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Shaun Marsh is 32. A 1st class average of 39. A test average of 35. He should never have played a single test.
His test avg is 33 now.
Shaun Marsh is 32. A 1st class average of 39. A test average of 35. He should never have played a single test.
20/20 is cheap and f**king boring. It's the equivalent of watching a slam dunk contest.
ODI cricket is different to test cricket...
The Australian team are good on roads ... any sideways movement and you're complete shit...
Warner and Smith are good players, but don't seem able to adjust - both have record that flatter them tbh...
Except Watson.That means there shit,everyone is good on roads
That means there shit,everyone is good on roads
ABC Grandstand - Clarke to retire after Ashes
Has been told there is no place for him after the Oval test.
I reckon Southee & Boult will go okay in Australia too...
Adelaide will be interesting.... Being the first ever day/night test... The evening dew might create abit of swing...
Clarke to retire at series end: reports
08 August 2015
Andrew Ramsey, Senior Writer, at Trent Bridge
The Australian cricket captain is reportedly set to announce his retirement from Test cricket as Australia ready to hand over the Ashes urn
Australias disastrous Ashes campaign appears to have claimed its first casualty with reports that captain Michael Clarkes celebrated career has ended.
Clarke is understood to have told his teammates before play began at Trent Bridge this morning that his reign as skipper as over and, following his retirement from one-day cricket after this years World Cup win, he is also walking away from the Test game.
He was seen to be shaking his hands with his teammates at a rare team meeting an hour before play was to resume on the third day at Trent Bridge.
This was widely interpreted as the 34-year-old breaking the news to the team, although some members of the squad were training in the nets at the time.
Cricket Australia has yet to confirm or deny the reports that began circulating around 10am in Nottingham.
While it remains unclear if Clarke will lead Australia into the final Test of the Ashes series, which England are set to win today needing just three Australia wickets for less than 90 runs to claim an unassailable 3-1 lead, it seems likely the transition to a new captain will come sooner rather than later.
News Limited newspapers have reported this morning that Clarke has been told that his future with the current Test team does not extend beyond this series which Australia was widely expected to win but have increasingly failed to meet expectations.
Clarke himself has been under increasing pressure given his repeated failures with the bat, failing to reach 50 in any of his eight innings in this campaign and averaging less than 20 runs per innings.
It means that in the past 12 months he has played nine Tests and made only score in excess of 50, that being the century he scored against India at Adelaide last December just weeks after the death of his close friend and former teammate Phillip Hughes.
1981 Ashes, 3rd test at Headingley
http://howstat.com.au/cricket/Statistics/Matches/MatchScorecard.asp?MatchCode=0905
England were still 92 runs behind in their 2nd innings when their 7th wicket fell, and went on to win (courtesy of Botham's famous 149 not out, and Willis 8 wicket haul in Australia's run chase).
Australia currently trail by 90 runs with 3 wickets in hand.
Can they do it????
Can they do it????
I reckon Southee & Boult will go okay in Australia too...
Adelaide will be interesting.... Being the first ever day/night test... The evening dew might create abit of swing...
Stokes has bowled brilliantly this innings. Some of the best swing bowling I've seen for a while