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Originally Posted by daveboy

Please pick Johnson for the tests

They did Dave, how did that go????..... Dave??? Dave????

What's that echo?

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

Nooooooooo!! - there has been talk of that lately which is worrying.

Nice one Wally, the all seeing Oracle.

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

Haddin the hack gone with a terrible shot at the worst time. That's Haddin. Same trick different day....

The trick seems to be scoring 50+ at every opportunity.....5555

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

The Aussie opening/middle order have been very nearly as bad as ours, and that's bad...

It's funny but as Wally pointed out the averages don't really tell the full story if they average 141.8 for the first 5 wickets.

Can I just say that we won more sessions in Melbun just not the important ones.

^^^^ haha. Page 210 eh? Thanks for letting me know where to look for pre series egg-on-face predictions.

Yes. I was worried about Johnson being picked. Though he was bowling faster than anybody in the world in ODI's, and seemed to have stopped spraying the ball all over the place, I had my doubts (as did many) that he would be able to transfer that form into test cricket. I think credit needs to be given to Clarke, who has managed his bowlers very well. Bowling Harris and MJ in short spells has produced maximum results, and prevented them from tiring themselves. I remember 'the old Mitchell Johnson' was at his worst when he was required to bowl long spells - quite often due to one of our bowlers breaking down mid-match. I am quite happy to admit that I was wrong in losing faith in him, and with Pattinson, Starc and Cummins ( who is faster than Johnson) waiting in the ranks, I feel confident that we will be a team known for winning matches thanks to good fast bowling for some time to come.

Originally Posted by Bobcock

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

Haddin the hack gone with a terrible shot at the worst time. That's Haddin. Same trick different day....

The trick seems to be scoring 50+ at every opportunity.....5555

Yep. That's the new Haddin, and how great it is to see him finally showing consistency.

As somebody who has closely followed his career, I can honestly tell you that he used to be very annoying to watch. He seemed to try to fill Gillchrist's shoes just a little too much, and would get out trying to hit the ball out of the park just when we needed him to have a cool head.

It's only since he has been given his second chance to play test cricket for Australia after Wade was dropped after a promising start that he has reinvented himself.

It did take him a while, but what a fine replacement for Gilly he has turned out to be.

I shall no longer be calling him a hack

Brad Haddin!!! What a champion!!!!

Haddin's record-breaking continues

Stats highlights from the first day's play of the fifth Ashes Test at the SCG
Shiva Jayaraman
January 3, 2014


Brad Haddin's six 50-plus scores in this series equals the most by a wicketkeeper in a series © Getty Images

• This was Brad Haddin's sixth 50-plus score of this Ashes. This is the most a No. 7 batsman has ever hit in a series. Greg Matthews' five fifty-plus scores, which he hit in a series against Sri Lanka in 1992, were the previous highest by a No. 7 batsman in a series.

• Haddin has also equalled Gerry Alexander's record for the most 50-plus scores in a series by a wicketkeeper. Denis Lindsay's three hundreds and two fifties against South Africa in 1966 is the only other instance of a wicketkeeper scoring five or more 50-plus scores in a series.

• Haddin has scored 465 runs in this Ashes, the second-highest by any No. 7 in a Test series. He is just nine runs short of going past Adam Gilchrist, who hit 473 runs at 157.66 against South Africa in 2001-02.

• Steven Smith hit his second century of this Ashes and the third of his Test career in this innings. His century is the first by a No. 5 in the Ashes at the SCG after Steve Waugh's hundred in 2002-03. There have been 11 hundreds by No. 5 batsmen in the Ashes at this venue. Smith also completed 1000 Test runs during his innings: he has scored 1085 runs at 37.41 from 32 innings.

• Australia's sixth wicket put together a century stand for the third time in this Ashes. This is only the second series in which their sixth wicket has had three century partnerships. The last such instance came in the Ashes in 1920-21.

• Australia's sixth wicket has added 514 runs in this series at 73.42, the most any wicket has added for them. This is also currently the eighth-highest aggregate by Australia's sixth wicket in any Ashes. The highest that Australia's sixth wicket has added ever in the Ashes are 609 runs at 121.80 in the 2006-07 series.

