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Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:08 amby whufc
Lightning McQueen wrote:Senor Moto Gadili wrote:Surely the penny will drop when nobody turns up to watch. The girls put a full stop on the season Sunday night!
Remember the good ole days when the WSC always somehow ended up going to the 3rd final and then they'd wrap up all the awards for the summer after the final match and then we were left with that empty feeling of cricket being over for another 6 months, we might have got lucky and had an Ashes tour we could get winter fix on or a world cup somewhere that could be televised.
Those were the days, that was cricket for the spectator, it was interactive with the Kit Kat Strike Rate competition, the Sidchrome Supertest Team, classic catches, now it's all about TV rights and cramming as many games in as possible, our players travel around like the Ashtons Circus.
Like honestly, why the hell would we travel half way across the world for a couple of T20's or ODI's? surely that is taking the piss to the extreme, the money wasted on these pissant tours could be going to something better, give it back to the grassroot clubs, they rip the public off enough as it is.
Yeah i agree. Not being as big an AFL fan i always felt gutted that cricket season had ended when we inevitably lifted the WS Trophy.
Strangely enough the bit i miss the most from an Australian summer was between the Tri Series games change of innings they would have the hour break which included the news break.
When they went back to the live coverage they would be five overs into the innings and i always remember being nervous as waiting to see what the score was, hoping Mark Waugh and Gilchrist would still be opening or McDermott had picked up that vital first wicket.
Decent international cricket is so few and far between these days.
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:22 amby Lightning McQueen
whufc wrote:Yeah i agree. Not being as big an AFL fan i always felt gutted that cricket season had ended when we inevitably lifted the WS Trophy.
Strangely enough the bit i miss the most from an Australian summer was between the Tri Series games change of innings they would have the hour break.
When they went back to the live coverage they would be five overs into the innings and i always remember being nervous as waiting to see what the score was, hoping Mark Waugh and Gilchrist would still be opening or McDermott had picked up that vital first wicket.
Decent international cricket is so few and far between these days.
Yeah, or The Windies were going ballistic with Desi and Gordy teeing off and Viv still in the shed.
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:26 amby whufc
Lightning McQueen wrote:whufc wrote:Yeah i agree. Not being as big an AFL fan i always felt gutted that cricket season had ended when we inevitably lifted the WS Trophy.
Strangely enough the bit i miss the most from an Australian summer was between the Tri Series games change of innings they would have the hour break.
When they went back to the live coverage they would be five overs into the innings and i always remember being nervous as waiting to see what the score was, hoping Mark Waugh and Gilchrist would still be opening or McDermott had picked up that vital first wicket.
Decent international cricket is so few and far between these days.
Yeah, or The Windies were going ballistic with Desi and Gordy teeing off and Viv still in the shed.
Yep the old 0/27 (5) when the Winidies were batting was a standard, back then that was flying!
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:37 amby locky801
C/A just announced the Chappell/Hadlee one day series starting today will continue however with no spectators being admitted.
Doubt they would have got too many there in any case
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:44 amby Lightning McQueen
locky801 wrote:C/A just announced the Chappell/Hadlee one day series starting today will continue however with no spectators being admitted.
Doubt they would have got too many there in any case
They've probably said that after seeing ticket sales.
It will be weird watching it, the players will have to jump the fence to retrieve the 6's.
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:13 amby Senor Moto Gadili
Lightning McQueen wrote:locky801 wrote:C/A just announced the Chappell/Hadlee one day series starting today will continue however with no spectators being admitted.
Doubt they would have got too many there in any case
They've probably said that after seeing ticket sales.
It will be weird watching it, the players will have to jump the fence to retrieve the 6's.
Why bother playing them?
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:26 amby Lightning McQueen
Senor Moto Gadili wrote:Lightning McQueen wrote:
They've probably said that after seeing ticket sales.
It will be weird watching it, the players will have to jump the fence to retrieve the 6's.
Why bother playing them?
Exactly, there's no premiership table and you'd think they'd require ticket sales to help fund the player payments etc.
How much do you think the catering would be out of pocket?
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Fri Mar 13, 2020 2:04 pmby PatowalongaPirate
Anyone going to be shining the ball today?
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Fri Mar 13, 2020 3:32 pmby PatowalongaPirate
Aussies won the toss and elected to bat.
in the 24th over we are 0/124, Finch 52 (58) and Warner 67 (87).
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Fri Mar 13, 2020 3:36 pmby Lightning McQueen
PatowalongaPirate wrote:Aussies won the toss and elected to bat.
in the 24th over we are 0/124, Finch 52 (58) and Warner 67 (87).
KOD
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Fri Mar 13, 2020 3:42 pmby PatowalongaPirate
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Fri Mar 13, 2020 3:44 pmby Jim05
I’m enjoying this more without the crowd.
How good is the sound of leather and willow. A couple of sixes have thudded off seats in the outer.
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:03 pmby The Dark Knight
Jim05 wrote:I’m enjoying this more without the crowd.
How good is the sound of leather and willow. A couple of sixes have thudded off seats in the outer.
I was just about to post about the sound of the bat hitting the ball echoing around the SCG, how good indeed.
I love the uniforms of both teams and the yellow helmets too.
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:40 pmby The Dark Knight
Aus 4/192 from 39 overs
Short the last man out, soft as f**k dismissal giving catching practice to Nicholls at deep midwicket/square leg.
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:15 pmby locky801
Terrible batting apart from the openers and Marnus
we should have scored around 340-350 after that start, now be lucky to hit 250
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:40 pmby helicopterking
NZ digging themselves a hole. Haven’t gone hard enough early why the ball is hard.
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:21 pmby helicopterking
Very Good Wrong Un from Zampa to remove Williamson
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:04 pmby The Dark Knight
helicopterking wrote:Very Good Wrong Un from Zampa to remove Williamson
Class delivery.
NZ 5/108 from 28, scoring has be hard to card by and the bowling has been very discipline.
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:06 pmby helicopterking
Smith drops a Sitter at Cover would have sown this game up.
Re: 2019/20 Australian International summer
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Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:07 pmby The Dark Knight
Aussies win by 71 runs, NZ bowled out for 187. Very good all round bowling performance by Aus.