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Australia v England, Twenty20, Sydney
By Will last year, mid-January Leave a comment on this post
It’s the hit-and-giggle of the winter season. I can’t imagine for a second England will win it, even with this new bloke Michael Vaughan in the side. In fact, especially with him in the side. Still, it’s always good for a giggle - even if Ricky Ponting refuses to enjoy it, or see the fun side. It’s a game, Ricky…
I think it starts at 8am tomorrow so, if you’re up and interested, post your thoughts here.
Tags: ashes, australia, england, england-in-australia, sydney, the-ashes, twenty20 |
9 Responses to “Australia v England, Twenty20, Sydney”
January 9th, 2007 at 3.55 am
January 9th, 2007 at 5.19 am
According to my TV guide, the match starts in about 3 hours. Should be fun.
Flintoff and Pieterson to have bets with Gilchrist and Symonds on who can hit the ball the most rows back.
January 9th, 2007 at 12.31 pm
What joy, another game, another loos for England. This is almost making me drift towards the unthikable undoable…should I feel sorry for England? Hmm, na, should do better then break a resolution less then two weeks into the new year. May be after England have lost all the matches this tour and got kicked out of the world cup in the first stage, yeah, that would be a good time to sympathise. Nows probably too early.
January 9th, 2007 at 2.06 pm
Don’t care what you say Will, it was just good to have him back . . . and didn’t he look good. Didn’t bat too bad either . . .
I’m curious about the negative correlation between importance of the event and size of the trophy, though. Definitely worth all the fireworks and streamers, that was . . . NOT!
January 9th, 2007 at 5.18 pm
Another crushing blow!
I was looking forward to finally competing with the Aussies in at least ONE match…..never mind…
January 9th, 2007 at 9.09 pm
Oh, I don’t know — it could have been worse. England could have fallen over for 70-something like Australia did at the Rosebowl that time.
There were some good things — Vaughan didn’t fall over clutching his knee and batted pretty well. Nixon was a fine aggressive force behind the stumps and can bat too. Monty had some one-day success. Collingwood did well with the ball and Dalrymple with the bat.
Some bad drops in the field, but Australia dropped some too, which, if held, could have made the winning margin even bigger.
Purely for selfprotection I had to turn the sound off through Australia’s big hitting due to the channel 9 commentators. And I HATED them mic-ing up the players. I thought that was stupid. Do they have to make it even more of a circus? Leave them alone to play the game for God’s sake. At one point I did turn the sound on again, only to hear Michael Slater bemoaning the fact that more England players weren’t doing onfield comments and boundary rope interviews whereas every Australian player was happy to. (Apparently only Michael Vaughan’s voice was heard, with the onfield mike and no other England player had agreed to speak.) Slats was going on about how we would love to hear more England voices to balance things up. I thought it was a bit cruel actually — you have a demoralised England team trying to concentrate on their cricket — the last thing they need is some grinnning Aussie pushing a microphone under their nose and asking them what they think of this powerful display of big Aussie hitting. If it were Australians that had been losing that badly over two months I don’t think they’d be doing interviews either.
Anyway, as I said, I think it could have been a lot worse. Don’t think Fred will be very happy with himself though.
Does anyone know where Andrew Strauss was?
January 10th, 2007 at 12.13 am
well hearing australians whanging on about whatever is currently exercising them about us poms is hardly new, so i won’t talk about that - all sports commentators the world over are so one-eyed it’s no longer funny. hardly new to see the australians winning - but the england squad are definitely playing like they wanted to go home a week ago. the aussie bowling won’t be frightening any decent batsmen tho their batting looks very strong in the short game. it’s coming to something when a 36yr old keeper making his international debut is grasped as a positive by desperate england fans. there was some well-earned stick at his selection on cricinfo and no disrespect to this seasoned county pro who will always give his best, but you really can’t understand his selection - the big difference, we always hear, between england and sub-continental players for instance is that we play fewer ODIs. So let’s give someone a few caps from being young, before they have to live with five days of pressure and give them a long run at keeping internationally. Sure there’s pressure but you only learn to cope by experiencing it and nobody is going to call for the head of a young keeper if he blows that all-important 20-20 just after we have been whitewashed in the ashes - a good day to bury bad keeping, perhaps. we could blood a few other young keen aggressive boys who want to make a name for themselves against the best side in the world.
and why don’t we put their nicknames on the back of their shirts? that would be new… oh really? bugger.
January 10th, 2007 at 12.16 pm
Betting here is running 2-1 odds England won’t win a game on tour.
Shamefully, I put 20 dollars on.
January 10th, 2007 at 1.19 pm
2-1 against? that strikes me as finding money!
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