1ST TEST: Australia v West Indies Brisbane Nov 26 - Nov 30 2009

[yappy]

You are sh*t Watson - you will always be sh*t.

 

[ElectricEelMan]

The pretender opener GONSKI!

 

[Red Bear]

Thanks for your contribution Watson. Geez that good form in the One Dayers really helped him didnt it Hilditch???

 

[Bazal]

Watson out...might have been a mildly tough call and it was a good delivery, but ffs you don't play a shot and you're asking for trouble. He's not a test opener, middle order or get out IMO

Ponting off the mark with a four

 

[aussies1st]

Pitched outside but that was a clear leave, and it was going on I would say.

 

[Red Bear]

You deserve to get out when you dont offer a shot, looked pretty plumb as well

 

[Bazal]

Pitched outside but that was a clear leave, and it was going on I would say.

Looked high, it passed over the stumps without much interference from the pad but like I said, you don't play a shot and you deserve to be fired. Bring back Phil Hughes

 

[yappy]

So lucky we don't have an opener with a problem against the short ball.

Hurry up and break down Watson you imposter.

 

[hineyrulz]

Lol @ Sunshine , one day = zero for test cricket hilditch you plonker!!

 

[Bazal]

Jeez the over the top hatred for Watson is hilarious....

 

[Hallatia]

these Windies bowlers are doing a great job at the moment, bowling really well

 

[TheParraboy]

roachs heart rate 196 beats per minute, bloody hell thats dangerously high

 

[Bazal]

roachs heart rate 196 beats per minute, bloody hell thats dangerously high

Not for a 21 year old professional athlete...

 

[Hallatia]

why aren't cricinfo doing this game? I feel somewhat lost without having them there to check everything

 

[yappy]

Seriously Bazal I don't blame him. You get picked, you play. Fair enough.

He just shouldn't be there. I just want to see the best team selected, and it isn't so long as it has S Watson in it. It disgusts me that this imposter keeps getting picked despite failure after failure and Hilditch and his crew are the real villains.

 

[ElectricEelMan]

Jeez the over the top hatred for Watson is hilarious....

It's mainly a backlash against Hilditch and co. for picking a non-opener as opener AND for being hypocrites (dropping Hughes after a couple of innings because of a perceived weakness when Watson has a more severe weakness)

 

[skeepe]

why aren't cricinfo doing this game? I feel somewhat lost without having them there to check everything

Technical difficulties. Cricket365 has live coverage but it's not nearly the same.

I was prepared to give Watson the benefit of the doubt, but gee that was poor. He needs a big second innings now.

 

[Hallatia]

Technical difficulties. Cricket365 has live coverage but it's not nearly the same.

I was prepared to give Watson the benefit of the doubt, but gee that was poor. He needs a big second innings now.

it's got to be cricinfo. I think I am a cricinfo junkie, because it feeds my obsession with stats, which I am so desperate for right now

... I wonder if I could get a job at cricinfo ...

 

[Bazal]

Seriously Bazal I don't blame him. You get picked, you play. Fair enough.

He just shouldn't be there. I just want to see the best team selected, and it isn't so long as it has S Watson in it. It disgusts me that this imposter keeps getting picked despite failure after failure and Hilditch and his crew are the real villains.

It's mainly a backlash against Hilditch and co. for picking a non-opener as opener AND for being hypocrites (dropping Hughes after a couple of innings because of a perceived weakness when Watson has a more severe weakness)

Fair enough to rail against the selectors, it's clear that Watson isn't a test opener...but blokes telling him to hurry up and break down and calling him an imposter and such is pretty sad; the guy is a very talented player who has been shafted by injuries and is now the scapegoat for a bunch of useless selectors who think that because he opens fantastically in ODIs he can do so in the test arena. If our selectors and skipper ever suddenly gain some kind of ability to intelligently process thought, they'll stick him in the middle order and we'll watch him do well...

 

[TheParraboy]

bill lawrie - "got to hand it to katich batting very well, has just got back into the side" lol