The Cricket Thread

[Kazza]

Definately disgusting batting from Australia... even more so to Bailey. 2013 is going to be a building year for australia in ODI and Test.

[i_amtrunks]

So after that farcical 4th game washout, Australia once again proved they are not good enough with their current team. I am not a Clarke fan, and was disgusted by his waste of the DRS on at best a 50/50 call, it is not what the system is there for, and it isnt the first time he has wasted one that resulted in an incorrect decision being overturned for a teammat. Hopefully he bought Warner a slab.

For the 5th and final game, a new selection criteria must be used. Drop everyone and select on merit. Mitchell Starc is our new opening batter with Waner.

I think only Warner, Wade and the bowlers could be retained from game 3.

[i_amtrunks]

As nice as it has been to see Australia not collapse, watching Hughes bat has been boring. His selfish batting trying to get a 100 has put Australia in a bad place runs wise. 220-230 is not going to be enough in 50 overs. T20's are getting 180 in 20, anything under 250 is not enough.

Once Hussey got out, I was half expecting our best batsman to come out and score some quick runs, but Maxwell is a good lower end slugger. (As I type this, Hughes has finally started to score some runs at a decent clip, only after scoring a century ). I'd like to know what Henriques has done to get so many chances, just so we can tell Khawaja and Finch what they need to do.

Sri Lanka should win this in a canter, as long as they resist their natural urge to collapse after losing an early wicket.

[i_amtrunks]

WI all out for 70, Aus chase down in 9 overs...

Game over before 5.30 AEST. Channel 9 will be spewing chunks, especially for a Friday night game in the big markets.

Imagine my surprise when I turned the radio on at 3.15 after the last students left my room to hear that the WI were 5/20 after 8 overs!

[blackie]

lol @ maxi
always good to see a local make runs for australia, doesn't happen too often :P

[Trent]

Short game today…

That's really all there is to say

[Kazza]

Well at least our bowling is in good touch...

[Kazza]

That was impressive from George Bailey

[Kazza]

Hell yeah Shane Watson got his 100

[i_amtrunks]

Hell yeah Shane Watson got his 100

You'd hope any International level player with his talent could score 100 after having 3 months off!

Nice to have him back, but really, how long will he be back for?

Australia getting a par score on a tiny ground, the Windies catching once again the highlight for me. Lets hope they can actually bat competitively in the next few hours.