"I think their minds were already on the plane home. I am just not sure they were here to play today."
Jamie Siddons on Bangladesh's performance in the last league match of the Asia Cup Jul 4, 2008
Greetings from Adelaide. I haven’t put finger to keyboard for a while, for the fairly obvious reason that the Australian cricket team is having a well earned break. And what is good enough for the boys in Baggy Green is good enough for me.
Having said all that, I am starting to get bored. It does seem like a long time ago that Jason Gillespie scored a double century, and the Ashes action doesn’t fire up again until November 23, still four months away.
Well, if Justin Langer can have a cameo to keep the cobwebs at bay, then so can I. I was glad to see that he got himself a decent old 300, because there has actually been cricket in Australia this month, with a semi-triangular tournament featuring Australian A sides against ‘A’ sides from India, Pakistan and New Zealand. And in the four day game that was played Phil Jaques scored 240 and 117 against India A.
Langer also made a point to tell Merv Hughes off for complaining that Australia were too chummy with the English last year. The best traditions of the game are that you fight like hell on the field and then you have a beer and a laugh off it. Rather a pity that Merv of all people forgot that. It’s not like Merv was not a bit of a beer-drinker himself.
Apart from that little conflab, there’s not much else to report from Australia. Notes are being taken about all these injuries that England are suffering. I don’t think the people who are paying a fortune for tickets on e-Bay really want to see a second-string England get ripped apart by the Australians though. That would just be deja-vu all over again.
Hello Scott,
I too have come out from winter hibernation this week as my own cricket training started up again and my Ashes tickets arrived in the mail!
Reading the tiny county scores in Sundays paper it is good to see lots of Aussies doing well over there i do believe Dizzy Gilespie picked up four recently, and Michael Divinuto, Marcus North, and Jon Lewis also getting some good results!
Just out of interest, have any of you poms here heard of an Aussie by the Name of Kiron Ebdon playing cricket in the lower competitions over there? If so please let me know!
Fear not, a teenage Yorkshire leg-spinner (currently averaging just over 10 with the ball) will be called up from the “A” tour and dropped straight into the 3rd Test, and from 2-0 down England will…
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