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The Sports Desk / Re: The Ashes - Third Test @ Old Trafford
The FWIT sitting in the stands who paid that one should be charged with match fixing.

The ball before pitched 6" outside leg and the poms were going to review....  they are the better side but how much "home" umpiring can the game stand????
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The Sports Desk / Re: The Ashes - Third Test @ Old Trafford
Pity is Iaj is that the pitches they are serving up aren't greentops and Warner was just as deficient against spin as everybody else in India.  Like most of them he simply does not have a plan against spin- a defensive plan or a low(er) risk scoring method.  He is not the answer to our batting malaise, just another in a long line of stroke players with dodgy techniques and the wrong attitude to Test-level batting.

In fact, if you go through the details, Warner's big scores (BOTH of them) have been made on decks that suited pace bowling where the ball came on.  No spin was involved in Perth or Hobart.  Yes, he punishes rubbish but at the same time his defensive technique is average.... he gets bowled more often by straight deliveries than any left hander I've ever seen.  Then there is Swan...

And to think that he has realigned his attitude after spending 2 weeks with Australia A is laughable.  Given that he had another incident on the field recently..... no, he needs to prove that he is 100% sorted before he gets back on the team bus.

On top of that, I don't see how he can be trusted to have pulled his head from his posterior... another incident recently, albeit a minor on field one.  Seriously, 2 weeks for Australia A and he gets recalled?
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The Sports Desk / Re: The Ashes - Second Test @ Lords
The ongoing failure to learn by our so-called "professional" cricketers has lead to the catastrophic destruction of at least 3 remotes in my household.

Leopards do not change their spots.... pity that saying is so apt. 
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The Sports Desk / Re: The Ashes - Second Test @ Lords
The pitches are disgusting.  Spinning decks in England????  You can bet that if we had a half decent spinner they'd have the sprinklers on... and they'd still beat us inside 4 days at just about any venue, although we would at least have a fighting chance.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??
Clarke is good... once he gets a start, but he has always been a risky conveyance when batting.  That was his real issue before his golden run... lots of pretty 30's and not a lot of conversion into real scores.  When he fixed that issue, he became decent.

Agree with the above. Piss off Watson and all his mates, go back to ground zero with the batting and pick kids with technique.  There must be some around.  Joe Burns?    Nick Maddinson?

Adam Voges, although older, is another I'd look at for a cool head and a touch of experience, plus I'd be looking at Paine as well.
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The Sports Desk / Re: The Ashes - Second Test @ Lords
Iaj,  when did Watson last make a meaningful contribution with the bat?  And I don't mean 80 against a flat Sri Lanka last summer. 

That bloke has been surviving on reputation for 3 years IMO.

Smith did a reasonable job as the 5th bowler in the first dig.  Do we really need 6?
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The Sports Desk / Re: The Ashes - Second Test @ Lords
Can't  carry this selfish, petulant tool anymore.  Replace him with a bloke who WANTS to play and who is a TEAM man.  Plenty of half decent openers going around.... Australia A tour has a couple worth trying.

Directly cost Roger's wicket as well and this is unforgiveable IMO.