I wonder what Sreesanth said to the Australians as Mitchell Johnson took India’s pants off, bent them over, and then spanked them until their cheeks were red.
This just goes to show that you can’t just poke a lion. You can take it out for dinner, maybe a movie, some dancing and then try and poke it. But you can’t just poke it.
When Johnson is on game, he is down right brutal. If he can stay fit and focused he is going to torment a lot of top orders.
Nice to see the Indian team celebrating Tendulkar’s 4ooth game by letting him top score, how nice was that.
They say the wicket was a little tricky early on, must have flattened amazingly fast for the last wicket partnership of 40 odd and then Gilchrist hitting all those sixes.
9 wicket victories are hard to come back from, cause it means you batted real shit, and then you bowled without venom.
Dhoni is an interesting character, Australia’s wickets were pretty much all taken by the quicks. Yet he opens with the non vulgar Harbhajan tweaking them. It’s either genius, gutsy or nuts, but it didn’t work. So who cares?
The best India can hope for now is a draw, and that Australia don’t take their lunch money.
If it takes the lunch money to shut the Australians up, I am willing to chip in.. Is there no day when they wont complain ? Todays special is racist taunts.And of course, Andrew Symonds is well versed in all Indian languages to know so.At this rate they will put the Poms to shame in the whinging stakes.Cheers
Now watch out the Ozzie banter. Yeh, yeh, we’ll allow you guys that.Oh, and the Dean Jones quote changed?
Yeah. The Aussies played ok. How are they doing in the rugby, by the way?
Good win by our boys. Mitch looked good – sometimes it just all clicks. I hate taking ODI form into account when picking the test team, but unless Tait does something pretty special once he gets back on the field, Johnson must be the favourite to take the gap left by McGrath.
Homer, i think symonds got confused, with all the bottles being thrown on the ground he must have assumed he was at the mcg, where i’ve heard him be racially vilified before. Dinnie, Dean jones has had alot of days where he thinks he played well, i’m just trying get them all up. Atheist, i’m from victoria, the rugby means pretty much nothing to me, but i’m glad we didnt lose to south africa. Stuart, Might be able to fit both of them in if Lee doesnt take wickets with the red ball.
Are you serious? There is a chance Lee won’t fit into the Test team?! That’s what I call bench strength!Anyway, I hope Sree gets picked for the next match.
John, the thing with Brett Lee is, give him a white ball and he bowls like a demon. Give him a red one and he bowls like a New Zealand medium pacer. In 59 tests he has 7 five wicket hauls, now that could be because its hard to take big bags for Australia with Warne & McGrath, but he averages over 31 in the worlds best team when everytime he came on the pressure at the other end was immense.Everyone knows who good he is, but he hasn’t taken over test cricket the way he has one day cricket.Right at the moment Australia has Johnson, Tait, and Hilfenhaus are beating down the door. All are young and talented. Lee is no longer the young prodigy, he’s a man who needs to keep getting results with the red ball before he finds himself with Bracken as a one day specialist. And Shaun Tait said he wants to stick it up the noses of the Indian batsmen, so he’s pumped up.
Wasn’t the 2005 Ashes a watershed for him? What happened after that?
The same thing that always happens, he doesn’t swing the red ball enough. He doesn’t have a great tail ender destroying yorker. He doesn’t take bags of wickets. His short ball isn’t dangerous enough. For his pace he doesn’t intimidate enough. He bowls too many 4 balls an over. He is a skidder and can be easy to play. His strengths are. For a speedster he can bowl amazingly long spells. He tries so damn hard. He can bat, not great, but passable for a number 8. He fields well, especially off his own bowling. When he swings the ball at 150 k’s he is near unplayable. He is usually good for a wicket with a new ball, and doesnt like finishing a spell with a wicket. Gillespie is only 2 years older and has a far superior record.