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AarowNZ · *by **AarowNZ** on Wed 6/Jan/10 2:03pm*

113.2
Mohammad Sami to Siddle, 1 run, dropped, short ball down leg, Siddle swishes at it, gloves it but it's dropped by the keeper to his left, should have taken it, the ball runs away for a single

Pakistan really is the worst catching team ever, another 4 dropped catches this innings and all of them by the keeper.

E Dogg Capizzle · *by **E Dogg Capizzle** on Wed 6/Jan/10 5:45pm*

Pakistan are awful. :lol:

happybaboon · *by **happybaboon** on Wed 6/Jan/10 6:02pm*

81 runs, five wickets. If Paki lose they need to stone their keeper to death.

fatwombat · *by **fatwombat** on Wed 6/Jan/10 8:02pm*

What a sweet and happy ending!!

My kids have a theory that we only threw away all our wickets yesterday because every Day 3 wicket generated $3000 for the McGrath Foundation.

Actually it's probably a disaster for Australia on 2 counts:
(1) Hussey looks like a batting hero and won't get dropped;

(2) Ponting looks like a brilliant captain and won't get demoted. :crazy:

If 5 years ago we had lured Dan Vettori to cross the ditch and take Australian citizenship, he could be captaining the team by now and we could be a great cricketing nation again.

fatwombat · *by **fatwombat** on Wed 6/Jan/10 8:08pm*

happybaboon wrote:http://www.cricinfo.com/ausvpak09/engine/current/match/406200.html
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA
Watching the Aussies get boned in the ass = lulz

This reference makes pretty cheerful reading to me. :lol:

Kevin Hague · *by **Kevin Hague** on Wed 6/Jan/10 8:19pm*

Don't think you'll get many here to share your joy wombat. Overall a game that Pakistan lost spectacularly, rather than Australia won. Sure Aussie bowlers were mostly good, and a smart partnership between Hussey and Siddle, but it was as if Pakistan had 4 good sessions in them, and after using those first then reverted to lack of discipline and self-belief.

I agree about Hussey - all that 'Mr Cricket' stuff from the Aussie commentators just makes me laugh.

All we can hope now is that you're also right that this will prove a disaster for Australia in the longer term!

happybaboon · *by **happybaboon** on Wed 6/Jan/10 8:20pm*

fatwombat wrote:If 5 years ago we had lured Dan Vettori to cross the ditch and take Australian citizenship, he could be captaining the team by now and we could be a great cricketing nation again.

Vettori's got too much class to play for Australia. You've got to be a gormless yobbo to pull on a baggy green... Don't you know that? You guys haven't had a respectable gentleman on the field since the Don.

fatwombat · *by **fatwombat** on Wed 6/Jan/10 8:32pm*

happybaboon wrote:You've got to be a gormless yobbo to pull on a baggy green... Don't you know that? You guys haven't had a respectable gentleman on the field since the Don.

I think you're being a bit too harsh on the Aussies there, Richie Benaud is a decent chap. And while I cringe at the some of the attitudes and behaviours of the Aussies, I think that they are just following the same abysmal standards as the other cricketing nations. Everything's gone downhill since the Empire withdrew west of Suez. :rolleyes:

mundi · *by **mundi** on Wed 6/Jan/10 9:00pm*

happybaboon wrote:
fatwombat wrote:If 5 years ago we had lured Dan Vettori to cross the ditch and take Australian citizenship, he could be captaining the team by now and we could be a great cricketing nation again.

Vettori's got too much class to play for Australia. You've got to be a gormless yobbo to pull on a baggy green... Don't you know that? You guys haven't had a respectable gentleman on the field since the Don.

Actually Adam Gilchrist was a very upstanding cricketer.

happybaboon · *by **happybaboon** on Wed 6/Jan/10 9:42pm*

No... Walking when you know you're out makes you upstanding. Getting up on the biggest podium you can find and congratulating yourself for being so upstanding while sledging others for not being as honourable as you just makes you a dickwad.

And he got fined heaps for getting in umpires faces.

happybaboon · *by **happybaboon** on Wed 6/Jan/10 9:44pm*

fatwombat wrote:
happybaboon wrote:You've got to be a gormless yobbo to pull on a baggy green... Don't you know that? You guys haven't had a respectable gentleman on the field since the Don.

I think you're being a bit too harsh on the Aussies there, Richie Benaud is a decent chap. And while I cringe at the some of the attitudes and behaviours of the Aussies, I think that they are just following the same abysmal standards as the other cricketing nations. Everything's gone downhill since the Empire withdrew west of Suez.

Yes I apologise, you're right - Richie is a bloody good bloke... But he's nearly as old as the Don

fatwombat · *by **fatwombat** on Wed 6/Jan/10 11:31pm*

happybaboon wrote:Yes I apologise, you're right - Richie is a bloody good bloke... But he's nearly as old as the Don

Steady on, Richie's the same age as my dad! :butbut:

Anyway, even if we're loyal aussie supporters, we don't wear green and gold tinted glasses - I agree with Kevin H that it was more lost by Pakistan than won by Australia. Overall, it's not a memorable match in terms of truly great cricketing moments, but as an "edge-of-your-seat" specatacle it was pretty good, one session the aussies seemed dead in the water, next session they had it stitched up, next session the pendulum swung the other way. Better than the one-way traffic of the first test.

E Dogg Capizzle · *by **E Dogg Capizzle** on Thu 14/Jan/10 12:15pm*

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/32 ... d-run-riot

Kazmeistyr · *by **Kazmeistyr** on Thu 14/Jan/10 1:15pm*

E Dogg Capizzle wrote:http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/3228423/Vincent-leads-way-as-Auckland-run-riot

Good to see Lou has beaten his depression. Interested to see how the Mongoose bat handles short balls at the chest/noggin tho...

AarowNZ · *by **AarowNZ** on Thu 14/Jan/10 9:31pm*

The mongoose bat he was using was just a normal or close to normal type of bat not the the long handle one. Don't think any one has used one of those ones in a proper domestic game yet.

Was a great innings to watch though.

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