Fried Posted November 30, 2012 Report Share Posted November 30, 2012 I'm not 100% sure on how the test rankings work but I think they give points weighted on the ranking of the team you're playing. Australia beating SA in the series would gain more points than if England beat India in their series. The current standings are SA 120 points England 117 points Australia 116 points then it's Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, West Indies, New Zealand and Bangladesh. I wouldn't mind it if come the Ashes next year it's Australia/England 1 vs 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fried Posted December 3, 2012 Report Share Posted December 3, 2012 Australia 0/40 on the fourth day. Still 592 runs to go! FFS. Horrible bowling by Australia, great batting by South Africa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fried Posted December 4, 2012 Report Share Posted December 4, 2012 Congratulations to South Africa for smashing Australia in the Test. Better bowling/better batting. Does it every time. Some real class shown to Ponting from all the SA players yesterday, forming a guard of honor for Ponting as he made his way out and congratulating him again after he got out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fried Posted December 6, 2012 Report Share Posted December 6, 2012 Rankings are now 1. South Africa 2. England 3. Australia Looking forward to the Big Bash starting tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanillaSlice Posted December 6, 2012 Report Share Posted December 6, 2012 Australia sucks big time we are in a huge hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fried Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 Agree with that, I don't think we have the bowlers to bowl teams out. I don't think the Test against Sri Lanka starting today is going to give them much preparation for the Ashes. Saw a bit of Malinga bowling for the Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash. Guy ended up with figures of 6/7. Really strange action he's got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fried Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 Congrats to the Aussies for finally bowling Sri Lanka out late yesterday on the last day. Congrats too to Sri Lanka for holding on for that long. I still think Australia struggles to bowl teams out. Take Siddle out of the attack and I don't think they've got much attack. Stark reminds me of Shaun Tait, sure he can bowl them fast but sometimes I think he really struggles with accuracy. Sri Lanka claim Australia was ball tampering during the test. ICC threw it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fried Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 RIP to Tony Grieg. One of the voices of the Australian summers past, a great cricketer for England and one of the leading players in World Series Cricket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb. Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 M.Hussey retires from test cricket, big hole left in that team now. Sri Lanka are awful, but England's prep is against NZ next who are possibly even worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizpop Posted December 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 Anyone watch the Pakistan India game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fried Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Seems the First Test Australia vs India over in India is in doubt after 20 were killed in bomb blasts in Hyderabad over there. Australia picked one spinner, I think they're gonna struggle if play starts on schedule. I think this is the last series before the two Ashes series start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fried Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 Saw a bit of the Australia vs India Test over the weekend. It's been a while since I last saw an Indian pitch. The thing was *censored*ing sand on the first day. India 500 or something to Australia 350 odd. Lyon the spinner struggles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fried Posted March 11, 2013 Report Share Posted March 11, 2013 Shane Watson, James Paterson, Usman Khawaja and Mitchell Johnson have been ruled out of selection for the third Test against India for, wait for it, not doing their homework. After the humiliating defeat to India in the second Test the Australian coach gave every player homework to write a review of their performance. Four names above didn't do it before the deadline so have now been ruled out for team selection. Shane Watson in particular wasn't too happy and has now left India and considering qutting Test cricket. I think the former England captain who recently joked "what do you call a great Australian Test cricketer?" was right when he concluded "retired". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fried Posted March 24, 2013 Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 Australia well prepared for the upcoming Ashes series with a humiliating 4-0 series defeat in India. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVF Posted March 24, 2013 Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 England heading in to it with a draw/possible loss to New Zealand isn't great either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb. Posted March 25, 2013 Report Share Posted March 25, 2013 Been really crap by England this entire tour really. Unable to get McCullum out on countless occasions and have allowed him to do much damage. The pitches have all been awful and flat, offering nothing for the bowlers, but England as per usual capitulated on their first innings on an away tour and have batted poorly all the way through. Still question marks over Compton opening. Bell has been crap for a while and only gets scores when England already have 300 runs, lacks bottle or the temperament to dig in. Root hasn't had a great time but is worthy of more time. Broad despite having the most wickets hasn't been great and is so poor with the bat these days. Anderson hasn't been able to swing it and Finn hasn't really done much either. If all players were fit and able to perform to a high level, then my ashes team would be: Cook, Compton, Trott, KP, Morgan, Root, Prior, Swann, Finn, Anderson, Tremlett. These 3 test matches really have been poor viewing. A lot of dull, flat pitches around in world cricket these days which are known to be so yet teams still pick them as test venues and don't attempt to make ground staff provide an interesting pitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb. Posted March 26, 2013 Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 Wow Prior got lucky then. Weird bouncer hit him in the neck, bounced down, hit the stumps pretty hard but somehow didn't knock the bails off. Quite rare that you see that especially when the ball hit the stumps so hard. England still in with a chance providing Bell and Prior stay in but Prior has looked like he could give it away and Bell still gives you that reason to doubt that he can do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fried Posted March 26, 2013 Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 Been following it on and off on text updates. How much longer do they have to play? Really agree with what you said about the recent pitches, too much bias towards batting teams I think. Maybe that's partly why Australia got their pants pulled down in India. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb. Posted March 26, 2013 Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 Bell gives it away on the stroke of tea, no chance of Broad, Anderson and Panesar holding out now. There's 2 hours left, around 30 overs or so I think. Best hope is that Prior can be positive and get the field spread a bit more and get singles with a ball or so to spare. I suppose the one positive is that there isn't a better batsman in the world at batting with a tail. Or for some rain. On the pitches thing, a team like NZ cannot really stand up to a team like England on anything other than a flat pitch which is probably wht it always happens there. In England I expect them to get blown away tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fried Posted March 26, 2013 Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 Broad sounds like he's holding on alright. Of course just I as I write that "118.6 Boult to Broad, no run, APPEAL, swung back in sharply, hits on the toe of boot, loud appeal for LBW, upheld, review taken by Broad, not out is the decision of 3rd umpire. ENG 7/259 (Prior 67, Broad 0)" I agree again about the pitches, I think local curators will always make the pitches to suit their home team and not for what makes entertaining or interesting test cricket. Series saving 100 by Prior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb. Posted March 26, 2013 Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 Well it went down to the last ball and Prior held on with Panesar. Brilliant by Prior, Broad and Bell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVF Posted March 26, 2013 Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 Bell has been crap for a while and only gets scores when England already have 300 runs, lacks bottle or the temperament to dig in. Couldn't agree more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb. Posted March 27, 2013 Report Share Posted March 27, 2013 He still didn't get a hundred or see it through. Wish I could remember what the stat I heard the other day was about the lowest score Bell has came in on and got a hundred. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewok_3000 Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 I'm not surprised that the NZ team couldn't get the win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb. Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 Apparently NZ batsman Jesse Ryder got the shit kicked out of him outside a club last night and is intensive care with a fractured skull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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