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Clark in ball-tampering shocker
By Will last year, at the end of December, 18 Comments »
The frighteningly named Adolf emails with reference to Australia’s win over India:
I would like to highlight the over before lunch on 29th Dec 07.
Channel 9’s camera’s caught Stuart Clarke picking out the seam of the ball with his fingernail. Surrounded by Brett Lee and Andrew Symonds!(Hmm…interesting….wonder if that’s why he was so successful….)
There was a nervous murmur as the commentary team went dead at that moment for a few nervous seconds…..only then the stupid cameraman realised his folly and cut that frame out.
Guess Aussies are above the law, and don’t tamper balls and "there will be no investigation….."I saw, and 12 other people in the room saw this including the kids…..crying shame….they don’t need to do this to beat the Indians!!!
There’s only one suitable response to that:
Another fine victory is just the present for Australia at Christmas
By Scott last year, at the end of December, 2 Comments »
Australia wrapped up the First Test against India today, winning by 337 runs in a commanding display. It would have been especially satisfying for Ricky Ponting and his merry men because it was done on a pitch which was tailor-made for Indian tastes, being slow, low, and having turn. But India’s batsmen were never able to come to grips with the tightness of Australia’s bowling, and so they were strangled to death by persistent bowling.
India’s bowling was honest, with Kumble in particular bowling some fine spells. But India’s efforts were totally sabotaged by the pathetic support that they got from the field. Time and again poor fielding from India turned ones into twos, and twos into threes. Over the course of the match, Australia probably stole close to 100 runs through poor Indian fielding, and saved close to another 100 through the excellence of their own fielding.
So Australia take a 1-0 lead. India must turn things around quickly as the Second Test in Sydney starts on the 2nd of January; only four days away. India made a present of this Test for Australia, and it remains to be seen how much more generous the Indians are prepared to be to the Australians; a team who don’t particularly need the gifts of their opponents.
2 Comments »Christmas cricket
By Will last year, at the end of December, 8 Comments »
Now that England’s misery has been put on hold until the New Zealand series in 2008, attention turns to the southern hemisphere. It’s probably the first Christmas for 10 years that I’ve not had Sky to watch Boxing Day Tests, so I was a bit peeved when I woke up this morning to see what a good day India had enjoyed against Australia at Melbourne. Peter English:
Groups of Australians spent the afternoon wondering whether they were being unpatriotic for smiling when India started running through the home team. For the first session those local supporters who demand nothing but dominance by Ricky Ponting’s men were satisfied with the direction of the game. Their disgruntlement when it changed in the second session was offset by the joy felt - and heard - at the ground by cricket supporters who are desperate to see Australia challenged. After the first day there is hope this series might be the fair fight fans have been craving since the 2005 Ashes.
It promises to be a cracking series between the best two sides in the world. Whether it will match or better the 2005 Ashes is impossible to predict (and unlikely, I’d imagine) but any team who can challenge Australia gets my vote of confidence. Even if it is India…
Several thousand miles away in Port Elizabeth, West Indies have raced to 190 for 3 on the first day against South Africa, with Chris Gayle launching a terrific 66 from just 49 balls. Have a read of his innings - he took Makhaya Ntini and Dale Steyn apart. Brilliant stuff and I can’t wait to see the video.
8 Comments »Symonds and Sreesanth boxing bout?
By Will last year, at the start of December, 6 Comments »
Andrew Symonds and S Sreesanth, who had a catty fight two months ago, are being lined up to take part in a boxing match at the end of the Australian summer, according to secondsout.com, a boxing website.
While he wouldn’t confirm or deny the proposal to SecondsOut on Tuesday, after the suggested cross football code fight between Willie Mason from the NRL and Barry Hall from the AFL fell through, rumour has it that Angelo Hyder is now trying to make a boxing match at the end of the summer between Andrew Symonds from the Australian cricket team and his fiery Indian fast bowling rival Shanthakumaran Sreesanth. The two had some animated verbal exchanges during the last Australian one day match tour of India in October and more is expected when the four Test match series between the teams begins in Melbourne on Boxing Day.
Symonds would flatten him like a pancake, wouldn’t he?
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