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Today, Hoggard is the only constant in that attack, and even he is a lot more wily than he was. He has abandoned a pacey, wicket taking apporach for pure support bowling, and that suits him far better. Flintoff is unrecognisable. Anderson and Jones have both produced some good spells, and are not unlikely to take a step on in the next 18 months - I would not bet aginst at least 1 of them becoming a genuine test performer in the forseeable. As it is, they are still better than any of the support bowlers were during the last series. Giles was bowling in ENG this summer as he always has in Asia, where he has always looked like a testmatch quality bowler, and has had very good returns. He's making the ball loop, and actually making it spin! This is a very different Giles to the one you know, and so long as his confidence is mantained and Vaughan keeps using him to attack that will not change. Why to God he hasn't been allowed to be so attacking in the past, I don't know as he has always been great in Asia when asked to do so. Anyway, my points are this:- 1) even if ENG get whitewashed, this is still a far better team than the last one. Unrecognisably so IMO. Which makes me doubt the series will be quite so one sided. 2) We should not believe our own hype. Neither should you. And if you think hype isn;t central to the AUS sporting effort, you're living in cloudcukooland.
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Australia are the bookies favorites at the moment, well this is good, keeps us on our toes, and lulls Australia into an already false sense of security. Thing is Beny, with respect the result willnot matter the same to you, as if what you said earlier is correct, you can wallow in past Glories until 2006. Quote:
Your dammed right they have problems, You have an ageing accurate bowler, can't argue with that,a quick, decently accurate bowler, oh I see an ordinary up and down bowler, yes a world class spinner, without the piches he will need to get much turn from. fastest bowler in the world., I did not know you had a new pace bowler in your side, I though for a moment you meant Lee, silly me, we both know that is wrong, in particular one Pakistani gentleman, and besides a bowler is only allowed one set of stumps to bowl at. Fraid it,s down to your batting to see if they can keep our bowlers out, including the world no 1.
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 . You guys are assuming that your attack will get better. . You discount that at 36 McGrath may still be a good bowler.He has a low impact action and is in good condition after missing almost a year. You also assume that we wont have any ready made replacements. You dont watch our. state cricket. I know pleanty of excellent bowlers are playing state and for Aus A. "Australia did not get it all their own way on that tour, and Captain Ponting, was able to motivate the team, when thing where not going right," .... Are you serious? Of couse we dident get it all our own way, it was a shocking set of conditions. The Team, Lehman and Warne especialy played well and so we won. "2) All things come to an end, and one day AUS will no longer be considered the best team in the world." True, but dont discount that australia has one of the best youth development programs in the world. We also have a very high participation rate. "Thing is Beny, with respect the result willnot matter the same to you, as if what you said earlier is correct, you can wallow in past Glories until 2006." Not at all. (mind you, you guys are still on about the rugby) But lets assume for a second that england have an awsome bowling line up  . You still have to beat our batsmen. And your batting line up is not even close to the Aus Line up. The team we take to england in 2005 may not be as good as it has been. That dosent mean that it wont still be formidable. We may have some younger inexperianced players but we will still have plenty of peaked proformers. You guys havent beaten us in a series for decades, long before the players we see today emerged. McGrath Gillespie and warne may be gone!! or INjured!! but there are plenty of talented people ready to take their place. |
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Good God, no wonder we got stuffed! This compounds my point even more though! Surely if Alison and I opened up for ENG we would do better than bloody Silverwood and Tudor (which happened in the third test)...... The teams bear no kind of comparison, beyond the fact that this present team is immesurably superior.
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I think they probably will get better, but only time will tell. I can no more say they will than you can say that they won't. Or than you can say the AUS attack won't decline. As for Harmsion, you have said he has an action that prevents him from bowling consistently. Have you actually watched him bowl since 2002? It would seem not. His action, which was gangly and angular then, is now as smooth and repeatable as any I've seen. The comparisons to Ambrose while he was in the WI started before he took all those wickets. Did you realise that? He looks very much like Ambrose these days, with the obvious differences of him not being black and not wearing a gold chain. As Viv Richards says:- "England have dug up a diamond in that one".
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