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Australia vs Sri Lanka | 2nd T20I | Melbourne | 28/1/13

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How soon before these hit and giggles are over and we can get into the Test series against the Indians?
 
OZGOD said:
How soon before these hit and giggles are over and we can get into the Test series against the Indians?
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About a month.
Test squad should be selected this week.

Good to see Faulkner finally get a game in Australian colours.
 
Faulkner bowled well.

Laughlin has had a rough two games.

But I much prefer seeing those guys get tonked than having Siddle and Pattinson belted on flat pitches.
 
Excellent finish by lanka ! Mahela once again showing his class ! Should be an interesting chase
 
mosh101 said:
Excellent finish by lanka ! Mahela once again showing his class ! Should be an interesting chase
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Sri Lanka will win by about 20-24 runs.

Marsh will get bogged down at the start.
 
What do expect when you select Marsh?
He always takes 4-5 overs to get going. He makes up for it in domestic T20 because there are enough pedestrian bowlers that he can slaughter later in his innings.

He can't do that well enough at international level.
I like the bloke, he belongs in the ODI team and possibly even tests but not in T20.
 
I've seen Marsh play quite a bit now, and I think he is mediocre at this level, always fails to impress give the chances he has had. Talking of mediocre this batting line up is one hell of a joke!
 
Lara400 said:
I've seen Marsh play quite a bit now, and I think he is mediocre at this level, always fails to impress give the chances he has had. Talking of mediocre this batting line up is one hell of a joke!
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He's not mediocre at ODI level.

At international T20s yes because he's not suited to scoring quickly from the start of the innings.
 
What is marsh doing? Was at the same level in the last game and doing the same today.
 
Convict said:
He's not mediocre at ODI level.

At international T20s yes because he's not suited to scoring quickly from the start of the innings.
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Haven't seen much of him at ODI level, just referring to this format.
 
pretty pathetic from maxwell and then more pathetic stuff from Aus team good for SL not shying away from the abuse and giving back
 
Sri Lanka shouldn't have taken so long to bowl a ball.
 
Maxwell was in rights to tell them to hurry up, jaywardene was taking too much time, he's clever just wanted to put the batsman off. I can't believe MJ shouted f*** off . Wade and Warner are the biggest sooks, they didn't have to come out and act like children
 
Jawardene has a track record of doing stuff like this, when it happens against Pakistan are we all up in arms. Take some time but not that much. The fact that after 5 min no changes in the field were made proves he did it too stall the batsman
 
Lankans are smart in exploiting the loopholes. The randiv no ball incident, the captaincy incident with Sanga coming out for the toss, etc. Today was a admittedly in bad taste but Warner and wade are expert whingers. They can't handle that they got trolled.
 
leatherface58 said:
Lankans are smart in exploiting the loopholes. The randiv no ball incident, the captaincy incident with Sanga coming out for the toss, etc. Today was a admittedly in bad taste but Warner and wade are expert whingers. They can't handle that they got trolled.
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Completely agree with your point on wade and Warner they are both sooks. Maxwell well too is far from an angel but he had right to tell them to hurry up
 
Btw just got to know that Mathews was captaining the t20 side
 
Don't see anything wrong with what SL did (admittedly I don't actually know how long they took as wasn't watching live). All teams start slowing things down to take some momentum away from the batting side, or even to let the bowler re-focus and relax. After being hit for 2 consecutive fours, it seemed the sensible thing to do.

And it worked.
 
Kwremb said:
Mathews also said f*** off to Maxwell so donno what you're trying to say.
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How long has MJ been around for and how old is he , I'm guessing he was rightly annoyed at the wet ground situation but even then he shouldn't have lost it like that, especially when he took nearly 5 min to not even move a feilder
 
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pakistanigoneaussie said:
Completely agree with your point on wade and Warner they are both sooks. Maxwell well too is far from an angel but he had right to tell them to hurry up
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Last time I checked, it was umpires' duty to control the players and tell them to get on with the game. Maxwell tried to get into a confrontation with the players directly and bypassed the umpires. Both parties here are guilty in my opinion. Lankans had the last laugh though.
 
Shayan said:
Don't see anything wrong with what SL did (admittedly I don't actually know how long they took as wasn't watching live). All teams start slowing things down to take some momentum away from the batting side, or even to let the bowler re-focus and relax. After being hit for 2 consecutive fours, it seemed the sensible thing to do.

And it worked.
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They took about 4 minutes.
 
Sherlock said:
:facepalm:

Now if a Asian brother said the above we'd get a bollocking from whinging users.
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Racism is probably not fully accurate but there certainly is a prejudice against Australia in these sort of incidents.

It's not helped by Warner and Wade but certainly Sri Lanka were no innocent party and Maxwell certainly had the right to be angry about it.

Umpires were mostly at fault for been weak.
 
Teams always take that long to bowl the last ball in a t20 match, adds to the drama. Maxwell showed his nerves by getting wound up and then cried like a child when he missed out.

Australia used to produce tough, no nonsense sportsmen.
 
Yeah Maxwell shouldn't have let them get to his head.

A professional test cricketer should have had a clearer head.
 
Yeah
I've calmed down now and I'm going to withdraw that racism comment.
It was uncalled for.

Umpires were pathetic in that situation though.
 
In the final ball of the 2nd T20 India England Dinda pulled out in his delivery stride and took about 3 or 4 mins to rebowl. Morgan stayed calm and smashed him for 6.
 
AdidasBeard said:
Teams always take that long to bowl the last ball in a t20 match, adds to the drama. Maxwell showed his nerves by getting wound up and then cried like a child when he missed out.

