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This article elaborates on what you've written. Certainly doesn't seem to be a clear plan from the selectors.

2-0 and you mucked it up, 2-0 and you mucked it etc. Come on you Spurs

And Mark Nicholas wants Smith to come in and bat 7, with us moving Haddin to 6. Yeah.

KP's 5 may worry the poms a little but really they seemed hardly troubled. Even the wickets were just a mixture of mis-timed shots, slips, brain fades and missing a straight ball. A few of these guys with the bat may be a show for a spot this summer, so I hope to see them (Hughes, Khawaja, White) especially.

Gayle just brought up a lovely triple century.

Go fish. Now the Turbanator is closing in on a ton. Funny old sport.

He says before India slump to 5-15.

Johnson, quite consistently, bowls trash. I can't believe he's one of the best we have going around. Him mouthing off to Mathews the other night was laughable.

Absolute insanity. Meanwhile North makes 19 from 73 against the Poms. It's not even another nail, surely it's the fourth dumping of dirt.

Tassie lost 3-4 at the end. Should be a good chase.

Yeah not sure if there's another person, there may be. Ha. I used to love Michael Vick so much I almost went for Atlanta just because of him. Absolute headcase but boy can he play. To be honest, I haven't paid too much attention so far thie season. Been much more interested in the baseball. It's hard to watch the games with school on the Mon/Tues but managed to catch last week's win over Vick's old mob. We're looking pretty good, pretty good situation to be in to have Kolb as reserve. Big game Sunday. Tennessee are 3-0 on the road and we're 1-2 at home. Would be a big win to go into the break with. Edit: Just realised it's an away game.

Yep...Me for one.

Spurs. Unreal. Pretty much every European game we play is completely whack. 13 minutes in against Inter: 3-0 down with our keeper sent off. 35 minutes in: 4-0 down. Bale scores a second half hat-trick (including one of the best of the season) and we finish 4-3 losers having played over 80 minutes with 10 men.

Clarke putting in a good knock after we were in trouble at 2/16 after 8 overs. Wow. Aussies knock 84 from the finals 5 overs. White crashed 70 off his last 24. 56 from his last 18. Clarke with a ton. Not enough, however. India by 5 wickets.

They lost by 3 runs - meaning they were swept by the Bangers.

Meanwhile, New Zealand cricket is in turmoil! 5-20 against Bangladesh.

Unreal mate, unreal.

Brad Hodge, you freak.

Hauritz has played 17 matches over 6 years with a bowling average of 34. Smith has played 12 first class matches for a bowling average of 48.84. Cameron White has played 4 tests for an average of 68 and 108 First Class matches for an average of 40. I'm all for trying new blood, but can see why Hauritz was played.

I agree. Cameron White should replace North, Hussey and Hauritz...We should go into the Ashes with 9 players. Do you honestly, honestly, believe the selectors don't have good information on the young players around the country?

But of course, you won't research that... I mean, why would you want supporting evidence?

And criticizing and suggesting are differnt skills obviously, as you still haven't backed up anything you said. You're kidding that he doesn't rotate his bowlers, absolutely joking. You've forgotten what life was like before Mcgrath/Warne.

Can you, for once, back up a rant with some substance. Who should be playing instead whom? " If a bowler continues not to bowl to plan, then as captain first i would ask why? and try to fix it. If it continues then a new bowler must be used" - sounds pretty reactionary to me. It's a brilliant point, I'm sure Ponting hasn't thought of going to those lengths to see why a bowler is not doing his job.

And farewell Marcus North.

Great match, epic finish!