I think I read that it was moved from the 2nd to the 3rd because the players had asked for a little extra time to get their shit together after NYE. Or maybe that was the spin CrookAussie put on what they thought was a good idea at the time.
3rd for the start is...
1) Ideal, as I will be at work, with bugger all to do and not many about, so radio on!
2) Not ideal, as work around the house with the cricket on the wahless is much better than SEN's Summer of Snoring.
How about that? Pat thought the Test started on January 2, I've been lying in bed all morning waiting for the cricket to start thinking today was January 3. No wonder Grandstand had its obnoxious 24 hour ad on.
Conditions in ye olden days need to be considered in light of uncovered pitches. Conditions in ye newden days need to be considered in light of flat out shenanigans - The Oval 2009, for instance.
FINALLY back online again, after a two-day outage - for some reason the hotel I was staying in in Nelson, NZ didn't seem to think that getting on top of that sort of thing was important. It's my first time here - nice place. Reminds me of Australia twenty years ago, which is not supposed to be patronising if there are any Kiwis lurking.....
I'll actually be in Sydney for a week from Saturday if anyone feels like catching up for a Heineken or two. Go to the "contact" page on my website (link below) - it goes through to my email. My only chance of making it to the Test will be if the Shrees last to the 5th day though.
It'll be a good time to leave Inzid after that batting performance. Good God! They managed to get one back before lunch though, which makes eleven wickets in the opening session. Surely some sort of a record?
Well - Holland is still flat, and the coffee's still dreadful - and Fulham managed to win away for once. But apart from that it sounds like you're pretty much up to date.
Pat thought the Test started on January 2. I thought it started on New Year's day. Looked it up and that's only happened a few times, so, once again my memory is clouded.
The Tests usually start on the 2nd. Anyway, it's on today. Isn't it?
Toss: Australia have won the toss and they are bowling first.
Hard Core must see the pitch as being good for some seam bowling. Luckily my weather reports were in in time for Match Management Committee to make this decision.
The AGB Carbonometer predicts: "Today's play will be a carbon copy of the 2nd Test."
Sorry, I see that the 1st test in Death and Diversity Nation has already been covered. As well as the German retreat from the Don after the fall of Stalingrad.
Pitch report from Kamerads at the ground: "Green top. Four prong blitz attack, first in 60 years. Srees could be all out by the first drinks session. Australia to declare by the 3rd drinks session. Srees decimated by stumps. Innings and 650 run victory to Oz on first day. Let the rape and pillage begin."
Allen Madden, for those international visitors confused by proceedings, is a traditional Aboriginal name.
It means the descendant of the son of the hound, correction, dingo. The dingo-hound is famous in Gaelic, correction, Aboriginal heraldry having the virtues of speed, endurance, and loyalty.
If three quick can't, cough, splutter, get the job done, four quicks will also struggle. There is probably a mathematical algorithm which represents the "if three can't, four can't" scenario, but that is high level #CricketMaths which only Russ and Dave Barry can get their boffin noggins around.
Paraphrasing m0nty... "I thought this was the Syderrney Test post"
Ah, don't worry about good old m0nty. He performs retreat after retreat, using colonials as cannon fodder, goes missing for days, then when the biz has been done by others in his absence, he claims rights to a victory parade through the defeated nation's streets.
He's probably at Catallaxy right now, sowing the seeds of discord.
I'll be busy on Saturday and Sunday, but can be pretty much anywhere on Monday if it gets that far. I will be keen to make it to the ground if it does, though.
too many people here watched hogan's Heroes instead of doing their homework.
We picked 4 fast bowlers with Wade as a batsman and Johnson as a ( cough cough) all rounder because we are playing crap. That is a technical term to describe crap players if you understand the Socratic method thinking along Sartre lines.
"I won't hunt you down" - don't worry about that, would be happy to have a beer if we can make it happen. I'm still in New Zealand until Saturday afternoon and busy in Sydney on Sunday, so Monday is really the only time as well as today that I'll be able to follow it (I hesitate to use the word "watch" given my earlier comment).
