Symonds remainder
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Topic: Symonds remainder
Posted By: krisdy
Subject: Symonds remainder
Date Posted: 07 December 2005 at 4:25am
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All the people were taking about Shewag,pieterson,kemp,Dhoni,Gilchrist,afridi. Well Andrew Symonds has given a rude awakening to all of us. 156 of 127 balls , 12 Fours , 8 Sixes ,, finally bowled by vettori ,, only if vettori had come earlier. I just pray that Cairns does the same thing in return. ------------- "I go by present and present says - Sachin IS the BEST , Shewag is going to be the next best and Dhoni's is gonna rock the world with his brutal assaults - GOD help the rest of the world" |
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Posted By: Sledger
Date Posted: 07 December 2005 at 5:02am
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Symonds is extrememly destructive Krisdy and today's 156 is as good as any innings he's played before! 8 towering 6's and a liking to all 7 bowlers used by the Kiwis , a truly brilliant display of power hitting.
He could well have cemented a place in the test side for next week - the South Africans will be panicking!! ------------- Mental disintegration works for me !! |
Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 07 December 2005 at 8:29am
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Yea, a great inning from Symonds. He was really destructive and explosive. ------------- Regulation without integration leads to suicide. |
Posted By: surenj
Date Posted: 07 December 2005 at 11:43am
| his innings in the world cup was probably of more importance when it all boils down but yeah in terms of his place in the team this innings can't do any harm. personally i don't believe he should be in the test team, its an over reaction by the selectors towards flintoff's hand in the ashes defeat - now they're hell bent on finding an all-rounder. but symonds is definately one of the most explosive one day batsman around |
Posted By: Sledger
Date Posted: 07 December 2005 at 12:23pm
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I agree surenj , Symonds isn't really an allrounder who's going to scare anyone with the ball. His batting is powerful , but is it test quality , I think not. After his late night partying on the Ashes tour , he has a few bridges to repair , this won't do him any harm.
And for all you Aussies out there , he's a bloody pom !!  ------------- Mental disintegration works for me !! |
Posted By: krisdy
Date Posted: 07 December 2005 at 12:31pm
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symonds -- allrounder ha ha ,,,,,No jokes pls ------------- "I go by present and present says - Sachin IS the BEST , Shewag is going to be the next best and Dhoni's is gonna rock the world with his brutal assaults - GOD help the rest of the world" |
Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 08 December 2005 at 12:32am
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Symonds isn't an all-rounder... even though he bowls and bats. His bowling is garbage. ------------- Regulation without integration leads to suicide. |
Posted By: abub
Date Posted: 08 December 2005 at 4:44pm
| hes an exellent batsmen |
Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 09 December 2005 at 12:16am
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No Way! He performed well in one inning and you call him excellent. That was one inning...now lets see how consistently he can perform. ------------- Regulation without integration leads to suicide. |
Posted By: -JP-
Date Posted: 09 December 2005 at 12:17am
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Symonds has been performing pretty consistently in the one day game for some time now Saad - he smashed England all over the park in the summer; it's only in Tests where he hasn't proven himself. ------------- |
Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 09 December 2005 at 12:19am
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Yea, but he still can't be called excellent. He is a good batsman...not an excellent batsman. ------------- Regulation without integration leads to suicide. |
Posted By: cricket_mstr
Date Posted: 09 December 2005 at 3:14am
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He bowls quite well,he can bowl fast or off-spin, if you can wait until the VB series you'll see he can be quite efficient He can be considered better than Flintoff |
Posted By: krisdy
Date Posted: 09 December 2005 at 3:41am
