1st Test - Australia v India at Melbourne Dec 26-30, 2011

[Sam_the_man]

Jesus Christ. Call me a pedant if you will, but:

a) It's Bestiality not Beastiality

and



b)to

1. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. I want to leave. He asked me what to do. I don’t know how to say it. I have places to go and people to see. To err is human. (Alexander Pope 1711) To be, or not to be: that is the question: (Hamlet c.1600)

too (not comparable)

1. (focus) Likewise
2. (conjunctive) also; in addition.
3. (degree) To an excessive degree; over; more than enough.
4. (affirmation) used to contradict a negative assertion. You're not old enough yet. I am too!

Thanks but perfect grammar is of low importance to me.

 

[Meth]

Thanks but perfect grammar is of low importance to me.

Hear hear

now back too the cricket

 

[Sam_the_man]

not really anyone to replace them atm,

Watson maybe the only obvious one to come into the middle order but he's broken

Whats Kawaja's domestic form been like? He must be still in the mix?

 

[Frank_Grimes]

Thanks but perfect grammar is of low importance to me.

"Beastiality" I could probably forgive, but to and too? If you're going to call someone else stupid......

C'mon. You're phoning it in here.

 

[Fast Eddie]

They're playing that big bash stuff atm so doesn't really apply.

 

[some11]

Hopefully these two can bat out the day...

 

[Meth]

They're playing that big bash stuff atm so doesn't really apply.

It did for Marsh

 

[Twizzle]

Whats Kawaja's domestic form been like? He must be still in the mix?

his domestic form is what got him in the test team and Marsh pretty much had none yet he got selected on the back of his test form a few months back

I thought Oozi was stiff to be dropped, he didn't stand out but didn't exactly fail when others failed around him

 

[El Diablo]

Thanks but perfect grammar is of low importance to me.

so is personal hygiene

 

[Fast Eddie]

It did for Marsh

And then we saw his performance in this test.

 

[Matt23]

Hopefully these two can bat out the day...

Hopefully PB doesn't post something similar :-$

 

[Meth]

so is personal hygiene

Brilliant cricket analysis from one of the best, most astute minds in the game. Where would we be without you El Diablo?

 

[BunniesMan]

Warner isn't ready. And no 1 innings doesn't count. If it doesn't count with Hughes it doesn't count with Warner.

Not sold on Cowan yet (read above).

Our veterans to save us and their careers. Ponting and Hussey to bat out the day. Shades of Dravid and Laxman in India years ago.

 

[Sam_the_man]

Brilliant cricket analysis from one of the best, most astute minds in the game. Where would we be without you El Diablo?

Childish comment from the lifer. We're best ignoring it and focusing on the enthralling cricket.

 

[Meth]

Hopefully these two can bat out the day...

The partnership is nearing 50. It really needs to be 100+, with one going on to post a big ton, and, even then, the tail to wag (as it does so well).

As it is, Ponting and Hussey have done very well to steady a sinking ship

 

[Sam_the_man]

Warner isn't ready. And no 1 innings doesn't count. If it doesn't count with Hughes it doesn't count with Warner.

Not sold on Cowan yet (read above).

Our veterans to save us and their careers. Ponting and Hussey to bat out the day. Shades of Dravid and Laxman in India years ago.

I think Cowan is the perfect foil for Australias attacking batsman. Nothing wrong with anchoring one end if the other end is attacking.

 

[El Diablo]

Childish comment from the lifer. We're best ignoring it and focusing on the enthralling cricket.

like you were this morning?

 

[Sam_the_man]

Crystal ball time. Whats a defendable total on this pitch. 220, 250?

 

[Twizzle]

lol@ Hughes getting 1 chance

fmd

 

[Meth]

Cowan's dismissal today aside, his approach is exactly what Australia need in an opener IMO. If he is able to consistently replicate innings like his first, a Cowan/Warner opening partnership might not be so bad for Australia, for now at least.