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<p>Yeah the only disrespect Australia are guilty of is disrespecting the game and what's worked for 150 years</p>
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<p>They've had a diet of good paced pitches, and methods where if you hit the ball hard enough to go for 4 or 6 you'll generally score 160 plus BBL and home series.</p>
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<p>It wasn't until it was too late that Smith and co thought along the lines of, we should be nudging it around on this packed, rolled mud square, as evidenced by his after match comments. As it was they nearly pinched the game with 2 overs to go. It required good percentage bat on ball contact, rather than brute force and lavish swinging</p>
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<p>Play them at Wankhede where Eng and SA played and they'll canter to a victory</p>
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<p>Craig Cumming - 'Ronchi hasn't been in good form for the last 3 or 4 months'</p>
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<p>Excuse me, what?</p>
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<p>and Taylor?</p>
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<p>At least Ronchi is doing his core job...</p>
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<p>This pitch is more ridiculous than the Nagpur one. In hindsight you'd play 4 spinners and 1 seamer</p>
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<p>You say that but Pakistan have dropped a spinner to bring in a 4th seamer.</p>
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<p>Sorry, I'll stop casting aspersions but there will be potentially billions riding on this match, well hundreds of millions anyway</p>
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<p>Billions.</p>
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<p>Watched the intersting documentary 'death of a gentleman' the other night. The average sum bet PER MATCH on IPL is $2BN (presumably USD).</p>
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<p>So, yeah. Lots.</p>
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<p>Aussies juust like giving us the W in the round robin, and then beating us in the games that really matter..</p>
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<p>They have to make it that far, first. The India/Australia game might well be the first televised cricket brawl... :knuppel: :yes:</p> -
<p>A couple of predictable results overnight although the Afghans certainly didn't disgrace themselves.</p>
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<p>Is it too early to pick the top two teams to make the semis from each pool ?</p>
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<p>For what it's worth at this stage I'll go NZ, India, WI, England.......</p>
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<p>That of course depends hugely on the India/Aus game which will be a cracker, still fucken thrilled our boys have knocked both of them off already though.</p>
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<p>SA struggle with knockout cricket and I can't see Pakistan or the Lankans playing anything else than a "spoiler" type role to be honest.</p> -
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<p>and Taylor?</p>
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<p>At least Ronchi is doing his core job...</p>
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<p>You want to talk about batsmen currently underperforming....?</p>
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<p>Yeah, Taylor has very much been under performing in T20's, I don't get how badley he's been going.</p>
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<p>But he is at least in form - his ODI / test numbers are great. So it's not form. Ronchi on the other hand can't buy a run in any format. He's been uniformly pigshit regardless of the type of cricket. So that is form & thats worse, Taylor could at any minute click his ODI form over to a T20 knock. Ronchi has no form at all in any format. </p> -
<p>Not sure of your definitions there Gollum</p>
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<p>You're either scoring runs or you're not. </p>
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<p>"form" is a term used in the short term to try to describe if you're scoring runs or you're not. "Despite scoring 2 centuries in his last 3 innings, he's in terrible form" ??? nah</p>
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<p>Not sure of your definitions there Gollum</p>
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<p>You're either scoring runs or you're not. </p>
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<p>"form" is a term used in the short term to try to<em><strong> describe if you're scoring runs or you're not.</strong></em> "Despite scoring 2 centuries in his last 3 innings, he's in terrible form" ??? nah</p>
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<p>It's not like players forget how to do it</p>
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<p>I'm taking cricket form. Last 12 months Taylor averages 45 in tests, 76 (!) in ODIs. But only 20 in T20's. He is in form. That form just isn't flowing into the T20's. He's hitting the ball great, he just hasn't delivered in T20's recently</p>
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<p>Ronchi in contrast 11 in ODI & 10 in T20's. He has no form, <em>in any format.</em> Pick any type of cricket you like Luke is out of form.</p> -
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<p>I'm taking cricket form. Last 12 months Taylor averages 45 in tests, 76 (!) in ODIs. But only 20 in T20's. He is in form. That form just isn't flowing into the T20's. He's hitting the ball great, he just hasn't delivered in T20's recently</p>
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<p>Ronchi in contrast 11 in ODI & 10 in T20's. He has no form, <em>in any format.</em> Pick any type of cricket you like Luke is out of form.</p>
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<p>Ahh nevermind, I misread. </p>
