous best of 203 made against India at Madras in 2001.

Zimbabwe picked up two wickets during the morning session with Waugh (78) and Darren Lehmann (30) both caught and bowled by all-rounder Sean Ervine, whose figures of 4-146 represented a career-best.

But that was merely the curtain-raiser to a nightmare afternoon as Hayden and Gilchrist flayed the ball to all parts of the WCAC ground.

Hayden breezed past the previous Australian record of 334, held jointly by Sir Don Bradman and Mark Taylor

He showed few signs of nerves as Lara's milestone approached and whirled his bat in joyous celebration after moving onto 376 with a superb on-drive down the ground.

With Waugh keen not to waste time, Hayden hammered the second ball after tea over long-on for four, but fell to Gripper's next delivery when the diving Carlisle clung onto a top edged sweep.

Australia: SR Waugh (capt), RT Ponting, AJ Bichel, AC Gilchrist, JN Gillespie, ML Hayden, JL Langer, B Lee, DS Lehmann, SCG MacGill, DR Martyn.

Zimbabwe: HH Streak (capt), T Taibu, AM Blignaut, CN Evans, SV Carlisle, DD Ebrahim, SM Ervine, TR Gripper, RW Price, MA Vermeulen, CB Wishart.

 

[Fast Eddie]

married an Aussie and lives here

Banging your finest women. Good work Cambo.

 

[Fast Eddie]

Hope this is good enough proof..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/3179152.stm

Hayden smashes Test record

Australian Matthew Hayden re-wrote the record books by pounding his way to the highest score in Test history with an innings of 380.

The left-hander beat the previous mark of 375, set by West Indian Brian Lara nine years ago against England, in the final over before tea.

Hayden was given the chance to go for 400 by skipper Steve Waugh but was brilliantly caught by Stuart Carlisle soon after the re-start.

His innings included 11 sixes and 38 fours and he shared a sixth wicket stand of 233 with Adam Gilchrist, who helped himself to an unbeaten 113 off only 94 balls.

Waugh declared as soon as Hayden had been dismissed, leaving Zimbabwe's batsmen to try to save face for their side.

The visitors fared well in 31 overs before stumps, compiling 79 runs for the loss of Dion Ebrahim, who was bowled by Jason Gillespie for 29.

Trevor Gripper was unbeaten on 37, while Mark Vermeulen was nine not out.

Hayden began the day on 183 and advanced it to 271 by the lunch interval as he unleashed a series of punishing strokes - beating his previous best of 203 made against India at Madras in 2001.

Zimbabwe picked up two wickets during the morning session with Waugh (78) and Darren Lehmann (30) both caught and bowled by all-rounder Sean Ervine, whose figures of 4-146 represented a career-best.

But that was merely the curtain-raiser to a nightmare afternoon as Hayden and Gilchrist flayed the ball to all parts of the WCAC ground.

Hayden breezed past the previous Australian record of 334, held jointly by Sir Don Bradman and Mark Taylor

He showed few signs of nerves as Lara's milestone approached and whirled his bat in joyous celebration after moving onto 376 with a superb on-drive down the ground.

With Waugh keen not to waste time, Hayden hammered the second ball after tea over long-on for four, but fell to Gripper's next delivery when the diving Carlisle clung onto a top edged sweep.

Australia: SR Waugh (capt), RT Ponting, AJ Bichel, AC Gilchrist, JN Gillespie, ML Hayden, JL Langer, B Lee, DS Lehmann, SCG MacGill, DR Martyn.

Zimbabwe: HH Streak (capt), T Taibu, AM Blignaut, CN Evans, SV Carlisle, DD Ebrahim, SM Ervine, TR Gripper, RW Price, MA Vermeulen, CB Wishart.

Good research champ, but not quite. Doesn't say anything about only given 10 mins and since they didn't declare at tea I doubt they would have minded if had used up 7-8 overs getting there but it does sound like he was given the hurry up so will take back the call to a degree.