Aman
Test Captain
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- Jan 16, 2013
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So irritating watching Smith bat, he has the technique of a number 11 but still manages to score runs in the truckloads.
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So irritating watching Smith bat, he has the technique of a number 11 but still manages to score runs in the truckloads.
Well done Smith a great 50 on a green pitch.
Trust me, it ain't green and I haven't seen a ball move off the pitch all day!
We'll lose our no.1 rank if NZ continues to play like this. This is what I don't like about NZ, they were never a consistent side.
Seems like Boult has regressed a lot since injury
He's bowled well today.
Trust me, it ain't green and I haven't seen a ball move off the pitch all day!
Still looking pretty green. Greener than the hill.
I'm available for pitch or weather reports if Warnie's mate John needs any?
So far it's 1-2.Another controversy in an Aus-Nz game?? Surprise Suprise!!
That's ridiculous why can't that appealing no ball call be reversed if they check the front foot on no balls
I don't know how you see a no ball when there isn't one.I actually can't believe that.
Is
Illingworth on the take?
How many no balls have there been called today?
It went against us.i believe this happened when sl was there too. something will be done now since one of the big 3 are suffering
So far it's 1-2.
The one time it went our way, it was actually the right decision both times Aus have benefitted from the umpires errors.
So in reality, they've made 3 mistakes against us and it's only been picked up once.
Should be fairly obvious why they can't do that as the batsman could just turn around and say he heard the no ball call and changed his shot accordingly, it's why i don't understand why people get upset about the umps just waiting and checking after the wicket it might be slow but it ensures things like this don't happen.
All that aside nz deserve to be in this deep hole, we bowled well and they were shocking today, looked like they started to believe all this media hype that our lot are all number 11's on green pitches while they are all joe root on these decks.
I still think cricket was a leveler (we got some back with Andersons decision against Pakistan), but this idk lol.Wait till the series is over. Who knows it might even up
It went against us.
One blunder has already cost us a Test, hopefully Voges doesn't score tomorrow.
But we're not part of the big 3.one went against us in the odis iirc
i believe this happened when sl was there too. something will be done now since one of the big 3 are suffering.
With 4 down with little to come, I still think we'd be in the Test, it only gets easier to bat and you have Marsh and Neville to bat (neither proven).No your top 7's awful batting on a green pitch cost you that test, and with or without voges going tonight nz are still in a hole thanks yet again to your lot crumbling to the slightest pressure on a deck with some help.
This myth about nz needs to stop, you guys aren't england you don't bat well on these sorts of decks, us often being poor on them doesn't then make you guys quality on them.
I don't know who to believe, you or Junaids.
That's a pretty weak and convoluted point against it tbh. They are supposed to be removing howlers and that's one of the worst I've seen in any form of cricket. Flawed system.
And the selection of Craig over Sodhi at a ground famous for bounce without spin is just appalling.
Did you actually watch the game?
I thought craig bowled great today and we need to show him more respect tomorrow.
I would always prefer a leggie to an offie in Tests other than on a square turner. And they can both bat.
As you wrote, Australia kept Craig in the match by attacking him too much. It was fascinating to watch Khawaja: he looked dreadful against spin, and has a lot of technical work to do before he faces Yasir Shah or Ashwin on pitches which suit them.
But we're not part of the big 3.
side strain, pretty sure he will be right for the next test.
Bad decisions tend to happen to all teams (admittedly less so to Australia than others) but there's no point in crying over them, should just focus on not losing further ground to the opposition.
If Australia manage to chase the deficit without losing a wicket, I see them getting a 100-150 run lead and that could prove decisive even if NZ make 300-350 in their second dig.
nah, teams just cry about it for next decade when they got a dodgy one against us.
Reverse the situations today and all the talk here would be about how great nz bowled and how **** our flat track bullies are with the bat, one dodgy no ball at the very end of the day wouldn't rate much of a mention.
I'm not talking about decisions against teams when playing Australia, but rather in general, it seems like Australia get less bad decisions than other teams.
This isn't your normal bad decision, it's a umpiring seeing something that isn't there (bowlers foot over the line, when it's well and truly behind it).Bad decisions tend to happen to all teams (admittedly less so to Australia than others) but there's no point in crying over them, should just focus on not losing further ground to the opposition.
