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CT: Australia vs West Indies , 4th Match , Brabourne Stadium ( Score/discussion)

If Aus wins now, it'd be so cooooooool
13 off 2 needed, and that's still possible with an extra...
 
Great win for the Windies. Taylor got a hatrick! :D Congrats!
 
well done W.I and well done taylor on getting a hat-trick!
 
Did you see the emotion on Gayle's face when they won? Means alot to them.
 
Easa said:
Did you see the emotion on Gayle's face when they won? Means alot to them.
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well its good to see W.I bounce back from sri lankan thrashing!

if aussies lose on saturday it could be tourney over!
 
England to beat Australia by 4 wickets. You heard it here first.
 
Intresting to see R morton finally fire as a batsmen, he looked like another ganga a batsmen with no real shots and i wondered why he was in the team. He seems like he likes to stand and deliver and play on tracks with no movement, having lara at other end helped him but maybe this is a knock which will establish him in W.I side.
 
Amjid Javed said:
Intresting to see R morton finally fire as a batsmen, he looked like another ganga a batsmen with no real shots and i wondered why he was in the team. He seems like he likes to stand and deliver and play on tracks with no movement, having lara at other end helped him but maybe this is a knock which will establish him in W.I side.
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Why wassmt chanderpul not playin`g`?
 
Rob H said:
Superb innings by Gilchrist, he's single handedly kept Australia in this match (haha i told you Zahir). I think Hussey and Pup will guide them home.
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no,you said to me he'll score a hundred ;-)
anyway great win for the Windies :D
 
Whippy said:
England to beat Australia by 4 wickets. You heard it here first.
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I hope so!, a bit of humble pie before the ashes.

Then it leaves Australia in a must win vs India situation (well evrey game is), but hopefully India knocks out Australia.
 
Easa said:
Did you see the emotion on Gayle's face when they won? Means alot to them.
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He was really pumped up, the win means a lot to them, well played WI, I'm really happy for them.
 
Amjid Javed said:
well its good to see W.I bounce back from sri lankan thrashing!

if aussies lose on saturday it could be tourney over![/QUOTE]

Well, they need other results going their way, but yes if they lose agaisnt England it could be all over for them.
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There you go. Missed the match as I had to go to work, but that's the beauty of this competition, you really need to win pretty much all your games. The experiment with Watson hasn't worked well so far. I still think they need to get someone like Jaques or Hayden in there and play Watson down the order.

Well played to the Windies! After a hammering from SL they came good today.
 
Whoa ! I just saw the score right now... damn it I missed the match. Had to go to a careers presentation :12: . Looked like a cracker of a game though!

Congrats to Windies!
 
So OZ basically have to win both games against India and the Poms to make it to the next round? Who do we play next?
 
Here's what Ponting had to say:

"We can't blame the wicket or the conditions, we have to blame ourselves for some ill-disciplined batting and some ill-disciplined bowling at times as well," Australia captain Ricky Ponting said.
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I have a feeling Ponting's season of plenty may have ended. He's been ordinary since the DLF Cup.
 
Blimey.

If this carries on they might actually have to pick Phil Jaques.
 
OZGOD said:
There you go. Missed the match as I had to go to work, but that's the beauty of this competition, you really need to win pretty much all your games. The experiment with Watson hasn't worked well so far. I still think they need to get someone like Jaques or Hayden in there and play Watson down the order.

Well played to the Windies! After a hammering from SL they came good today.
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I don't rate Warson. However I would still play him in this side in the role you suggested, because I can't really think of a better replacement in the 14 you've picked! I admire Australia's commitment to blooding a genuine all-rounder but it does feel a bit forced - it has conveniently been happening a lot since the Ashes were taken from Australia by an all-rounder - and maybe the candidates aren't quite good enough anyway.
 
garbage_can2003 said:
Can I ask what is the rationale for bringing Hussey so low down the order?
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I have thought this for a while. I would like to see him come in at no.4 where there will still be lots of overs to play, and settle in before taking on the bowlers.
 
