Test The Ashes Fifth Test January 4-8 1000hrs @ The SCG

[troybe]

Rain in the Sydney Test. Hard to believe

Just a few drops our resident weatherman proclaimed yesterday, nothing to worry about

 

[Snarls Barkley]

Ponting said there is 20 tests for Aus before 2027 Ashes so let's blood young players so they have 20 tests experience by then.

Replaced Weatherald with Kellaway on the basis JW struggles with the full ball and the short ball so can't succeed at test level. Then he replaced the retired Khawaja with Peake. Picked all of Haze, Starc, Cummins, Lyon and Boland. With Richardson and Murphy in the wings.

He left in Green at 7 and had Webster in the squad. Overlooked after serious thought McSweeney still believing Marnus is the best #3 in the country.

Katich moved Head back to 5 to replace Khawaja. Also selected Kellaway but alongside Renshaw. Also retained Green. Bowlers were the same but didn't select Boland and went for Bartlett instead. Reserve players included Rocchiccioli and Hardie.

Could see them blooding a few against Bangladesh and Afghanistan if either go ahead. Some pretty important series between now and the Ashes though. India away and South Africa away, not exactly the time to be experimenting with players

 

[Cleavy]

I would rather see another repeat of Lethal Weapon rather than Gilly, Binga and Junior banging on about how great Ussie was.

surprised they didn't have an Ussie career highlights special ready to roll. (maybe they do and they're saving it?)

 

[Cleavy]

Billy Bowden is still around umpiring the Super Smash?! What the?

wow, how old is he?

 

[Chism]

1st session needs to start at 7am and maybe then this shithole state may see a full days play at this time of year. Between bad light and rain no cricket is ever gunna be played after 2pm here.

 

[Daka]

The AO has snuck up a bit.

I used to watch the AO religiously going to a couple of Australian Opens as a kid as family holiday seeing Pat Rafter & a young Lleyton Hewitt live.

+ I used to play at my local tennis club, and I used to watch on TV every time and even find live streams to watch other tournaments around the world, though felt Tennis died a bit when Federer retired god, he was good to watch the fluidity and effortless that he played with.

I have enjoyed Sinner & Alcaraz from to time to time.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

I've liked the sledge Steve Waugh copped from an English (?) player about how he was at least the best cricketer in his family.

Mark Waugh said to James Ormond. "What the f@%k are you doing out here? Surely you're not good enough to play for England"?
"Maybe not" replied Ormond, "but at least I'm the best player in my family."

 

[GreekLunatic]

wow, how old is he?

62

 

[Plugger35]

Tim Pringle another good NZ left arm spinner with glasses, not quite good enough to play for NZ but played for the Netherlands.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

They could schedule a triple header of BBL matches each day of the Sydney test - morning, afternoon, evening.

A back up plan for cricket junkies

 

[Stopher]

Cricket Gold YouTube channel is your friend right now. Some great random highlights on there.

 

[sherb]

The argument I always see is that cricket boards are notoriously shit at working with each other, NZC and CA are perfect examples. The east coast of Aus is as close to Perth as it is NZ, yet we never play NZ.

Personally I think NZ would do better out of the arrangement, but they'd probably see it less beneficial.

I would say just wait until India buy the Super Smesh after they buy the BBL, but at least NZ has shown some spine on that front.

Australia treated NZ pretty appallingly back in the day.

New Zealand played its first Test in January 1930. Australia played a one off Test against them (the first between the two countries) in 1945/46 and didn't play them again until (at last) a multi-Test series in 1973/74 (three Tests in Aust, three in NZ) - 40+ years later. And in the NZ Tests, the locals won their first Test against us.

And it gets worse. Instead of playing them with our best side prior to 73, we sent our second side there for tours - against their best side. I can think of two seasons when this occurred - 66-67 & 69-70.

And to round things off, we had New Zealand's national team competing in our domestic one-day competition, from 1969-70 (the comp's debut year) to 1974-75.

