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[Adam Went]

Monty:

So you're calling Sehwag, Tendulkar, Dravid, Laxman, Dhoni and Zaheer Khan inferior, are you? Tendulkar has probably single handedly got more test runs than the entire UN batting order combined!

Of course what pleases me all the more is that Duncan Fletcher, your glorious coach from '05, is the coach of India these days.....Karma.

Steven:

I hope for your sake that the price of postage hasn't gone up too much by 2013....lucky it's a small urn.

Cheers,
Adam.

[Steven Russell]

Who has the urn, Adam? Who has the urn?

Steve.

[Monty]

You still get over excited too soon don't ya? No wonder your girlfriend is made of rubber.

England are No1 Test Team and T20 World Champions.

Your inferior Test Team has just beaten another inferior Test Team. Doesn't phase us.

Clarkes record against England is pitiful, so with that in mind I aint even gonna bother rolling the pastry out for that pie.

Monty

[Adam Went]

Ranked 4th in the rankings and yet are 2 from 2 against the 2nd ranked team? Shows just what stats mean.

It's actually the best of both worlds at the moment.....the current Aussie team is going brilliantly (even though half our walk-up starters are injured) and the old Aussie stars are still out having a bash in the new T20 league and going well. Warney is bowling great and just recently got voted, at 42 years of age, as still being Australia's best spinner (not sure if that's a good thing or not).....and Matty Hayden just won man of the match a couple of nights ago for his blistering 76 off 51 balls for his team....

Stuey MacGill and Brad Hogg are going well too.

Ah, life is good. I'll start baking that humble pie for when Clarke makes a triple ton against your mob, Monty......incidentally, who was the last Pom to make a triple ton? Graham Gooch?

Cheers,
Adam.

[Monty]

pfff, whatever.

48 all out a few months ago. Still ranked 4th in the Test rankings, whereas England are simply the best...and Clarke is our biatch.

Come back to me when you play the big boys and enjoy the glory.....for it will not last.

Monty

[Adam Went]

Steven? Monty? C'mon....a little humility please and a grudging appreciation of Michael Clarke's 329 not out. Never mind what he said about it being the right time to declare, the man is a true blooded Aussie through and through and didn't want to beat The Don's 334.....or Mark Taylor's either, who was commentating on the match. He could have gone on to overtake Lara's record if he wanted to, but had the respect not to. And we still won by an innings against an Indian team still boasting names like Sehwag, Dravid, Tendulkar, Laxman, Dhoni.....Nothing could have made me prouder as an Aussie....

Except, of course, seeing Ricky and Mike Hussey (but especially Ricky) make hundreds as well.....humble pie, critics?

Off to bask in the glory that is Australian cricket once more.

Cheers,
Adam.

[Adam Went]

Ricky, Ricky, Ricky.....what are you doing!!??

Cheers,
Adam.

[Monty]

47 all out.

Yep, crapping meslef.

Monty

[Adam Went]

Pat Cummins makes his Test debut. Tremble with fear, ye who do not support the mighty! Turned the TV on last night and the first thing I saw was him beat Jacques Kallis outside off stump with a jaffa. Decent effort. Then his first wicket was Hashim Amla. Not a bad first scalp.

Cheers,
Adam.

[Adam Went]

Monty:

Who's the 104 year old you refer to? Ponting, Hayden, Warne? You don't find yourself amongst the leading run scorers in Test cricket of all time unless you're a pretty good player. Write any of them off at your peril.

You'd sooner see a Guy get 50 rather than 298? Cook and scored a double ton (nearly 300) a couple of times these past 12 months as well as a fair few hundreds. You don't get monster scores like that with crap techinique.

I've got no idea what you just said. I don't speak the language of grammatically incorrect drivel.

As for our attack, we both know its the best in the world. Remember Boxing day 2010? Or were you one of the thousands who walk out of the ground, or millions who turned off the TV, when we ripped you out for less that a 100?

I've erased it from my memory. However, I DO recall Boxing Day 2006. Do you?

And your attack is mediocre at best. In fact, your whole team is mediocre. At the moment they've had a bit of luck and are punching above their weight but it won't be long before they are found out and returned to their rightful place as the laughing stock of international cricket.

Steven:

That might have been true 50 years ago, but in 2011 it is all about aggression and taking the game head on. Nobody is interested in watching a team make 500 at 2 per over as they did back in Boycott's day.

On a more serious note, RIP Peter Roebuck....had enjoyed his many excellent contributions to the game over the years.

Cheers,
Adam.

[Steven Russell]

Adam: "It's not how you make the runs, it's how many you make." - Geoff Boycott (a proper crickiter).

Best wishes,
Steve.

[Monty]

Monty:

Ponting has already said he'll be in England in 2013, so you just better get used to it. We know you're still scared of him. And you haven't got Harmlesson in your team anymore so there's not much in your bowling attack to fear. Swann is more like the ugly duckling.

I don't give a fly feck if Watson has won a badge for the 200 meters breast stroke Adam. He is, and sit down cos this will come as a shock to you, not the best opener Australian have had. He isn't the worlds best opener either, no way feckin near. He hits 50 the pow, gone. He certainly wouldn't creep into the England team but then again, at this moment in time, no Australian would. They are too average. Watson simply is too simple and one dimensional. Only certain conditions suit him and they are few.