Don, just had a look in the fridge and I couldn't help but think of you. 4 x insipid Corona's left over from Christmas drinks. It's not enticing but will have to do.
Gotta be better than that Kiwi lager you've been drinking. A better deal is Oettinger Pils from Dan Murphy's. Better yet, just brew your own, and open the session with an import. Just like the T20.
Welcome back m0nt! Where have you been, trekking through the mountains? You should have dropped in, and I could have given you a litre of sour cream and some strips of bacon to go with the spuds.
I love the pic with the news story. All the tourists at Echo Point going "Check out that fella down there with a kilo of spuds on his back. Must be a real local."
Then there was a rush on Woolies Katoomba for spuds to send back home as tourist gifts.
Gilchrist dropped a sitter in his last Test. Flatty Haydos dropped a sitter in his last Test. Hussey missed a sitter in his last Test. The common denominator? Already retired and sitting on a beach, or in The Hay Dross Way, picking home grown aubergines.
Wellington's arse was saved by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. Until Blücher and his army arrived, Wellington was about to have his arse handed to him on a French platter. A splatter platter.
Napoleon unaccountable delayed the start of the battle. Had he gotten rolling earlier in the day he would have rolled Wellington before Blucher arrived.
Crown lager is the SCG drink of choice, so I'm led to believe.
Re. the French, I like Fred on Everything's take on the whole "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" patriotard thing (Hat Tip, Tim Blair):
Patriots make much of the dismal record of the French in matters military. Well, yes. It's hard to argue with failure. I note, however, that the French have Germany on their borders, a condition associated with military failure for everybody enjoying the same circumstances.
The gradual creep of Nein commentators from out of the comm.box to 'on-screen personalities' is destroying the actual 'watching of cricket' experience.
...that, and the error of linking the word 'personalities' with the Nein talking-head brigade.
Dead rubber, half a stadium. Expect only the hardcore fan to show up.
That said, it is still a fair whack of SL v NSW XI... So may draw a crowd
Posted by: @tkyc | Tuesday, January 01, 2013 at 12:08 PM
Talk of Cow Corner or Cowboy leading the side. Apparently, choosing a bowler is beyond the pale.
Posted by: m0nty | Tuesday, January 01, 2013 at 12:55 PM
Why does the Vodafone New Years Test start on the 3rd?
Posted by: Cameron | Tuesday, January 01, 2013 at 02:10 PM
Two days with nothing to do but fill my time via alcoholism and chronic masturbation.
Posted by: Cameron | Tuesday, January 01, 2013 at 02:11 PM
I think I read that it was moved from the 2nd to the 3rd because the players had asked for a little extra time to get their shit together after NYE. Or maybe that was the spin CrookAussie put on what they thought was a good idea at the time.
Posted by: Tony Tea | Tuesday, January 01, 2013 at 06:25 PM
3rd for the start is...
1) Ideal, as I will be at work, with bugger all to do and not many about, so radio on!
2) Not ideal, as work around the house with the cricket on the wahless is much better than SEN's Summer of Snoring.
Posted by: @TKYC | Tuesday, January 01, 2013 at 10:36 PM
How bad is SEN at the moment? I'm currently all over Eddie Wyatt and Jonathan Howcroft on Grandstand breaky.
Posted by: Tony Tea | Tuesday, January 01, 2013 at 10:44 PM
What is a SEN? I use it in e-mail
Posted by: The Don has risen | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 09:50 AM
How about that? Pat thought the Test started on January 2, I've been lying in bed all morning waiting for the cricket to start thinking today was January 3. No wonder Grandstand had its obnoxious 24 hour ad on.
Posted by: Tony Tea | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 10:42 AM
Just a technical note.
It is a fine line between producing a turner and a dead wicket. This is what we got when we cheated at the SCG during border's time.
It will be interesting to see what happens in this Sri day test.
go back to the 1950s and you will, Go to Miller and Lindwall and you will find greentops then wella it starts spinning just in time for richie.
