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

[madunit]

yes, the 9th wicket has performed better than the 3rd and 7th wicket for Australia

 

[madunit]

hilf does have a test 50, no reason why he can't pull another one off.

 

[hineyrulz]

Hilf gone.

 

[skeepe]

Just hope Smith can get a 50 before it's all over.

 

[TheParraboy]

Hilf gone.

doesnt want to miss out on the lunch buffet?

 

[yappy]

Nice 50 Smithy.

 

[madunit]

personally i'd like to see him hog the strike a lot more now

 

[hineyrulz]

Don't throw your dig away Smithy.

 

[Twizzle]

Smith gets his second test 50, alot of one days shots in there.

 

[yappy]

Come on Steve, no point protecting No.11 now mate. Take the single.

 

[yappy]

Well played England.

 

[Twizzle]

all over

 

[hineyrulz]

All over red rover, we done England far to good. Good to see Smith finish with a red ink.

 

[yappy]

Chappelli making the obvious point that the good news from the result is that Cricket Australia can't get away with band aid solutions anymore.

 

[madunit]

and so ends the most woeful australian cricketing performance in near 30 years.

For the first time in Australian test cricket history, we have lost 3 matches in a series by an innings plus.

Our number 9 batsmen (Siddle) had a better batting average than our number 3 (Ponting)

I'll have to check the records, but this could very well be the first time, if not first, then first in a f**king long time, that none of the top 4 batsmen managed to score a century between them in an entire series.

Only managed to bowl out England twice in a match once.

 

[TheParraboy]

Chappelli making the obvious point that the good news from the result is that Cricket Australia can't get away with band aid solutions anymore.

if there was another test series in 2 weeks time, id bank that wed go with basically the same side

SL is in 7 months, we will take a new spinner, and backup left field bowler and batsman who wont play in the tests

nothing will change much whilst we got gumps like nielson, sutherland and hildich in charge

 

[Collingwood Storm]

some funny stuff this morning... the wood-chopper batted like a batsman and the batsman batted like a wood-chopper

 

[madunit]

the few good things to come from this series.

Siddles Batting
Khawaja

end of list

 

[TheParraboy]

the few good things to come from this series.

Siddles Batting
Khawaja

end of list

add

dumping of North (far far too late)
dumping of Johnson (short lived)

 

[Azkatro]

Maybe we should play Johnson every second test. We rested him and then he won us the next match. If we rest him every second test, we might win at least nearly 50% of matches.