Kylez
State Vice-Captain
This!Gillespie was ****ing awesome.
Loved him.
This!Gillespie was ****ing awesome.
Loved him.
Totally agree, he was an extremely good bowler. Pity he had such a poor Ashes to finish, was awesome before that.Gillespie was ****ing awesome.
Loved him.
Yeah, would agree. If Reiffel was English he'd have played double the tests he did. Was made for our wickets.Reiffel and Fleming were both quality.
Are you forgetting his double century against Bangladesh? How many players get dropped after scoring a double century? Think he bowled well that match too.Totally agree, he was an extremely good bowler. Pity he had such a poor Ashes to finish, was awesome before that.
I agree with this, but would it be rated as one of the greatest teams in Test history?Interesting thread.
If you had an attack of Gillespie, Clark and Lee/ Fleming with McGill as the spinner and, say, Miller to come in for the third quick when conditions suited, you'd be pretty well served I'd think.
Be very competitive anyways.
Agreed, however not many countries can boast of a Test-class attack even without their frontline bowlers, therefore success against Australia when Warne/McGrath weren't playing shouldn't be glibly dismissed as meaningless.I agree with this, but would it be rated as one of the greatest teams in Test history?
I think not, and that is why McGrath the most boring bowler in history and Warne deserve the most kudos, becasue with out them they would have been a very good team but not a great side imo
No I could never forget the 200, but I didn't really count it towards his bowling efforts. I don't think he was the same bowler from the Ashes onwards as he was beforehand, for whatever reason.Are you forgetting his double century against Bangladesh? How many players get dropped after scoring a double century? Think he bowled well that match too.
I agree with this, but would it be rated as one of the greatest teams in Test history?
I think not, and that is why McGrath the most boring bowler in history and Warne deserve the most kudos, becasue with out them they would have been a very good team but not a great side imo
He was still very effective
Blasphemy!
He was very handy in ODI's as well. With bat and ball.I would add Reiffel to the original post but it doesn't let me edit it anymore. 104 wickets at 26.96 deserves to be there.
BTW, I never knew he was such a capable lower order batsman. Averaged 26.52 with the bat with 6 fifties.
For sure mate, except for the attack we put out in Steve Waugh's farewell series, which I think was ****e, frankly.I agree with this, but would it be rated as one of the greatest teams in Test history?
I think not, and that is why McGrath the most boring bowler in history and Warne deserve the most kudos, becasue with out them they would have been a very good team but not a great side imo
Yeah, Lee and Gillespie both had big injury clouds hanging over them throughout that series. Bichel tried hard throughout, but had a hard time of it.For sure mate, except for the attack we put out in Steve Waugh's farewell series, which I think was ****e, frankly.
Lee was rubish around that time, Gillespie was periodicaly injured, and IIRC we had Bracken in the team for a test or two and Brad Williams ffs.
It was like a microcosm of the 80s.
Dravid would have scored agaisnt any attack in that series this was a period when he was god like.For sure mate, except for the attack we put out in Steve Waugh's farewell series, which I think was ****e, frankly.
Lee was rubish around that time, Gillespie was periodicaly injured, and IIRC we had Bracken in the team for a test or two and Brad Williams ffs.
It was like a microcosm of the 80s.