1st ODI Australia v West Indies Feb 2 1400hrs @ the MCG

[SSwans2011]

Settle down Junior, leave Isa alone...

So shit for her to cop such comments given she's one of best commentators going around atm (IMO at least).

 

[Moonwatcher]

Carey would have kept that from going to the boundary

 

[JimmyBC]

How big is the crowd in the sportin' capital of the universe?

 

[Moonwatcher]

3 threeee

 

[Westend]

swing again

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Bloody hell, Bartlett you star

 

[SSwans2011]

Keep him on for another here if his back is up to it surely.

 

[Westend]

well its good to see that cricket hasn't changed in 100 years

if you can bowl right outswing at pace...you will pick up wickets

may it continue

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Great bowling by Bartlett, but agree with the comms, unnecessary shot given where they find themselves

 

[icyflakes]

If they keep bowling Bartlett the game could be over before people can knock off work to head in

 

[Moonwatcher]

4 wicket taking balls , not just 3 wickets

 

[Moonwatcher]

If they keep bowling Bartlett the game could be over before people can knock off work to head in

Sure hoping Australia bat first in Adelaide.

 

[Jim Prideaux]

well its good to see that cricket hasn't changed in 100 years

if you can bowl right oustwing at pace...you will pick up wickets

may it continue

Yup, spot on aerator, put it on a length, let it swing, Roberts your mothers brother

 

[eltrain]

I like this Aussie kit. Just the right shade of gold imo

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Yup, spot on aerator, put it on a length, let it swing, Roberts your mothers brother

Uncle Andy?

 

[dumb]

Whats got Junior up his nut about Isa today? Thats at least 2 comments in a couple overs that clearly had some malice behind it

not listening, but if waugh's stints in the bbl are anything to go by - he can't engage in banter without getting his feathers ruffled when they return serve. it's like any sort of reply and his humour switch gets flicked off. doesn't do self-deprecation very well.

 

[BACCS]

What a bowling spell for your debut! 16 out of 22 balls so far have generated false shots, with 3 wickets and another that would have been a wicket on review.

 

[damicky]

How good is it to see Bartlett dominating on the MCG … again?

 

[dumb]

josh hazlewho? if we're wanting the public to get enthusiastic about ODI's new players are one way to do it.

 

[toml]

I mean the stats are the stats. He's still bowled phenomenally well so far.

He has hardly played a List A match in the last 2 years and his career stats are massively skewed by a poor start to his career as a 19 year old or so. Stats are sometimes not a particular good indicator at all, easy to see from his last few seasons of Big Bash that he is a far far better player than he was when he played the majority of his List A matches (mostly on pathetic barely first class quality postage stamps)

 

[SSwans2011]

josh hazlewho? if we're wanting the public to get enthusiastic about ODI's new players are one way to do it.

It is exciting to see new players in, but I'd argue winning the World Cup was a better way to do that.

 

[CakeEater]

Worse than a Perth crowd.

Pretty poor from the "sporting capital' of Australia.

 

[damicky]

It is exciting to see new players in, but I'd argue winning the World Cup was a better way to do that.

We are doing both

 

[damicky]

Worse than a Perth crowd.

Pretty poor from the "sporting capital' of Australia.

Do all Western Australians have the same inferiority complex

 

[dumb]

It is exciting to see new players in, but I'd argue winning the World Cup was a better way to do that.

it certainly helps but we only win them once every 4 years. watching the players they've seen run around in the bbl appear for their country will be nice, assuming they pay attention to the cricket at a bbl game, that is.