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[silentstriker]

Well, good news is that there definitely will be a result. Still don't get why Ponting batted again, but obviously he has left plenty of time, so it worked out.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Well, good news is that there definitely will be a result. Still don't get why Ponting batted again, but obviously he has left plenty of time, so it worked out.

Unless rain kills today and tomorrow like it killed day one and three.

 

[pasag]

Care to elaborate?

Went nuts at a replay of Johnson getting Smith out in the first innings, thinking it was live

 

[Perm]

Haha, fooled me for a second too.

 

[Matt79]

Technically one of seven who could be referred in the first over in the unlikely event that 5 wickets fall off the first five balls and an appeal occurs on the last delivery.

Key word in my comment was "likely" tbh...

 

[Son Of Coco]

Well, good news is that there definitely will be a result. Still don't get why Ponting batted again, but obviously he has left plenty of time, so it worked out.

Reckon it might've been so they got to bowl last on this pitch, given the way they collapsed it's probably a good thing it happened in the 3rd innings under no real pressure rather than in the 4th chasing a (possibly) small total. That's using a great deal of hindsight obviously.

I really don't see what the big deal is anyway...you bat again and you're still in control of the match with a big lead.

 

[mikeW]

Does Hilf have any other tricks apart from the out-swinger?

 

[Uppercut]

Hilfy targeting a weakness Smith shot himself of about a year ago.

 

[Matt79]

Handy bouncer.

 

[Matt79]

Time for Siddle to come on for Hilfenhaus IMO.

 

[Matt79]

Yeah, I know what I'm talking about...

 

[pasag]

Only a matter of time..

 

[Matt79]

Was referring to me calling for Hilfy to be taken off and then him immediately producing an absolute unplayable brute of a delivery and nearly taking Smith's wicket.

 

[pasag]

Was referring to me calling for Hilfy to be taken off and then him immediately producing an absolute unplayable brute of a delivery and nearly taking Smith's wicket.

And I was talking about us getting a wicket

 

[Matt79]

Fine then, ignore my comment entirely if you want to, ****.

 

[HMas]

Does Hilf have any other tricks apart from the out-swinger?

as of yet...no

 

[kingkallis]

Went nuts at a replay of Johnson getting Smith out in the first innings, thinking it was live

Me too! I shouted - thats identical 1st innings dismissal...

 

[four_or_six]

Is Hilfenhaus the kind of bowler who can cope with lots of overs? I ask because I seem to remember something about back stress fractures not so long ago.

 

[Demolition Man]

Smith is being distracted by a glare off something in a neigbouring suburb it would appear, quite bizzare

 

[andyc]

Is Hilfenhaus the kind of bowler who can cope with lots of overs? I ask because I seem to remember something about back stress fractures not so long ago.

Yeah, pretty sure he can take a fair bit, as this article says

Hilfenhaus has the same quality, as he proved two years ago when he bowled nearly 200 more overs in a domestic first-class season than any other fast bowler in the country. Working hard in a three-man rotation system at the Wanderers was not a stretch.