you can have your rain comments.
qld's weather will always be better than any other state
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1st ODI: Australia v Pakistan @ Brisbane (Fri D/N)
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you can have your rain comments.
qld's weather will always be better than any other state
It's a bit hot tbh. Tassie wins for me.
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Pretty much. Wonder if they are wishing they had picked Gul instead of Ajmal...
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Good start to the ODI's and another beating of an increasingly frustrated Pakistan outfit. Different players, same story.
Hopes was injured from what I heard a few times today. Has some sort of minor strain if I heard correctly.
He was also complete crap in the T20 prelim and I wouldn't put him anywhere near an Australian XI in that sort of form.
That said, if it had to come down to a choice between him and McKay for a spot, I'd definitely go with Hopes.
Most of the ignorant folk out there probably wouldn't realise this, but Tasmania's weather is the best.
Couple of the same players disappointing though. Umar Akmal got out to a fairly ordinary ball playing a dumb shot and Saeed Ajmal was poor like in Melbourne.
Cameron White you beauty. Keep sticking it up the doubters much like Watson has. Love every minute of it.
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A brilliant knock by White. Some of his shots were just astounding and he paced his innings incredibly well, turning what was looking like a loss into a relative cakewalk against some pretty good pace bowling. Clarke proved able support by working the singles, whilst Hussey came in at the end with his hyper-Bevan brilliance.
Our bowling attack is a slight concern, though. It is too early to make a call on McKay, but Siddle has struggled to take wickets in ODI's thus far. Hauritz didn't do very well, but nor did Afridi or Ajmal in the end.
We also need to tighten up our fielding.
Our bowling attack is a slight concern, though. It is too early to make a call on McKay, but Siddle has struggled to take wickets in ODI's thus far. Hauritz didn't do very well, but nor did Afridi or Ajmal in the end.
We also need to tighten up our fielding.
Great to hear. Hopefully he finds his feet quickly and gets a call up sooner rather than later.
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And he's from Bairnsdale apparently.
"It's tough driving up from Bairnsdale for State training"
It probably deserved to be cut. I'm watching it now, and while the concept had some great potential, it's turning out to be a pretty big letdown. The great music is somewhat of a redemptive feature though.
Why would you worry about the bowlers? This isn't Test cricket, it's limited overs. It's all about batting, and whoever makes the most runs wins. Bowlers have limited overs, restricted fields, can only bowl in the corridor, and bowling to sloggers with massive lumps of wood, hitting the ball to shortened boundaries. Give me a break.
Batsmen mistime sixes these days, a couple of those sixes tonight would have been caught well inside the proper boundary. I really get annoyed when people criticise bowlers in the truncated forms of the game.
Well, while bowlers are less able to dictate the terms of an ODI like they potentially can in a Test (because of short boundaries, powerplays and other restrictions), it doesn't mean that their performances are somehow superfluous within the context of the game.
For instance, like you said, the side that makes the most runs wins. Like in Test cricket, bowling utter tripe will definitely increase your ER (a very important consideration in ODI's) and allow the opposition to make more runs. You obviously don't want this. In the context of restricting runs, the spinners all had bad days.
Whilst wicket-taking is a less important consideration in ODI's than restricting runs, it will in all likelihood alter the amount to be chased. To this end, new-ball bowling in ODI's is fairly important, because taking early wickets will set back their run-scoring and make it easier for the less skilled bowlers in the middle overs to get into a rhythm and not get smashed. It has a flow-on effect.
That's why I'm worried about Siddle as an ODI new-ball bowler - he simply takes far too few wickets and allows the openers to get into a rhythm and give the side a solid start. We then have to catch up. Brett Lee is regarded as a terrific ODI bowler precisely because he takes wickets at a fast rate with a reasonable (though not great) ER.
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Under 20K....
you were right on one part, he sure did get out........
though that was after scoring over 105 at more than a run a ball
Break granted. Hobart is the second driest capital in the country.....
http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/ausclim/zones.htm
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Even if it doesn't rain that much, Hobart is a fair bit colder (particularly in Summer) than most other state capital cities in Australia.
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Would have to be disappointing. Get more than that for domestic T20's. Honestly think ODI's will be dead within a few years, freeing up more time for T20's (& Tests of course).
More reason that Hobart's better tbh
Except in Brisbane, that was higher than they got to any of their 4 matches with the Prelim getting only 11,000 and another game getting 7,000
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