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Thursday, October 13, 2005

Super Test - Day 1


Alright, here we go. The Super Test is about to begin shortly. The weather is expected to play a huge role in this 6 day test which is a shame. With the extra time for the World XI to acclimatize in Sydney, I hope to see a better contest. After the debacle in the ODI series, the players should be charged up to give the Aussies a fight.

Graem Smith's choice of the final eleven was expected with Inzamam finding a position in it. With the ommision of Shaun Pollock, the bowling will be spearheaded by Harmison and Flintoff with Kallis as the third seamer. South Africa has not had spinners of the capability of Vettori and Murali and Smith will be in unchartered territory as far as manning them is concerned.

These are the lineups:
Australia 1 Justin Langer, 2 Matthew Hayden, 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Michael Clarke, 5 Simon Katich, 6 Shane Watson, 7 Adam Gilchrist (wk), 8 Shane Warne, 9 Brett Lee, 10 Glenn McGrath, 11 Stuart MacGill, 12 Brad Hodge.

World XI 1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Inzamam-ul-Haq, 5 Brian Lara, 6 Jacques Kallis, 7 Andrew Flintoff, 8 Mark Boucher, 9 Daniel Vettori, 10 Steve Harmison, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan.

posted by Toney at 7:43 PM

62 Comments:

  • Hmm...I would have preferred they drop Kallis and keep Pollock.

    By Blogger ClannZú, at 20:07  

  • Same thing here, clanzu. Pollock is not bad with the bat at all and miles ahead of the current bowler in Kallis. I would have preferred Inzi out too, in a way. It would have been nice to see Inzi and Akhtar spending time on the sidelines together. 6 days is a long time

    By Blogger Toney, at 20:09  

  • Aussies win the toss and bat, expected.

    By Blogger Toney, at 20:09  

  • What I'd like to happen in this test match :

    - Hayden to fall cheaply in both innings so the Aussie selectors realise their myopic vision.

    - Shane Watson to be hammered around the park and not make a contribution with the bat. That will shut all this premature talk about him being the next Freddie.

    - Dravid & Lara to have a 250 run partnership with both scoring 100's.

    - Lastly but most importantly...World XI to beat these arrogant Aussies and win the Super Series.

    By Blogger ClannZú, at 20:21  

  • losing now, the Inzi part was in jest, thinking about his close friendship with Akhtar.
    And I have this stinking feeling that the Aussies will pummel the WXI.

    By Blogger Toney, at 20:27  

  • depends on who voted too :)

    By Blogger Toney, at 20:28  

  • Wow didn't expect Harmison to strike so early.

    By Blogger ClannZú, at 20:34  

  • losing now, I am here, was restarting my PC

    By Blogger Toney, at 20:35  

  • and missed Langer's dismissal!! Anyhow, cant understand what use 6-7 batsman are going to do, unless the WXI think they can bat the Aussies out of it and then Murali can weave his web

    By Blogger Toney, at 20:36  

  • tc, I think Bond was out injured when the selection happened. At least, they could have chosen Pollock instead of Kallis

    By Blogger Toney, at 20:37  

  • losing now, in White Plains, NY

    By Blogger Toney, at 20:37  

  • desichap
    am watching on sportingstreams, cheaper option :)
    losing now, which part of US?

    By Blogger Toney, at 20:38  

  • on computer, sportingstreams

    By Blogger Toney, at 20:39  

  • sheesh, ss requires a monthly 7-8$ membership!!
    And they cover most of the cricket around the world plus soccer of all kinds :) Switch over, dont waste money on Dish

    By Blogger Toney, at 20:41  

  • sorry, ss does all this at 7 $, no extra cost for watching each match

    By Blogger Toney, at 20:42  

  • so far very good quality. And I have never experienced problems except for Ashes T4 and 5 when the traffic was unbelievable high

    By Blogger Toney, at 20:44  

  • maybe the players found Pollock's captaincy annoying, so they dropped him to shut him up.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 20:44  

  • losing now, no guarantee of any matches. They apparently "find" streams which they relay. How it works is: once they find a link, members send in a request to an automated email address and they send back the link. The details in how to email, what to do with the link they give etc are provided on their site

    By Blogger Toney, at 20:46  

  • but going by previous history, they should have Ind-SA, Ind-SL, definitely Ind-Eng.

    By Blogger Toney, at 20:47  

  • losing now, test cricket is indeed something else. My best series so far, our last one in Aus, paid the whole sum on willow, worth every penny
    And abt the find beign legal, no comments

    By Blogger Toney, at 20:53  

  • ss back up

    By Blogger Toney, at 21:08  

  • losing now, url: www.sportinstreams.com

    Shri, Thats near my place. I'll move soon to Airmont, NY though

    By Blogger Toney, at 21:09  

  • go to ss, register, they'll send pay pal link.pay the money
    They put you in the database in less than a day (though not immediately).
    Then, go to Sports Links in Forums, find the game you need and follow instructions.

    By Blogger Toney, at 21:11  

  • see you guys in a bit, dinner time

    By Blogger Toney, at 21:11  

  • Here is where the World XI will falter...keeping up the pressure.

    By Blogger ClannZú, at 21:12  

  • found this interesting site on murali. check it out. He's not a chucker.

    http://www.muralitharan.org/murali/hkarmpics.htm

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 22:14  

  • shri, its rockland county, (airmont), not sure what upstate is, frankly.

