The Cricket Thread (5 Viewers)

[blue_chameleon]

2009 is a busy year for cricket!

Australian's are playing:
- South Africa
- New Zealand
- Twenty20 World Cup
- Ashes Series in England
- ODI in India
- Pakistan
- West Indies

Definately a good time to get Fox Sports if you don't already have it.

IN AUSTRALIA:
Australia vs South Africa
Commonwealth Bank ODI Series (16th Jan - 30th Jan)

Australia vs New Zealand
ODI Series (1st Feb - 13th Feb)

IN SOUTH AFRICA:
Australia vs South Africa
Test Series (26th Feb - 19th Mar)

DLF IPL IN INDIA:
Twenty20 Tournament (10th Apr - 29th May)

IN ENGLAND:
Twenty20 World Cup (June)

'The Ashes'
NPower Test Series (8th June - 24th Aug)
NPower Twenty20 (30th Aug & 1st Sept)
NPower ODI Series (4th Sept - 20th Sept)

ICC CHAMPION'S TROPHY IN PAKISTAN???
ODI Tournament (24th Sept - 5th Oct)

IN INDIA:
Australia vs India (October)
7 ODI Games

IN AUSTRALIA:
Australia vs Pakistan (November)
3 Test Series
5 ODI Series

Australia vs West Indies (December)
3 3Mobile Test Series
5 Commonwealth Bank ODI Series


EDIT: Added ICC Champion's Trophy & DLF Twenty20 IPL.

 

[bored.of.u]

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After the test series vs SA, australia r gonna make a comeback

 

[shantu1992]

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2009 is a busy year for cricket!

Australian's are playing:
- South Africa
- New Zealand
- Twenty20 World Cup
- Ashes Series in England
- ODI in India
- Pakistan
- West Indies

Definately a good time to get Fox Sports if you don't already have it.

IN AUSTRALIA:
Australia vs South Africa
Commonwealth Bank ODI Series (16th Jan - 30th Jan)

Australia vs New Zealand
ODI Series (1st Feb - 13th Feb)

IN SOUTH AFRICA:
Australia vs South Africa
Test Series (26th Feb - 19th Mar)


IN ENGLAND:
Twenty20 World Cup (June)

'The Ashes'
NPower Test Series (8th June - 24th Aug)
NPower Twenty20 (30th Aug & 1st Sept)
NPower ODI Series (4th Sept - 20th Sept)

IN INDIA:
Australia vs India (October)
7 ODI Games

IN AUSTRALIA:
Australia vs Pakistan (November)
3 Test Series
5 ODI Series

Australia vs West Indies (December)
3 3Mobile Test Series
5 Commonwealth Bank ODI Series

thats a heave schedule.. id be heaps tired playing that much
dont know how they do it
but anyways some good match ups..
interesting also the australian summer next year
West Indies.. dont know what you can get out of them
Pakistan.. should be a good series even though it seems
like havent played a serious forever

 

[blue_chameleon]

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After the test series vs SA, australia r gonna make a comeback

Let's hope so.

Will be interesting to see how the aussies fare in playing the Ashes without their experienced players.

Would love to see Siddle do well over in South Africa. Also, i'm keen to see Hughes playing for Australia and dare I say the Ashes. I think he needs to be nurtured into the team though, as no doubt the media will latch onto him should he fail.

For the first time in a long time, the Aussies are no longer certainties in whoever they face. Should be a great year.

 

[x3.eddayyeeee]

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apparantely the pakistani tour that was cancelled last year has been resceduled to some time between the south afica tour and the ashes.
location has also be rumoured to have changed from pakistan to england .

 

[DaGizza]

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lol morkel does it again...

 

[x.Exhaust.x]

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Warner made more runs than the amount of balls he faced against South Africa...No surprise from that 20/20 match .

 

[blue_chameleon]

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Once Tait dropped Morkel, we had no hope.

Two dropped catches in the first over doesn't do the team any good either.

 

[Roy9]

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Hmmm. I hope we actually have to chase in Adelaide and see how RSA go at setting a target instead of chasing one down.

 

[DaGizza]

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Yeah it is getting boring watch SA chase all the time. In the whole tour, including the Tests and Twenty20s, SA have only won the toss and batted first once.

 

[Roy9]

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And we get owned again...

 

[wrxsti]

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And we get owned again...

Ameen!

Go the AFRICANS!!!

 

[Mozza91]

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THey need to make a whole lot of changes first they need to get rid of the Victards and Hilfy and Tait

 

[withoutaface]

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Dude the current ODI series isn't 09/10, it's 08/09

 

[ah.sport]

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Australian batting lacks depth, especially with mike hussey out of form and michael clarke out injured. Cameron White, James Hopes, David Hussey, etc can score 30 but thats it. There no confidence.

Bring in phillip hughes instead of warner the one hit wonder. Hughes was the one that carried NSW through the Twenty/20 tournament and now to India.

And get a decent all-rounder and spinner

 

[wrxsti]

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Australian batting lacks depth, especially with mike hussey out of form and michael clarke out injured. Cameron White, James Hopes, David Hussey, etc can score 30 but thats it. There no confidence.

Bring in phillip hughes instead of warner the one hit wonder. Hughes was the one that carried NSW through the Twenty/20 tournament and now to India.

And get a decent all-rounder and spinner

Shawn Tait is a chucker!

 

[ah.sport]

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haha maybe.
and when he doesnt get a wicket South Africa belt the shit out of him

 

[Baggygreen408]

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Stuart Clark will play on the tour of South Africa and in future matches. This should bring us success, cause i believe that in test matches especially, the South Africans play a lot of defenisve cricket when it comes to batting. take for example, McKenzie, Prince, Kallis and De Villiers. they all like to leave large amounts of balls alone. Clark bowls that naging line and length in the zone of uncertainity- whether to leave alone or not... and i think, as per his previous debut tour to South Africa, he and the Aussies will experience some success...

 

[whatashotbyseve]

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Well, at least as we watch the last bastion of skill and respect in the Australian team crumble, we can take heart in the fact that no matter how far we fall, we will never be as bad as England. Never mind the (probably depressing) series in South Africa, bring on the Ashes!

 

[Roy9]

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Can't believe we lost an ODI series to a team that has Neil McKenzie in it...