JJ
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Australia seems to have a number of problems - most of which us non-Aussies have been pointing out for a few years now...
Ponting is quite possibly the worst captain in test cricket - the defensive fields he was setting half an hour into the day were a disgrace. He's been made to look acceptable by 2 truly great bowlers.
One of those bowlers is unfit, Gillespie has lost form, anbd you have nothing else. Say what you like, but most of the rest of the world thinks Brett Lee is a pea hearted show pony who's all fire and brimestone on hard Australian wickets with the new ball, and a passenger the rest of the time.
Hayden's lost form and confidence (evidenced by his fielding) seemingly because his personal therapist Steve Waugh is no longer in the side, Katich and Clarke are incredibly over-rated, Tait looks an interesting curiousity but unless conditions are very helpful he too will be mediocre at best, Martyn seems to have slept with all the umpires wives or daughters, and Ponting is the only Australian batsman that's managed to construct an innings of any substance (and that was to save a match,).
Now the mixture of fading great players, Ponting, and overratted newcomers is 99/5 on wicket you were all calling a featherbed - it's just riveting watching, lmfao!!! Hopefully Shane Bond will get another crack at you lot soon!!!!!! I freely admit that we're very reliant on him (as we were on Hadlee), but the evidence (this series and the India one a few years ago) is just as compelling that Aust rely as heavily on McGrath
Ponting is quite possibly the worst captain in test cricket - the defensive fields he was setting half an hour into the day were a disgrace. He's been made to look acceptable by 2 truly great bowlers.
One of those bowlers is unfit, Gillespie has lost form, anbd you have nothing else. Say what you like, but most of the rest of the world thinks Brett Lee is a pea hearted show pony who's all fire and brimestone on hard Australian wickets with the new ball, and a passenger the rest of the time.
Hayden's lost form and confidence (evidenced by his fielding) seemingly because his personal therapist Steve Waugh is no longer in the side, Katich and Clarke are incredibly over-rated, Tait looks an interesting curiousity but unless conditions are very helpful he too will be mediocre at best, Martyn seems to have slept with all the umpires wives or daughters, and Ponting is the only Australian batsman that's managed to construct an innings of any substance (and that was to save a match,).
Now the mixture of fading great players, Ponting, and overratted newcomers is 99/5 on wicket you were all calling a featherbed - it's just riveting watching, lmfao!!! Hopefully Shane Bond will get another crack at you lot soon!!!!!! I freely admit that we're very reliant on him (as we were on Hadlee), but the evidence (this series and the India one a few years ago) is just as compelling that Aust rely as heavily on McGrath
