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ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
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Yeah he looked good. Him, Christian and Wade will/should be regulars.
Should be a good game. All the wickets have been bit stupid so far so if India keep their cool will probably be able to chase whatever score.
Should be a good game. All the wickets have been bit stupid so far so if India keep their cool will probably be able to chase whatever score.
reptilescorpio
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Wade looked terrible, no idea how he scrapped 17 together. Having Harris go the tonk would have been a better option.
Terrible running by Christian before too. Hopefully this lapse in concentration won't cost Australia, really need to go at 6 an over for the last 5 overs.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Need to bring back Harbhajan to slap the shit out of some of these kids.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Nice, Starc and Harris have been bowling bit shit.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Run rate should slow down a bit now. Might have to keep em down and just try to outscore them.
pieatorium
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that looked pretty plumb
guess not good call by the ump
guess not good call by the ump
Just like Gambhir's /zing
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Fielding has been awful by Aus.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Time to "rest" Harris for a bit, that was turrible.
Its like the pakistan team has taken over on the field. Totally uncharacteristic.
pieatorium
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that was lucky
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Fecking DRAMA again.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
McKay bowling shit, fuck him.
God they played like shit.
God they played like shit.
RibbedHero
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I love tight finishes. Fun game.
reptilescorpio
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India held their composure, Australia didn't. Pretty terrible in the field, especially Warner. The amount of missed runouts really, really hurt. Maybe Clarke shouldn't have come back on the field.
Terrible final over by McKay, wtf was he thinking with that chest high full toss after Dhoni had already hit him nearly 120m? Moron.
Dhoni looked in control that whole last 5 overs, brilliant knock by him.
EDIT: Looks likely to be India Vs. Australia final which is a bit disappointing.
Terrible final over by McKay, wtf was he thinking with that chest high full toss after Dhoni had already hit him nearly 120m? Moron.
Dhoni looked in control that whole last 5 overs, brilliant knock by him.
EDIT: Looks likely to be India Vs. Australia final which is a bit disappointing.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Should have bowled Starc again, McKay was pretty crap all game, didn't mix anything up......... bowling as a whole was terrible as well as the fielding, dunno what was up with that shit.
reptilescorpio
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Was sooooooooooooo massive! Must have been the biggest of the series so far. Just glided through the air like it had wings.
Some of these posts are fucking embarrassing. This one in particular.
This one is pretty bad as well.
McKay was 3/15 at one stage. Why would be bowl Starc who finished up 0/49?
It wasn't McKays fault we lost, he actually bowled decently. It was a mixture of the following:
Awful fielding, cost us at least 10 runs.
Awful batting order, Wade should've opened.
Needed at least 20 extra runs in our batting.
Harris and Starc were pretty average bowling.
Thats quite Australian isnt it?
Yeah the piling on McKay is unnecessary, plenty of wrongs that led to this loss.
I dont think I've seen a bigger six (measured). The ones that they showed during the test series of Mark Waugh and Chris Gayle were less than 105m.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Starc showed he could handle a bit of pressure, well kinda. Would have been good to have the last few overs as spin Dussey would have been alright. McKay bowled with none of the variety he showed against Sri Lanka that had them swinging and missing.
Nearly all the wickets this game where from bad batting, not good bowling.
Nearly all the wickets this game where from bad batting, not good bowling.
RibbedHero
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If anyone wants to rewatch that last over:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrqbeNHhx6s
And the end of match montage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1fUsR5Xiz0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrqbeNHhx6s
And the end of match montage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1fUsR5Xiz0
McKay bowled one bad over the whole game and everyone is jumping on him. Especially seeing he took 3 major wickets and apart from the X-man, was our only good bowler.
Only an idiot would bowl Starc who was on 0/49 after 8 overs and was bowling pies all night.
Besides it was clear Clarke didnt have enough confidence in Starc (because of his figures this game as well has his last over in the previous game) as he brought on Doherty when Starc was supposed to come on.
"Highest batting avg in successful chases (Min.25 inns): Dhoni (104.89), M Clarke (89.20),Bevan (86.25) & M Hussey (83.87)."
Also the averages of Bevan and Mussey are high (regardless of chasing or not) because of the disproportionate of the not-outs they have. Give Dhoni the same percentage of not-outs and his average is the highest of any ODI player.
Also the averages of Bevan and Mussey are high (regardless of chasing or not) because of the disproportionate of the not-outs they have. Give Dhoni the same percentage of not-outs and his average is the highest of any ODI player.
Correct, although Clarke screwed up from the start with that awful batting order.
Plus it looks like Clarke will be rested next game and probably Bad Hands to come in as acting captain.
.Plus it looks like Clarke will be rested next game and probably Bad Hands to come in as acting captain.
"You can take another dive Mussey, I'll rejoin you soon.
"Bradman's average is only so high because of the disproportionate number of runs he scored per innings".
What point are you trying to make? If you give Bevan the same number of runs as Ponting his average is even higher.