Australia used to produce tough, no nonsense sportsmen.
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Exactly. Lankans didn't do anything out of the ordinary. Umpires were there, don't know why he shouted at the Sri Lankans, should've complained to umpires about it. HAd he stayed calm, he most probably would've hit that half volley for a boundary. Instead, he lost his cool and the match for Australia.

The worse thing happened when MJ came to shake his hands after the game ended and he instead of taking the defeat graciously, again started crying and pointed fingers at the Sri Lankans. Came across as a sore loser!
 
REALLY bad quality, but here's the incident

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(from 7:05 onwards)

In the following clip we see Jaywardane, Warner and Wade in action

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Look the issue that we see from the replays is that maxwell says " come on and ball already" and MJ replies F off. Agreed Warner and wade are both sooks but a player of MJs experience shouldn't pop like that. Maxwell has also tweeted that the Sri Lankans have apologized to him "for going over the top".
Also while I know this is a cheap shot its funny to hear a person who supports a side containing Stuart broad telling others to calm down and get on with the game
 
pakistanigoneaussie said:
Look the issue that we see from the replays is that maxwell says " come on and ball already" and MJ replies F off. Agreed Warner and wade are both sooks but a player of MJs experience shouldn't pop like that. Maxwell has also tweeted that the Sri Lankans have apologized to him "for going over the top".
Also while I know this is a cheap shot its funny to hear a person who supports a side containing Stuart broad telling others to calm down and get on with the game
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Feel free to criticise Stuart Broad, I'm not denying he has massive strops. I was just stating that Maxwell should have stayed calm and Sri Lanka did nothing wrong. Also Australia really cant complain about being told to **** off, they've given so often they should be able to take it.
 
AdidasBeard said:
Feel free to criticise Stuart Broad, I'm not denying he has massive strops. I was just stating that Maxwell should have stayed calm and Sri Lanka did nothing wrong. Also Australia really cant complain about being told to **** off, they've given so often they should be able to take it.
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True I agree with all you say but MJ should not have popped like that and the fact a few people are reporting he has apologized first means he was originally in the wrong. No defending wade or Warner both of them are well known tools
 
pakistanigoneaussie said:
Jawardene has a track record of doing stuff like this, when it happens against Pakistan are we all up in arms. Take some time but not that much. The fact that after 5 min no changes in the field were made proves he did it too stall the batsman
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LOL 5 mins? Stop making stuff up aye. It was just a couple of mins. That's fairly common in those sorts of tense situations.
 
AdidasBeard said:
Feel free to criticise Stuart Broad, I'm not denying he has massive strops. I was just stating that Maxwell should have stayed calm and Sri Lanka did nothing wrong. Also Australia really cant complain about being told to **** off, they've given so often they should be able to take it.
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I agree in regards to Maxwell.
Disgagree that Sri Lanka did not wrong. At the very best they were pushing the boundaries by taking so long to bowl a ball.

Have no issues with them telling Maxwell to * off though.
 
pakistanigoneaussie said:
Look the issue that we see from the replays is that maxwell says " come on and ball already" and MJ replies F off. Agreed Warner and wade are both sooks but a player of MJs experience shouldn't pop like that. Maxwell has also tweeted that the Sri Lankans have apologized to him "for going over the top".
Also while I know this is a cheap shot its funny to hear a person who supports a side containing Stuart broad telling others to calm down and get on with the game
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The manner in which he said come on and ball already was quite aggressive.

Good on Lankans for apologising for the abuse but Maxwell's behaviour after the game was quite distasteful as well.
 
SL_Fan said:
LOL 5 mins? Stop making stuff up aye. It was just a couple of mins. That's fairly common in those sorts of tense situations.
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Lol I admit time goes slower while you are watching the game , looking back at the replay I feel like a fool, but I still reckon my point of MJ stands. Im a fan of Sri Lankan cricket, the only player I dislike of yours is dilshan but MJ was really dissapointing in this scenario
 
Just watch the first vid akher posted (cheers for that akhers btw :) ). About a minute after that 2nd 4 Maxwell started mouthing off thinking he's the umpire or something and just a bit over a minute later that last ball was bowled. So yeah 2-2.5 minutes all up. How is that an issue?
 
@Gmaxi_32

Just to clarify... I apologized to Mahela and SL players as well. I have a good friendship with Mahela, and it's gonna stay that way!
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Absolutely shattered... I went into the Sri Lankan rooms after and they apologised for going over the top. All good. Time for Perth ODIs
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So all good in the end. It did get a bit ugly things got a bit too heated from both sides. Great game though.
 
Any way what's up with D/L. SL made 161 off 20 (8 runs per over) and after the rain Aus was given a target of just 122 off 15 (also 8 runs per over) with full 6 overs of powerplays and all their wickets in tact. That's just completely fluffed up. No way that is even remotely fair. It should have been at least another 15 runs on top of that.
 
SL_Fan said:
Any way what's up with D/L. SL made 161 off 20 (8 runs per over) and after the rain Aus was given a target of just 122 off 15 (also 8 runs per over) with full 6 overs of powerplays and all their wickets in tact. That's just completely fluffed up. No way that is even remotely fair. It should have been at least another 15 runs on top of that.
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Duckworth Lewis is just not suited to the T20 over game.
 
pakistanigoneaussie said:
Lol I admit time goes slower while you are watching the game , looking back at the replay I feel like a fool, but I still reckon my point of MJ stands. Im a fan of Sri Lankan cricket, the only player I dislike of yours is dilshan but MJ was really dissapointing in this scenario
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Yeah MJ can be a bit of a drama queen some times. Like today when he was going on and on about the rain. :facepalm:
 
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