Comments on: Malcolm Turnbull accuses Australia of trying (and Failing) to match fix

By: bigdog

bigdog — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:35:46 +0000

wow, all this hate for watson… shouldn’t even bat hey steve, is this the same watson who made back to back centuries a match ago? the same one who averages 50 with the bat and 22 with ball this year in one dayers?

all this hate for watto for one bad over, but no hate for siddle’s 8 bad overs or marsh’s ridiculously bad fielding (why is he 12th man if he cannot field?)

By: Dustbinner

Dustbinner — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:56:21 +0000

While it’s clear that Shane Watson is something of a fuckmuppet and that no side could allow a game so obviously “in the bag” to slip away like that unless it was intentional, will Jrod now stand up and admit that Hauritz isn’t so bad?

You know you want to …

By: Lou

Lou — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:39:25 +0000

Ha, ha, ha.

Watson bowled very well till he didn’t. But when he was crap, he was so crap it was laughable. How can anyone bowl that many high full tosses in one over?

All power to Bhaji’s elbow, his habitual rancour of attitude stands him in excellent stead in tight spots with the bat.

And, it was a treat watching another player fall for Mitch’s slow ball. It is very funny watching them pull up too late and seeing ‘fuck’ written across their faces while still in the middle of their last shot of the day. Considering Mitch is one of the flakiest players going, he has the odd real gun ball in his arsenal.

Andrew MacDonald in the team for Hopes. They should have tried him before now anyway and his bowling should be suited to Indian conditions.

By: Johnny Twoshoes

Johnny Twoshoes — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:06:51 +0000

Am I the only one or is Ravi Shastri the most annoying person to have drawn breath, ever? Certainly the most annoying to comment on a cricket match. I imagine he has a little book of cliches, one chapter for when they done good and one for when they is shit. He goes through the list one at a time whilst pretending to be the cricketer he is speaking about.

Ricky wanted to do that and he put that man out there….

OK, he might have some idea of what a person is thinking but he appears to believe he has a direct line to their thinking. Apart from this, none of his comments appear to have anything to do with what I am watching, save for the fact that it is cricket and something good/bad just happened.

By: poopsie

poopsie — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:47:09 +0000

Apparently there was a bet near the end of the 48th over between Paine, Hauritz and Watto about whether he could bowl a yorker near the return crease in his next over. If he could, then the two lads would help Shane in his quest to publicly bag Brett Lee at any opportunity, if he couldn’t, the two lads could spit roast Lee Furlong.

By: Ankit Mishra

Ankit Mishra — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:12:57 +0000

who gives a fuck whether it was fixed or not. i would rather not know.

All it has done is given weight to the theory that 11 angry Indians and Shane Watson can beat any team in the world…

By: jogesh99

jogesh99 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:57:25 +0000

Moses,
Watson was extremely disappointing – fatigue obviously. His bowling was overall crappy, not just the last over. Like Ishant he’s lost his bite (though Ishant was looking much better than in the recent past.).

Yeah, Aussies are still the best team, but not convincingly. They look very beatable. The last 3 world cups are irrelevant to this teams condition.

By: batting in ned kelly's helmet

batting in ned kelly's helmet — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:32:51 +0000

Twatto was bowling well and then lost it at the end because he took that little break at home for two weeks instead of playing in the Champions T20 whatsit. Cricketers play best when they keep playing cricket. It stops them from thinking too much. He started thinking too much – he was thinking, ‘don’t chuck pies’ and what happened? Chucked pies.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:19:58 +0000

Moses,

getting a few names out doesn’t mean much, when you consider that Cameron White got Tendulkar out last visit, but was not much use otherwise as a bowler. Lots of nobodies get Tendulkar and Ponting out, once. So what? does that make Tendulkar and Ponting their bunnies?

But it wasn’t bowling badly once or twice, it was for 6 balls, a shocker each time.

Where was his brain? Stuffed into his biceps? He gave India a mental edge and showed up a major weakness of ours. But you can bet that Tendlukar and dhoni won’t lose sleep over being dismissed by him!

By: Moses

Moses — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:13:16 +0000

@Steve, Watson had figures of 6 overs, 2/25. I don’t know much about the batsmen he dismissed, are Tendulkar and Dhoni any good?

@joges, I’m not convinced about India but I’d put Oz as easily the best team in the world. We’ve held the Word Cup for 12 years, just won a champions trophy and have won 13 of our last 14 matches. Not too shabby…