That should be the beginning and end of the story.
Yes it is a impressive statistical achievement, but so would it be if a kid said he had masturbated every day from the age of 11 to 16.
In the end you are pretty much only beating yourself.
The West Indies came to Australia without a bowling attack, carried some strike breakers, blooded some kids and had a captain who turned up in time for the toss.
They played well at times, but ultimately look like a team that needed the other team to explode for victory, Australia flamed at times, but never combusted.
Then Pakistan came without their captain after struggling in New Zealand. They abandoned the first game, showed their keeper to be the worst keeper in a generation of the worst keepers while their stand in captain refused to captain and showed nothing more than faux teenagers.
Pakistan’s one day side was playing under a captain who was sacked before the series started, the team lived up to that decision, then they made a positive move and hired a new captain who had one of the most entertaining fuck ups in cricket history when he tried to bite the ball.
Their T20 side showed their champion status by bowling Australia out for 127, they still lost.
Then the Windies came back, not all of them though, some were still hanging around milking cash from state sides.
The Windies one day side seemed to made up of blokes who had won contests to play and a few guys who had talent but rarely used it. In their first two games they made 310 as a combined total. Surprisingly that struggled to stop the momentum of the best one day side in the world.
For some reason logic has never touched on the Windies were given two T20 games which they embarrassed themselves fully in.
The one plus about the Windies trip back was that at least distant family members were assured that Wavell Hinds was alive.
That was it, there was some rain, a defensive draw in Adelaide and Australia even beat themselves once.
It was better than losing the Ashes, Border-Gavaskar and the Mike Haysman cup, but not that much better.
They should be proud for not losing, but I wouldn’t give them anything more than a biscuit if they were my kids.
Yet, there a lot of people who enjoyed the summer to the very last minute, so I guess it can’t have been that bad…
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While not disputing that the opposition sucked, one of them did quite well in the tests and the other, if it had done anything like win, everyone would have said oh well, it’s pakistan, of course they won, they are one of the best teams. Sometimes. Both teams thought, at the beginning, that they would win. It wasn’t that the opposition lacked quality – Gayle, Pollard, Afridi – its just that that there were below par performances from them.
As for the excuse that they came without their top players – in case you didn’ t notice, so did Australia ie. the bowling attack we started the sum mer with was a distant memory by the end of it. It’s just that our substitutes performed well, and theirs didn’t.
Anon, You’re right about the top players, but we did beat a rubbish side who didn’t even have their normal rubbish players to pick from.
I only briefly followed Aus-Pak test series, curious to see if Ponting really was exposed by Roach in the previous series. Otherwise, I didn give a fuck on how well the aussie ‘subs’ performed. (heh! against Pak? WI?) But hey! Nothing can match up to Ind-SL super marathon series. Not even Hitler’s that-which-cannot-be-mentioned-in-public acts.
cb
Hey, give them a break, they beat a second rate PMs XI. I know, my body was there for the full day, although my brain checked out around lunchtime.
Why did they bring Nash over for the one dayers? At least he would have scored runs and kept the lower order together, and bowls handy left arm meds, and can field, unlike the majority of the squad.
having said that, Roach, Pollard, Nicky Miller all look as if they have a big part to play in WIndies cricket in the future. Deonarine or whatever the fuck he’s called also looks as if he could be a good test player down the track. Dowling is also a gutsy little opener (tests) who should be perservered with.
Hahaha.
But i differ in one thing. Aussies are professionals.
If it would have been india , india will play lower themself to opposition level. it is just the nature of indians emotional setup. Indians are amaturish.
Aussies play like it is the job , indians play with emotions so they lower to the level of opposition. Even they made it look like Bangladesh was a good team.
Aussies always have the knack of making opposition team explode themself in australia. They make opposition double guess themself. When they beat you they make sure you fight among yourself.
it is just that their unbeaten streak is meh in one view point but …they did the job. That is bottomline.
You mean the entire Aussie team is a bunch of probots except the t20 bowling unit huh?
cb
Pollard seems to have really grown in confidence. He will be a star for the West Indies and Nikita Miller looks as keen as mustard and will keep learning if they keep playing him.
I’m glad the international season is over. It was so hard to maintain any enthusiasm by the end.
I’m confused. Is this the same summer that. On every single day, had some piece of action (usually, but not always from M Hussey) that Mark Nicholas described as breathtaking?
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It’s worth considering, though, whether any other team in world cricket — take South Africa, India and Sri Lanka, of the top 4 — would have won every single match. Tests, ODIs, T20s, with not one ‘off day’. Sure, they beat Pakistan and WI, but that’s not Bangladesh and Zim. (India would’ve lost a T20 and an ODI in there somewhere for sure, even if they were playing Bang and Zim.
Wes : Are you talking about the plebs with southern cross tats who were sitting near me in bay 13 on friday night, only to be kicked out for skolling their mid-strength schooners?? Its a pity their knowledge of cricket wasn’t mid-strenght but instead more akin to half a warm can of Fosters Special Bitter. It was poo competition cricket from start to end. The highlight should have been Twatson getting caught on 99 but this was another golden moment missed, I still cry myself to sleep.
Shaitaan: Of course India / Sth Africa would have dropped a game on the way, they don’t spent all their petrol tickets thumping the duds and save them for the series that count. Unlike Australia of recent years who are happy to grind carp with cricket bats into the ground for fertilizer and then submit meekly to powerful lower orders with big hitters Monty Pan and Onion Soup or spinners like Harris the Unlikely!
@Yawn – hey.. there was the glorious man-love incident with Khalid Latif and the now world famous-youtube hit “Afridi takes a bite!” Now beat that!!
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When you have Darren Sammy and Dwayne Smith in the same XI, the team needs a fundamental re-think! I mean, which team, in the name of the good God, has 2 specialist medium pacers in their XI? :O
Nothing against the 2, they both are good, but I just find it hard to understand the logic!
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King Cricket is Alex? The truth is finally out! Why did you have to do that Mr King Cricket?
cb
Not perhaps the Alex…
Reading his writings on Cricinfo Page 2, I thought everyone knew! :O
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True, LASCM, but while the ‘unbeaten summer’ chest-thumping left me cold, I admire the Aussie cussedness, if sneakily, only in sotto voce. They are nowhere near possessing the earlier team’s aura (as Christian Ryan laughably claimed on Cricinfo) or skill, but they don’t beat themselves too often, what?
SA guys are reading my CWB. They dumped overhyped botha and brought smart Roelof van der Merwe and amla and duminy (can bat in ODI better than TEST).
Dumped albie morkel ( i think he needs to be aggressive against indian bowlers if he ever want to succeed in india. He has Oram slacker disease in batting) and botsman.
SA can win this one. :D
midget continues selfish drive become 100 century scorer. hope he breaks his arms and legs after score 99 centuries :-D
the pitch in gwalior is a statwhore’s dream. even madraasi karthik can get a chanceless 100 here. oops, hes gone – what a loser!
hey Alex, the statdulkar has done the unpardonable.
Woohooooo! First ever Double century in ODIs! Go suck on that, Alex!
Sachin is GOD!
How many balls did he waste in the 190s though? He was going fine until then.
HA HA @ Left Arm Seamers, your comment made my day
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