Peter Baulderstone is sitting at fine leg at the Lillee Marsh stand end of the WACA. He promises regular updates until Swan Draught or WACA Bingo counts him out.
Boy of the Match
November 24, 2011 by 3 Comments
By Nick Withers Johannesburg 2011. Where has Pat Cummins been? Why hasn’t he played forAustraliauntil now? What were the selectors thinking waiting only til now to debut him? The answers to these questions probably go something along the lines of a) in nappies; b) too busy sucking his thumb; and c) it would have [Read more]
From deserts the…
November 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Australia’s fantastic victory overnight had many of the ingredients of Edgbaston 2005, but thankfully a better result for the visitors. The Aussie cause seemed to be lost for most of the abbreviated day’s play, yet in the end a bit of old-fashioned spirit got us through. It’s a bit weird to have the stomach [Read more]
SA v Aus – Day 5: St Cummins Day
November 22, 2011 by 14 Comments
Australia has won the second Test at The Wanderers in Johannesburg by two wickets. In a tense finish, Pat Cummins secured the victory. He played with a freedom of spirit and nonchalance that made any old dog feel even more battered and confused as we watched in our own muck in the middle of the [Read more]
South Africa V Australia – Johannesburg – Second test – Sunday
November 21, 2011 by 6 Comments
20 November 2011 – Day 4 South Africa 266 & 339 Australia 296 and 143/3 First Session South Africa resumed with an overnight lead of 199 and seven second wickets in hand. It was to be an extended two and a half hour session with an early start due to time lost on the [Read more]
Day 4: what’s not to like about Test cricket
November 21, 2011 by 31 Comments
I was in the car when play resumed on the morning of the fourth day at The Wanderers, my mind strongly of the view that the Australians would struggle to contain the South African batting line-up, and certainly were unlikely to dismiss them unless they attacked early. It has been an unusual Test wicket in [Read more]
Second Test Day 3
November 20, 2011 by 5 Comments
When the bowler most likely to snare you a wicket is an eighteen year old Test debutant with less than five first-class games to his credit, it is a reasonable assumption that some serious soul-searching regarding the make-up of your bowling attack would be occurring. It is also fair to say that half-way through a [Read more]
Australia eats spinach for breakfast; SA has rocket salad for lunch
November 19, 2011 by 3 Comments
Cricket: 2nd Test: RSA v Aust, Wanderers, Joh’burg, Day 2, Friday 18 November 2011: South Africa (266 & 0/0) versus Australia (296) Australia’s evaporation at Newlands masked the fact that most ofSouth Africa’s Test cricketers have not yet woken up in this mini-series. Had either Hussey or Watson held the chances given early by Amla [Read more]
South Africa v Australia Second Test Day 1
November 18, 2011 by 16 Comments
by Peter Flynn Australia once had a ‘Big Ship’ as captain. Now it’s South Africa’s turn to have a skipper who cuts an imposing figure. Smith and Clarke look like Big Nick and a young Ted Hopkins as they make their out for the toss.
2nd Test Blog
November 17, 2011 by 6 Comments
After a week of varied traumas in the cricket world, the Aussies saddle up to try and make amends for the (not so) magic number 47. How do we rate their chances?
A Post Mortem in Eight Parts
November 14, 2011 by 20 Comments
Patrick O’Keeffe 13/11/2011 Back in the good old days, when the Australian cricket team lost a test match, the period that followed would involve extreme inebriation. This would be followed by soul searching, name calling and blame levelling. In turn, this would lead to hand to hand combat, followed by more inebriation. Eventually, everyone would [Read more]
Australia at 6s and 7s on 11/11/11
November 12, 2011 by 4 Comments
by Andrew Gigacz After the day 2 shenanigans of this Test, the third day was almost certainly going to be an anti-climax. How do you top – or should that be how do you “bottom”? – a session and a half in which 18 wickets fall for 68 runs (from SA being 1/49 to [Read more]
A Wasted Opportunity
November 11, 2011 by 25 Comments
What a total embarrassment for Australian cricket last night in Cape Town. The soft underbelly of modern-day Australian batting has again been exposed. In 2005 it was bad umpiring and a substitute fieldsman, in 2009 we apparently batted well except for a few sessions. Last summer we supposedly picked the wrong blokes from our bottomless [Read more]
Day 2: Believe it if you saw it.
November 11, 2011 by 51 Comments
In normal circumstances, I would have started proceedings by talking about Michael Clarke’s wonderful batting performance: an innings which, hopefully, will not define his captaincy, but will be a portent of the maturity he is beginning to show. Upon coming to the crease with his team precariously positioned at 3-40, the new skipper played possibly [Read more]
Clarke’s counter-punching saves the day
November 10, 2011 by 33 Comments
It didn’t have the feel of the first morning of an Ashes series. But it should have. It seems obvious these two competitors should play five-Test series, home and away, every couple of years. Or at least three and three if neither home broadcaster will give up their summer income. But it was a [Read more]
South Africa v Shane Warne
November 9, 2011 by 6 Comments
by Matthew O’Connor Unfortunately for South Africa, its return to the Test Cricket fold in 1993 coincided with the rise and rise of Liz Hurley’s fiancée. But more of that later. To a 27yo Test Cricket following nut, the return of South Africa was a gift to be savoured. A whole box of new [Read more]
First Test preview
November 8, 2011 by 7 Comments
The footy and racing are over and it’s time to turn attention to some real Test cricket coming back from South Africa. And what a mini-series it is in prospect, with the ramifications for both teams being huge. We were entitled to feel pretty happy with the performance under our new skipper in Sri Lanka, [Read more]
SA Tour Preview
October 20, 2011 by 7 Comments
There are some interesting things going on in the cricket world at the moment. What we thought may have been established trends a few months ago might not be so established after all : Australia is improving, England is faltering and Pakistan is performing in its usual enigmatic way. The good news for Australia is [Read more]
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