MELBOURNE 3rd Test: Australia v India on Dec 26-30, 2014

[tomdl]

Calling it now.
Burns won't play another test.

Marsh is out for the Sydney test. I think they might give him a go there if the series is wrapped up after this game. Probably would still play him even if India were to win this .

 

[Geohood]

How many overs are left in today's play?

 

[Y2Eel]

Didn't hear ch9s comments, just saw the replay of him waiting at the crease as Haddin turned up to take guard

Might be happening everywhere, hope the aussie haters don't get to upset when we get do it is all

Imagine When we do it next innings.. The hate we get from Everyone...

 

[El Diablo]

Rogers has been in WA a while http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...804523842?nk=8044bf85277d245b0a16858df60b0005

That said, the highlights of his career as a first grade rugby player in Perth are indelibly printed on his memory, perhaps because there were so few of them; games, that is. Well, highlights too.

After leaving Perth's Wesley College in 1994 as the best and fairest player in the school's First XV, Rogers played about 50 grade games for the University of Western Australia before reluctantly quitting the game in 2001 to concentrate on cricket.

fair to say he grew up playing in WA, not NSW imo

 

[TheParraboy]

Calling it now.
Burns won't play another test.

Will be there for Sydney (Mitch marsh wont be fit)

But if he fails there, then might need to pile on some Shield runs to be selected for the WI touring squad June 2015 (2 test series there)

 

[El Diablo]

How many overs are left in today's play?

Min overs remaining 30

 

[TheParraboy]

How many overs are left in today's play?

playing till 7pm AEDT

 

[Canard]

Didn't hear ch9s comments, just saw the replay of him waiting at the crease as Haddin turned up to take guard

Might be happening everywhere, hope the aussie haters don't get to upset when we get do it is all

Imagine When we do it next innings.. The hate we get from Everyone...

You seem to care about Aussie haters a lot.

I prefer to call a spade a spade, let's not bullshit that we are Saints and the touring teams are evil incarnate.

 

[Geohood]

Cheers thanks

 

[BunniesMan]

Burns has a future but Cowan deserved to be next in line.

 

[Twizzle]

Will be there for Sydney (Mitch marsh wont be fit)

But if he fails there, then might need to pile on some Shield runs to be selected for the WI touring squad June 2015 (2 test series there)

agree

Clarke wont be ready so Monty will get another run I reckon

 

[Twatface Magee]

Who will play Sydney for him?

I'd move Watson to 6. Smith to 3 then bring in either Carters, Cowan or Ferguson. Even Doolan.

 

[BunniesMan]

We won't get through the full overs today. The stupid light rule will be used in about 30 minutes.

 

[Canard]

We won't get through the full overs today. The stupid light rule will be used in about 30 minutes.

It's pretty dark here right now.

 

[El Diablo]

http://www.wesley.wa.edu.au/view/owca/owca-news

Congratulations Chris

Here at the OWCA we're extremely proud of Old Wesleyan Chris Rogers(90-94) who has been named to open the batting for the Australian Cricket Team in the first Ashes Test today.

Chris' Year 8A (1990) Cricket coach Barry Angus has fond memories of Chris as a steady player, who always kept his wicket intact, without scoring to many runs. Except in the final game of 1990 against Aquinas where Chris scored 66 not out and took 3/23.

Chris continued to represent the College in the A teams of each year including the Darlot Cup winning 1st X1 teams in both 1993 and 1994.

Congratulations Chris!

 

[BunniesMan]

I'd move Watson to 6. Smith to 3 then bring in either Carters, Cowan or Ferguson. Even Doolan.

Carters and Doolan are no more deserving than Burns. Carters is averaging 40 in shield this season, Doolan 16. Cowan and Voges are the only blokes who have hit more than 2 100s. IMO they're 1st and 2nd in line currently.

 

[Y2Eel]

You seem to care about Aussie haters a lot.

I prefer to call a spade a spade, let's not bullshit that we are Saints and the touring teams are evil incarnate.

A lot!

 

[TheParraboy]

I'd move Watson to 6. Smith to 3 then bring in either Carters, Cowan or Ferguson. Even Doolan.

Id be moving Watson somewhere else, unrelated to a batting position

 

[Meapro Ham]

Cowan is not the way forward. Very surprised if he gets another run.

 

[undertaker]

Warne's 100 greatest cricketers (according to him) says it all really:

9. M.Waugh
10. Healy
12. Taylor
16. Gilchrist
18. Merv Hughes
20. Dravid
26. S. Waugh
32. Lehmann
39. Slater
41. Jayasuriya (!)
60. Hussey
76. Watson
77. Laxman (!)
81. Greg Mathews
82. Craig McMillan (wtf)
90. Inzaman

What a pile of fail

Surprise, surprise...Merv Hughes at #18 says it all. Victorian bias to the max.

The comment I've always loved (and is alluded to in the earlier link) was that Steve Waugh was a batsman who saved matches but never won them. What? Is Warnie on a different planet?

It was Steve Waugh who SAVED Warne's career, when Warney chucked a massive dummy spit on that '99 WC and threatened to retire if Australia got knocked out. Waugh's 120* at Headingley got us over the line (which will go down as one of the best ODI innings of all time relative to the context of his team's standing/position in that tournament), followed by his partnership with Bevan in the semi-final when Australia lost 4 early wickets and got us to 213, giving our bowlers something to bowl at. As the article stated, Warne never got over being dropped from that 4th test of the '99 West Indies tour. It was the right decision, given Warne had only taken 2 wickets @ 134, whereas MacGill took 12 wickets @ 29.33. Waugh had balls of steel under pressure in a must win test. Ponting and Clarke would've never had the guts in their captaincy careers to ever drop Warne, even in that situation.

Although he wasn't as consistent as Warne was, MacGill took more wickets and had a better average than Warne in tests where both of them played together. It's a shame that the two of them never played more tests together. MacGill was easily one of the top 3 spinners in the world during his peak, and although he was past it when he finally got the role of main spinner after Warne retired in 2007 (albeit, he was 36 by then), he did extremely well with the limited opportunities he had given he was constantly in and out of the side, never had time in the team to build momentum, and the only extended run he got in the side was when Warne had his 12-month drug suspension.