A remarkable coincidence all round!
Posted by: The Don has risen | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 10:49 AM
Conditions in ye olden days need to be considered in light of uncovered pitches. Conditions in ye newden days need to be considered in light of flat out shenanigans - The Oval 2009, for instance.
Posted by: Tony Tea | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 10:58 AM
really need I mention 1956 at all?
the Awzies won at Lords ( Miller 10 wickets when 37) on a decent pitch. suddenly spinner's paradises were everywhere
Posted by: The Don has risen | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 11:51 AM
Aunty poached Ed? Just shows how little SEN pays.
Posted by: m0nty | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 01:15 PM
Is Ed still doing Sunday night USA with Turf and the betting shill?
Posted by: Tony Tea | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 01:20 PM
Ed?
I recommend A Cardus for all seasons.
Could only be gotten from a second hand bookshop but a jolly good read.
Very Heineken one might say!
Posted by: The Don has risen | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 04:18 PM
Four quicks at the SCG? They must be very keen to see how Bird travels.
Posted by: lou | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 06:14 PM
When was the last time we played four quicks? Perth 2008 against India? That worked out well. Then again, none of these quicks are Spud Tait.
Posted by: Tony Tea | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 07:12 PM
New Zealand all out 45 in 19 overs after winning the toss and batting.
Good toss to aaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Tony Tea | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 09:21 PM
FINALLY back online again, after a two-day outage - for some reason the hotel I was staying in in Nelson, NZ didn't seem to think that getting on top of that sort of thing was important. It's my first time here - nice place. Reminds me of Australia twenty years ago, which is not supposed to be patronising if there are any Kiwis lurking.....
I'll actually be in Sydney for a week from Saturday if anyone feels like catching up for a Heineken or two. Go to the "contact" page on my website (link below) - it goes through to my email. My only chance of making it to the Test will be if the Shrees last to the 5th day though.
It'll be a good time to leave Inzid after that batting performance. Good God! They managed to get one back before lunch though, which makes eleven wickets in the opening session. Surely some sort of a record?
Posted by: Carrot | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 09:47 PM
After a moment of diligently researched, peer reviewed guesswork, I would be staggered if there had not been more than 11 wickets in one session.
Posted by: Tony Tea | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 09:59 PM
But in the opening session?
Posted by: Carrot | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 10:07 PM
Do you bring any news from the mother continent Carrot?
Posted by: Cameron | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 10:11 PM
Last I'd heard we'd pusghed the Anglo-Judeo-Bolshevik Alliance past The Don (river, not bats(person). Surely Stalingrad must be our by now!
Posted by: Cameron | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 10:20 PM
Ummmmm... dunno.
Posted by: Tony Tea | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 10:22 PM
Go to bed Tony. I'll man the shop. You're in capable SS hands.
Posted by: Cameron | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 10:25 PM
Well - Holland is still flat, and the coffee's still dreadful - and Fulham managed to win away for once. But apart from that it sounds like you're pretty much up to date.
Posted by: Carrot | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 10:25 PM
Tony T. hated Symonds. He ran him outta town. I'll never forgive him for it Carrot.
Symmo was my favourite cricketer.
Posted by: Cameron | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 10:33 PM
There was no SS at Stalingrad. You'll have to be the hack Romanians.
Posted by: Tony Tea | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 10:36 PM
He stuck the knife into Martyn too, who was mine. I've been thinking of ways to take revenge ever since.
Posted by: Carrot | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 10:37 PM
Who says I disliked Sideshow Roy? Not many cricketers have their own AGB Category.
Posted by: Tony Tea | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 10:41 PM
What a ghastly creature T is.
Posted by: Cameron | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 11:09 PM
"There was no SS at Stalingrad."
No wonder they lost.
Posted by: Cameron | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at 11:11 PM
It's been raining all night, not heavy, but the sun looks like it's breaking through now. Temp is cool though.
