Aussie Cricket
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@Duluth I'm surprised Sehwag isn't on that list given the way he played and the lifeless pitches he often batted on.
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@Duluth said in Aussie Cricket:
@No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
"scoring a ton in a session" (which is impressive but hardly out of this world)
Doing it in the first session of a test match is rare
5th Batsmen to score century before lunch on the first day of a Test.
And I think the first to do it in Australia?
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@barbarian said in Aussie Cricket:
@No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
This is not an NZ v Aussie thing, more a personal dig at Warner, but from what I gather Warner turned down a 3rd run to ensure he kept strike, so that he could hit a ton in one session. The other day Kane told Neesh to finish the job leaving himself stranded on 95* with no chance of a century.
Both very driven blokes. One focussed on personal milestones, one focussed on his teams success regardless of any personal milestones.
Kane did that in an ODI against Bangladesh. It was a nothing game and a nothing innings that meant nothing.
Warner's innings was truly historic. He did something that has never been done in a test match in Australia. If he tried to slog sweep a ball on middle stump on the last ball before lunch I'd agree with you, but what he did was pretty reasonable IMO.
Yep, giving up one run against a crappy Pakistani team is hardly going to make a difference. What annoys me more is when declarations are delayed by a few overs just to allow a batsman to achieve a milestone.
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That was awesome. Thunder need 5 from he last ball and Morgan slaps it for 6. Epic.
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Lynn and Baz just tore Perth a new one. Baz 50 from 31 balls and playing 2nd fiddle to Lynn who belted 11 sixes to finish 98 from 49. Awesome hitting.
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@No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
Lynn and Baz just tore Perth a new one. Baz 50 from 31 balls and playing 2nd fiddle to Lynn who belted 11 sixes to finish 98 from 49. Awesome hitting.
Bloody foreign imports, denying our man a century
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Shane Watson may be a tool, and an ordinary test player, but shit he's a handy T20 player. Great bowling last night backed up with some huge hitting to keep his side "alive".
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He was always quality in the shorter forms, one of the best allrounders going at his peak. I don't think he was handled that well in tests, though him being a cock probably had a lot to do with that.
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Fuck I love Brett Geeves's writing.
On Monday, he wrote a pretty decent article about the prep for playing a test in India, based on suggestions that Matt Renshaw was astoundingly not guaranteed his place on the plane to India. It was a fair article about scheduling etc
Darren Lehman was asked about, and pretty much wrote it off because Geeves "wasn't a very good player"
And so today to Geeve's response
Delightfully pissy at the bottom