Cricket:End of Australia's Monoply
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All empires fall at some point or the other. ALL of them. Australia has some serious bowling problems, and Ponting's captaincy over the last 2 years has left much to be desired. Full marks to South Africa though, it's not often a team goes into Australia and comes out victors in both versions of the game!
Cheers, Vıkram.
I've never ever worked anywhere where there has not been someone who given the choice I would not work with again. It's a job, you do your work, put up with the people you don't like, accept there are probably people there that don't like you a lot, and look forward to the weekends. - Josh Gray.
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Warne and McGraw were irreplaceable and injuries and other problems with some of the lesser lights (Stuart Clarke, Brett Lee, Phil Jacques, Andrew Symonds...) haven't helped either. There is plenty of batting for the foreseeable future, but Australia has a serious shortage of world class young bowlers. I think Australia will go down in the rankings until the bowling improves.
John Carson
it's more attitude problem now than talent. Australia was never short for talented cricketers.
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Adnan Siddiqi wrote:
Josh, what do you say about it?
We were beaten by a better team. Not the first time, wont be the last. Unlike Pakistan we can still hold our heads high because we dont cheat.
Australia is struggling against Kiwis too. With no Warne, McGrath, Hayden they look vulnerable. Ponting needs to change the way he captains the side(I am not an expert but this is what I feel.). But as an Indian, I am loving it. This makes our chance to be number one brighter.
The word "politics" describes the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures." जय हिंद
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Australia is struggling against Kiwis too. With no Warne, McGrath, Hayden they look vulnerable. Ponting needs to change the way he captains the side(I am not an expert but this is what I feel.). But as an Indian, I am loving it. This makes our chance to be number one brighter.
The word "politics" describes the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures." जय हिंद
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Adnan Siddiqi wrote:
Josh, what do you say about it?
We were beaten by a better team. Not the first time, wont be the last. Unlike Pakistan we can still hold our heads high because we dont cheat.
Josh Gray wrote:
we can still hold our heads high because we dont chea
you're joking right? Bryce
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Josh Gray wrote:
we can still hold our heads high because we dont chea
you're joking right? Bryce
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the underarm, the gloves last night, and that catch which spilled that time and he still claimed it "we don't cheat" thats nearly as bad as the time i was told "Australia isn't a racist country" had me in apoplexy that one :) Bryce
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the underarm, the gloves last night, and that catch which spilled that time and he still claimed it "we don't cheat" thats nearly as bad as the time i was told "Australia isn't a racist country" had me in apoplexy that one :) Bryce
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bryce wrote:
the gloves last night, and that catch which spilled that time and he still claimed it
yadda yadda yadda. Thats the nature of the game, the umpire gave the wicket to Clarke, do you expect Haddin to go "oh wait Im not sure, can we check the replay?"! The Aussies don't cheat, sometimes the decisions go in our favor, sometimes they don't. That's cricket. The Packies on the other hand... ever seen a Paki umpire give one of their batsmen out LBW? It's solely because of them we now have the independent umpire rule now. And lets not forget pretty boy Akhtar pulling out of the last world cup after he went to England for private drug testing (and please, dont bother telling me about Shane's Mum :) ) Then we have the poms and the mints in '05. India's little habit of stepping on the ball with spikes Bob Wolmer's mysterious death It's a real shame that in the gentleman's game we have been so successful for so long that almost every other country has had to resort to calling us racist or cheaters. And when we do loose we cop endless shit about our attitude. You guys were the better team and won fair and square last light. Sames goes for SA and India last year. Act like gentlemen and be gracious in victory. Like we were.
bryce wrote:
Australia isn't a racist country
What is "a raciest country?" And so the fuck what? There is no such thing as a non racist person in this world.
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bryce wrote:
the gloves last night, and that catch which spilled that time and he still claimed it
yadda yadda yadda. Thats the nature of the game, the umpire gave the wicket to Clarke, do you expect Haddin to go "oh wait Im not sure, can we check the replay?"! The Aussies don't cheat, sometimes the decisions go in our favor, sometimes they don't. That's cricket. The Packies on the other hand... ever seen a Paki umpire give one of their batsmen out LBW? It's solely because of them we now have the independent umpire rule now. And lets not forget pretty boy Akhtar pulling out of the last world cup after he went to England for private drug testing (and please, dont bother telling me about Shane's Mum :) ) Then we have the poms and the mints in '05. India's little habit of stepping on the ball with spikes Bob Wolmer's mysterious death It's a real shame that in the gentleman's game we have been so successful for so long that almost every other country has had to resort to calling us racist or cheaters. And when we do loose we cop endless shit about our attitude. You guys were the better team and won fair and square last light. Sames goes for SA and India last year. Act like gentlemen and be gracious in victory. Like we were.
bryce wrote:
Australia isn't a racist country
What is "a raciest country?" And so the fuck what? There is no such thing as a non racist person in this world.
easy there tiger - you get up on the wrong side of the crypt today? givvus a hug and it'll all be betterer :hug: *hug* why is there no hug icon? Bryce
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easy there tiger - you get up on the wrong side of the crypt today? givvus a hug and it'll all be betterer :hug: *hug* why is there no hug icon? Bryce
MCP --- To paraphrase Fred Dagg - the views expressed in this post are bloody good ones. --
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bryce wrote:
easy there tiger - you get up on the wrong side of the crypt today?
FFS the one topic that comes up in the SB in the last 6 months that I give half a shit about and your not interested in an argument.
bryce wrote:
why is there no hug icon?
I ask myself that regularly
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bryce wrote:
easy there tiger - you get up on the wrong side of the crypt today?
FFS the one topic that comes up in the SB in the last 6 months that I give half a shit about and your not interested in an argument.
bryce wrote:
why is there no hug icon?
I ask myself that regularly
oh well I thought I'd upset you and didn't want that but i suppose we could have an argument if you want one. Bryce
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oh well I thought I'd upset you and didn't want that but i suppose we could have an argument if you want one. Bryce
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bryce wrote:
but i suppose we could have an argument if you want one.
Ummm.... Helen Clark is a man. Thats the best I've got
shes tougher than the Crudster who missed out on a role in Tin Tin even though hes a dead ringer The difference of course being that Clark is no longer PM and I laughed mightily at "Iceland has appointed Johanna Sigurdardottir as its first female and openly gay prime minister, at the head a new centre-left government. ." Bryce
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shes tougher than the Crudster who missed out on a role in Tin Tin even though hes a dead ringer The difference of course being that Clark is no longer PM and I laughed mightily at "Iceland has appointed Johanna Sigurdardottir as its first female and openly gay prime minister, at the head a new centre-left government. ." Bryce
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bryce wrote:
shes tougher than the Crudster
yeah but so's my granny
bryce wrote:
"Iceland has appointed Johanna Sigurdardottir as its first female and openly gay prime minister, at the head a new centre-left government. ."
pffft, we have Penny Wong. Not only gay but an asian, gay, leftie minister for Climate Change. I think Peter Garrett was a little put out by her. I saw an article on smh this morning which I cant find again in which Rudd was quoted from a soon to be published essay that Australia was in a unique position to lead the worlds economic rebound under his leftie leadership. May heaven help us all