The Official Cricket '07/'08 thread!!

[cobl04]

Symonds the $1.47 million dollar man has scored 44 from 57 balls and was SMASHED for 30 runs off an over by Sehwag.

4, 6, 6, 4, 6, 6

 

[cobl04]

Well I'm over the IPL, and Ricky Ponting is right back after smashign 158 against the Windies.

I laugh though, because they're putting up more of a fight than Sri Lanka did

Brad Hodge Stay home with Lara, Michael. I would.

 

[intedomine]

Again, Hodgey fires for the national side. Though he could smash 300 and still the overrated Pup will be ushered straight into the side.

 

[cobl04]

Sadly that's true. But he is the future captain. And I think he's above the status of overrated though.

 

[cobl04]

Bangladesh beat New Zealand by seven wickets in a one dayer a few days ago!!!! Cop that sheep shaggers!!!!!!!

Oh yeah, and there's an enthralling test match on, where for once the quicks are having an impact.

 

[coolian2]

We did win last night, so there is that.

But fuck. We're an extremely average side, and the godawful uniform from Canterbury of NZ doesn't bode well for the Warriors strip next year.

 

[Axver]

\Bangladesh beat New Zealand by seven wickets in a one dayer a few days ago!!!! Cop that sheep shaggers!!!!!!!

Not to defend our truly unimpressive performances of late, but I would like to remind you that Australia lost to Bangladesh before we did. Over three years ago, back when Bangladesh were even worse than they are today!

(That Aussie loss happened while I was in the US, and none of the Yanks quite understood why I was so happy that day.)

 

[cobl04]

I'd suppressed that.

I saw the scorecard though, and the Tigers had you 9/160 odd, so they could have beaten you, just that Oram and some other bloke put on 50 odd not out for the last wicket.

 

[coolian2]

They wouldn't have beaten us if they'd bowled us out for 160.

 

[Axver]

Just to bring up another stat to make me not feel so bad about things - New Zealand was the last of the major cricketing countries to be beaten by Bangladesh.

WE DO HOLD SOME CRICKET RECORDS THAT ARE ACTUALLY GOOD!

The less said about the record deliveries for a duck, the better.

 

[intedomine]

lol @ cricket.......it's in such sick condition.

 

[cobl04]

They wouldn't have beaten us if they'd bowled us out for 160.

That's a big call...

^Am I the only one who still prefers tests over one-dayers and twenytwenys?

 

[intedomine]

That's a big call...

^Am I the only one who still prefers tests over one-dayers and twenytwenys?

Not at all.

Tests are all that matters now. The meaning of ODI's has been diluted by the over-frequency of matches since 2000. And one-dayers don't reflect cricketing ability.

 

[cobl04]

Not at all.

Tests are all that matters now. The meaning of ODI's has been diluted by the over-frequency of matches since 2000. And one-dayers don't reflect cricketing ability.

Glad to hear

Tests for me are the ultimate. Don't reeally give a shit about ODI's, apart from say the summer series between us and two others, which can be quite good, the operative word there most definitely being can. Can't stand the world cup. Results are far too often one-sided, I'm not going to go into actually, cast your minds back to the last one for reasons. Twenty20's are great entertainment, but nothing beyond that. I consider it a marketing thing, it's not cricket, as much as I enjoy watching them (again, sometimes).

 

[cobl04]

India well on top in the second test, best we can hope for is a draw. Our bowlers are shithouse.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh are on top in the first test against New Zealand!! wowowoohohoho!

 

[intedomine]

Siddle's a bit of a gun, the new McGrath?

White's bowling has never improved, he'smore of a batsman now.....not a specialist spinner by any means.

 

[cobl04]

Clark is the gun for me. We are struggling big time. White's shit, get Hodgey or Davey in there!

 

[cobl04]

Play stopped yesterday while the umpires ordered all the batsmen and fieldsmen to lie flat on the ground to avoid being stung by bees.

 

[cobl04]

Kumble's retired, Ganguly retires at the end of the fourth test, Dravid looks over the hill, and there's a number of emerging Indian bats, headed by Gautam Gambhir. Australia looks to be on the proverbial downhill slope just at the minute (with regards to its bowling). A very interesting time in test cricket.

 

[intedomine]

The rise of Bangladesh.....they really pushed New Zealand in the recent test series....were unlucky not to win the series

 

[coolian2]

Anyone want to run a pool on how many sessions this test will last, or an over/under pool?

I'm going to call nine sessions. Weather dependent, of course.

 

[cobl04]

If that.

They were smashed by a quarter-strength NSW team.

 

[intedomine]

Could be a very revealing summer for cricket in Australia. The sport in it's true form is on it's knees......20/20 is the future, but it's just not cricket if you ask me.

Is the end nigh?

 

[cobl04]

What the HELL happened yesterday?!?! I've never even heard of half of this team and all of a sudden we're all out for 214! Been some very good umpiring so far. Last ball before lunch, Symonds bolwed to this Flynn bloke I think, ball very close to the bat, but it flicked his pad, not the bat, and despite a monstrous appeal from the Aussies, Rudi Koertzen ( ) said not out.

Hopefully 20/20 doesn't take over. I agree inte. It's not cricket. That New Zealand's side is significantly weaker because players have deferred to ICL and IPL is not good for the game. Test cricket will always be the ultimate form

 

[intedomine]

test cricket IS the ultimate (and only) form, but that doesn't guarantee it's prosperity and it's favourability in the sporting public's eyes.

For younger kids growing up, the game they will come to know cricket by will be 20/20, while test cricket painfully drifts off into obscurity, a relic of times past..

 

[cobl04]

test cricket IS the ultimate (and only) form, but that doesn't guarantee it's prosperity and it's favourability in the sporting public's eyes.

For younger kids growing up, the game they will come to know cricket by will be 20/20, while test cricket painfully drifts off into obscurity, a relic of times past..

Sadly, I can't help but agree with this. The kids these days are too into their smashin' and their hittin'. With the abundance of 2020 matches now it will become the most popular form, which is quite sad.

I can barely consider 2020 a form of cricket. Very often I find it worse to watch than test cricket.

 

[coolian2]

Don't care how it ended yesterday.

 

[cobl04]

New Zealand screwed themselves over with some very ordinary first-innings batting, when they should have been piling on the pressure they capitulated, and it was frustrating to see batsmen get starts but not go on with it. Jesse Ryder and Ross Taylor look quite good, though, but Redmond, How, Elliot, look pathetic. They really need Oram, and with Bond you'd be up there, but he's been tempted.

Interesting to note that immediately Watson has been dumped, Krejza has been reinstated, and Symonds was out on the piss last night with the rugby league boys. The selectors need to follow the 88/89 mould, pick a bunch of players, stick with them, and stop this revolving door crap. No, we don't have any great spinners currently, but we're never going to find one if we keep rotating them and looking with contempt at their Sheffield Shield averages.

 

[MadForIt]

The Award for Best Instance of Suffering Defeat in the Face of Victory 2008

Goes to ............


ENGLAND! v India in Chennai DEC 2008

I think India will win the next test as well

Monty Panesar was poor in 1st test

 

[cobl04]

A new cricket fan

England are massive chokers in most sport.

Mitchell Johnson now becoming a top class bowler, just needs to develop that ball that swings back in to the right handers