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inbox24

inbox24

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No surprises really, can't really go into an international cricket game with 2 specialist bowlers and expect to win.
 
Uppercut

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Can't lose the toss in a day-nighter at Newlands and expect to win.

Not that i'm complaining. These toss-wins-match venues are gradually making me rich.
 
SJS

SJS

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Its a sad day but clearly Australia are in a very bad shape. Not surprising as has been said before with so many of their champion cricketers leaving in a span of less than two years.

Its difficult to come back from such an exodus unless there is a very powerful and highly talented group of youngsters pushing those seniors out. Thats not what happened with Australia. The seniors just grew too old to continue and there hasn't been the same class in replacements.

The faith put in the younger bowlers is touching but misplaced.

Australian cricket set up is still very strong and one hopes, it seems inevitable really, they will throw up some really good cricketers in due course but the next couple of years, at least, may belong more to South Africa and India than to the Aussies
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

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inbox24 said:
No surprises really, can't really go into an international cricket game with 2 specialist bowlers and expect to win.
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Geeves and Hauritz might not be much good but to say they aren't specialist bowlers is just ****ing ridiculous. Do you think they were picked for their batting?
 
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pasag

pasag

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SJS said:
Its a sad day but clearly Australia are in a very bad shape. Not surprising as has been said before with so many of their champion cricketers leaving in a span of less than two years.

Its difficult to come back from such an exodus unless there is a very powerful and highly talented group of youngsters pushing those seniors out. Thats not what happened with Australia. The seniors just grew too old to continue and there hasn't been the same class in replacements.

The faith put in the younger bowlers is touching but misplaced.

Australian cricket set up is still very strong and one hopes, it seems inevitable really, they will throw up some really good cricketers in due course but the next couple of years, at least, may belong more to South Africa and India than to the Aussies
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This isn't the Test side.

Fact is that we've had a heap of injuries and our batting line up and best bowler is out of form. We've got Watson, Symonds, Marsh, Lee and Clark coming back from injuries in the next month or so, so it's really nothing to be too worried about.

The only irreplaceable loss we've had is Hogg.
 
SJS

SJS

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pasag said:
This isn't the Test side.

Fact is that we've had a heap of injuries and our batting line up and best bowler is out of form. We've got Watson, Symonds, Marsh, Lee and Clark coming back from injuries in the next month or so, so it's really nothing to be too worried about.

The only irreplaceable loss we've had is Hogg.
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Yes you are right but there is a certain listlessness about this side that is so uncharacteristic. This does not look like a side with unshakeable belief in itself as we are used to seeing.

Ponting looks such a forelorn figure on the field. Dont you think he would love to have Gilchrist, Warne, McGrath etc, not just for their cricketing greatness but as a kind of morale booster which such faces and such brains must be to have with you on the field.

He reminds meot day of Lara in the struggling young West Indian side.
 
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