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Thread: Ashes - Part 2...
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24-01-2014 04:21 PM #211
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27-01-2014 09:13 PM #212
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31-01-2014 01:53 PM #213
Just watched the highlights of the 2nd T20 game, what a shambles of a team England are. Aussies fielding was immense.
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31-01-2014 02:20 PM #214This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Flower now left. Guess with miss sawyer parading around sky it's a good day to bury bad news
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31-01-2014 02:56 PM #215This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteSomeone once told me that hard work wouldn't kill me.
I thought: "Hell, why take the chance"!
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04-02-2014 06:07 PM #216
Looks like then end of KP's International career as well.
Every gimmick hungry yob,
Digging gold from rock and roll
Grabs the mic to tell us,
He'll die before he's sold.
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15-02-2014 10:07 AM #218
Mitchell Johnson's demolition of South Africa is probably making England's top order feel a lot better about themselves.
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15-02-2014 05:55 PM #219This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The Ashes were just practice sessions - we'll see what SA do in the next Test.
But I think even the English will have to admit it sooner of alter - Mitchell Johnson is one class act.
The rest if the team ain't bad either.
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17-02-2014 01:26 PM #220
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He has been, however, hugely inconsistent throughout his career and has not been accurate at all for 4 years, it was not hard to underestimate him in the ashes. The issue comes in how England responded, but that is another discussion. I'm now interested to see how long this purple patch will last... Is he back? Or will he fade away again in a few months?
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I believe he's getting better coaching now than he had before.
BTW - what about the Test in Wellington? I went to bed when the Kiwis were 5 down for 94, and checked the score this morning.
6 for 571?
Gonnae make sure to catch the highlights tonight.
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I caught the highlights last night and I have to say that that was one of the most impressive batting performances I've ever seen.
Not just McCullum, but Watling and Neesham too. I appreciate that the Indian bowlers must have been pretty well desperate and exhausted by the end, but still.
That's McCullum's third big BIG score - the others were 225 in 2010 against India and 224 in the first Test of this series, but what impressed was the way he knuckled down and controlled his natural aggression for the sake of the team and the match. I reckon he restrained himself and coached Neesham through to his century before going after his own target. A real captain - this is what Test cricket's all about.
I watched the first session of the last day and I guess the Nyer Zillunders were having one of those Carlsberg Mondays. I don't think anyone was at work in Wellington - the ground was full and the atmosphere was electric. Only an idiot could say that Test cricket's boring on a morning like that.
Neesham a début Test century, and a beauty at that.
McCullum a triple century, highest ever score by a NZ batsman.
Highest ever innings total by NZ.
Highest-ever third-innings total in a Test match anywhere, any time.
Highest ever 6th-wicket partnership ever (beating Bradman and Fingleton, which made it all the sweeter, I bet).
Home series win, and a step up the rankings.
The Indian bowlers never gave up - bowled their hearts out. That says everything about them.
And every man in the Indian team congratulated McCullum as he walked off. Class.
AND we shouldn't forget Kohli's century - 105 off 135 balls. THAT took guts.
(Did you catch the comment from one of the New Zealan commentators when McCullum had to dig one out when he was on 227 or 228? "Brendan's going to have to work on that - he's developing a bit of a weakness in the 220's.")
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