What effect any of that will have on the morning's play, I don't know.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 09:48 AM
Pat thought the Test started on January 2. I thought it started on New Year's day. Looked it up and that's only happened a few times, so, once again my memory is clouded.
The Tests usually start on the 2nd. Anyway, it's on today. Isn't it?
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 09:50 AM
In further news, the SMH has a "Carbon economy editor", by the name of Peter Hannam (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/the-heat--and-dry--is-on-20130102-2c5lg.html)
"Carbon economy editor" sounds like the sort of title Pravda would have had for sorting the Kulaks from Righteous Defenders of the State.
The effect on the cricket? I think, and this is just a hunch mind you, Mr Hannam is predicting a full five days of good Test cricket weather.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 09:56 AM
Further news overnight, Kiwis all out for 45 in the first innings, Saffas at stumps 3/252. If that was Oz we would have declared by now.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:02 AM
Toss: Australia have won the toss and they are bowling first.
Hard Core must see the pitch as being good for some seam bowling. Luckily my weather reports were in in time for Match Management Committee to make this decision.
The AGB Carbonometer predicts: "Today's play will be a carbon copy of the 2nd Test."
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:06 AM
Sorry, I see that the 1st test in Death and Diversity Nation has already been covered. As well as the German retreat from the Don after the fall of Stalingrad.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:11 AM
My prediction: one of those seamers will end up being completely superfluous, and probably Lyon, too.
Posted by: Carrot | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:13 AM
i.e. they'll barely bowl at all.
Posted by: Carrot | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:14 AM
Paraphrasing m0nty... "I thought this was the Syderrney Test post"
Posted by: @TKYC | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:18 AM
Pitch report from Kamerads at the ground: "Green top. Four prong blitz attack, first in 60 years. Srees could be all out by the first drinks session. Australia to declare by the 3rd drinks session. Srees decimated by stumps. Innings and 650 run victory to Oz on first day. Let the rape and pillage begin."
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:19 AM
Allen Madden, for those international visitors confused by proceedings, is a traditional Aboriginal name.
It means the descendant of the son of the hound, correction, dingo. The dingo-hound is famous in Gaelic, correction, Aboriginal heraldry having the virtues of speed, endurance, and loyalty.
(http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Madden)
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:24 AM
If three quick can't, cough, splutter, get the job done, four quicks will also struggle. There is probably a mathematical algorithm which represents the "if three can't, four can't" scenario, but that is high level #CricketMaths which only Russ and Dave Barry can get their boffin noggins around.
Posted by: Tony Tea | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:27 AM
We should have picked four quicks, won't the toss, then batted. You know, for the laughs.
Posted by: Tony Tea | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:28 AM
Paraphrasing m0nty... "I thought this was the Syderrney Test post"
Ah, don't worry about good old m0nty. He performs retreat after retreat, using colonials as cannon fodder, goes missing for days, then when the biz has been done by others in his absence, he claims rights to a victory parade through the defeated nation's streets.
He's probably at Catallaxy right now, sowing the seeds of discord.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:29 AM
Godfrey's has a sale on white goods today, if any one's interested. 50% off all stock.
Anyway, back to the cricket.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:33 AM
Jesus H. Gumleaf. What sort of Welcome to Country was that?
Posted by: Tony Tea | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:34 AM
0/1. The Lankan innings is building steadily.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:34 AM
"Fvck off from Country."
Posted by: Tony Tea | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:36 AM
"Fvck off from Country."
That sounds more traditional. It is the Sydney Test after all.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:37 AM
Carrott, where are you watching the game from if not at the ground till the last day?
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:38 AM
I'll be busy on Saturday and Sunday, but can be pretty much anywhere on Monday if it gets that far. I will be keen to make it to the ground if it does, though.
Posted by: Carrot | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:39 AM
too many people here watched hogan's Heroes instead of doing their homework.
We picked 4 fast bowlers with Wade as a batsman and Johnson as a ( cough cough) all rounder because we are playing crap. That is a technical term to describe crap players if you understand the Socratic method thinking along Sartre lines.
