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i use the sweep religiously against the spinner. I find if judged right it is a good scoring option and i leave anything not hitting the stumps alone. Advancing for a cover/off drive works as well if the ball is spinning into you if you time it consistently. I try not to play the ball from the...

Match has finished chasing down 190 runs in the 4th innings. 1st Innings - England 159 off 42.4 overs Trott 46 (62) White 5-24 (8.4) Flintoff 45 (58) Lee 3-48 (9) Pietersen 16 (28) Hilfenhaus 2-40 (13) 1st Innings - Australia 235 off 55 overs Haddin 58 (65) Swann 5/81 Johnson 55 (54)...

Update, As of Lunch Day two I have been bowled out for 235 Swann was my biggest killer taking 5 wickets, Haddin and Johnson saved the day. 1st Innings - England 159 off 42.4 overs Trott 46 (62) White 5-24 (8.4) Flintoff 45 (58) Lee 3-48 (9) Pietersen 16 (28) Hilfenhaus 2-40 (13) 1st Innings -...

Australia (me) v England This is my first match on hard, just an exhibition no series. For the clash I put Flintoff in place of Collingwood for England while Cameron White and Brett Lee come in for North and Hauritz. England won the toss and chose to bat first. The game, like Ashes 09 really...

I had one of my best all time wins. I decided I wanted a challenge so I started a new season with Norths and after lucking out with a draw in my first CC match and losing all my challenge cup matches I have a home match v Lanc. It is a slightly spin friendly deck so I play two seamers plus...

Got my first hat trick on hard the other day. Playing as the old enemy (England) Andrew Flintoff picked up Ricky Ponting on the last ball of his 5th over, then had Michael Clarke first ball and Shane Watson on the next two balls of his 6th over.

I think the problem apart from the obvious over saturation is that the middle overs of a 50 over innings harbours negative captaincy and tactics, as per the Pakistan efforts in Australia. The game and its rules should reward aggressive batting, bowling, fielding and captaincy imo. IMO two...

He was still our most consistent player until the local summer, Phil Hughes and Mitchell Johnson were strong in South Africa but not in England while Clarke was the other way around and they were the other solid performers. North was strong in both series but lost his way in the local summer...

Marcus North was our best test player from the start until the end of the Ashes and got 79 at the Gabba and lost it from there.

In the ODIs perhaps but I am not confident they will be in the test matches seeing as they could only hold Pakistan to a drawn series.

Well Warne did say pre Ashes he would be the weak link and he was right. Mind you most of the England team did bat poorly in that Ashes series bar Strauss and the odd innings.

If your googly is going down leg side it means you are either releasing it too early or your wrist isn't in the right position. I found it harder initially to bowl with the proper 4 piece ball than the 2 piece ball I used in juniors, I find the seam is less prominent and it gripped on the...

I think Pollard could eventually get in the test side. He is only what? 22? it could take him 5 years to make the test team but I think it will happen. He needs more experience against international opposition. If Brendan Nash can make it he can.

I am not saying Miller wasn't good, I just felt it was a less aggressive move to pick him on many occasions.

Often when MacGill and Warne were together MacGill took the majority of the wickets as well. There are theories for that in that MacGill was probably more likely to get a rash stroke out of someone because he bowled less accurately than Warne. I still think MacGill was a better bowler...

I hated it when Colin Miller got selected in front of MacGill in tests simply because he was an offie. I know what a quality offie and quality leggie can do on a good spinning pitch but MacGill was so obviously the better bowler it is silly to compare.

Yes but there isn't one person who has watched both play that would suggest Bradman was a lesser batsman. What records does Tendulkar hold off the field? please tell me because it seems to me that his records are done on the cricket field. Again Bradman was a cricket administrator and...

But again what you fail at time and time again is that there is more to just what you do on the field. Bradman changed the entire culture of Australia during the Depression years, as much as Sachin has an amazing amount of fans and that he is loved by the vast majority of sub continental...

I don't feel that an allrounder needs aura any more than a great player of one discipline is but they have to be able to be game breaking with both bat and ball. If I named a top 4 it would be Sobers, Khan, Miller, Dev and the reason I don't include Kallis is because while he is handy with...

Ponting should catch his test hundreds if he ends up playing the same amount of tests but can't see him getting anywhere near his ODI century tally.