Sober Symonds
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Re: West Indies in Australia
Yeah, I take exception to that remark also. Let's not get into an argument over who knows what about the game, let's just say the equation was much more than mathematically possible.
Record chase or not, the challenge was there, and it was not unrealistic. The deck held no horrors, nor did the attack. Overall, we'd have had to bat at a strike rate of .68 for a day - around the same as Bravo, Watson and Haddin did during their earlier contributions.
As Eddie and Caesar alluded to: fortune favours the brave.
Lions, they gave up the chase well before Ponting went out. That meant we had wickets in hand, and as you said there's always a chance when that's the case. Fantasizing about having another 35 overs to play with is futile. We batted slower than them in both innings ... five days was plenty to achieve a result with those scores.
Boris, I'm very disappointed in your summary. Of course I realise we are not the power we were a few years ago, but these guys want to be, and I would suggest it's almost "unAustralian" to commend a batsman of Hussey's standing on "doing well to make the draw happen". It sounds like we had our backs against the wall against a formidable opponent, which is far from the truth.
It was set up to be a very good game. The last two days were anticlimactic, and both teams should take the blame for squandering an opportunity to try and make more of the match.
Yeah, I take exception to that remark also. Let's not get into an argument over who knows what about the game, let's just say the equation was much more than mathematically possible.
Record chase or not, the challenge was there, and it was not unrealistic. The deck held no horrors, nor did the attack. Overall, we'd have had to bat at a strike rate of .68 for a day - around the same as Bravo, Watson and Haddin did during their earlier contributions.
As Eddie and Caesar alluded to: fortune favours the brave.
Lions, they gave up the chase well before Ponting went out. That meant we had wickets in hand, and as you said there's always a chance when that's the case. Fantasizing about having another 35 overs to play with is futile. We batted slower than them in both innings ... five days was plenty to achieve a result with those scores.
Boris, I'm very disappointed in your summary. Of course I realise we are not the power we were a few years ago, but these guys want to be, and I would suggest it's almost "unAustralian" to commend a batsman of Hussey's standing on "doing well to make the draw happen". It sounds like we had our backs against the wall against a formidable opponent, which is far from the truth.
It was set up to be a very good game. The last two days were anticlimactic, and both teams should take the blame for squandering an opportunity to try and make more of the match.