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March 12, 2006, 12:32 PM
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What a game of Cricket? AUS 434/4 (50 ovs) and SA 438/9 (49.5 ovs)
Unbelievable. This is a game of cricket. What an exhibition of batting by both the Australian and South African. Before starting the game I am sure nobody ever thought about scoring over 400 runs in 50 overs and chasing those runs. Amazing cricket. Thanx for both the teams for providing an extraordinary game of cricket.
Edited on, March 12, 2006, 5:33 PM GMT, by Raja.
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March 12, 2006, 01:01 PM
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Am I seeing things still....God I hate hang overs
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March 12, 2006, 01:48 PM
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As they said in the post-match reactions.... "One day cricket is getting pretty bizzare these days!"
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March 12, 2006, 05:17 PM
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Honestly, we have to put something in the pitches for the bowlers. Non stop six hitting might be fun to watch for a while but eventually you'd miss the contest of bat and ball.
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March 12, 2006, 06:00 PM
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I have had an even bizarre experience. I was in the office when the match started, then I got back home late afternoon and took a nap. Woke up just before Gibbs got out and saw the most bizarre ODI scoreline ever.
Prothom prothom ghumer ghor kate nai, so I was thinking it cannot be true. Maybe I woke up in a new dimension. The closet loony in me even entertained the idea whether it was the sign of the apocalypse.
It's just utterly bizarre. On par with Ferrari's domination of F1 a few years ago. Something needs to be done a la F1.
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March 12, 2006, 07:06 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by RazabQ
Honestly, we have to put something in the pitches for the bowlers. Non stop six hitting might be fun to watch for a while but eventually you'd miss the contest of bat and ball.
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I agree. It was like a long version of a 20-20. It was great fun but it would be boring to have all the matches like this, with batsmen hitting big shots one after the other and bowlers being helpless!
Reading on the net about the game I have some hints of the reasons for this unbelievable match:
- a batting pitch
- some experienced bowlers missing (Pollock, Nel, McGrath... and Hogg did not bowl for Australia)
- awful day for some other bowlers (Ntini, Hall, Kallis himself and poor Mick Lewis)
- great form of Ponting and Hussey, and Smith, Gibbs and Boucher
- the South Africans tried a do-or-die strategy as they had nothing else to lose and it went OK because of the weak australian bowling attack, which was similar (Lewis, Clark and Bracken were there) to the one allowing NZ world record chase in the last ODI of Chappell-Hadlee series
- other...
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March 13, 2006, 12:31 AM
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So aussies surely have to have a think of their batting first matches,first they lose to BD,then NZ then SA and the losing target is getting bigger.
Who knows wheather BD will chase 500 in the next series :P
But i firmly believe that if ash was in crease,BD would have chased 391,everyone who watched him bat that day will believe it.
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