What happened to Australia?

[morgieb]

Originally Posted by Dissector

And of course Smith departs just after I write that post. Still it's hard to see how England can save this test with more than two days left.

WACA traditionally gets flatter over time and we botched in 2008 and almost 2009.

[morgieb]

Hussey's scored 50+ in all of his 5 innings. WAG.

[Spark]

Hmm I'd like another hundred please.

[Dissector]

Wow and just as I wrote off England these wickets make things interesting again. If they can wrap up the tail and restrict the target to below 400 they have a real chance. Time is not an issue and as mentioned the Perth wicket flattens out over time.

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Originally Posted by treamcast34

It might sound silly but I saw a video on youtube of a couple of footie players bowling to Ricky Ponting about four years ago on a tv show; one of them was a huge man, bowled utterly express pace and had him jumping about a foot into the air to defend a short one, the other guy knocked him over twice consecutively and looked pretty freaking quick himself. Ricky Ponting was in his prime back then; it was impressive.

I believe it was Johnathan Brown that was bowling the heat. You have to note that Ponting had no padding other than gloves I believe.

[Ausage]

Originally Posted by treamcast34

In the past 15 years Australian rules football has gone from semi-professional to the down under equivalent of the EPL. If you are a sporting prodigy in Australia, footie recruiters will get to you before any other sport. When you consider that their kids generally play both cricket and football growing up, with the elite talents usually being good at both, I think it explains a lot. I have no doubt looking at the participation numbers, and some of the stories about Alex Keath, Shane Warne etc that they have lost a good few stars to their football.

It might sound silly but I saw a video on youtube of a couple of footie players bowling to Ricky Ponting about four years ago on a tv show; one of them was a huge man, bowled utterly express pace and had him jumping about a foot into the air to defend a short one, the other guy knocked him over twice consecutively and looked pretty freaking quick himself. Ricky Ponting was in his prime back then; it was impressive.

All this really does is explain why NSW produces way better cricketers than Victoria

[morgieb]

Now who's the pooftas

[GotSpin]

Cheers for the thread Goughy

[Burgey]

Originally Posted by Dissector

Wow and just as I wrote off England these wickets make things interesting again. If they can wrap up the tail and restrict the target to below 400 they have a real chance. Time is not an issue and as mentioned the Perth wicket flattens out over time.

Hmmm...

[Bun]

What can I say!

[Jono]

Haha, Goughy you're one of the best posters on CW, but this thread is hilarious now.

[Son Of Coco]

Originally Posted by Burgey

Hmmm...

To be fair, he hit an extra 0 when he was typing '40'.

[Dissector]

If you read the thread carefuly I was properly skeptical about England's chances until Morgieb muddied the waters.It's his fault !!

[thierry henry]

Originally Posted by andyc

TBF he does look pretty funny.

tbh I lay claim to being the first (at least non-Australian) to ridicule Steve Smith's head. cbf checking but pretty sure I did it within moments of his international debut.

There's definitely something incongruous about a player getting talked up and then, when you see them, they look like a total goober. Had the same reaction to Bollinger and Tait tbh.

[Spikey]

likewise i laughed my head off when i saw broad.