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More brutal on Uzi I think if Moises was selected over him as a pure bat
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*Official* Australia in Sri Lanka 2016
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Dan Jamson
School Boy/Girl Captain
I don't think rates Lyon either.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Wow... The People's Chump being shown up as a captain now, isn't he? Now, The People's Champ on the other hand... What a player!!! 
Magrat Garlick
Global Moderator
Please not ánother round of the **** on the previous few pages.Wow... The People's Chump being shown up as a captain now, isn't he? Now, The People's Champ on the other hand... What a player!!!
viriya
International Captain
Smith really seemed to **** on Lyon a bit too much.. even if Lyon is ineffective if the batsmen could last in these conditions they could get away with 3 draws. This series is mainly on the batsmen - he seems to want Lyon to pull a Herath all of a sudden, and as we all know, there can only be one fatty.
YorksLanka
International Debutant
Belated congratulations all the way from sri lanka to sri Lanka on a fantastic whitewash in thw test series. Simply brilliant to come back from so many poor positions and still win the game. Herath sgiws gis class yet again and was deservedly man of the series.so glad we showed some bottle after losing. The last two series so badly..now onto the odi's and looking forward to being at the second game at rps myself!!now back to the celebratory drinks!!well done Sri Lanka..
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
lol... u r one to speak
Anyways, I actually like Steve Smith and hate him at the same time. Maybe it is because he is an amazing talent as a batsman but also has such a punchable face and keeps acting like a douchebag a lot of the times, even though he does conduct himself well at interviews and stuff... It is just hard to explain. I actually rate him pretty high as a batsman but his captaincy is certainly leaving a lot to be desired AFAIC. The best thing about his batting has been how free spirited, inventive and almost self made it has been... And yet we almost see nothing of it in his captaincy. Virat Kohli, inspite of a number of mistakes, captains the way he bats or plays his cricket. I kinda expected that from Smith and am a bit disappointed that it has not been so. That is all. I never intended to restart any of the **** posts that folks like Furball and others have been sprouting out earlier in the thread.
Also, Herath is awesome
Shady Slim
International Coach
portugese cricket has never been the sameTbh with Moises replacing Khawaja it is high time we discussed Australia poaching players from other nations
NUFAN
Y no Afghanistan flag
I want the World Test Championship to start so badly and hope that the point scoring is very simple just so Australia remembers that a draw is so much better than a lose.
Henriques at 5 felt as odd as picking Shaun Young all those years ago. Young at least came in at 8.
Henriques at 5 felt as odd as picking Shaun Young all those years ago. Young at least came in at 8.
Magrat Garlick
Global Moderator
Very disappointing they haven't managed to field a team for the European Championships this year
Gnske
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Burns: 0 - Critics labelled his performance everything from **** to ****in ****. Zero confidence in his attacking strokes when not charging down the deck to loft the spinners but his Queenslander spirit failed him in the end, trying to be too positive in such a negative and New South Welsh team environment.
Warner: 1 - All his points are for fielding, which was seriously on point. Batted worse than I've ever seen him on sub-continental pitches, if Burns had no confidence in attacking, Warner started off with just about no confidence at all in surviving. Batted like a pitbull with a severe brain impediment that ought to have been put down years ago.
S.Marsh: 10 - The only glimmering beacon of light in the dark and cold Mausoleum of Australian cricket. Almost revived it with the greatest sub-continental knock since VVS 281. Was actually confident in playing late and didn't try to absolutely maul everything when coming down the wicket.
Khawaja: 0 - If I could go into negative integers I would. Memories of the glory years against Swann where he batted like he had concrete blocks around his feet. A pimple-infested teenage virgin trying to take off a bra for the first time would look less clueless than Usman looked here. But I guess he deserves more time because he'll make runs on flat, docile wickets.
Smith: 1 - Gets a singular point for his ton, but the rest of the time my word. Delivered a captaincy spectacle akin to whoever was in charge when the unsinkable Titanic sunk. Albeit that gives us too much credit to say we were unsinkable, followed by the unthinkable occurring. For one we sailed suspecting very highly that we'd hit the iceberg directly ahead, and two - Bernard Hill in the movie captained his ship with grace in the final hours as he went to the chilly depths. Instead Smith once again showed his completely inability to not be utterly petulant under pressure and delivered substance-less captaincy in response.
Voges: 1 - One good catch, and a month of being completely unable to play the straight one. No doubt his average will recover unlike Australian cricket in general.
Henriques: 0 - One small cameo of bowling followed by two incompetent dismissals. Thrown to the sharks and duly fed upon. Quite possibly the most pointless inclusion in an Australian side in some time. Might as well have played with 10 hacks instead of 11.
M.Marsh: 4 - Bowling was never going to be that effective but in between some dirty aids with the bat as is always the case he threatened to shine quite brightly. Unfortunately he chose his time to shine when a big collapse-a-thon was in progress.