cricket_mstr please ,,, his bowling is a waste ... he is a FLUKE bowler ,,, infact he is jsut a change bowler to destroy the rigthm of batsman. Regarding batting ,, he is very very good and delivers when required. But he can't be compared to flintoff ,,, freddie is Great Allrounder ,, whereas Symonds is just a Good batsman [hitter] ,,who can bowl some overs thats all. ------------- "I go by present and present says - Sachin IS the BEST , Shewag is going to be the next best and Dhoni's is gonna rock the world with his brutal assaults - GOD help the rest of the world" |
Posted By: Sledger
Date Posted: 09 December 2005 at 5:32am
He can be considered better than Flintoff for about a nanosecond before reality kicks in once again mstr ! Flintoff was the reason why Australia lost the Urn , just ask Hayden and Gilchrist. Be honest , Symonds didn't make the Aussie side when you didn't play a genuine allrounder (Gilchrist doesn't count) - that's because your selectors KNEW he wasn't up to scratch. Another thing - Freddie will drink him under the table too!! ------------- Mental disintegration works for me !! |
Posted By: cricket_mstr
Date Posted: 09 December 2005 at 7:59am
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Symonds did not get into the the Australia Ashes side because of the Aussie selectors arrogence. No one outside of australia could understand the frustration we had with the Australians sending in the same out of form guys each match, symonds (as well as Hodge and Hussey) could easily replace the out of form Martyn, Hayden, Katich and Clarke. If Watson coud play as well as he did against the World XI all the time, Australia could see their own great allrounder |
Posted By: krisdy
Date Posted: 09 December 2005 at 8:12am
hi mstr ,, pls go through an article written by your own last genuine all rounder http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/226919.html - http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/226919.html . and y aussies can't find a allrounder of Freddie's calibre Legends speak sense .. ! ------------- "I go by present and present says - Sachin IS the BEST , Shewag is going to be the next best and Dhoni's is gonna rock the world with his brutal assaults - GOD help the rest of the world" |
Posted By: Sledger
Date Posted: 09 December 2005 at 8:21am
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Before stepping off that plane at Heathrow Damien Martyn was THE top runscorer for Australia in the previous 12 months. I agree that Hayden's form had dipped but I can tell you that England were worried that he might come back to his destructive best.
Michael Clarke was the golden boy of Aussie cricket , mainly because of that fantastic debut ton that wowed everyone. It was no real surprise to me that he didn't set the Ashes alight , he didn't do that brilliantly for Hampshire before that. The ball seams a lot more in England and with the tests running into September , batting was always going to be pretty difficult. I wondered how Katich could keep Hussey out of the side too. I guess he's got support inside Cricket Australia , but it mystified me as to why? Hussey is definitely a better bat and so is Hodge for that matter. Hindsight is a terrific thing , but if you go read Australian newspapers before the 2nd test they were perfectly happy with the squad taken over to England. It's easy to criticize when things began to unravel. As for Watson , he's a prospect , but no more than that. His bowling is pacy , but without any variation , good batsmen will and have murdered him. He won't take 5 wickets in a test until he finds something different. His batting's reasonable , but again , not brilliant. Face it , Australia would give anything to unleash an Andrew Flintoff on the cricketing world , but they simply haven't got one. ------------- Mental disintegration works for me !! |
Posted By: cricket_mstr
Date Posted: 09 December 2005 at 8:48am
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What annoys me the most is that it was an Australian coach that coached him I forgot his name but he was an Australia wicket keeper |
Posted By: krisdy
Date Posted: 09 December 2005 at 8:53am
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u truly love australia , and hate loosing in ashes ------------- "I go by present and present says - Sachin IS the BEST , Shewag is going to be the next best and Dhoni's is gonna rock the world with his brutal assaults - GOD help the rest of the world" |
Posted By: Sledger
Date Posted: 09 December 2005 at 9:04am
Yep , Rod Marsh , he headed England's Cricket Academy. He did a great job !!  ------------- Mental disintegration works for me !! |
Posted By: saadadvanced7
Date Posted: 09 December 2005 at 11:07pm
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cricket_mstr, there is no way that you can compare Symonds with Flintoff. ------------- Regulation without integration leads to suicide. |