1st test Aus v NZ

[Beny]

NZ are 7/70

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Zainub Razvi

Since you've figured out how good a player Clarke is, in the sense that you now know what his relative strengths and weaknesses our, would you mind, I'd appreciate actually, telling us what you think would be the best way to get him out? They way he is batting right now I'm really concerned, especially with Pakistan's tour to Aus just around the corner and the Ashes not that far away either.

This is just my opinion, Michael Clarke is aggressive and likes to keep the scoreboard ticking over so I would bowl a disciplined line in the corridor of uncertainty to frustrate him and hopefully get a nick behind. For variation. I'd bowl the odd quicker one straight looking for an LBW. He looks to be an LBW candidate the way he leans over to the off-side. With a quick straight delivery he might be a little slow to play a defensive shot with a straight bat. He also pushes forward defensively against spin so is a candidate for a bat onto glove catch. I'd have fielders around the bat on both sides of the wicket for the catch.

[Beny]

Well it's all over.



Australia v New Zealand, 1st Test, Brisbane, 4th day

New Zealand crash to innings defeat

Originally Posted by Cric Info

The end to the Brisbane Test came remarkably quickly as New Zealand were blown away in a session and a half on the fourth day at Brisbane. Needing 232 to make Australia bat a second time, they never recovered after losing three early wickets to Glenn McGrath and were humbled for 76, losing by an innings and 156 runs

[Zainub]

Congrats Beny.

who was the man of the match? I missed the highlights.

[Big Merv]

The man of the moment, Clarke.

[The Great DonTalon]

Well NZ got beaten but are you really suprised ? think it's simply a case of the shortest way between two points is a straight line. By this I mean to say that NZ would have lost this test or were likely to lose this test because of the way Aus plays their cricket. What may have thrown you blokes for the perverbial loop was that NZ collapsed in such a rabble. But that glen Mcgrath and Gillesspie fiasco did them in..It most certainly did.