I'm applying the same point that I'm applying to Doeschate. Even if you disregard that, that chart is now LOL-out-of-date. Suck it up and move on.
whatsinaname
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You can't just disregard the not outs. Having so many not outs from his batting position/situations he usually found himself in says a lot about his ability.
Also, lol cricket.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUVrvOSDQ-s
RibbedHero
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The fact that Bevan comes in at 5 down and played in a very strong Australian team meant that he usually came in when only a handful of overs were left, and thus it was easy to "survive" with say 30 runs to his name. All those not out runs means his average is not representative of his skill in comparison to other players. The same applies to Hussey, but not as strongly.
I wasn't commenting on his entire figures for the evening. I was commenting purely on his bowling at the death, which is a specific art in itself. He blew it. The no-ball rank full toss was idiotic.
The poor fielding was another issue altogether. Criticising McKay's final over doesn't discount that.
Not sure what irfan is trying to get at with the Bevan statistics. I don't think anyone cares what Bevan's stats were. What made him remarkable was his incredible temperament to guide Australia home. He always seemed to know what was required and got it done.
The fact that that statistic irfan provided is limited to "successful chases" is all the more baffling. Would like to see statistics for ratio for Bevan of successful chases to unsuccessful chases. That would tell you an actual story (assuming you had some way of removing the unsuccessful chases where they run out of batting partners through no fault of their own).
Exactly my point.
McKay has a good slower ball, in fact his mates who hate him, praise his slower ball. The fact that he couldnt get it right today was probably one of his off days.
That stat was from cricinfo, I didnt specifically go digging for it.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
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That's a whoopin.
In comments sure to splinter the Indian dressing room, Gambhir said the tourists needed players who could "deliver''.
Tendulkar has not scored a century in his 11 innings on this Australian tour and was rested before Sunday's game against Australia, which the tourists won.
"For me, this was the best playing 11,'' Gambhir said before pointedly adding "it's not about names''.
"You don't want names, you want people who can deliver,'' Ghambir, who was named man-of-the-match after top scoring with 92, said.
"The best XI is if 11 players have the belief they can beat any opposition on the park and this playing XI had the belief that they could beat Australia in Australia and in this ODI.
"One or two individuals don't make a difference.''
Not content with tearing down a legend, Gambhir also took aim at captain M.S. Dhoni, saying the skipper should have batted with more urgency.
"We should have finished this game in the 48th over,'' Gambhir said. "We shouldn't have taken the game to the 50th over.
"I know it's always easier to talk when you are in the dressing room, and it's always tough in the middle, but ... when you put yourself in that situation, someone has to pick his hand up and say, 'I want to finish this game'.''
Dhoni scored 13 runs off the final over, finishing with 44 from 58 balls.
"I don't know what was going through MS's mind, but maybe he wanted to delay it, maybe he wanted someone else to take that responsibility,'' Gambhir said.
"Cometh the hour, I think the most important shot of the match was made by him. Six balls, 13 runs, with the kind of shot he played, he has done a fantastic job, he has always been a finisher, but that's his game plan. He wants to delay it.
"Someone like me, if I was there, I wouldn't have taken it to the last over, because I always feel that any runs in the last over is far more pressure than finishing one or two overs before.
"Even if you need five or six runs in the last over, the pressure is far more on the batting side.
"We are different human beings, we think differently, we have different game plans.''
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/ga...-1226270430861
Tendulkar has not scored a century in his 11 innings on this Australian tour and was rested before Sunday's game against Australia, which the tourists won.
"For me, this was the best playing 11,'' Gambhir said before pointedly adding "it's not about names''.
"You don't want names, you want people who can deliver,'' Ghambir, who was named man-of-the-match after top scoring with 92, said.
"The best XI is if 11 players have the belief they can beat any opposition on the park and this playing XI had the belief that they could beat Australia in Australia and in this ODI.
"One or two individuals don't make a difference.''
Not content with tearing down a legend, Gambhir also took aim at captain M.S. Dhoni, saying the skipper should have batted with more urgency.
"We should have finished this game in the 48th over,'' Gambhir said. "We shouldn't have taken the game to the 50th over.
"I know it's always easier to talk when you are in the dressing room, and it's always tough in the middle, but ... when you put yourself in that situation, someone has to pick his hand up and say, 'I want to finish this game'.''
Dhoni scored 13 runs off the final over, finishing with 44 from 58 balls.
"I don't know what was going through MS's mind, but maybe he wanted to delay it, maybe he wanted someone else to take that responsibility,'' Gambhir said.
"Cometh the hour, I think the most important shot of the match was made by him. Six balls, 13 runs, with the kind of shot he played, he has done a fantastic job, he has always been a finisher, but that's his game plan. He wants to delay it.
"Someone like me, if I was there, I wouldn't have taken it to the last over, because I always feel that any runs in the last over is far more pressure than finishing one or two overs before.
"Even if you need five or six runs in the last over, the pressure is far more on the batting side.
"We are different human beings, we think differently, we have different game plans.''
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/ga...-1226270430861