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equatorJohnson, Hilfenhaus and Siddle chipped in with 11 wickets in this test.
Knowing that fact alone, Australia should have lost.
But, and perhaps this has to do with the inept state of the opposition, Australia still won by an innings and change.
The other 9 wickets were picked up by Hauritz (5 wickets without having to do much work), Watson (3 who picked his up with filth and guile) and laughably Michael Hussey (1 charity).
These weren’t just tail end wickets, Hauritz cleaned up the tail in the first innings, but their wickets included the 3 top scorers for the Windies (Dowlin, Barath and Ramdin), and Bravo and Nash were also victims in the top order.
Gayle and Chanderpaul never managed to go out to this powerful threesome, but only because they never lasted that long, even though they used three referrals between them.
The Windies bowling impressed in this test, in their one chance, but their batsmen are still yet to arrive.
This test is sort of like you beating up your little brother after you’ve been beaten up by a kid your size, it feels good for a little while, but it doesn’t make you forget you got your ass kicked.
At least of the Windies little boys had some fight in him, bringing up a hundred on debut as a teenager while your team is 145 runs after following on.
Well done Adrian Barath, and great maternal work from Ramdin in dishing out the hug.
We need more flamboyan West Indies batsman. Gayle is playing like a disinterested slogger.
West Indies should have picked Ganga , he would have made the team fight tooth and nail.
We know Ganga would have made two zeroes in batting , atleast Ganga wants to win and inspire people with motivation..
Also West Indies should allow Ganga to pick his own team.
Don’t see the point to Chris Gayle bothering to turn up for test matches these days.
He clearly isn’t overly interested, still thinks he is the main man in the team (ok, I know he is captain, but why?) as his pathetic use of the referral system proves.
He is only motivated by the money of limited overs cricket so why doesn’t he do West Indies a favour and just move aside and do what he really wants to do rather than half heartedly turning up in presence only for test matches.
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It was an oddly unemotional victory – the W.I. boys barely put up a fight, with the exception of Ady Boris of course. I had to punch myself every time I started hoping Barath and the lads would catch us, just for the excitement.
There was little else.
Any team that allows Peter Siddle to make it to 20 runs just isn’t trying hard enough, I say.
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and they also let Hussey get a 50, that’s pathetic work by the Windies
To hell with let Hussey get a 50, they let him get a wicket, that’s just Comedy Central stuff there.
All true and it never fucking ends.
This is what the ICC future tours programme up to 2012 tells us Australia has to look forward to over the next 3 years-
Killing England in Aust 10-11. Gees that’ll feel just as good, like beating up your same-age cousin whose right arm and leg are in plaster.
Touring SA in 2011.
Hosting India in 11-12. Possibly copping North Korea-type embargoes from G20 as a result when India’s tail collapses again in Sydney.
The next thrill after that will presumably be the Ashes 2013 where the two questions will be answered- who plays the crappest, and whether the geriatric Ponting’s early-innings fall to offside will end in a fractured neck of femur.
Whoppdy fucking doo.
Oh, and hosting Zimbabwe in 2011. I forgot about that.