Posted by: The Don has risen | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:40 AM
Doesn't Sydney Harbour look glorious with all those asylum seeker boats under sale. Wonderful city.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:44 AM
Does anyone know of a good alternative for crictime.com? Can't get actual footage here - listening to the wahless online.
Posted by: Carrot | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:45 AM
I'm going to country tomorrow for the 2nd day's play.
But, where are you watching in the interim? Don't worry, I won't hunt you down, just wondering.
I recommend the Captain Cook Hotel, right near the ground.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:46 AM
"I won't hunt you down" - don't worry about that, would be happy to have a beer if we can make it happen. I'm still in New Zealand until Saturday afternoon and busy in Sydney on Sunday, so Monday is really the only time as well as today that I'll be able to follow it (I hesitate to use the word "watch" given my earlier comment).
Posted by: Carrot | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:49 AM
Don, just had a look in the fridge and I couldn't help but think of you. 4 x insipid Corona's left over from Christmas drinks. It's not enticing but will have to do.
Gotta be better than that Kiwi lager you've been drinking. A better deal is Oettinger Pils from Dan Murphy's. Better yet, just brew your own, and open the session with an import. Just like the T20.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:50 AM
I thought Nine paid Uncle Madden the appropriate respect by cutting to an ad before the wanker had finished.
Posted by: Hangover Black | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:55 AM
You know, with our short batting lineup, and over abundance of bowlers, we could make right gooses of ourselves here.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:56 AM
I thought Nine paid Uncle Madden the appropriate respect by cutting to an ad before the wanker had finished.
I didn't even watch it. Out of respect.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 10:58 AM
Carter is good but my batting has gone downhill!!
Short batting lineup. Hussey is over 6 ft!
Posted by: The Don has risen | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:01 AM
I see all the Lankan edges that in Melbourne went to hand or stump are going to the boundary. Law of average batting.
Notorious B.I.G. Bird looking the more dangerous. Not a heap of movement though.
Posted by: m0nty | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:03 AM
Tones, any relation to you -> http://www.bluemountainsgazette.com.au/story/1210705/victorian-fined-for-trekking-underprepared/?cs=2452
A Victorian who went trekking in New South Wales' Blue Mountains with only potatoes and naan bread has copped a fine for being underprepared.
I don't know, a kilo of potatoes is enough for me and five days in the gorges. The naan bread sounds like bloody luxury, just being a show off.
Maybe he was doing a commemoration walk of the Potato Famine?
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:04 AM
And normal service has been resumed.
Posted by: m0nty | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:04 AM
1/26. Solid opening partnership.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:05 AM
Welcome back m0nt! Where have you been, trekking through the mountains? You should have dropped in, and I could have given you a litre of sour cream and some strips of bacon to go with the spuds.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:07 AM
followed shortly after by TheWord getting Karunaratne.
Posted by: @TKYC | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:08 AM
I have been in the wild wilds of Western Australia. It weren't ain't arf hot.
That Vic would have been shitting a brick. Not just because he got lost, but he was eating only starch.
Posted by: m0nty | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:09 AM
I love the pic with the news story. All the tourists at Echo Point going "Check out that fella down there with a kilo of spuds on his back. Must be a real local."
Then there was a rush on Woolies Katoomba for spuds to send back home as tourist gifts.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:14 AM
My sister-in-law is on the way here from Castlemaine and we are having a "Welcome to City".
Posted by: Tony Tea | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:16 AM
Two hands, Shameless! Too old, should retire.
Posted by: m0nty | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:17 AM
If Pert was Clarke's Waterloo who was his Marshal Ney.
Continuing in the military vein does this mean the Sri skipper is Friedrich Paulus?
Posted by: The Don has risen | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:19 AM
err that is Perth
I guess that means McCullum is custer!!
