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Loading ...Its great to catch some Test action with my weetabix in the morning. Especially when I see three quick Australian wickets. Far preferable to an England one-day thrashing. Question: I know this seems unthinkable, but could Gilchrist’s decline be permanent? I wonder how long it would take the Australian selectors to wield the knife with Gilly? Is anybody offering odds that he won’t be there for the ashes? Just a thought.
Test Cricket today. Hurray!
By Scott 3 years ago, mid-December Leave a comment on this post
Tests are the best!
Australia take on South Africa in the First Test at Perth. South African captain Graeme Smith is ‘braced for bullies‘ and given that his side lost to a weak West Australian state side by an innings, the Australian urge to kick sand in South African faces is strong.
A personal confession, here. I loathe South African cricket, which has done nothing but bombastic boasting, boring and unadventurous captains and hilarious World Cup chokes since they were re-admitted in 1992. The last two times Australia toured the place, we heard a great deal in the South African press about how they were going to stuff us, and Australia responded by crushing them by an innings in the First Test. I suppose I owe it to my readers that I can’t be entirely objective about South Africans, and should bear that in mind when they read my stuff.
South Africans must be pretty anxious about the crowd because Andre Nel says that they aren’t worried about being abused by the crowds. If you weren’t worried about it, why would you talk about it? It is not like South African crowds are prim and proper-Johannesburg is not known as ‘the Bullring’ for nothing.
Australia have included Nathan Bracken in the lineup, instead of Stuart MacGill, and South Africa are likely to be missing Jacques Kallis. He is one of the few South Africans with a proven record against Australia so they will miss him.
Australia have never lost a series to South Africa since readmission, and have not lost a series at home since 1992-93. I do not think South Africa have the bowling attack to change those facts. Also, Smith does not strike me as the sort of cool figure that can lead his side to an upset victory. But it’s Test cricket so hurray!
Tags: australia, chokers, graeme-smith, Jacques-Kallis, nathen-bracken, perth, stuart-macgill, swearing, world-cup |
6 Responses to “Test Cricket today. Hurray!”
December 16th, 2005 at 9.21 am
December 16th, 2005 at 11.03 am
Like the score now, Scott? I suppose everyone has his “I hate that team” line. Yours is South Africa, mine is England. So I’m not alone 
December 16th, 2005 at 11.43 am
If the magnitude of people who have SA down in their ‘I hate that team’ lines, then very soon it could attract the focus of a social survey group or something! For a variety of reasons they’re mine too. Despite that, credit to Ntini and SA, they did well to restrict the Aussies today. Australia’s post Ashes experiments with the batting order haven’t yielded the required result, and that middle order, as SA expected, was the culprit once again.
December 16th, 2005 at 1.08 pm
Symonds at #6 is actually a joke. That middle order is seriously inexperienced. Bring back Clarke, or put Gilchrist at #6 and play MacGill in case Watson is unavailable. Watson is a far better allrounder than Symonds. Australia should avoid trying to create a “Flintoff” just for the sake of having an all rounder.
December 16th, 2005 at 8.38 pm
Yeah this Symonds experiment isn’t working. He should stick to ODI’s and bad hair.
I’m not worried, folks… Truth, Justice and the Australian way will prevail! 
December 16th, 2005 at 8.50 pm
Bring back Damien Martyn !!!
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