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    *Official* - India in West Indies

    I'm getting to the point with hype that I assume the opposite. The hype around young Australian players is almost a sure sign that they haven't done anything at first class or List A level. It goes in inverse proportion - the less they have done, the more they are hyped. It's nuts. Good bowling...
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    Australian Domestic Offseason 2011

    He may want to stay in sweet with the Sri Lankan board as much as he can and the SA and CA contracts would be worth peanuts to him in comparison with his IPL dosh. His injury is genuine according to his previous skippers. It's interesting though, that the list of 'names' is getting thinner and...
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    Australia's Need, India's Riches

    We haven't exactly got a current generation of bowlers that scream top-class. There isn't a proper attack leader that you can build a bowling unit around and without that, what do you do? Johnson certainly isn't an attack leader. The Indian team get by and nearly always have gotten by without...
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    Australia's Need, India's Riches

    Most of the bowlers that we hope will be good are very young and it takes time to become a proper test class bowler. I can't see the Aussies being top of the tree again for a very long time.
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    Australia's Need, India's Riches

    I think there is very little difference between Punter and Dravid. They both have slowed reflexes and proper pace bowling will be difficult for them. Punter looked pretty awful every single innings in the Ashes. And in the World Cup, apart from against India and there he was more cautious than...
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    Australian Domestic Offseason 2011

    It's bound to affect players at state level. The money to the states has been cut by quite a lot and with CA wanting their big names to play at least a couple of games in the BBL, I can only assume that they will be wanting big appearance money from the franchises who don't have really deep...
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    Australian Domestic Offseason 2011

    For all his stats being good, he'll always be the great wasted talent of our team. Shame he's such a flake, because he's so good to watch when he's on top of his game.
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    Australian Domestic Offseason 2011

    Just about everyone has a better technique than those two though. Johnson looks like he has more idea of proper batting than either of them. They are not a good base for comparison.
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    Let's play psychologist

    I only remember Colly facing Steyn. Bell is a very elegant shot-maker but I never remember anything he does. I'm not sure why. I'm not particularly anti-Bell and I watch more English cricket than anything else.
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    Let's play psychologist

    It's amazing. I don't even remember Bell being on the field, that's how much of Steyn he must have faced. Colly seemed to be staring down the barrel every over. Still some of the best quick bowling I've seen for years that spell. Bell's alright these days. It's good that the pressure of being...
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    Should we be patient with Michael Beer?

    :laugh::laugh: It's true. However, I think they are copping it probably a bit too much. Imagine if they had cut Punter. Slats might have gone postal on them. I wouldn't have, as I think he should have at the least retired from ODI's but I can imagine the uproar if they'd touched him.
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    Cricket australia contracts

    He's the one who will have to do the chasing in a game of chasey? As in, 'you're he'. Maybe it's a West Aussie phrase. :laugh:
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    Let's play psychologist

    That means anyone who bowls for Pakistan is mentally strong then as he's still alive.
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    Let's play psychologist

    I wouldn't have Johnson in either list. He'd be in the 'complete flake' list. As would Marcus North. And I suspect that like North, Johnson has been like that his entire career. I'd put Sreesanth in the 'flake' list too.
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    Cricket australia contracts

    What an idiot. That's just what I remember about him. WHAT AN IDIOT.
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    Australian Domestic Offseason 2011

    I don't think it's just Chappell's fault. I read somewhere that the young players going to the academy want to be trained in short format techniques, you know, clearing the leg out of the way and all that. They want the money to be made in T20. I can't blame them but that is never going to help...
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    Cricket australia contracts

    You can call it an outburst but it seemed very deliberate and thought through. He knows he's gone from Aus international cricket so has decided to air how he feels about the current set-up and how the selectors and mgt operate. It's such a relief to hear a player being honest. And considering...
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    Cricket australia contracts

    Considering what major test series we have coming up in the next 9 months, Hilditch is right on form by talking about the Ashes 2 years hence. He must be holding someone higher up than him right by the short and curlies as he appears to be the most irrelevant person in CA and that is really...
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    Cricket australia contracts

    Seriously, that side looks weaker without Kat. We've lost our best spin bowlers as well. Punter can't be up the top of the order anymore against proper quick bowlers. His reflexes aren't good enough.
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    **Official** Sri Lanka in England / Scotland - 2011

    Give him a break, he's 22 years old.

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