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

undertaker

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And people shitting on Smith, do you really think he'd have ended the game if other blokes on the team were against it? They had clearly all given up.

If your whole team gives up in that situation, some of those players selection needs to be questioned. A lot can happen in the space of 4 overs. One wicket is all it takes to change the momentum of a game. We will never know what could've happened
 

TheParraboy

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And people shitting on Smith, do you really think he'd have ended the game if other blokes on the team were against it? They had clearly all given up.



giving up and the baggy green don't go together

I guess we live in a different world now
 

Timbo

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No point. Johnson or Harris or Hazelwood breaks down unnecessarily and everyone is up in arms the other way. We were insanely long odds at that point and the series is won with a draw anyway. Why risk it?

We've already won the series, let's forfeit the 4th test. Why risk Harris or Johnson for the Ashes.
 

undertaker

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What a disgraceful pitch. Let's never play at the MCG or Adelaide oval again.

Drop in pitches suck, especially for test matches. I pray that the SCG and Gabba never bows to the AFL and starts implementing drop in pitches. It will be a sad day for cricket in this country if that happens. How do young, upcoming bowlers get any motivation when they know that the pitches at the test venues in this country are flat as a pancake and offer near nothing for them? Batsmen have had it way too easy in this country for too long and CA can go and get stuffed if they think they can follow the way of the BCCI just so they get matches that are guaranteed to go the full 5 days
 

WaznTheGreat

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People won't be paying anything in future if all these drop in pitches continue to be flat roads all over the country.

Test Cricket death imminent in Australia in 3 2 1
 
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Drop in pitches suck, especially for test matches. I pray that the SCG and Gabba never bows to the AFL and starts implementing drop in pitches. It will be a sad day for cricket in this country if that happens. How do young, upcoming bowlers get any motivation when they know that the pitches at the test venues in this country are flat as a pancake and offer near nothing for them? Batsmen have had it way too easy in this country for too long and CA can go and get stuffed if they think they can follow the way of the BCCI just so they get matches that are guaranteed to go the full 5 days

Swans moving permanently to the SCG from 2017 so I'd say a drop in pitch there is very likely unfortunately. ICC needs to step in and ban them or something.
 

El Diablo

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Swans moving permanently to the SCG from 2017 so I'd say a drop in pitch there is very likely unfortunately. ICC needs to step in and ban them or something.

http://www.smh.com.au/afl/sydney-sw...iums-redevelopment-hopes-20141124-11swea.html

There could also be ramifications for cricket with the SCG Trust leaving the door ajar for the introduction of a drop-in pitch, of which former chairman Rodney Cavalier was a steadfast opponent.

But it appears the current board, led by Tony Shepherd, who is chairman of AFL club Greater Western Sydney, has a more sympathetic view.

"There's a great old saying those people who remember their history last a lot longer than those that don't. We've done our very best here to keep everybody's memories clear about the heritage," said the Trust's deputy chairman Rod McGeoch.

"I don't think the Trust will ever give up on that but we are in the 21st century, we're obliged to give our hirers the best experience we can possibly give them and somewhere in there we're going to have to land on an answer but it hasn't hit our board or the Trust yet."

The Swans hierarchy told Trust management during negotiations of their wish for a drop-in wicket, as that would eliminate the prospect of glue pots in the event of heavy rain during the football season.

The fact the Trust is entertaining the idea is symbolic of the greater pull the Swans now have with the venue.
 

undertaker

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All this crapping on in the commentary box about how good Melbourne is and how great the MCG is...well, the truth about the MCG is that your pitch sucks and besides Boxing Day or Ashes tests, ppl aren't going to fork out big money (lets face it, ticket prices aren't cheap) to watch games on crap drop in wickets
 

Sphagnum

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You merkins have blamed everyone/thing else, when is it the coaches' and umpires' turn?

Good series win.
 
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Seriously, screw what the Swans want. They have signed a contract to the SCG, I would assume that whether it's a regular pitch or a drop in pitch has no affect on this contract. They've signed up knowing that it's called the Sydney CRICKET Ground and that cricket pitches are part of that.
 

TheParraboy

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Do you forget Steve Waugh getting McGrath to bowl about 4 stumps outside off to avoid a loss.

Is this the test Waugh set NZ 287 to win off 57 overs?

Kiwis needed 15 to win in the last over with 4 wickets left? falling short by 10 cause McGrath bowled legal wide deliveries?

yeah sure same thing :roll:
 

BunniesMan

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Smith's decision was cold hearted but rational. The odds of a win were astronomical. Every running stride is a potential snapped hammy. Every delivery is a potential stress fracture.
 

WaznTheGreat

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Ryan Harris was in worse shape when he cleaned up Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel in the dying overs to win the Series for Australia in South Africa.

Anything can happen in 4 overs Spud Smith.
 

WaznTheGreat

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Smith's decision was cold hearted but rational. The odds of a win were astronomical. Every running stride is a potential snapped hammy. Every delivery is a potential stress fracture.

That's Wazn logic,If that's the case why bother turning up to play at all then?
 

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