Shane Warne said that Nathan Hauritz was being given a crap field by Ricky Ponting today. Being as Hauritz went for 76 in 12 overs on a fifth day Indian pitch, we’d guess that Ponting was only using four or five fielders.
Hauritz is currently said to be Australia’s number one spinner. Quite apart from the [...]
We wrote about how Australia’s selectors don’t know what they’re doing last week. Nowhere is this more apparent than when it comes to spin bowlers.
Spoilt by Warne and MacGill for so long, there seems to be a ‘grass is greener’ philosophy, even when the grass in manifestly not greener, it’s actually just the odd yellowing [...]
We’re less than 50 days away from the Ashes and Australia have named their touring squad. Here is my pick of the top XI batting order plus the second fiddles:
Phillip Hughes
Simon Katich
Ricky Ponting
Michael Clarke
Michael Hussey (demoted one spot due to lack of form)
Marcus North
Brad Haddin
Mitchell Johnson
Brett Lee
Peter Siddle
Stuart Clark
And the other guys left to carry the kit bag...
Okay, saying England is half as good as Australia is an exageration. After all, Australia only lost 6 wickets to England’s 19. So mathematically, England were only slightly better than 30% of Australia’s effort. Let’s be generous and round it up to 33%. England are a third as good as Australia.
Still, I am gutted we didn’t get the win. A 1-nil scorecard would’ve been ...
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