SA Footy

As I said on big footy - Give Lewis the heave ho!

The three above players are being wasted!

Well, to quote Jeff Thomson from the other night........


"In my day bowlers got picked for taking wickets, not because some selector thinks they MIGHT be able to play"

ORDoubleBlues wrote:Well, to quote Jeff Thomson from the other night........


"In my day bowlers got picked for taking wickets, not because some selector thinks they MIGHT be able to play"

that is pretty much on the mark....even when that was the case, warne, healy (keeper i know, but similar circumstances) etc, they delivered and had they special something...

lewis does not

The most puzzling thing about Lewis' selection is that he's 31.

I thought the selectors were looking for YOUNG bowlers to bolster the ageing stocks?

Tony Greig was calling Lewis a "youngster" during the telecast last night

I have no idea how Ponting let Lewis bowl 10 overs (and especially his last over when he went for 17) when Brett Lee still had overs left

Ponting seemed to just spend all his time talking to his bowlers after every ball (about short term tactics such as where to bowl just that ball) and not thinking of the bigger picture of what needed to be done to win the game.

Australia choked and Smith must be pissing himself as he celebrates. Ponting's captaincy was a joke when he left Lewis on to bowl out his 10 when Lee still 2.1 to bowl. Clarke and Symonds would have been better options as they started to slightly slow down the run rate at one stage - then it was as if Ponting wanted SA to win - he brought back Lewis????? Australia cannot seem to arrest a slide when the pressure is on.

Ponting is one of the best batsman the world has seen, but after this result he is one of the most ordinary captains.
He bumbled in the Ashes and now he manages to undo his own great batting effort with poor decision making in what should have been an unloseable match.

Ponting can only play the cards he has been dealt.

Unfortunately something like this has to happen for the selectors to sit up and take notice. If Shaun Tait was playing in this match, Australia would have won full stop. The reason? He is a strike bowler, and at present the only one in the current one-day side is Brett Lee. Sure, Tait might leak a few more runs than Lewis or Clark but he gets wickets. The selectors are dead set on playing bowlers who are "economical", and trying to replace McGrath in the team. No one will ever be able to replace McGrath, he is a once-in-a-generation bowler, and the sooner the selectors wake up to this the better. I can't believe they are picking guys like Lewis who have never really set the world on fire in domestic cricket, infront of guys taking bags of wickets like Gillespie, Tait and Andy Bichel.

Turf the current batch of selectors. I don't know who has the final say on all selections, but if it is Hohns, it's time to pack your bags fool.

and i thought stuart clarke was bloody bad, CHRIST!!!! WHATARE OUR SELECTORS THINKING? lewy go take a long walk off a short plank willya.

perhaps its all a ploy to make stuart clark look good?

a very hard task, but they managed to do it by playing Lewis dorey and mitchel johnson, the selectors have made him look passable.

A while back someone on here referred to Mick Lewis as a 31 year old trundler!
I think they gave him too much credit!!

drebin wrote:Australia choked and Smith must be pissing himself as he celebrates. Ponting's captaincy was a joke when he left Lewis on to bowl out his 10 when Lee still 2.1 to bowl. Clarke and Symonds would have been better options as they started to slightly slow down the run rate at one stage - then it was as if Ponting wanted SA to win - he brought back Lewis????? Australia cannot seem to arrest a slide when the pressure is on.

Maybe so, but there have been a lot of other countries unable to handle it when Australia applies the pressure. One day cricket doesn't count for anything.

Adelaide Hawk wrote:

drebin wrote:Australia choked and Smith must be pissing himself as he celebrates. Ponting's captaincy was a joke when he left Lewis on to bowl out his 10 when Lee still 2.1 to bowl. Clarke and Symonds would have been better options as they started to slightly slow down the run rate at one stage - then it was as if Ponting wanted SA to win - he brought back Lewis????? Australia cannot seem to arrest a slide when the pressure is on.

Maybe so, but there have been a lot of other countries unable to handle it when Australia applies the pressure. One day cricket doesn't count for anything.

No disrespect Hawk but who cares about other countries? We have a habit of posting huge totals of late and leaving the chasing teams in it - the kiwis in the last series chased down a record score and now this disaster - and no other word fits. If we serve up a bowling attack like that again on a flat track you know what the tactics of the other sides will be. Wait til Pieterson and Flintoff get out here. They will be praying to the cricket gods that S. Clark and M. Lewis are still around or maybe that idiot Hohns (who has way to much authority for a man who could hardly bowl himself in the only 7 tests he played!) might uncover another "look to the future medium pace youngster - 30 plus" to give a go to. Seriously - I am still angry and bemused that we could lose a game defending 434!
P.S. As for Tony Grieg - don't even get me started on that pidgeon toed tall streak of "confused" excuse for a commentator. He was born in SA, abandoned them to Captain England, bailed out to Aus for a gig under Packer - who has made him a wealthy man despite his bankrupt businesses that Packer bailed him out of the shit from and he was carrying even worse last night willing Aus to lose. Stay over there you afrikaner pommy %&*#!!! I hope Eddie Maguire does us all a favour and gets rid of him once and for all out of the Nine Commentary team.

If last nights game doesn't make people realise that Ponting is a shit captain, nothing will.

Sat up and watched it. Chucked my stubby holder @ the tv lewis got smashed in I think his 7th over then ponting left him on - I couldnt believe it really I couldnt. Surely pontning would like that decision back again - blind freddy could see that lewis's half volley pies were gettin smashed around the park and with overs to go as well.

drebin wrote:P.S. As for Tony Grieg - don't even get me started on that pidgeon toed tall streak of "confused" excuse for a commentator. He was born in SA, abandoned them to Captain England, bailed out to Aus for a gig under Packer - who has made him a wealthy man despite his bankrupt businesses that Packer bailed him out of the shit from and he was carrying even worse last night willing Aus to lose. Stay over there you afrikaner pommy %&*#!!! I hope Eddie Maguire does us all a favour and gets rid of him once and for all out of the Nine Commentary team.

Seems to get stuck into the Aussies even more than normal when he isn't commentating for Channel 9.