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Had their professional hats on. Other than Katich everyone looked a little scratchy, but there are mouths to feed, so they still got the job done. They would have hoped for better.
West Indies
Got to bowl on a wicket that gave them some assistance and did well at times. At the end of the day their best bowler hardly bowled, but they dropped Hussey and Katich at bad times, chose not to send Ponting for a referral, and may not get a better chance than this.
Who is in front
Australia at over 300 with half their men down, against a team as ropey as this they would feel comfortable. The Windies only need two wickets to be well into the tail and can bowl Australia out for under 400, which is good considering that every Australian batsmen, bar one, got a good start.
Play of the day
Brendan Nash seems like a nice hard working test player, but a bit of a nerd. Today I am willing to change that position on him as he had a Marat Safin type group of blondes all with Team Nash shirts on in the crowd. They could have been relatives, but still.
Testicular moment of the day
Kemar Roach was essentially playing his first test match (the strike series doesn’t count). He was at the ground that many an international player has been sacrificed on the first day. Kemar is flighty and unpredictable at the best of times, didn’t have the senior bowler backing him up and lost his run up several times. He could have rolled over and played dead. Instead he looked most likely to do any sort of damage, regularly beat the bat and hit the pads, and could have had Ponting or Hussey earlier on a lucky day. I was impressed.
Working class moment
66 runs to M Hussey. It was painful at times. He seems to have no idea what an off stump is at the moment and was middling everything to third and fourth slip for awhile. He got dropped off Benn. Almost stepped on his own stumps. And then went out in the most incredibly soft way. There was desperation in it, no one wants their cap more, but that one day form did not seem to be there.
Call of the day
Tony: When do you get most excited, Bill?
Bill: When South Africa lose.
Question for day two
Can the Windies knock the tail out quickly to make a test of it?
Useless stat of the day
162 mentions of Kevin Mitchell Jnr on Channel 9.
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I’m considering joining Team Nash. Purely for the social functions.
JRod, don’t u have a listing on ebay for ‘Jesus and Freddie’?
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“Question for day two
Can the Windies knock the tail out quickly to make a test of it?”
We have a saying: “Bad wishes rarely come true”.
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Cricket Tragic, no, should I?
Yes, please do, cos they don’t allow amazon sellers to ship to SL!
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CT, Just checked and the book depository do send to Sri Lanka with free postage. I am pretty sure the book will be on there. It won’t be on ebay, as that requires work from me.
They have the year of the balls, but the other ‘un hasn’t come up yet…cant w8 for it!
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Ct, sorry I meant the book will be on there soon. It hasn’t been printed yet, baby steps.
Hehee!