This is great to watch.
As was Williamson's innings. He is a special talent.
Also! I'm going to the Adelaide Test in three weeks.
Good luck seeing the ball.
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Good luck seeing the ball.
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Or a team that generally plays the stronger teams on a consistent basis
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Is Australia due to play Pakistan anytime soon?
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They'll get hammered here. I'd be happy if they win a test.
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They're a handy side.
But yes their record in Australia is horrific.
But yes their record in Australia is horrific.
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Quasi supporting them is a nerve shredding experience. Last couple of years have been a nice change.
Apart from all the other less important reasons, the partition of India and Pakistan resulted in splitting a team that could have been sublime. Imagine India's batting with the Pakistani attack at pretty much any point in time.
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You'll always have that in different ways, though.
Imagine Australia and New Zealand if they were combined. We might have had...
Oh, basically the same team with the odd Richard Hadlee and Martin Crowe type thrown in.
Imagine Australia and New Zealand if they were combined. We might have had...
Oh, basically the same team with the odd Richard Hadlee and Martin Crowe type thrown in.
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I take the point, but Aus and nz were never one country.
It is extremely wishful thinking on my part though.
It is extremely wishful thinking on my part though.
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There is provision in our constitution for New Zealand to become a state, though.
Still there to this day.
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There is provision in our constitution for New Zealand to become a state, though.
Still there to this day.
Probably want to save that provision for a very rainy day
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It'd give us decent mountains for one thing.
And we'd never lose a game of rugby ever again.
And we'd never lose a game of rugby ever again.
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Would we keep the Haka?It's give us decent mountains for one thing.
And we'd never lose a game of rugby ever again.
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I vote yes.
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Ok, I'm in.
If they can bring a decent set of quicks out here (and they have a ridiculous record of churning them out), they are a show. Oh and the two old pros in the batting order. Yasir Shah is class.
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Yeah, story of the entire country really. Blessed with talent, cursed with complete and utter lack of discipline.
eth-dog
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Mark Craig is an utter spud at this level.
Not this team.
Past five years have won all their 'home' series (I guess UAE is home at this point) and half their away series. Ranked no. 2 in the world.
They're going to put on a decent show.
eth-dog
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I think this has finally happened.
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Gladly put my hand up and say I was completely wrong about Warner.
I could not stand him when he came onto the scene in 2008. To me he represented everything wrong with the T20-isation of cricket.
When he was first named to make his Test debut I was mortified.
I still think that 123 carrying his bat (out of 233 all out) in that failed chase of 241 against the Kiwis in Hobart four years ago, on a tough pitch where no one else made a run, is one of the best Test innings I've seen; even if not one of his more explosive efforts.
If you'd told me he was capable of such an innings in 2008, I would have laughed at you.
I could not stand him when he came onto the scene in 2008. To me he represented everything wrong with the T20-isation of cricket.
When he was first named to make his Test debut I was mortified.
I still think that 123 carrying his bat (out of 233 all out) in that failed chase of 241 against the Kiwis in Hobart four years ago, on a tough pitch where no one else made a run, is one of the best Test innings I've seen; even if not one of his more explosive efforts.
If you'd told me he was capable of such an innings in 2008, I would have laughed at you.
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eth-dog
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I was there yesterday mate. Also, I think you'll find that Maxwell hit 98
.Fawad Ahmed will never play Test cricket.
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I was there yesterday mate. Also, I think you'll find that Maxwell hit 98
Fawad Ahmed will never play Test cricket.
Must have overlooked Maxi.
Thoughts on Trav Dean? How did Ayre look with the gloves? Glad Handscomb doesn't have them.
eth-dog
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Travis has a good technique and should transition into at the very least a good FC opener, similar to Klinger, if not better. Ayre wasn't the best with the gloves but I'm willing to put that down to first game nerves because from what I've heard he's clearly the best gloveman in the state, could be as good a gloveman as someone like Boucher (from my premier source). Very high praise.
