The Official Cricket Thread 2006/2007 (3 Viewers)

[BumJockey Bill]

Egad not LEE

 

[Constip8edSkunk]

ponting: worst captain in decades

 

[BumJockey Bill]

All over....

 

[BumJockey Bill]

MAybe not

 

[Minai]

OMFG what a match..2 off 3 with 1 wicket in hand

 

[Minai]

He's too used to having McGrath there to sure things up..

 

[BumJockey Bill]

Lost by 1 ball 1 wicket OMFG

 

[Constip8edSkunk]

lewis MotM

 

[BumJockey Bill]

13/872
99.9 overs
What the fuck were they playing on?

 

[Minai]

Worst captaining decision ever....SA were in trouble, and what does he do? Bring back Lewis, and let him bowl is 10 overs...wtf

 

[BumJockey Bill]

New record:
ML Lewis 10 0 113 0 11.30

Unable to defend 434 fuck im going to bury myself.
Although well played SA.

 

[Constip8edSkunk]

i still dunno which is mire retarded, lewis's ideas of keeping it tight or ponting agreeing to those ideas


and what a wonderful prelude to going to sleep

 

[bJ_Bhoy 87]

Mick Lewis is a fucking disgrace. He should be hung by his testicles in Federation Square. The man should not be allowed to reproduce, in hope that future generations develop better bowlers. All the guy does is fucking bowl pies, which is suprising considering it looks as if he fucking ate them all. He should never player for Australia again. Gillespie copped more shit for bowling less half volleys than Lewis has done in the last five games, so why the fuck has nothing been done? I would have rathered see Gilchrist take off the fucking gloves and get down the other fucking end to bowl. Which leads me to Ponting, who did acxtually choke. Choking is when you clutch defeat from the hands of victory, and Ponting almost certainly did that. Letting Lewis bowl ten overs, not having Gilchrist keep up to the fucking stumps to Lewis, Letting Graeme smith gloat like a fucking lion after the game. I refuse to watch that fuckhead talk. I might put my foot through the tv. Ive already taken a couple of keys off the pad.

 

[DRAGONZ]

Spot on, bj_bhoy,

Australia should be disgraced with their bowling effort.

Bracken shone. Lee did OK. Symonds and Clarke .. well they are part-timers, took wickets. Stu Clark was pretty expensive, but not terrible.

Mick Lewis .. I have nothing to say except that I hope your impending suicide is long, slow, and very, very painful. You just murdered Australia, you excuse for a bowler.

Lewis is without doubt the worst player to ever represent this great country of ours.

We should all be ashamed that such a person played in the Australian colours.

 

[bJ_Bhoy 87]

And i dont think ive finished yet. South Africa are a bunch a faggoted cunts who will think they are the best team in the world now. Fuck you. Ive heard one of their fucking arsehole commentators call Gibbs innings as the best they have seen. Stop pulling your dick Daryll Cullinan. I could name twenty better ones off the op of my head. Todays match was the worst bowliing display from an Australian team I have ever seen. Bangladesh would have been able to defend 434. And perhaps the ICC should fucking wake up to themselves too. Make the grounds proper size again thanks. A top edge that come off the end of the bat should not go for six. And lastly, Mick Lewis is fucking shit. South Africa did deserve to win the matchy, only coz we lost it, and its thanks to you. Keep practising those half volleys, Mick, I cant wait to see you bowl them at Thornely and Haddin.

At least now Arsenal vs Liverpool is on...

 

[AsyLum]

Yes, I dont quite get this concept of dropping Nathan Bracken, he's been pretty solid despite not being lucky with wickets at times, but he has been reliable when Lee had started to lose his penetration. And first Brett Dorey now Mick Lewis. I mean wtf, are we picking guys from random pools expecting them to suddenly up the ante and perform on a bigger stage when they barely perform at State level?

 

[Smokey_22]

We reealllly need to find a cure for breast cancer!

 

[HotShot]

AUSTRALIA IS SHIT CANT DEFEND 434 RUNS, dont blame it on mick lewis, ponting could have used Hogg!(i think )

But really Australia too dependent on Mcgrath, Ponting. They will struggle in the world cup with teams like India, and Pakistan really developin.