    By Blogger Toney, at 22:59  

  • THose who are using ss, is the sound coming in just a bit delayed than the pics?

    By Blogger Toney, at 23:00  

  • toney if you are talking about white plains, yes it's upstate, anything north of westchester country (north bronx) is considered upstate.

    By Blogger Ruchi's, at 23:02  

  • toney, not really

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 23:04  

  • roublen, u mean sound? Try looking for this problem when they show the commentators or someone in the studio talking

    By Blogger Toney, at 23:14  

  • ruchi, then definitely, I am in upstate NY

    By Blogger Toney, at 23:14  

  • Wish Sangakarra was there, no byes there then

    By Blogger Toney, at 23:18  

  • probably going by sttaitstics alone, Boucher is ahead of Sangakara. But his exp against Murali as well as his batting skills should have ensured KS a place

    By Blogger Toney, at 23:20  

  • looks like all the mods are asleep there

    By Blogger Toney, at 23:40  

  • its back

    By Blogger Toney, at 23:41  

  • meanwhile the abc radio bombs!

    By Blogger Ruchi's, at 23:46  

  • *L ruchi
    Hayden seems to be back to his bullying ways

    By Blogger Toney, at 23:47  

  • Inzi fields well on the boundary, nice to see

    By Blogger Toney, at 23:49  

  • lets throw some mashed aloos at inzi

    By Blogger Ruchi's, at 23:53  

  • the boundaries at SCG arent well protected for that

    By Blogger Toney, at 23:56  

  • hayden is another right-handed lefty. but he doesn't seem ambidextrous

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 23:57  

  • dont think most are. In fact, SRT seemed to be the only ambidextrous guy we knew of

    By Blogger Toney, at 23:58  

  • First class free audio coverage on radio australia.Just go to www.abc.net.au/cricket and follow the link.jim maxwell,geoff lawson and now the trinidad Commentator Fazeer Mohammed

    By Blogger Nearly Man, at 00:30  

  • Thanks a lot for that info, nearlyman. Great indeed

    By Blogger krishjapan, at 00:47  

  • sanjay manjrekar's dumb comment about senior players in the sub-continent being superstitious about numbers and not batting in certain positions b/c they did not score runs in that position - what a dumbass. His loser stupid mentality paints the picture of the thinking of our team during his time

    By Blogger RandomThoughts, at 00:57  

  • manjrekar is a bloody fool. i dont know why ppl think he is a great thinker of the game--he certainly doesnt articulate it.
    his commentary is boring and certainly not insightful. his professed knowledge of everything tendulkar is just plain sorry. I dont know what he is doing commentating for the Super Series. Id rather have had even Navjot Sidhu

    By Blogger Dhruv Deepak, at 01:33  

  • the radio stream is like 20 seconds ahead of sportingstreams. made me dizzy

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 01:33  

  • if you guys are watching the broadcast they showed an ultramotion clip of murali bowling. he isnt chucking

    By Blogger Dhruv Deepak, at 01:37  

  • Hayden out on nelson.

    By Blogger ClannZú, at 02:11  

  • India team announced...ZK and SG out

    By Blogger Amit, at 02:26  

  • Can you please paste the entire team?

    By Blogger Kh0Pdi, at 02:28  

  • thanks, jiet

    By Blogger Kh0Pdi, at 02:33  

  • btw is sehwag dropped too?

    By Blogger Kh0Pdi, at 02:35  

  • screw laxman he doesnt fit in the team. good stance taken by the bcci finally. you have venu, kaif and dravid to bat solidly. good enough for me

    By Blogger Dhruv Deepak, at 02:45  

  • dhruv - totally agree w/you re: manjrekar. he has a loser attitude is only interested in individual averages and crap like that. Thankfully this kind of mentality is no longer making its way to the Indian team.

    why has Sehwag been dropped from the ODI team ??

    By Blogger RandomThoughts, at 02:45  

  • sreesanth of course wont get a game at all, but good job selectors thank you for droppong zk and sg finally and i am sure bhajii will perform better now that alarm bells must be sounding in his ears after getting news of his bffs get dropped.

    By Blogger Ruchi's, at 02:49  

  • bff - best friends forever as in pervez musharraf and osama

    By Blogger Ruchi's, at 02:57  

  • agree with you k-slice, about agarkar, not laxman. I am shocked that Agarkar made it to the side, he is a liability that will bring the Indian Cricket enterprise down down and down. I simply cannot understand why he keeps getting selected, seems like some regional politics or I am just missing the point !!!

    By Blogger RandomThoughts, at 03:28  

  • with viroo i think the problem is different. he is no good as an opener ( in odis). he hasnt fathomed the fielding restrictions and the fact that if he's there after 10 overs, the match is his. i say get him in the middle order where he can accumulate some singles and get a chance to play in the slog overs. he can win games for india.
    furthermore any possible vulnerability to a new white ball is avoided.
    he seems to believe that he can win a match for india in the first 10 overs and hit out. he has been given that freedom too, and this is not to his or india's advantage.

    By Blogger Dhruv Deepak, at 03:28  

  • GG a bad choice..Will not any game and will be dropped if SG is found fit.And GG would anyways not have been part of the long haul towards WC07,which IMO is a target too far away in the horizon

    By Blogger RR, at 04:19  

  • I liked this font, Toney!

    By Blogger samc, at 13:10  

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