• Michael Carberry was Mitchell Johnson's 32nd wicket of this Ashes. He's now equalled Frank Foster's record for the most wickets by a left-arm fast bowler in an Ashes series. Foster took 32 wickets from ten innings in the 1911-12 Ashes. Johnson's haul is also the joint-third highest by a left-arm fast bowler in any series.

• Ben Stokes took his maiden five-wicket haul in Australia's first innings, but was scored off rapidly too. His economy of 4.99 was England's second-worst for a five-wicket haul in Tests. Craig White's 5 for 127 against Australia at Perth in 2002 came at an economy of 5.48, which is the worst for an England bowler in an innings with a five-wicket haul.

• Three England players - Boyd Rankin, Gary Ballance and Scott Borthwick - made their debut in this Test. This was the first time three or more England players made their debut in a Test since Nagpur 2006, when Ian Blackwell, Alastair Cook and Monty Panesar made their debut. The last time this happened in the Ashes was in 1993 at Trent Bridge, when Mark Ilott, Martin McCague, Mark Lathwell and Graham Thorpe all debuted.

Shiva Jayaraman is a sub-editor (stats) at ESPNcricinfo.com
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Originally Posted by Bobcock

A lot worse..... what is your point?

Mine is to provide a very interesting stat that I bet you wouldn't have guessed and to highlight just how well the lower middle order / tail (particularly Haddin, Smith and Johnson) has played.

After all it's not a stat you would expect to hear about a team 4-0 up in a test series.

Typical Australian, look at everything as a criticism, jeez, your inferiority complex is just awful..... seek help man!

I think it's a case of England and Captain Cook have a plan on how to get each of our top order batsmen out but after that they have no plan.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

Not sure I said that Haddin shouldn't be picked.

You wanted him dropped!!!

Not exactly Betty..

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

Did haddin have a shocker? I've never really rated him as a keeper

5 runs off 13 balls from memory and not acceptable.

I have not rated him for at least 2 seasons and he has lost his eye or his nerve to bat these days.

Get rid of him.

)

I don't think we have much choice right now. Wade can bat but can't keep.

Pup is a Haddin fan too, so I expect him to be around a bit longer.

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

^yep.

1-3 last time in Aussieland. I'm thinking the Aussies would do very well to only lose 3 games this time around...



Me and Mike are thinking about 0-5...

You are being way too cocky here BB.

Pretty sure you will be eating your words in a month or 2.

No way you will beat us in Perth , and be very surprised if we don't win in Brisbane too.... We have better bowlers thAn you. Fact. And on these pitches England's weakness to good bowling will be exposed.

Feel free to carry on though

Time to eat your words Betty.

Feel free to use my chopsticks

I've just reported Daveboy, Harry, Cyrille and a few others to the police as missing persons.

Hope they are ok

Whole lot of soap dodgers missing in action.
Kudos to the taff and Betty for occasionally popping in to take their licks.

I'll be needing a spoon.



Doesn't taste good...

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

I remember the umpires coming down on Ponting pretty hard for the same thing.

I think it's because Cookie is a nice bloke and Ponting is a cock.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles

I remember the umpires coming down on Ponting pretty hard for the same thing.

I think it's because Cookie is a nice bloke and Ponting is a cock.

what a dumb comment; so do you advocate different rule application based on personalities in cricket?

Second ball of the day....Cook plumb in front, no shot offered....All out for under 100?

Bell dropped first ball by Watson at 1st slip.....2 for 8

Originally Posted by Necron99

Whole lot of soap dodgers missing in action.
Kudos to the taff and Betty for occasionally popping in to take their licks.

Indeed. I must admit at lunch yesterday I thought I'd .....


haha cookie gone 2nd ball!

2 / 8

Anderson on strike 1

Bell 0

MJ 1 / 3

No great loss with Anderson gone. Playing at almost everything coming at shoulder height.

3 /14

Bell 0 on strike

Pietersen 0

Harris 1 / 6

Look a wee bit nervous don't they

another wicket

Pieterson gone

4 / 17

Young boys batting out there it seems