I immediately turned the box on to watch India bat. It was odd seeing the canary yellow again after what seems like months and it probably would have burnt my retinas if I hadn't recently been watching the gold-chain-bling of the Trin and Tobag 20/20 side.
Eventually he did and that was all part of a lovely little batting collapse and I settled down to happily watch us win. Now, who the hell does Singh think he is? A good bowler, but they assured me he was not much chop with the bat ... they were wrong.
Australia only managed to win by 4 runs in the end. Singh could read Hauritz perfectly and smacked him about the park, Shane Watson collapsed under pressure, but Siddle - who had been fairly ordinary earlier in the innings - came through for us in a high pressure final over.
My god it's going to be a long, looooong 7 matches and I'm not sure my heart can take it.
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Ha this time it was me who missed it except for the final, and essential quarter (why the hell do they start at about 3 in the morning grrr). Imagine NH's figures if the hadn't bowled that silly last over and had been given the first lbw. I still bow down to his terrific 3.77. Well done Ritz. And it felt so good to hear the babbleguy getting wet over him. Sending Watto back in when it was crucial to impose some authority on the lumphead was a typical Ponting decision. On the other hand I feel sorry for Watto the twitching little bundle of kittenfur. It was a little bit too much for him. All hail the great Sidmeister! Well done! And Timmy making another half century was good news, I am really happy for the little rascal. Huss makes me happy, too. Increasingly. Could you find out what was up with Lee? He was badly missed in the last overs... some minor injury maybe?
Something unrelated
http://www.cricinfo.com/t20champions2009/content/story/431035.html
*shudder* If this happens Henriques might look up the rat poison prices.
PS No anonymous posts anymore? Nevermind, I got a brand new gmail account :D
Lee had a sore elbow. Punter went down to speak to him and presumably ask him if he was up for it and he said no. He has played a lot of cricket recently, I think it was right not to risk injury.
Could have gone bad for us though. Haven't heard anything on Hopes yet, but hopefully it isn't serious.
When I went to bed, we were coasting with India needing 9 runs an over. And then I wake up this morning to find out we only won by 4 runs! 4 runs! I so wish I had foxtel (although it's highly unlikely I could stay up all night to see the games). But it should be a good series...good for one day cricket. I just hope we win! 3 more wins and it's in the bag...
Thanks, hopefully he is going to play... Lee, that is. Hopesy will be out with a hamstring injury. Hamstring is the cricketter's swine flu. :( According to Cricket Australia it is one option to put Marsh in for Watto at the top and drop Watto to Hopo's position.
PS. Praise the Lord! He thinks of himself as a good spinner! Whooohoo! The article also says Lee is being monitored. Bah.
http://www.cricinfo.com/indvaus2009/content/story/431197.html
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