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Yep, you're absolutely right. That's another of very many examples there are to choose from.
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I'm not saying Starc should've won it. I'm saying that logic is an absolute joke. Starc also destroyed an innings, you may have noticed. Saying he didn't take a wicket in 2 balls therefore doesn't deserve MoM has me lost for words
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What an absolute cracker of a game. Finally the bowlers strike back in what has been an almost totally batting dominated tournament.
A mate kept telling me late in the Australian innings the game was over. But I just kept reminding him cricket is a funny game, and sure panned out that way.
A mate kept telling me late in the Australian innings the game was over. But I just kept reminding him cricket is a funny game, and sure panned out that way.
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If India had gotten within 1 wicket of beating NZ in NZ?
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i know this is an Australian forum so naturally we will concentrate on the poor performances of the Australians but some serious heat should come on the shot that Grant Elliott played. What the hell was he doing? That was the shot of a scared man. I'd struggle to trust him in pressure situations again if I was a kiwi fan.
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Its okay dont cry ahahhahaha
This is an Aussie cricket sub-forum on an AFL forum. What are you talking about?
I was surprised as anyone when he made the squad and you could have knocked me over with a feather when he played - the game at this level has passed him by.
Yes, because Indian cricket fans handle losses with so much grace and composure...
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There are other nationalities on here ..... not sure if your implying something but im going to give you the benefit of the doubt
Boult MOTM for sure. NZ won because he destroyed our batting, regardless of whether he took one less wicket than Starc...
Australia's problem today was its tactics. The clear intention was to destroy the two NZ spearheads early, knock their confidence, have them brought out of the attack, whatever. As a result, the opening stand was the stupidest display of opening batting I've ever seen from an Australian team. Beats the hell out of me how Finch thought he was going to get away with two identical sixes off Southee from swinging delivery pitched at a decent length directly at his stumps, but it was no surprise to see his stumps smashed - forty something on the board, thirteen balls into the innings...! Watson is a passenger, and might have found himself in no-man's land, struggling to keep up the run rate as the innings wore on. Thing is, when the collapse started, we were still scoring at nearly six an over - why so great the urgency I don't know, but maybe the Aussies forgot that Gayle and AB got their record innings this week against Zimbabwe and a pissweak WI attack, not two young world class guns on a roll. When the T20 specialist allrounders got to the wicket, they were facing 35 overs to bat instead of 10-15, and batted like they were back in the BBL. It took old-school Haddin and a tailender doing as he was told to get the total up to something that surprisingly was almost enough...while George Bailey hasn't had a recent cv of excellence, you got the feeling he was definitely the guy you wanted out there based upon his last few years of backbone batting...this game might just have jumped him into calculations ahead of guys who he previously wouldn't have threatened because they can also bowl...
Not to diss NZ, who absolutely deserved their win, but we failed to give ourselves the chance to exploit the gaps in their batting...noone is surviving Williamson and McCullum (tough bastard!) these days, but the rest can be done with quality bowling. Bit hard when you don't get runs, and the collapse of NZ can be put down as much to small target wobbles as much as it can to excellent Australian length bowling. McCullum might just have thought he'd done his job again, just like England, when he shrugged his shoulders at getting out. If they were chasing 200, they would have had no problems, but with our current bowling, I'd struggle to see them chasing 300 against us...
Australia's problem today was its tactics. The clear intention was to destroy the two NZ spearheads early, knock their confidence, have them brought out of the attack, whatever. As a result, the opening stand was the stupidest display of opening batting I've ever seen from an Australian team. Beats the hell out of me how Finch thought he was going to get away with two identical sixes off Southee from swinging delivery pitched at a decent length directly at his stumps, but it was no surprise to see his stumps smashed - forty something on the board, thirteen balls into the innings...! Watson is a passenger, and might have found himself in no-man's land, struggling to keep up the run rate as the innings wore on. Thing is, when the collapse started, we were still scoring at nearly six an over - why so great the urgency I don't know, but maybe the Aussies forgot that Gayle and AB got their record innings this week against Zimbabwe and a pissweak WI attack, not two young world class guns on a roll. When the T20 specialist allrounders got to the wicket, they were facing 35 overs to bat instead of 10-15, and batted like they were back in the BBL. It took old-school Haddin and a tailender doing as he was told to get the total up to something that surprisingly was almost enough...while George Bailey hasn't had a recent cv of excellence, you got the feeling he was definitely the guy you wanted out there based upon his last few years of backbone batting...this game might just have jumped him into calculations ahead of guys who he previously wouldn't have threatened because they can also bowl...
Not to diss NZ, who absolutely deserved their win, but we failed to give ourselves the chance to exploit the gaps in their batting...noone is surviving Williamson and McCullum (tough bastard!) these days, but the rest can be done with quality bowling. Bit hard when you don't get runs, and the collapse of NZ can be put down as much to small target wobbles as much as it can to excellent Australian length bowling. McCullum might just have thought he'd done his job again, just like England, when he shrugged his shoulders at getting out. If they were chasing 200, they would have had no problems, but with our current bowling, I'd struggle to see them chasing 300 against us...
It sounds odd to bag Aussie fans for being pissed off with the team losing a match and doing the thing of bringing India into a discussion about a game that they were not involved in.
Do you comment on cricinfo regularly?
You really do come across as a tool who just screams out for attention, and makes it all about you.
When Arsenal lost to Monaco mid week, you sling s**t on the loser and say 'yid army'. Hate to break it to you, but Tottenham wasn't involved in that match.
Today, New Zealand defeated Australia. Yet you bring India into it. Again, India had no involvement in today's encounter in Auckland.
How about actually commenting on the match in question and contributing something useful?
Instead of being an attention seeking little bitch.
This is comfortably the worst match thread that we have had on here for a very long time, really brought out the peanut gallery.
He makes bombers/lukeparkerno1 look like Gideon Haigh, dreadful poster.
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That cut me deep
Good post. They were under team orders to keep going hard I''m sure, regardless of what happened with wickets.
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God I hope we come across India somewhere in the knockouts.
well, you were pretty off the mark about how confident indian fans should be feeling about defending 300+ in the SA game, so...
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Our constant need to play aggressive cricket is to our detriment at times.
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But take a look at the reception Smith got when he wasn't being aggressive on Day 5 of the Boxing Day Test.
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I dont just mean the team but everyone in Aus cricket circles, managment, former players, media, hell even the public have this constant need to always play aggressively. Sometimes we just need to play the percentages. Don't get me wrong, i'd much rather we play too aggressively then too defensively but there are moments in games where you need to play defensive, even boring cricket.