1 gilly
2 hayden
3ponting
4clarke
5hussey
6symonds
7watson
8hogg
9lee
10bracken
11mcgrath

that should b aussies team ideally. hussey in top 5 and hayden back at the top of order to add stability. watson should play in the middle order like most all rounders.
 
garbage_can2003 said:
Can I ask what is the rationale for bringing Hussey so low down the order?
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I meant to ask has anyone from Austrialian cricket given an explanation as to why the best ODI batsman in the world is batting at #7.
 
If he was the best one day batsman he would have delivered and won the game for Aus.
He is good but not the best.
 
garbage_can2003 said:
Can I ask what is the rationale for bringing Hussey so low down the order?
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I'd suggest that the muppets in charge think that he can play the Bevan on nitrous role in the lower order in case our fragile top order collapses, which it has been doing for a while. I posted a thread here a few weeks ago suggesting that I think he'd be useful at the top of the order - sure he may fail now and then, but you'd want the bloke to be facing as many balls as possible.

And since the muppets in charge only brought Katich as the "specialist" (joke) opener to partner an inconsistent Gilly, the only alternative to Katich is Watson, who is very clearly a cowlasher and not an opener. Watson has some marginal value in the lower order where his cowlashing might buy a few runs and as poor a bowler he is, he's still better than Symmo in terms of using up overs. I'd like to see Watson batting at 6 or 7 instead of opening the innings where he will always be hit and miss.
 
OZGOD said:
I'd suggest that the muppets in charge think that he can play the Bevan on nitrous role in the lower order in case our fragile top order collapses, which it has been doing for a while. I posted a thread here a few weeks ago suggesting that I think he'd be useful at the top of the order - sure he may fail now and then, but you'd want the bloke to be facing as many balls as possible.

And since the muppets in charge only brought Katich as the "specialist" (joke) opener to partner an inconsistent Gilly, the only alternative to Katich is Watson, who is very clearly a cowlasher and not an opener. Watson has some marginal value in the lower order where his cowlashing might buy a few runs and as poor a bowler he is, he's still better than Symmo in terms of using up overs. I'd like to see Watson batting at 6 or 7 instead of opening the innings where he will always be hit and miss.
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I think you are being unfair on Gilly and saying he is inconsistent. If anything he has been the only player at the top of the order performing.

http://www1.cricinfo.com/columns/content/story/263755.html

Watson has been hyped up too much. He is a useful ODI player, but no way he is good enough for the test team as a genuine all rounder. As openers, I think Gilly and Hussey would be a formidable opening partnership. They both score so quickly, and it would allow guys like Symonds, Watson, Hogg and Lee to provide the fireworks at the end.

As for their bowling, it is basically the McGrath and Lee show. When these two don't perform, Australia don't perform. And the backup options are all pretty average if you ask me.
 
Whippy said:
I don't rate Warson. However I would still play him in this side in the role you suggested, because I can't really think of a better replacement in the 14 you've picked! I admire Australia's commitment to blooding a genuine all-rounder but it does feel a bit forced - it has conveniently been happening a lot since the Ashes were taken from Australia by an all-rounder - and maybe the candidates aren't quite good enough anyway.
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Watch out for Henriques, plays for New South Wales and is apparently the next best thing. In a few years time I can see him in the ODI side in place of Watson, who is neither here nor there!

With Hussey and Clarke in the side I just don't know why they feel the need to open with Watson!
 
OZGOD said:
I'd suggest that the muppets in charge think that he can play the Bevan on nitrous role in the lower order in case our fragile top order collapses, which it has been doing for a while. I posted a thread here a few weeks ago suggesting that I think he'd be useful at the top of the order - sure he may fail now and then, but you'd want the bloke to be facing as many balls as possible.

And since the muppets in charge only brought Katich as the "specialist" (joke) opener to partner an inconsistent Gilly, the only alternative to Katich is Watson, who is very clearly a cowlasher and not an opener. Watson has some marginal value in the lower order where his cowlashing might buy a few runs and as poor a bowler he is, he's still better than Symmo in terms of using up overs. I'd like to see Watson batting at 6 or 7 instead of opening the innings where he will always be hit and miss.
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I kind of feel sorry for the guy. He got in the squad so late in his career and now he has to put up with this.
 
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