5th Test: Austalia vs England at SCG Jan 3-7 2011

[Fast Eddie]

And add in 60-70 overs of fielding.

 

[Hallatia]

I would kind of like to see Clarke at 6 or 5 (depending on when Hussey retires), Ponting at 4, Khawaja at 3, Haddin at 7

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Story of the series really. Australian batsmen keep getting out at the worst possible times while England keep finding a way to snare a breakthrough when they need one.

 

[Hallatia]

Strauss's captaincy I feel has been fantastic, particularly when he brings guys into the attack and his choices

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Smith gone for 18. Things looking bleak...again.

 

[Panther_Daz]

Back to Shield Cricket for Smith to work his technical flaws. Test Cricket isn't the place for that.

Bring back North!

 

[Usain Bolt]

Aussies crumbling again, disgraceful stuff

 

[HevyDevy]

And for the third time this summer the sun comes out just as England prepare to bat ...

Anyway, yeah back to Shield for Smith where he belongs.

 

[yappy]

I said yesterday this was tough batting conditions and it still is. 250 would have been a good score in these conditions so we haven't been a huge amount behind the game. The problem is will our quicks use the conditions as well as the Poms have? The pitch has great bounce this morning and the ball is swinging so Johnson should be able to make it sing, but he did that in Perth so we probably won't see that for another 12 months.

 

[yappy]

Take the f**king singles you gimps

 

[umina panther]

im fine with it if Johnson is going to go the slog

 

[badav]

It is absolutely one of the physically least demanding professional sports in Australia.

A 1st class cricketer can hang about into his 40s, for example. There isn't another sport in which you can earn good cash in Oz with that sort of longevity (except perhaps goalie in the A-league).

It is also the only sport I know of in which you can have fat people representing at the highest level. Blokes like Hughes, Boon, Lehmann etc were all legitimately overweight to the tune of 15+kg and yet were able to play the game at the highest level, taking several hundred wickets and thousands of runs between them.

It simply can't be that hard on the body for blokes of their size and fitness to be able to pull it off.

Thats not to say it isn't tough. I'm simply saying that having 2 days of rest between tests is enough

Not sure why you persist in arguing about something you know absolutely nothing about but since you want to persist, there are a range of injuries which cricketers are subject to (many related to overuse), which wouldn't be the case in a sport which had no physical demands. Im not going to sit here and go through them with some ignorant armchair know it all though.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

It is also the only sport I know of in which you can have fat people representing at the highest level. Blokes like Hughes, Boon, Lehmann etc were all legitimately overweight to the tune of 15+kg and yet were able to play the game at the highest level, taking several hundred wickets and thousands of runs between them.

Hmm you mean like

John Daley, Mark Riddell, Matt Dunning, Charles Barkley, CC Sabathia or Andre Smith?

You're a f**king dunce.

 

[Matt23]

Bring back North!

No, lets f**king not.

 

[Panther_Daz]

Just caught the end of the bit where the cameraman was looking for Beer in the Dressing Room.

The 2 kids acting helping with the 12th man duties were Zampa and Abbott right?

 

[Pete Cash]

Strauss is such a negative captain.

 

[Danish]

I think this has to be the most frustrating test of the lot of them. Our top order all seemed to have such great intent to knuckle down, occupy the crease and build an innings, getting out unluckily off of one poor shot (Hughes, Watson, Khawaja) but still building a nice-ish start for the middle order to work with.... only for Clarke, Huss, Haddin and Smith to collapse meekly into a heap and leave it to our tailenders to once again finish with a flurry and get us at least a respectable total.

I've very little faith that our bowlers are capable of the same performance as the english attack. They just strangled us yesterday until we capitulated in last 3rd of play. Not a chance in hell our guys can keep up that sort of consistent pressure for even a single spell, let alone 2-3 sessions.

 

[Twizzle]

watch the sun come out when the poms bat

the pitch will dry out and flatten out

 

[The_Joey_Show]

watch the sun come out when the poms bat

the pitch will dry out and flatten out

Yeah, I'm waiting for i too. Certainly f**ked us over in Melbourne.

 

[greysynd]

Haddin played a poor option, but he's not the lone ranger lately