the best cricket team

[Boycs]

Just had to have something to intrigue me fasty. I've just had me wisdom teef out and I'm a bit woozy, i meant to say a fag and drink.. Tuffers will forgive me... I see Tuffers as a hard core porn man really.

Steven Waugh: The only selection mistake England made in the Ashes was picking Croft and not Tufnell, anyone who's played against both knows who the better bowler is...

To the aussies, Hansie isn't coming to Aus, he's coaching schoolboys back home. Just like to see the Aussies get beaten, but then the South africans will be unbearable, ah yah can't win, come on Canada, the Americas Cup awaits, the cricket one not the yachting.

Private to Fasty : lovingeveryminuteofmartyandkerryhavingtoplaymeincentralmidfieldindiv1afternotlettingmeplayatallindiv2lastyeardixiehasthelastlaff.

 

[tiner]

hansie

is he really coaching!!!!!????

he should not be near ANY cricket....even at school level.

this is amazing !!! do they do "match fixing 101" with an option in "the language of Indian bookmakers" finally graduating to "the pitch report in 3 easy steps"

didyabringyagrogalong??

 

[deb]

great coaches of the near future

perhaps hansie, warney and akram can open a coahing school for the gifted cricketer and entrepeneur.....just a thought.

 

[MCG]

One-dayer

Tiner,

SA vs. AUS and you are looking forward to the one-dayers! Who cares about those. This is the first time the two strongest nations are playing test cricket against each other in a while, that's what all of the anticipation is about.

 

[tiner]

test v one dayer

mcg - i hear you , am looking forword to watching both but have not attended a one - dayer(which i prefer to actually GO to) for ages and am really looking forward to that as well. 2nd test start new years sydney. aaallll good .

will be , missing, however , the wonderful day that is boxing day at THE G!!!!!

 

[tiner]

good start

what a great start for the aussies!!!
except for the fact that warne took 5 for 115. dont like the man but lurve it when he delivers!!!!


donteveracceptmobilephonecallsfromstrangemeninwhite!!!

Hey Regs ~~~~ are you going to take off "hardly ever used now" from the cricket thread title or what????

 

[Regs]

balls

It'll take more than 3 days of banter to lose that description...

~TB.

 

[MCG]

thread

Regs,

I agree with Tiner. The cricket thread was once the mecca of the TTP threads. We deserve a little more.

The pitch is starting to break up a bit, so the small lead that the Aussie's amounted in the first innings could be enough to carry them to victory.

 

[deb]

winning aussie team

anyone checked out the latest aus vs s.a.? i don't think they'll recover during this test, somehow. let's just hope we can bowl the bastards out!

speaking of checking out stuff, has anyone found a good cricket site? baggygreen.com is OK, but i find it difficult to find what i'm looking for.

 

[MCG]

cricket on the internet

Cricinfo.com

 

[Boycs]

Damn Aussies, they'll be unbearable again, Warne and McGrath woke up in the second innings and destroyed the S.Africans, wait till I talk to Carwyn eh McG. I'd like to see a close series but I suspect that the psychological blow of this result may kill of the Africans, will Donald play in the next test, you can guarantee it.

 

[tiner]

we could be humble, bearable but that would be boring for US!!!!!

 

[MCG]

woke up

Boycs,

I don't think Warney and McGrath woke up in the second innings, I think that the pitch deterated(sp?). Considering it went into the afternoon of the last day, that wasn't a bad test; however, SA had no chance to win in the last innings, that took some excitement out of it.
Australia played well, but I think the turning point of that test match was the coin toss. Hopefully the next will be closer.

 

[tiner]

the 'g ........is the cricket on tv here somewhere???

oh ..whats the point i'll be home during the next test anyway.

i hope also that the next test is more competitive and that the 1 dayers are good. is boring otherwise.was a surprise actually , i expected for more from SA. the pitch will hopefully play less of a role on in the boxing day test.

 

[deb]

cricket on the net 2

mcg - thanks for the url, but all it does is send you back to baggy green which, as a site, is pretty sucky.

any other suggestions?

 

[tiner]

i think it is important to maintain standards....


australia is winning more cricket....la la la la la etc etc

GO AUSSIE!!!!!

 

[Boycs]

Well, Australia pretty comprehensively proved that they are the best side in the world. To think that Langer couldn't get in the side last summer and he and Hayden are now being talked about as one of the best opening partnerships of all time, too much talent, it ain't fair.

I don't see SA recovering in the 3 tests in SA either, especially now that they are having fights about coloured quotas and internal politics. Pity poor Justin Ontong for being in as the token guy.

 

[tiner]

ontong

the pressure on him was too much. i agree with at least trying to have some balance in a side (not many aboriginal players on the aussie side....). but the stink it caused was unbelievable.

how would he feel knowing he was selected for that reason. in a woeful innings that didnt even avoid follow - on 9 was actually ok!!!

 

[Boycs]

He got 32 in the second dig and apparently Pollock thought he looked the part. The real irony is that it was his roommate for the whole tour, Rudolph, who got dropped for him.

 

[tiner]

crowd

to change the topic from us winning because we didnt.

melbourne crowd sux. only good thing to come out of this will be increased games sent to other grounds. i just hope they arent the reason for fences or decreased beer presence. well SA today . let's see