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Very nice.You betcha, my $325 a year built that bloody joint.
First beer at...............???
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Very nice.You betcha, my $325 a year built that bloody joint.
Very nice.
First beer at...............???
.......and that's how its been at AO for 130 years.
Reckon we get more Day 5 results than any other deck in Australia.
Ed: and I say "We" nowadays...........only taken me 15 years to come around.
In fact I went back to 1999 and still have not found a side bowled out on day 1 of an Adelaide test so not sure how it is of any help to fast bowlers. It is a fast bowlers graveyard and always has been.
Yes it has got results as you say but that is based on declarations. Good for batting and good for spinners. Now where is the part it is good for fast bowling?
Poms rolled us for 245, Day One 2010.
Jimmy Anderson got a 4 fa'.
Glad to see Marsh at five, it's where he belongs. If he doesn't get runs in this go round, then I'm happy to cast him aside for good,o'Keefe released from squad to join NSW for SS match. S.Marsh to bat #5 with Voges #4 and Smith at #3. Pace attack yet to be decided.
I'll be out the back starting a BBQ at 12pm. Ready for the game with a few beers in the tank.You going to be one of 40 odd thousand there tomorrow?
Since when do you have to be bowled out on day one to make it a test match? Those figures actually prove it is a good 5 day wicket. Thats what test matches are about. It's 5 days for a reason.My Bad, read that one wrong. either way it is a rarity. Cheers for picking that up though.
Mitch Johnson did OK for himself there.
Since when do you have to be bowled out on day one to make it a test match? Those figures actually prove it is a good 5 day wicket. Thats what test matches are about. It's 5 days for a reason.
But there is. You just have to be good enough to make it work. Chadd Sayers makes it work, maybe the Australian team should look to him? He bowls line and length. The problem with the Australian bowling attack has been their eagerness to drop short and that does not work at Adelaide and never has.No it proves there is no assistance what so ever to a fast bowler, it proves it is a road from the first ball.
Or it proves every single fast bowler for some reason just struggles on the one pitch.
Test cricket is not batsman smashing the bowlers around for 4 days and then with some declarations a spinner cab bowl you to victory.
If you were a fast bowler would you look forward to playing in Adelaide? A test match should provide something for all disciplines.
But there is. You just have to be good enough to make it work. Chadd Sayers makes it work, maybe the Australian team should look to him? He bowls line and length. The problem with the Australian bowling attack has been their eagerness to drop short and that does not work at Adelaide and never has.
Need I remind you that Sayers was once the leading wicket taker in the Shield.. having played 5 of his games at Adelaide.
I'll be out the back starting a BBQ at 12pm. Ready for the game with a few beers in the tank.
Yep, and Argarkar 6/41 the season before.
Because you don't want to be convinced. I could break out all the statistics in the world but like LPN1 you will never be convinced.Maybe they should look at him?? But either way you will never convince me or pretty much anyone that Adelaide is a good place to bowl fast. It's character is a batting road and that's ok if the other pitches in the country are prepared as they should be but it looks as though we now have 5 Adelaide pitches in Australia.
The pink ball is doing the supporters a favour hopefully, they have to leave grass on the pitch and some moisture in it. We might hopefully see a contest between bat and ball on day one for once.
Because you don't want to be convinced. I could break out all the statistics in the world but like LPN1 you will never be convinced.
I thought that was in Steve Waugh's final series (because we batted stupidly)?