I'd rather watch Watson make 50 in his style than Alastair Cook make 250 in his style - I maintain that he has the worst technique I have ever seen in an opening batsman. He should be thankful for Shiv Chanderpaul or that would be a batsman full stop.

I never said he was our best opening batsman, you imbecile. Who do you think is? Phil Hughes?
Everybody knows that Matthew Hayden is/was the man.

By the way, Watson did take 5 for in the first dig as well - the benefit of being an all-rounder. When was the last time Cook or Strauss took 5 for in a test match?

Now if Clarke is your only hope you'd better start praying to Jesus and asking him if his Dad has any Aussie blood in him, however I doubt it. Seeing as God is an Englishman an all.

I've already announced that I am available for Test selection, to open the batting if necessary. What more can I do, Monty?

Cheers,
Adam.

Heh heh, such bravardo. The bravardo of a man who knows his team hasn't got what it takes but is too proud to admit it.

If your hopes are pinned on a 104 year old has been then your delusions are more imbedded than I thought.

You'd sooner see a Guy get 50 rather than 298? Cook and scored a double ton (nearly 300) a couple of times these past 12 months as well as a fair few hundreds. You don't get monster scores like that with crap techinique.

As for our attack, we both know its the best in the world. Remember Boxing day 2010? Or were you one of the thousands who walk out of the ground, or millions who turned off the TV, when we ripped you out for less that a 100?

Monty

[Adam Went]

Monty:

Ponting has already said he'll be in England in 2013, so you just better get used to it. We know you're still scared of him. And you haven't got Harmlesson in your team anymore so there's not much in your bowling attack to fear. Swann is more like the ugly duckling.

I don't give a fly feck if Watson has won a badge for the 200 meters breast stroke Adam. He is, and sit down cos this will come as a shock to you, not the best opener Australian have had. He isn't the worlds best opener either, no way feckin near. He hits 50 the pow, gone. He certainly wouldn't creep into the England team but then again, at this moment in time, no Australian would. They are too average. Watson simply is too simple and one dimensional. Only certain conditions suit him and they are few.

I'd rather watch Watson make 50 in his style than Alastair Cook make 250 in his style - I maintain that he has the worst technique I have ever seen in an opening batsman. He should be thankful for Shiv Chanderpaul or that would be a batsman full stop.

I never said he was our best opening batsman, you imbecile. Who do you think is? Phil Hughes?
Everybody knows that Matthew Hayden is/was the man.

By the way, Watson did take 5 for in the first dig as well - the benefit of being an all-rounder. When was the last time Cook or Strauss took 5 for in a test match?

Now if Clarke is your only hope you'd better start praying to Jesus and asking him if his Dad has any Aussie blood in him, however I doubt it. Seeing as God is an Englishman an all.

I've already announced that I am available for Test selection, to open the batting if necessary. What more can I do, Monty?

Cheers,
Adam.

[Monty]

We are the No1 test team in the World, and the World T20 champions, we have beaten you in the last two Ashes series, and soundly beaten you in your back yard last time around.

Our yard is spanking mate. Grass cut, fence painted. You need to start clearing that old sofa out of yours called Pointing and neuter that yapping bitch called pup Clarke....then you may get there.

For some inexplicable reason you think 200 odd is acceptable. Try 500, 600, 700 first time around. A mere 284 is nothing. A 284 means you know you're gonna have to bat again and therefore, numbnut, it puts pressure on you bats knowing the job isn't even half done.

I don't give a fly feck if Watson has won a badge for the 200 meters breast stroke Adam. He is, and sit down cos this will come as a shock to you, not the best opener Australian have had. He isn't the worlds best opener either, no way feckin near. He hits 50 the pow, gone. He certainly wouldn't creep into the England team but then again, at this moment in time, no Australian would. They are too average. Watson simply is too simple and one dimensional. Only certain conditions suit him and they are few.

Now if Clarke is your only hope you'd better start praying to Jesus and asking him if his Dad has any Aussie blood in him, however I doubt it. Seeing as God is an Englishman an all.

Monty


47 all out.

[Adam Went]

Monty:

Its not got unnoted by us, there is something wrong with the way the Australian team bats under pressure.

But that's the thing, there was NO pressure. Having made 284 in the first dig, we were more or less 200 runs up in the first innings, on just the 2nd day of the match. That is just about the definition of no pressure. Clearly you don't know what you're on about.

I disagree with some of what you say about Watson. There's no doubt that he's a great player - you don't get to be the reigning Allan Border medallist for nothing - and great to watch when in full flight. BUT his technique can be very suspect when the ball is doing a bit, and I think that comes back to the fact that he spent his younger days batting in the middle and lower middle order at all levels of cricket, because he's an all-rounder, used to coming in when the ball is older and not doing a lot. The openers spot is still a relatively new one on him and when you're opening the batting, you've got to have a good technique to see off the new ball.

Having said all of that, once in a lifetime things always seem to happen to us against South Africa. Like the ODI a few years back when we made 430 odd, a world record, and still got beaten.

I suspect we'll come back with a much stronger performance in the 2nd test.

As for you, i'd recommend taking care of your own backyard before trying to take care of ours as well, your team isn't exactly storming forward at the moment either.

Your boys are letting you down Adam, tell them to buck their ideas up.

No worries, i'll get on the dog and bone to Clarkey right now.

Cheers,
Adam.