If Australia manage to chase the deficit without losing a wicket, I see them getting a 100-150 run lead and that could prove decisive even if NZ make 300-350 in their second dig.
Yet the Aussies (captain included) wouldn't shut up about the Marsh dismissal when he was well and truly out.No they don't, certain teams and their fans were just born to be victims and they don't let facts get in the way of playing that role to perfection.
If people ignore the ones that go their way and scream blue murder when they get a dodgy one soon enough they are convinced the powers that be are out to get them and only them.
Yet the Aussies (captain included) wouldn't shut up about the Marsh dismissal when he was well and truly out.
Some even suggested it made things even for the underarm incident...
No they don't, certain teams and their fans were just born to be victims and they don't let facts get in the way of playing that role to perfection.
If people ignore the ones that go their way and scream blue murder when they get a dodgy one soon enough they are convinced the powers that be are out to get them and only them.
This isn't your normal bad decision, it's a umpiring seeing something that isn't there (bowlers foot over the line, when it's well and truly behind it).
Australia just tend to get more a rub of the green than other sides.
Or Australia just traditionally being the bad guys for many people means they get more riled up when one goes our way.
Lets be honest does anybody really think all the talk would be about that last over and not the first 89 if the situations were reversed today?
p.s. Surely with drs it would actually be easy to prove we generally get more howlers go our way?
We would have more wickets taken off us than any other bowling team and we would have more batsman given out who were originally given not out than anybody else.
You already seem to be in a victim mentality with the world vs Australia perspective.
What has got to do with switching roles with whether or not Australia get more howlers their way than other teams ?
Today in spite of DRS you have a howler go in favour of Australia; DRS only gives 2 chances for every 80 overs in Tests and if you've exhausted them and you have a bad decision against you, you can't to do anything about it and also it still hasn't been a decade since DRS was introduced, so even if it was a foolproof (which it isn't) method of calculating howlers then it is only relevant to the last few years.
I'm not talking about decisions against teams when playing Australia, but rather in general, it seems like Australia get less bad decisions than other teams.
Yet the Aussies (captain included) wouldn't shut up about the Marsh dismissal when he was well and truly out.
Some even suggested it made things even for the underarm incident...
So it seems NZ fell in their own trap![]()
On 2nd thoughts, we did pretty well for an FTB team on the Lords greentop against the Duke ball [MENTION=139843]IcedCoffee[/MENTION]![]()
Rahane baby. All day. Also, benefits of pitching it up for Aus.
But on a more serious note, I think this was just an anomaly. The conditions weren't that bad--infact there was more swing in the adelaide test vs a better attack, and the kiwis fared better.
Didn't Australia lose Starc at the start of that match.
if you're so sure do what i said look at the drs stats and they surely will show how many more bad ones go our way on field right?
But no 10 years of actual data isn't worth as much as your fact free it must be true cause i said it is opinion.
We lost the 2005 Ashes based on an incorrect decision in Edgbaston. Kasprowicz doesn't get incorrectly given out and we're 2-0 up.
Given that's our most significant series in the last 15 years we'd still be crying about it if we were any other team
I've just stated two points which dispute that the DRS is a foolproof method of calculating howlers so isn't an accurate indicator of which team benefits most.
ugh, yeah stuff drs your gut feel is more than enough.
Whether or not a decision is significant or not is not what we're arguing is that Australia get more favourable decisions than other teams.
Provide evidence for this
There isn't but there isn't any for the opposite outcome either.
Rahane baby. All day. Also, benefits of pitching it up for Aus.
But on a more serious note, I think this was just an anomaly. The conditions weren't that bad--infact there was more swing in the adelaide test vs a better attack, and the kiwis fared better.
Rahane scored a hundred runs, who scored the remaining 200?
Even Bhuvi scored 36 runs!
Also I think English attack is surely the best attack in the world for bowling on a green pitch in English conditions.
Anyway it's true that Rahane played an incredible knock under immense pressure. But a lot of people tend to forget that Vijay hung in there for 10 overs and Pujara for 20 overs and did a great job of wearing out the new duke ball. These tiny things go under the radar if we just see the scorecard.
Yeah but you're the one making a claim that one team gets special treatment