3rd Test: South Africa v Australia at Cape Town Mar 1-5, 2014

[TheParraboy]

A prediction of his stats by 2018?


He scored 234 five tests ago. And since then he had a 60 and two 40s in the series against India.

Smithy boy averages 34.16 vs Australia in 20 tests

 

[Twizzle]

shit, he's worse than Clarkey

 

[man2iel_]

20x 100s?

faints

2 x 100s. My bad.

 

[Twizzle]

shutup

 

[hineyrulz]

Smithy boy averages 34.16 vs Australia in 20 tests

Massive myth against quality bowling.

 

[TheParraboy]

Massive myth against quality bowling.

mcgrath and warne retired over 7 years ago

lucky he doesn't have to face his own attack :sarcasm:

 

[clipser]

Abbott brought into the squad for parnell..

if Saffas play him, it's going to be tough for aus

 

[jargan83]

lucky he doesn't have to face his own attack :sarcasm:

I see what you did there ;-)

 

[madunit]

Clarke is currently in his driest run spell of his test carer.

In his last 11 innings he has not scored higher than 24 runs.

He has scored 161 runs at 17.89 in those 11 innings.

Australia's batting in the last 6 tests (ordered by avg)

Warner - 613 runs @ 55.73 (4x50's, 2x100's)
Smith - 445 runs @ 49.44 (3x100's)
Marsh - 192 runs @ 48.00 (1x100's)
Rogers - 563 runs @ 46.92 (3x50's, 3x100's)
Watson - 317 runs @ 45.29 (2x50's, 1x100's)
Haddin - 356 runs @ 39.56 (3x50's, 1x100's)
Lyon - 78 runs @ 39.00
Doolan - 129 runs @ 32.25 (1x50's)
Clarke - 309 runs @ 30.90 (1x100's)
Bailey - 146 runs @ 29.20 (1x50's)
Harris - 159 runs @ 22.71 (1x50's)
Johnson - 128 runs @ 16.00
Siddle - 43 runs @ 7.17

 

[JJ]

Abbott's record is impressive, hard to understand why he wasn't there to start with...

 

[Twizzle]

we'll sort him out

 

[TheParraboy]

http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8805013

onya Warner, fluff their feathers

 

[TheParraboy]

Watson in for Doolan apparantly

 

[lockyno1]

Probably right from Warner

 

[BunniesMan]

Watson in for Doolan apparantly

:lol:

FMD.

Doolan >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Marsh

25 other blokes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Marsh

 

[hineyrulz]

:lol:

Yep agreed


FMD.

Doolan >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Marsh

25 other blokes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Marsh>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hughes ;-)

 

[lockyno1]

HAH still can't jag a game...PMSL!

 

[umina panther]

Bailey was absolutely dominating international one day attacks, so i'll give them a pass for that but Marsh is unacceptable

 

[TheParraboy]

Im gonna put a bit on Marsh getting his 2nd ton of the series here...

 

[DoggiesBroke]

A good test coming up. We showed some great form to win 6 straight before SA gave us a hiding with a master class performance. A win after that thrashing would make the series victory particularly special.

If we are to win Johnson will again need to be devastating and Clarke will need to find form. I don't have faith in our batsmen as they seem more concerned with scoring quickly rather than grinding out a big score. They've had that mentality for some time. Warner and Smith are in good form so I'm hoping they can dig deep for this one.