Nevill: 2 - I recall a few drops in his first appearance in the sub-continent, still better than the eunuch bogan though. Batting was quite cringe bar that failed stonewall attempt, think he'll be under pressure in the summer with the casuals throwing their spotlight to the only thing that matters - the batting average.
Starc: 10 - Where does this rate in ATG performances in losing series? Certainly has to be up there with Warne in 05 because he was the only thing keeping us from innings defeats. If I was nitpicking I'd say he still needs to work on his general lines but they're much improved and he's bowling much more like a wicket-taker now in Tests. A pity we won't deliver pitches for the home summer that tailor to his abilities barring the D/N test.
Hazlewood: 3 - I think a better rating would be 'absent'. Never really looked like taking wickets but was economical, thus was horrendously underutilized in the final test as Lyon and Holland did whatever it was they were doing.
O'Keefe: 10 - Outbowled Lyon and he wasn't even here for most of the series. Best performance was saved for the pub back home.
Holland: 2 - Didn't bowl Test quality stuff, but was still better than Gaz.
Lyon: - Doesn't even deserve a ranking. For all the talk that Moeen Ali gets the label as "The least **** spinner in England," at least he's the best in the country at what he does (arguably). Completely unwilling to give anything flight as per usual. Unsurprisingly, his shtick of darting in it quickly short/short of a length and hoping it spits up and bounces at the batsman to catch him off guard once again failed in spinning conditions.
Warner: 1 - All his points are for fielding, which was seriously on point. Batted worse than I've ever seen him on sub-continental pitches, if Burns had no confidence in attacking, Warner started off with just about no confidence at all in surviving. Batted like a pitbull with a severe brain impediment that ought to have been put down years ago.
S.Marsh: 10 - The only glimmering beacon of light in the dark and cold Mausoleum of Australian cricket. Almost revived it with the greatest sub-continental knock since VVS 281. Was actually confident in playing late and didn't try to absolutely maul everything when coming down the wicket.
Khawaja: 0 - If I could go into negative integers I would. Memories of the glory years against Swann where he batted like he had concrete blocks around his feet. A pimple-infested teenage virgin trying to take off a bra for the first time would look less clueless than Usman looked here. But I guess he deserves more time because he'll make runs on flat, docile wickets.
Smith: 1 - Gets a singular point for his ton, but the rest of the time my word. Delivered a captaincy spectacle akin to whoever was in charge when the unsinkable Titanic sunk. Albeit that gives us too much credit to say we were unsinkable, followed by the unthinkable occurring. For one we sailed suspecting very highly that we'd hit the iceberg directly ahead, and two - Bernard Hill in the movie captained his ship with grace in the final hours as he went to the chilly depths. Instead Smith once again showed his completely inability to not be utterly petulant under pressure and delivered substance-less captaincy in response.
Voges: 1 - One good catch, and a month of being completely unable to play the straight one. No doubt his average will recover unlike Australian cricket in general.
Henriques: 0 - One small cameo of bowling followed by two incompetent dismissals. Thrown to the sharks and duly fed upon. Quite possibly the most pointless inclusion in an Australian side in some time. Might as well have played with 10 hacks instead of 11.
M.Marsh: 4 - Bowling was never going to be that effective but in between some dirty aids with the bat as is always the case he threatened to shine quite brightly. Unfortunately he chose his time to shine when a big collapse-a-thon was in progress.
Nevill: 2 - I recall a few drops in his first appearance in the sub-continent, still better than the eunuch bogan though. Batting was quite cringe bar that failed stonewall attempt, think he'll be under pressure in the summer with the casuals throwing their spotlight to the only thing that matters - the batting average.
Starc: 10 - Where does this rate in ATG performances in losing series? Certainly has to be up there with Warne in 05 because he was the only thing keeping us from innings defeats. If I was nitpicking I'd say he still needs to work on his general lines but they're much improved and he's bowling much more like a wicket-taker now in Tests. A pity we won't deliver pitches for the home summer that tailor to his abilities barring the D/N test.
Hazlewood: 3 - I think a better rating would be 'absent'. Never really looked like taking wickets but was economical, thus was horrendously underutilized in the final test as Lyon and Holland did whatever it was they were doing.
O'Keefe: 10 - Outbowled Lyon and he wasn't even here for most of the series. Best performance was saved for the pub back home.
Holland: 2 - Didn't bowl Test quality stuff, but was still better than Gaz.
Lyon: - Doesn't even deserve a ranking. For all the talk that Moeen Ali gets the label as "The least **** spinner in England," at least he's the best in the country at what he does (arguably). Completely unwilling to give anything flight as per usual. Unsurprisingly, his shtick of darting in it quickly short/short of a length and hoping it spits up and bounces at the batsman to catch him off guard once again failed in spinning conditions.
Spikey
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i view it the same as faulkner in 2013. utterly stupid and a wasted opportunity but at least it's one time only thing
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
That's horrendous captaincy. Really is. There's honesty and then there is burning your players publicly.