1st Test: Australia v West Indies at Hobart on Dec 10-14, 2015

[madunit]

0/70 off 10 overs.

Warne banging on about a 6ft 8 or 6ft 9 quick bowling half volleys.

Never heard him criticise Siddle/Johnson/Starc/et al for doing that and worse their entire careers.

Stick to tinder you plastic looking dumb f**k.

Warne has become someone who is ruining his great legacy as a cricketer by speaking.

 

[undertaker]

Cricket Australia are seriously deluded into making us pay up to $163/ticket to watch this mob at the MCG and SCG tests. I was going to start a separate thread on this, but this test series is a perfect example of where 'session tickets' (like at the day/night test in Adelaide) should be offered to boost crowd attendances (e.g. ticket for sessions 2 & 3 being 2/3rds the price of a full-day ticket, 3rd session ticket (for those coming back from work or school) being 1/3rd of full-day ticket). Excluding test matches vs England and India which attract the highest attendances, session tickets should be offered against all other test-playing nations (especialy those that occur before Christmas holiday period).

And LOL @ Cricket Australia again for having a go at Hobart fans during the week for poor attendances at Bellerive Oval and threatening to give their test match to Canberra next year. Sutherland et al., how do you expect the people of Hobart to get passionate about going to watch sub-standard cricket teams, yet charging premium prices for it?

 

[Hutty1986]

lol, Burns

 

[undertaker]

Real close series coming up, only chance this has of lasting beyond the 3rd day is if we bat for 2 days.

or bad weather:lol:

But, I wouldn't have been surprised that Ch9/Cricket Australia made it clear to Smith/Holder beforehand that if they won/lost the toss, Australia should bat first to ensure the test lasts into the weekend.

 

[undertaker]

huge no ball there from Gabriel. Even bigger than the one Amir bowled in the spot-betting fix a few years ago

 

[Lego_Man]

Shit teams being dealt to on both sides of the Tasman.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Good series for both NZ/Australia players to pad their stats.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Warner makes 50. Windies dropped a very tough chance on him early and Smith would have been run out there with a direct hit.

Windies have too much plod not to take the chances that come their way.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Well....that came from nowhere.

Beautiful ball.

 

[The Charlatan]

Windies have certainly tidied up after the calamitous first hour.

 

[JJ]

Windies have certainly tidied up after the calamitous first hour.

Regardless of how bad they are, it's tough in Australia against Australia (obviously)

Holder is a good cricketer...

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

And now the Windies get a bit of luck. Amazing how often that happens when you start bowling well.

Now the real game begins. Marsh to the rescue.

 

[no name]

Hello, we have a contest.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Hello, we have a contest.

Once Australia pass 150 I refuse to call anything a contest until I see the Windies bat.

Their bowlers aren't horrible, but their batting just seems to sink and sink further each series they play.

 

[Hutty1986]

Our shitty batting failing again and Warner still an epically dumb f**k.

 

[madunit]

I can just see Curtly grinning from ear to ear saying "I told you so"

 

[jargan83]

I hope Dsvid Sehwag is pissed off. Getting out that close to the break is criminal.

 

[hineyrulz]

121 is already enough. There is a bit in this deck they just bowled rubbish the first hour.


Darth to the rescue!!!!

 

[_snafu_]

Should declare now.

 

[Timbo]

This field by Holder... Wow...