Posted by: The Don has risen | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:21 AM
Gilchrist dropped a sitter in his last Test. Flatty Haydos dropped a sitter in his last Test. Hussey missed a sitter in his last Test. The common denominator? Already retired and sitting on a beach, or in The Hay Dross Way, picking home grown aubergines.
Posted by: Tony Tea | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:21 AM
Donnie, Ney was Napoleon's "bravest of the brave". I think we're talking Simon Katich here.
Posted by: Tony Tea | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:22 AM
There is a beach at the SCG.
Posted by: Tony Tea | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:25 AM
Ahem who did Napoleon blame for his defeat. He was before Waterloo but Waterloo was his Waterloo. I think his horse simply said ney!!
Posted by: The Don has risen | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:26 AM
Ney got carried away. Kept charging (very brave) and forgot to spike the Allies' guns (very dumb). Who is the most headstrong and reckless Aussie?
Posted by: Tony Tea | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:29 AM
I always said life is a beach
Posted by: The Don has risen | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:32 AM
Siddle might fit that bill?
Posted by: Carrot | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:32 AM
Cow Corner is the most reckless. Studsy is the most headstrong, paradoxically by being soft in the head.
Posted by: m0nty | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:34 AM
Maybe De Villiers was Clarke's blucher
Posted by: The Don has risen | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:35 AM
Wellington's arse was saved by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. Until Blücher and his army arrived, Wellington was about to have his arse handed to him on a French platter. A splatter platter.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:37 AM
Napoleon unaccountable delayed the start of the battle. Had he gotten rolling earlier in the day he would have rolled Wellington before Blucher arrived.
Posted by: Tony Tea | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:39 AM
Yes and because he was saved by a blutcher he named the meal Beef Wellington as a tribute
Posted by: The Don has risen | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:39 AM
Oh jeez, the SCG now has a heavily sponsored wading pool for pissed bogans to wet their ankles. There's nothing so crass as Sydney wouldn't copy it.
Posted by: m0nty | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:43 AM
Napoleon did nor maneuver at all at Waterloo. Again similarities to Perth
Posted by: The Don has risen | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:45 AM
Tugga looked like he was wearing a war medal. Dud look IMO.
Posted by: m0nty | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:46 AM
The SCG should only allow Heineken drinkers in.
you get a much better class of Spectator. too many VB drinkers allowed!
Posted by: The Don has risen | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:46 AM
SL pass the high watermark set by NZ overnight
Posted by: @TKYC | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:47 AM
My call of Australia batting in the first session is looking very catallaxyish
Posted by: The Don has risen | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:49 AM
Crown lager is the SCG drink of choice, so I'm led to believe.
Re. the French, I like Fred on Everything's take on the whole "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" patriotard thing (Hat Tip, Tim Blair):
Patriots make much of the dismal record of the French in matters military. Well, yes. It's hard to argue with failure. I note, however, that the French have Germany on their borders, a condition associated with military failure for everybody enjoying the same circumstances.
http://www.fredoneverything.net/France.shtml
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:50 AM
Decent tie-knot Tugga is sporting, though. Always a mark of distinction.
Posted by: Carrot | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:54 AM
Crown is superior to VB.
The French have fought only two wars against Germany and had a lot of help on each occasion.
They never fought them on their own. They lost home games to Prussia though!
Posted by: The Don has risen | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:55 AM
you are wrong Carrot. only two ties in test cricket and this won't be one of them
Anyone who wears a shirt and tie/suit to a cricket game is a prat. That is a technical term for a ......!!!
Posted by: The Don has risen | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:57 AM
The gradual creep of Nein commentators from out of the comm.box to 'on-screen personalities' is destroying the actual 'watching of cricket' experience.
...that, and the error of linking the word 'personalities' with the Nein talking-head brigade.
Posted by: @TKYC | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:58 AM
Geez, even though it wasn't a catch, that was hopeless keeping from Wade.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 11:59 AM
Slater is the most over-exposed of Nein personalities. He pops up on everything these days.
Posted by: M. Patard | Thursday, January 03, 2013 at 12:01 PM