3rd Test Australia Vs West Indies at the WACA

[locky801]

Aust now 3/305

Hussey 64*

North 10*

One presumes this pair just hanging in till stumps, without another wicket falling so Ponting can come in 2 morrow at the fall of the next wicket

[locky801]

Now 3/312

Cant believe the 2nd new ball hasnt been taken

[locky801]

Geez I can call it, now been taken,. cant believe it though that Roach will be bowling into the Doctor

[locky801]

3/329

Hussey 79* (getting into danger area)

North 18*

[locky801]

3/336

Hussey 79*

North 23*

[locky801]

Stumps Ladies and Germs

Aust 3/339

Hussey 81*

North 23*

Definately Australias day, will Mike Hussey who has been slammed by many be the first to bring up a ton for Australia, Aussies looking good for 550 to 600 here, catch ya all 2morrow

[wycbloods]

Good day at the office for the aussies. Pretty poor display from the windies though. Any news on what is wrong with Roach? he didn't look right bowling with the second new ball.

[Dutchy]

Katich gone for 99

went for the slog, terrible cricket shot, undisciplined

Just when you thought he couldnt fail to get a ton he doesn it again....fail...

Last 25 test innings - 15 scores above 40, only 2 have been converted into tons (small tons too BTW)

Hence my criticism, doesn enough to retain his spot, thats all he wants and he does it beautifully

[wycbloods]

Katich gone for 99

went for the slog, terrible cricket shot, undisciplined

Just when you thought he couldnt fail to get a ton he doesn it again....fail...

Last 25 test innings - 15 scores above 40, only 2 have been converted into tons (small tons too BTW)

Hence my criticism, doesn enough to retain his spot, thats all he wants and he does it beautifully

The rest of your post is fair enough but that is a stupid comment IMHO. Do you honestly think he doesn't want to make big 100's?

[Stumps]

Katich gone for 99

went for the slog, terrible cricket shot, undisciplined

Just when you thought he couldnt fail to get a ton he doesn it again....fail...

Last 25 test innings - 15 scores above 40, only 2 have been converted into tons (small tons too BTW)
Hence my criticism, doesn enough to retain his spot, thats all he wants and he does it beautifully

terrible post. katichs last 2 years of test cricket has been outstanding.

[Dutchy]

2 tons in 25 digs...outstanding?

[spell_check]

Avg 50.05 over last 20 innings. Not outstanding, but nothing to sneeze at either.

Since his return to the side in May last year, he has averaged 53.21 with 6 100s and 11 50s.

[mal]

After reading this thread Ive come to this conclusion
Every Australian batsman has choked this series
No ones made a ton yet

[Gozu]

Clarke being absolutely slammed on the ABC for the shot he got out to, havent heard anyone get slammed like he just did in many a day

He deserves it too, woeful shot but to be expected from Clarke.

[Adelaide Hawk]

After reading this thread Ive come to this conclusion
Every Australian batsman has choked this series
No ones made a ton yet

Yep. I wouldn't mind "choking" to score 89 in the Test arena.

[stan]

After reading this thread Ive come to this conclusion
Every Australian batsman has choked this series
No ones made a ton yet

Yep. I wouldn't mind "choking" to score 89 in the Test arena.

I would hardly be calling Watson's a choke, got the best delivery of the day to him by Roach to get him out. Was simply beaten by a better ball.

Katich on the other hand.........

[stan]

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,26482799-12428,00.html

Young Kemar might just want to settle down a little bit with the WACA pitch. Many bowlers have come to Perth and failed. The WACA will be fast and bouncy, but value for shots is second to none as well!

Besides a good spell to Ponting, which still counts for nothing if he comes back in an belts ya around, he didnt have a great day. His last session bowling, all bit the one over was more than loose a goose.

[stan]

Clarke now plays a woeful shot and has been caught for 11

Aust 3/277

Windies fighting back from some woeful shot making by the Aussies

Yep, Katich joined the list of chokers, after going almost his entire innnings taking miniMAL risks, on 99, plays a terrible 1/2 slog sweep off middle and off and pays the price. One would think that after scoring so many tons in their career that they would just continue to bat norMALly when in the high nineties.
Clarkes shot was also terrible so early in his innings but thankfully those 2 have thrown their wickets away to put a bit of interest back into the match.

Yeah agree there with what you said about Clarkes shot, fricken terrible. But the West Indies spinners bowled alright yesterday.

[Stumps]

2 tons in 25 digs...outstanding?

rephrase to very good.runs dont lie and hes made plenty of them of late. i think you made a big comment early about him and your trying to justify it dutchy

[Pup]

Clarke being absolutely slammed on the ABC for the shot he got out to, havent heard anyone get slammed like he just did in many a day

He deserves it too, woeful shot but to be expected from Clarke.