Westside
11:07 Tue Jan 26
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Sibley got some runs at last, whether it's enough to keep his place in India I'm not sure.
As he got more runs than Crawley, pretty sure he has one of the opening slots nailed down for India. Only the 3 openers in the squad (Burns the other). Pretty sure Crawley will go back to no 3.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
2:38 Tue Jan 26
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So, we're agreed then. Dennis Lillee was a Graeme Hick-alike
Wasn't Australia's greatest ever team coincidental with Australia's greatest ever cheating umpires period?
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stewie griffin
10:48 Mon Jan 25
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SHEFFIELD SHIELD
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ChesterRd
10:39 Mon Jan 25
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Fantastic days play, really thought we'd struggle to reach the run target but got there comfortably. Sibley got some runs at last, whether it's enough to keep his place in India I'm not sure. Glad the spinners came good, will give them confidence for India. Felt sorry for young Embuldeniya, worked like a slave with both bat and ball. Not sure who got player of the match but I would have given it to him. Will miss not seeing the images of beautiful Galle, I've watched us play there but you don't get the same perspective of the surrounding area s you get from the drone. Now on to Chennai, we stayed at a beautiful colonial hotel when we watched cricket there.
I like the cut of old Eric5bellies jib as well lol!
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Side of Ham
10:34 Mon Jan 25
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A lot of them went out there with their great great grandads Sven to make sure they did their hard labour. That’s probably half the problem as they’ve been tarred with the same brush.....
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Sven Roeder
10:12 Mon Jan 25
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I don’t take it seriously at all.
I enjoy cricket but at the end of the day it’s a game and there will be another one along soon
I find it amusing and bemusing that people get so angry about Steve Smith, David Warner or Nathan Lyon
Or like today when someone LOST their mind because I wouldn’t let Mason Crane play another Sheffield Shield game.
And was furious because Allan Border & Mark Waugh played for Essex.
You HAVE to laugh
I will leave it at that
With you reminiscing about how much you loved 1990’s England cricket
I loved it too
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Jonah Lomas
10:07 Mon Jan 25
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stewie griffin 12:17 Mon Jan 25
Would probably have been a 3 test series but they had to leave the space for the WTC Final.
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Sven Roeder
9:43 Mon Jan 25
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I’d be interested if the great great etc grandson of a policeman was introduced to the great great etc grandson of a convict and told them my relative sent yours out there.
I suspect the reaction would be ‘MAAATE, you beauty. Let me shake your hand & buy you a beer‘
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stewie griffin
9:40 Mon Jan 25
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Oh.. and lillee? You've just been obvious over the years that he's a hero of yours. So its been fascinating to regularly point out that he's something of a bowling Graeme HICK?
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stewie griffin
9:37 Mon Jan 25
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You take life much too seriously these days, sven son. I'll put it down to others having a go. Don't want you ending up.like LOLas or Banjo
As for lolstralia ruining my childhood, you must be joking. My first overseas international cricket memories are of the victorious gatting tour and our subsequent world series with Alan LAMB hitting 18 off Bruce Reid's final over.
Then you gave me Brendon JULIAN to laugh at.
To be honest, I loved the 90s England cricket debacle. Great fun, and you genuinely savoured every win. Was a great time to grow up watching cricket
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Side of Ham
9:34 Mon Jan 25
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Whoooooaaa Sven, Australias whole history is built on the bitterness of being a British Penal Colony.....it's why you still to this day try and cheat/abuse your way in any sport against us because it's the only good history you can make without actually having to face up to us properly which neither of us want to do, you are after all our brothers who got caught.....but for our posh twats....we are the very same animals.
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Sven Roeder
9:18 Mon Jan 25
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I fail to understand your interest in Dennis Lillee
When he first played in Pakistan he suffered a severe back injury but played on.
Australia then went to the West Indies he broke down completely and had been bowling with a stress fracture of the spine which put him out of cricket. He came back for the 1974/5 series with a chap called Thomson
On a later tour of Pakistan slow wickets were prepared with the sole purpose of blunting his bowling.
Now , get back to your England team
And get over this obsession. Or perhaps get help. The Australian cricket team ruined your childhood, just don’t let it ruin your middle age in a fug of bitterness
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stewie griffin
9:09 Mon Jan 25
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On the contrary, sven son, I got exactly where I needed to. Dennis LILLEE averaging 60 in Pakistan and your greatest ever side being too scared to tour India. Both are something of a staple diet, and you always oblige.
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Sven Roeder
9:03 Mon Jan 25
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Stop digging , stewie
Admit ‘touring to the UAE’ was ground that you MISJUDGED
Do your research next time
Or maybe concentrate on England
Not everything needs to be compared to Australia.
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stewie griffin
8:53 Mon Jan 25
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Hope so. Jimmy averages about 20 there. Would do in Pakistan as well.
How did Dennis LILLEE get on in away games against Pakistan? I always forget
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Sven Roeder
8:39 Mon Jan 25
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I think the boat trip was quite hazardous in Bradmans day. And the hotels & food weren’t up to much. Bit like Birmingham
Given Pakistan have played 3 series in England since you went to the UAE over 5 years ago are you planning a return tour any time soon?
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stewie griffin
8:31 Mon Jan 25
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Didn't your greatest team bottle playing in India for quite a while as well?
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Sven Roeder
8:17 Mon Jan 25
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Australia played in UAE in 2014/5 & 2018/9
I guess the next series would be 2022/3 but think that’s just off the end of the current 5 year Test timetable.
As below Australia are playing Tests in India in 2022 (plus one there v Afghanistan
They were last there in 2017.
Not sure what has happened in between but think India tweaked the schedule as they wanted an ODI series instead at one point. And probably to tweak the schedule so that they could come to Australia when Smith & Warner we’re suspended
A bit like when England having won the 2013 Ashes easily wanted a 2013/14 Ashes instead of 2014/15. Partly to not have to go straight into the 2015 ODI World Cup & partly because they thought they could beat a poor Australian side again.
They lost the Ashes 5-0 and were utter shit under Eoin Morgan in 2015 while Australia won it. Thanks
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stewie griffin
7:54 Mon Jan 25
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Not playing in India, sven son? Or Pakistan/UAE?
Why is that?
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Sven Roeder
7:44 Mon Jan 25
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I presumed Hampshire will just hand in their registration once KOLPAK doesnt apply any more.
To be honest I thought they'd have done it from shame after they realised they'd named a stand at their ground after AUSTRALIA'S leading Test wicket taker.
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Sven Roeder
7:39 Mon Jan 25
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You might have noticed there are Test countries in the sub continent and the West Indies.
June & July 2021 Australia are in the West Indies. Maybe a short rest before Sri Lanka arrive in October followed by Afghanistan to play their first Test in Australia. T20 World Cup is in there somewhere.
June & July 2022 its off to Sri Lanka for a couple of Tests before a Test against Afghanistan in India followed by a 4 Test tour of India
Plenty to be kept busy with
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