Pretty pissweak way to treat our nearest, full Test playing, neighbour.

 

[Borisdog]

Could have been playing the last hour. Officials have got it wrong as they have been waiting on a small storm front with limited rain as the radar shows the bulk of the front is heading north.

Wrong or are you having a loan of us.

Are you looking at the same radar as me?

 

[lazy77]

Just a few drops our resident weatherman proclaimed yesterday, nothing to worry about

It pretty much was a few drops. It’s more the light that’s screwing us today. There was a storm, but the showers were brief and not particularly heavy. It’s still pretty gloomy though.

This is just bad luck. Apart from a few storms here and there, Sydney hasn’t had real rain in months. Certainly nothing to lose much cricket over.

 

[Pie 4 Life]

Reckon Pie 4 Life probably has the amulet. So, based on that:

ClarkeM
Thanks, Cadsky.

 

[western royboy]

Mark Waugh said to James Ormond. "What the f@%k are you doing out here? Surely you're not good enough to play for England"?
"Maybe not" replied Ormond, "but at least I'm the best player in my family."

I reckon Junior has had 3/4 sledges backfire on him that are in the legendary category with the Parore one the best

 

[Headless]

Proper Gander Gralin

This is interesting evil behaviour.

 

[sherb]

Australia treated NZ pretty appallingly back in the day.

New Zealand played its first Test in January 1930. Australia played a one off Test against them (the first between the two countries) in 1945/46 and didn't play them again until (at last) a multi-Test series in 1973/74 (three Tests in Aust, three in NZ) - 40+ years later. And in the NZ Tests, the locals won their first Test against us.

And it gets worse. Instead of playing them with our best side prior to 73, we sent our second side there for tours - against their best side. I can think of two seasons when this occurred - 66-67 & 69-70.

And to round things off, we had New Zealand's national team competing in our domestic one-day competition, from 1969-70 (the comp's debut year) to 1974-75.

Pretty pissweak way to treat our nearest, full Test playing, neighbour.

Just to add a bit of further information to that, by the time Australia played its second ever Test match against New Zealand in Melbourne in December 1973, England and New Zealand had played 45 Test matches (21 in NZ, 24 in England).

 

[HoldMyBeer]

Ussie channeled his inner Albo

A brown boy from Pakistan and look at me now!

Albo raised by a single mum in housing commission and look at me now!

Why do sports people think they can lecture us all. That’s not a rhetorical question, there is an answer. Coz they’ve been in a bubble with everyone blowing smoke up their arse. Ussie must think he can put us all in a the same group and none of us have had struggles as important as his.

 

[Gralin]

Proper Gander Gralin

This is interesting evil behaviour.

Headless you've done it again!

Clarkem thanks MC Bad Genius

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Are you looking at the same radar as me?

Looks like about a week.

 

[Headless]

Ussie channeled his inner Albo

A brown boy from Pakistan and look at me now!

Albo raised by a single mum in housing commission and look at me now!

Why do sports people think they can lecture us all. That’s not a rhetorical question, there is an answer. Coz they’ve been in a bubble with everyone blowing smoke up their arse. Ussie must think none of us have had struggles like his.

What "lecture" are you referring to?

 

[Borisdog]

Ussie channeled his inner Albo

A brown boy from Pakistan and look at me now!

Albo raised by a single mum in housing commission and look at me now!

Why do sports people think they can lecture us all. That’s not a rhetorical question, there is an answer. Coz they’ve been in a bubble with everyone blowing smoke up their arse. Ussie must think none of us have had struggles like his.

I sure wouldn't have minded having his level of struggle.

 

[010203]

I've just got up from a nap, so based on that most uncreative of Barmy Army songs: "Same old Sydney, always raining".

 

[cats_09]

Ahead of their next series, England will be asking for the introduction of a tactical sub at the halfway mark of test matches, when the second team to bat has completed their first innings at the crease