1st Test: Australia v Pakistan at Dubai (DSC) Oct 22-26, 2014

[TheParraboy]

pitch has no grass and cracks already

toss crucial

 

[TheParraboy]

Pakistan won toss and will bat

 

[gorilla with a shotgun]

......And we're bowling

 

[gorilla with a shotgun]

Will Johnson retain his form of last Summer?
This pitch aint gunna help

 

[TheParraboy]

Australia Team
DA Warner, CJL Rogers, AJ Doolan, MJ Clarke*, SPD Smith, MR Marsh, BJ Haddin†, MG Johnson, PM Siddle, SNJ O'Keefe, NM Lyon


Pakistan Team
Ahmed Shehzad, Mohammad Hafeez, Azhar Ali, Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq*, Asad Shafiq, Sarfraz Ahmed†, Zulfiqar Babar, Yasir Shah, Rahat Ali, Imran Khan

 

[Timbo]

I'm not kidding myself. You are the one that brought McGrath into the discussion, not me. You are the one trying to suggest that Siddle is short when he's actually quite tall.

Mitchell Johnson is about an inch taller than Siddle.

As I said before, Siddle could bowl swing and pitch it up and hover around 135kph and be equally effective. It worked for Stuart Clark.

I don't know why the notion seems so preposterous to you

He bowls very chest on compared to Clark. The angle of his release isn't great for swing bowling.

 

[JW]

f**k me look at that pitch.

Shaven haven.

 

[Horrie Is God]

We bat deep with SOK @ 10..

BTW Boof looks like Humpty Dumpty in the promos..

 

[JW]

Onya Notch

 

[hineyrulz]

:lol: Looks like a Watson review.

 

[8Ball]

Magnificent review...

 

[JW]

:lol: Looks like a Watson review.

:lol:

Even Sunshine would probably be shaking his head.

 

[hineyrulz]

:lol::lol::lol: Worst review ever.

 

[Horrie Is God]

Onya Slave..

 

[Timbo]

That was the worst review in the history of cricket. And I've seen Shane Watson play.

 

[JW]

Veggieman looks like he's put on about 3 or 4 bananas.

 

[hineyrulz]

That was just about the plumbest LBW in the history of test cricket.

 

[hineyrulz]

Terrible shot, how far across did he get???

Pakis are 2 for 7.

 

[JW]

Give em heaps you magnificent Victorian.

 

[Twizzle]

Action wise McGrath released the ball a lot higher than Veggieman and so used his height better than the Veg.

I agree that Siddle would be a good 'into the wind' type of bowler but I'm not sure if he's got the temperament for it. Although he's a follower rather than a leader he's also a glory hound.

Thats pretty much how I see it and Sidle has little or no variation that I have ever seen. Every ball is the same speed and he has very little between the ears when he bowls.

Our pace attack would look so much better with Notch and either Harris or Pattinson, or even Starc over Sids. This ball will reverse pretty early on so Starc would go pretty well on this pitch.