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Cricket All stars

December 13th 2006 07:06

Okay, this is my version of a cool cricket concept, how about we form two cricket all starsteams, akin to the tsunami appeal matches and Australia vs. rest of the world except it would be basically norths vs. souths/

Imagine Australia, New Zealand and South Africa going against their northern hemisphere counterparts? and how bout the team? okay here is my basic line up for the Souths team:

Justin Langer, Graeme Smith,Ricky Ponting, Fleming, Jacque Kallis, Adam Gilchrist, Shane Warne, Daniel Vetori, Shaun Pollock, Shane Bond and Glenn McGrath

Norths would be:

ChrisGale, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Mohammad Yousuf, Kevin Pieterson, Kumar Sanggakara, Mutiah Muralitharan, Andew Flintoff, Taylor, Irfan Pathan and Shoaib Akhtar

Anyway, do name your prospective teams and maybe the ICC would get wind of this

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Conservatis Ad Nauseam

November 17th 2006 10:36

Dear All

Okay, we clearly have a shit Ashes Team. We have two hotshots who are unproven in tests as bowlers, we have an all-rounder (who is injured) and our next hope of a batsman is not playing this round (Michael Clarke).

What the fuck happened to the so called attack on England's Achilles Heel (by sending in two leg spinners who are succesful against teams already known to play against spin)? All we're doing is reverting back to primitive tactics by playing in a four prong pace attack allrounder inclusion.

We need 2 spinners people!!!!!

I'm fucking fed up with selectors. The most obvious fact of England being susceptible to spinners like Warne and Murali just doesnt seem to enter their un-evolved cricketing brains.

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Polly and Mcgrath

October 26th 2006 05:36

Hey all cricket loving fans

Forgive me for drawing up a would-be orbituary for two of the finest cricketers to play the modern game: Mcgrath and Pollock. Now hold your horses before I start to list the list of dear ones left behind, it doth grieves me to write this as we speak, and I do believe that resuurection is in place for them.

And you might ask: "what the hell is a South African bowler being given a place in this Australian cricket blog?" well, if you care to think back and reflect, these two bowlers are almost identical twins.

Both rely on freakish-inhuman-laser guided like accuracy to take wickets. Both sneeze at swing bowling, and opt for such deviations off the pitch in front of the off stumb and wait for two things to happen: blocking by batsmen leaves no runs on the board, while any itching for a drive reveals a zipping ball to stumps or edge to slips.

however, both of them have somehow had strange coincidences in their lives that renders them lenthy absences from the game: McGrath took a 7 month sebatical while Pollock has had spasms and required recovery time.

Both have dropped dramatically from form: Pollock has lost his pace while Mcgrath's forte of line and length now resembles a scatter plot of M & M's on a white table.

But, Pollock does have one facet that the African's deeply desire: a very decent jab at being a lower order all-rounder. Thats right! a lower order all-rounder. His scoring rate with the bat is averaging 20's. He gets consistent half-tons and the speed with which he strikes mirrors that of the Boer, all heart and red-bloodedness.

Mcgrath still hasn;t dropped his pace, and still clocking in regular 130kmh speeds. I would suggest he spends more time with his out-swinger while Troy Cooley is still under the coaching department, and using deviations; especially his famous slower split-finger funnel ball. Cricket can change in an eye blink and the only way to improve in to evolve.

So before I write down the address for the funeral service, please write in for any ressurection spells.

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Should we watch out for Watson?

October 24th 2006 01:51

Dear all,

Now i know the selectors are raving mad by this Queensland lad, who has the potential to put off all the Flintoffs, and make the list next to Kallis, but are is it simply all hot air

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