I just watched that again. feck me he was brilliant.
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Some good weather forecasted down here for the 2nd test
Thursday Possible thundery shower. Min 18 Max 26
Friday Mainly fine. Partly cloudy. Min 17 Max 30
Saturday Fine. Mostly sunny. Min 19 Max 32
Sunday Fine. Partly cloudy. Min 23 Max 33
Monday Mainly fine. High cloud. Min 18 Max 26
Tuesday Possible shower or two. Min 17 Max 25
It will be packed out and grabbing a seat under the shade on Saturday will be a cnut because half the ground is missing.
Thursday Possible thundery shower. Min 18 Max 26
Friday Mainly fine. Partly cloudy. Min 17 Max 30
Saturday Fine. Mostly sunny. Min 19 Max 32
Sunday Fine. Partly cloudy. Min 23 Max 33
Monday Mainly fine. High cloud. Min 18 Max 26
Tuesday Possible shower or two. Min 17 Max 25
It will be packed out and grabbing a seat under the shade on Saturday will be a cnut because half the ground is missing.
Flying Fox - i'm heading out for the 4th test in Melbourne.
Waht are my weather prospects?
If it rains i'll cry.
Waht are my weather prospects?
If it rains i'll cry.
Not sure at the moment. Bit steep to get a forecast this far in advance.
We're still dealing with a schizophrenic last few days of spring. It should be okay.
When do you head out?
It's raining a lot recently in Melbourne. A draw would be a very good bet for the Melbourne test.
I miss Warney 
How on earth do you play that?!You don't.
Use your feet to get to the pitch of the ball to smother that one, then get stumped next ball.
Rained down something hard today...wonder what that will end up doing to the pitch.
KP not happy with the nets getting ruined by the rain...hehe
Diddums.
It is going to piss down on the East coast for the next week. Adelaide may well get less but I'd be amazed if we get 5 full days of play.
It is going to piss down on the East coast for the next week. Adelaide may well get less but I'd be amazed if we get 5 full days of play.
It was well fooking weird. Heading into work this morning and it look relatively sedate with a bit of sunlight coming through, ramped up by lunchtime with some downpour and fined up a few hrs later and as we were having dinner a few hours ago it flared back up again with some thunder to boot.
Hmm, my prediction of 1-1 wasn't bad going off of this new developmant...
You can't get out LBW, so it surprises how can one can be out to a ball like that.
You pick it out of his hand. If you can pick it you know when to come down the pitch or stay back. Tendulkar could read Warne like a book.
You could, it's unlikely I guess, but it was a left handed bat, so if he just padded up eventually the umpire could fold and give you out
I thought it was the Gatting wicket, but yes you're right...you could, although I doubt he'd be given out. That said who knows with new technology at the umpires' disposal...
Mitchlol Johnson has been dropped, and Hilfenhaus in real danger of following him out of the team....
Bugger!
Bollocks. At his peak he was often unreadable. Shame he had to modify his game due to injury/wear and tear in the latter half of his career.
You can although they aren't given often. But when a bowler moves the ball so much and so variably you can try to use your pads and still get caught out like that.
It will still take one side or the other to play really really badly for this to be anything other than a draw unless the Adelaide pitch has some surprises in store for us.
Thank fecking christ. Now get Stuart Clark in!
Agreed.
Line and length. Line and fecking length. McGrath wasn't great because of his sheer speed after all.
Johnson has turned into a bowler with neither the speed of Lee nor the accuracy and consistency of McGrath. Basically he has been found out especially at test level. All you need to do is leave his wilder/sider stuff alone and he doesn't take wickets.
Line and length. Line and fecking length. McGrath wasn't great because of his sheer speed after all.
Johnson has turned into a bowler with neither the speed of Lee nor the accuracy and consistency of McGrath. Basically he has been found out especially at test level. All you need to do is leave his wilder/sider stuff alone and he doesn't take wickets.
or you could you use the sweep shot.
You can but sweeping Warne is easier said than done. He was a freak.
Yeah, he was. and that was one hell of a delivery too.
Despite the freakish spin, Strauss misread it completely. Perhaps a lapse in concentration! Players such as Sachin and Laxman block similar deliveries by bringing their front way forward to blunt the spin. Either that or the sweep.
About time Johnson got dropped, was dreadful in that first-test and has been very ordinary for a long time now. Bollinger will probably come in.
...Also Ryan Harris in for Hilfy
Yeah the weather's blown across pretty badly into Melbourne as well.
Early - Noon, overcast and raining
Noon - 3pm, bright sunshine
3pm - 4:30pm, pissing down and thunderstorms
4:30pm - 6:30pm, very bright and searing sun
6:30 onwards, overcast, raining and two rainbows
Funny thing is, it wasn't even an overly windy day today.
Australia needs a good bowler that can curb the run rate down and Clark is the man. I reckon Siddle is gone as well if he doesn't take more then 5 wickets in the match. For me, we just need a couple of bowlers that actually understand a partnership instead of bowling what they think is the right delivery. McGrath knew that if he starved runs off the batsman, they where going to take Warne on and visa/versa. Keep it neat keep it tidy and actually make the batsman play his shots not thrash the bad deliveries
That ball around the legs still amazes me.
No finer sight in cricket for me, though I am biased seeing as I worshipped Warne as a kid and used to bowl leg spin.
I agree in general with your and Sultans complaints.. this is pretty much sub par cricket, but everything goes in cycles.. you can't expect a consistent production line, somewhere down the line, the quality will dip before it experiences a resurgence and a new batch of talent comes through.
With all this WC nonsense, I completely forgot the second Test is starting today.
Anyway, Australia won the toss and elected to bat. England unchanged, Aussies make 2 changes with Dougie coming in for Mitchell Johnson and Ryan Harris coming in for the Hilf. A bit suprised Hilfenhaus got dropped so quickly, he didn't have the best of games but other than Siddle's spell, which bowler did for Australia?
I hope someone gets a result this test, although I doubt it.
Anyway, Australia won the toss and elected to bat. England unchanged, Aussies make 2 changes with Dougie coming in for Mitchell Johnson and Ryan Harris coming in for the Hilf. A bit suprised Hilfenhaus got dropped so quickly, he didn't have the best of games but other than Siddle's spell, which bowler did for Australia?
I hope someone gets a result this test, although I doubt it.