Australia vs England - Twenty/20

Originally posted by Clobber that thing with having nicknames on the shirts is such a cringe

As AK says, they make 20/20 look like a joke - which it is. Keep them there I say, as well as those battleship grey uniforms. The less resemblance it bears to serious cricket, the better. We don't want the players thinking they are representing their country rather than slogging sixes into the crowd for their drunken amusement.

I don't think the Aussies played well. I just think the Englanders played bad. Of coarse I am being sarcastic and even if it was true, it would just show how bad England is.

I agree with Australia's batting, most of the 6's and 4's were conventinal cricket shots. I don't mind the nicknames gives a bit of life to the game and the interaction with gilly punter and vaughan was great. 

Originally posted by gambler You make it sound like hitting sixes ("for the crowd's drunken amusement") is just easy, mindless slogging which requires little skill.   The Aussies did make it look easy....hitting 14 of them. But if it is so easy, then why were England only able to hit 1???   The fact was that I saw a lot of skillful cricket last nite. Gilchrist (5 sixes) for example wasn't doing anything different from what he did during the Test match in Perth....it was all good clean hitting. The same went for Ponting, Hayden and White. The same went for the clever Aussie bowling...with lots of variety...(eg slow balls) and accurate bowling which prevented the English batsmen from being able to "slog".

Of course hitting sixes requires skill, but that doesn't change the fact that 20/20 is not a test of patience,  concentration, defensive batting, attacking bowling and other qualities that define cricket and, for that matter, separate it from baseball, its dumbed-down cousin.

From Tests to ODIs to 20/20s, if you follow the trend to its logical conclusion, you end up with baseball. There's plenty of skill in baseball, but it's just not cricket, is it?

Originally posted by gambler As for the crowd...you must've been watching different coverage from me. I didn't see to many drunken yobbos on my TV screen. Half the crowd were actually kids! I'd be willing to bet that your average 50 over ODI has far more drunken morons than there were last nite. For 1 thing, 3 hours aren't enough for most people to get tanked up properly....

I'm talking about 20/20 in general. No one is drunk at the SCG because they only sell light beer, to the eternal disgrace of the SCG Trust.

Originally posted by Sureshot Originally posted by Sledger  Fantastic performance by the visitors , batting the whole 20 overs , watch us go in the real pyjama game!!     143no is right too , does every other shot have to be a reverse sweep?  When they hit it they get a single - brilliant! For Fletch that's proof that it works though. Did the Aussies sweep? No. So why should we? Sweeping may work in England (it can at times) but hit straight for goodness sake, especially against the spinners. Hilfenhaus looked quite good.

Originally posted by Sledger    Yes Hilfy (sound like a serious illness huh , "he's down with the dreaded Hilfy!")  swung the ball nicely , but they were bowling at night.       Just how many straws am I allowed to pluck fellas?

Serious question.

Do you pluck straws? or do the the chickens around your area have straws instead of feathers?

You must have big ovens.

"I've got the eye in"

Well thatw ould be nice WG, but I doubt it'll get as high as 32 degrees C, maybe 32 degrees farenheit

Thats in the minus figures in centigrade, hopefully won't be that cold though, more like 15 C probably