Toss: Australia
Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) and BG Jerling
TV Umpire: KH Hurter
Match Referee: BC Broad (Eng)
Man of the Match: HH Gibbs and RT Ponting
Player of the Series: SM Pollock (SA)

Australia innings (50 overs maximum) R M B 4 6
+AC Gilchrist c Hall b Telemachus 55 68 44 9 0
SM Katich c Telemachus b Ntini 79 138 90 9 1
*RT Ponting c Dippenaar b Telemachus 164 154 105 13 9
MEK Hussey c Ntini b Hall 81 75 51 9 3
A Symonds not out 27 23 13 3 1
B Lee not out 9 13 7 0 0
Extras (lb 4, w 5, nb 10) 19
Total (4 wickets, 50 overs, 234 mins) 434

DNB: DR Martyn, MJ Clarke, NW Bracken, SR Clark, ML Lewis.

FoW: 1-97 (Gilchrist, 15.2 ov), 2-216 (Katich, 30.3 ov),
3-374 (Hussey, 46.1 ov), 4-407 (Ponting, 47.4 ov).

Bowling O M R W
Ntini 9 0 80 1 (1w)
Hall 10 0 80 1 (2nb)
van der Wath 10 0 76 0 (1nb, 1w)
Telemachus 10 1 87 2 (7nb, 3w)
Smith 4 0 29 0
Kallis 6 0 70 0
Kemp 1 0 8 0

South Africa innings (target: 435 runs from 50 overs) R M B 4 6
*GC Smith c Hussey b Clarke 90 100 55 13 2
HH Dippenaar b Bracken 1 6 7 0 0
HH Gibbs c Lee b Symonds 175 142 111 21 7
AB de Villiers c Clarke b Bracken 14 43 20 1 0
JH Kallis c & b Symonds 20 22 21 1 0
+MV Boucher not out 50 79 43 4 0
JM Kemp c Martyn b Bracken 13 20 17 0 0
JJ van der Wath c Ponting b Bracken 35 20 18 1 3
R Telemachus c Hussey b Bracken 12 10 6 2 0
AJ Hall c Clarke b Lee 7 9 4 1 0
M Ntini not out 1 3 1 0 0
Extras (b 4, lb 8, w 4, nb 4) 20
Total (9 wickets, 49.5 overs, 228 mins) 438

FoW: 1-3 (Dippenaar, 1.2 ov), 2-190 (Smith, 22.1 ov),
3-284 (de Villiers, 30.5 ov), 4-299 (Gibbs, 31.5 ov),
5-327 (Kallis, 37.4 ov), 6-355 (Kemp, 42.1 ov),
7-399 (van der Wath, 46.3 ov), 8-423 (Telemachus, 48.2 ov),
9-433 (Hall, 49.3 ov).

Bowling O M R W
Lee 7.5 0 68 1 (3nb, 1w)
Bracken 10 0 67 5
Clark 6 0 54 0
Lewis 10 0 113 0 (1nb, 1w)
Symonds 9 0 75 2
Clarke 7 0 49 1

Australia full substitute: GB Hogg (unused).

South Africa full substitute: RJ Peterson (unused).

 

[HotShot]

they coudlnt use hogg because there was a gentleman's agreement between the two captains b4 the series that neither of the supersubs would be used throughout the entire one day series



altho i dont rate lewis AT ALL - i think hes a hack - i feel for the guy, it was ponting who should have known better and not sent him in for 10 overs. it was an unbelievable match and great for the game, but with 434 runs there is absolutely no way we should have ever lost it

and there was absolutely no way that ricky ponting (who had such an awesome batting innings i feel sorry 4 the guy its going to haunt and be used against him forever - first the ashes now this) should have EVER let someone the callibre of brett lee be not given their 10 overs, when he had better figures than lewis anyway - it makes NO sense at all


awesome game of cricket - we dont even have fox anymore, i stayed up till 3 am refreshing the scorecard on cric info


i just wanna hear punter's reason 4 bowling out lewis, only thing i can think of is he had a gut feeling that went horribly wrong

oh k i didnt know that, as for lewis i think ponting wanted to quickly finish his overs, knowing the last overs would be very important (though i didnt watch the mathc or cricinfo-so just guessing) . But they really, it was ponting's fault - the game of cricket unlike any other sport, the captains cops all responsibility win or lose or draw- the beauty of the game.

LOL, Shane Warne such an idiot!

 

[Italian Hotshot]

What The Fuck!?!?!?

I was reading on the train that we got that mamoth score, and came to uni to start hassling those talkative South African players ..... and this happens! Bring back Bevan anyone? :rofl: