Cricket

[neekoy]

This is wonderful to watch at the moment, superb cricket by Australia and fight back after losing 3-0 against recently the #1 Test playing nation in the world.

Has anyone heard from Beefy or David Gower? Tall cool glasses of class and dignity

Edited December 10, 2013 by neekoy

[Guest Norbert]

So they're like the Australian media then?

In some ways it is good to see Johnson getting his confidence back (though I wish it was during their next test series). There are not that many truly frighteningly fast bowlers, and it is not good to see someone being torn to bits and shattered. Unless it's a Burnley player or fan.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

This is wonderful to watch at the moment, superb cricket by Australia and fight back after losing 3-0 against recently the #1 Test playing nation in the world.

Has anyone heard from Beefy or David Gower? Tall cool glasses of class and dignity

You want to read Glenn McGrath in The Guardian. Just a cheerleader for the Australian team. I don't think he's mentioned England so far this series. I'm amazed a quality paper is paying good money for such one sided tripe.

[neekoy]

It is one sided, two tests down and Australia are 2-0 up, what positive has England provided during this series that is worth writing about?

Our decent papers are writing about the stoic Joe Root quite rightly.....

[Brad]

Massive this third test, looking like it's going to be nudging 40 degrees for the five days.. Winning the toss and batting first is a no brainer!! 100% guaranteed a result here..

If your lot win the toss, and can manage to post 300 the series is still well and truly alive!!

The way the weather has been in melbourne can see a delayed draw on a batsmans paradise..

Good luck!!

[chris_h]

This is wonderful to watch at the moment, superb cricket by Australia and fight back after losing 3-0 against recently the #1 Test playing nation in the world.

Has anyone heard from Beefy or David Gower? Tall cool glasses of class and dignity

I haven't seen anything that Gower has said that might be disrespectful to the Aussies or inflammatory. Botham suggested after the Brisbane capitulation that England might respond aggressively in Adelaide. That went well didn't it? Nothing that either have said that might be deemed undignified although I stand to be corrected.

Some non cricket writers in the UK penned some disrespectful nonsense after the last two Ashes series but they have someway to go to match some of the gutter stuff the Aussie hacks have been churning out since the Poms arrived Down Under.

Test wise I read that Steve Finn has been rigorously going through his paces in the nets over the past couple of days. He has had a dip since doing really well in 2010/11 and Perth might be the place to rediscover his mojo. He isn't express but he is sharp and can send the ball down from 7' plus. On the WACA's bouncy track he might get the Aussies jumping about a bit.

[Brad]

Good read Chris, but to be fair us Aussies where bought up jumping around a bit and it's the way we like it.. The school wickets with no covers.. Now that was fun!!

[Guest Norbert]

And don't forget they have a very, very fast bowler who is bang in form. A fast bouncy pitch would be heaven for him.

[somersetrover]

I haven't seen anything that Gower has said that might be disrespectful to the Aussies or inflammatory. Botham suggested after the Brisbane capitulation that England might respond aggressively in Adelaide. That went well didn't it? Nothing that either have said that might be deemed undignified although I stand to be corrected.

Botham, before the series also predicted a 5-0 win for England and said some fairly disrespectful things about the Australian's.

As for Gower he has recently said that Australia is a country with no culture and that the people have an animal mentality.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Botham, before the series also predicted a 5-0 win for England and said some fairly disrespectful things about the Australian's.

As for Gower he has recently said that Australia is a country with no culture and that the people have an animal mentality.

Botham was talking @#/?, Gower ? Well I can't argue with any of that. The culture bit ,- " if the cap fits, wear it ". As far as the rest is concerned they're doing their best to prove him right all the time. Edited December 11, 2013 by Tyrone Shoelaces

[chris_h]

Botham, before the series also predicted a 5-0 win for England and said some fairly disrespectful things about the Australian's.

As for Gower he has recently said that Australia is a country with no culture and that the people have an animal mentality.

I stand corrected then!

I'm surprised Botham said that as 3-0 clearly flattered England in the Old Dart so to suggest a cleansweep in the Aussie's backyard would seem a bit fanciful. As for Gower's comments then they are inaccurate as well as a bit daft. Clearly, a young country like Australia can't match Europe for culture but if he were to sample the laneways of Melbourne he would see that the cafe culture and galleries there match anything in the UK outside of London.

[jim mk2]

Gower actually said in a Radio Times interview magazine: "How can you have a clash of cultures when you're playing against a country with no culture?"

Unfair really because the real Australians (those nice indigenous chaps in the outback) do have their own culture. I think he was referring to the descendants of convicts but I couldn't possibly comment.

[chris_h]

Gower actually said in a Radio Times interview magazine: "How can you have a clash of cultures when you're playing against a country with no culture?"

Unfair really because the real Australians (those nice indigenous chaps in the outback) do have their own culture. I think he was referring to the descendants of convicts but I couldn't possibly comment.

The epithet 'convict' doesn't apply to the freely settled colony of South Australia

[jim mk2]

All the same to me matey.

[chris_h]

How very ignorant of you.

[thenodrog]

I stand corrected then!

As for Gower's comments then they are inaccurate as well as a bit daft. Clearly, a young country like Australia can't match Europe for culture but if he were to sample the laneways of Melbourne he would see that the cafe culture and galleries there match anything in the UK outside of London.

Australia and it's indigenous inhabitants are an ancient country and civilisation which remained unspoiled and uncorrupted for 500 centuries. White settlers have been there for 3 of them.

I've never been to Australia but I do get the feeling that the newbies completely disregard the aborigines and their history and consider them as fitting in somewhere between a kangaroo and a dingo in the native fauna.

The epithet 'convict' doesn't apply to the freely settled colony of South Australia

They will be breeding with them chris. Mark my words that extra Y chromosome will be increasing every generation.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

We need a performance from our guys today, when did we last win a session, never mind a day? Winning the toss would be a good start.

[dave birch]

Winning the toss will be important as the temp is going to be in the high 30's for most of the test.

BTW, Theno, you should come and have a look to really see how backward we are out here. I actually saw a neolithic version of Shakespeare's "Comedy Of Errors" last saturday at that decrepit building on the Harbour foreshore.

[jim mk2]

Another missed opportunity by England. At 140-5 we were in the game but it's another backs-to-the wall effort now.

[SouthAussieRover]

Another missed opportunity by England. At 140-5 we were in the game but it's another backs-to-the wall effort now.

Another defeat you mean.

Oh for a genuinely fast bowler who can finish off a team.

[Blue n White Rover]

What's happened to Jimmy Anderson?

[Guest Norbert]

Who forgot to flush the toilet?

[Brad]

Best culture in the world here Jum. Best jobs, best weather, best beaches.. It's like heaven on earth to be honest.. Cheers!!

[SouthAussieRover]

Its time to say thank you and goodbye Kevin Pietersen A totally stupid innings.

Edited December 14, 2013 by SouthAussieRover

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Mm, best venomous, deadly creatures as well. You can keep it for me. I'd rather live in Burnley !