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Spurs lose after seemingly looking like winning with just a few minutes to play Wolves snare the win late The sport is a great leveller... Tottenham now could end up 4th after the weekend's games

As for the make-up of the team, I'd play Smith & Marnus as SF's & Finals often require a bit of resolute batting Besides which, all the other 5 batsmen are hitters ... Stoinis to miss out (unfortunately) A batting order of Head, Warner, Marsh, Smith, Marnus, Maxie & Inglis looks good enough to me Inglis, Maxie & Marnus can float about in the order too ... either up or down. I just feel we need a couple of steadying influences (Smith & Marnus) As for Wednesday ... Go the Kiwi's!!

A couple more interesting facts Glenn McGrath was dropped from the Test team 5 times before he played his 10th Test And Ricky Ponting played his first 20 tests primarily as a no.6 batsmen (apart from a couple of his early tests)

Before Michael Hussey made his debut for Australia he was in 2 Ashes squads that toured England - carried a lot of drinks apparently

We were in England in '05 so it might have been the summer of '05/'06 (Lex got it - above) Anyway, Hodgey should have played a bit more Test cricket but we had a very good team back then According to folklore, it's often harder to go out of the test team than get into the team! From memory I reckon Michael Clarke was preferred and that was the only spot available ... Langer, Hayden, Ponting, Martyn, Hussey & Katich being the mainstays. And then Clarke Hodge was in the 2005 Ashes squad but he never played a Test in England

Yes well done to Slartibart, Civ & Lex Gillespie & Hodge was the correct answer. Not sure how many Tests Hodgey played after his double hundred but he only played 6 Tests in total Averaged 55 as well

Well who is it then, Civ?

Another interesting fact surrounding Gillespie's 200 is that it was the last test he ever played Bit like Fred Fanning scoring 18 goals in his last ever game of VFL football

It's like that TV show 8 out of 10 cats ... everyone gets points and bonus points but they don't count for anything

A 2nd clue He's a Victorian

Yeah, you're right ... I'd forgotten that he came in as a nightwatchman You receive a bonus point

Ok a clue The batsman in question scored the double century in Perth

That was his only 3 figure score He scored the 200 against Bangladesh and it was on foxtel live from Bangladesh ... I distinctly remember watching the innings From memory he batted very correctly and it wasn't a swashbuckling innings at all And again, no clues on the other Australian!

Yes, Gillespie is one of the 2 Well done!

Ha ha!

No clues Civ!

@ANG13 @Lexinator @hardtack @Jumping Jack Clennett @leave it to deever @dl4e @Slartibartfast @WalkingCivilWar @H_T @grazman @DutchDemons @Jara Glenn Maxwell's classic double hundred reminds me of the 2 Australians who both scored 200's in test cricket but never scored another century! It's actually happened 7 times with Reginald Foster (way back when) scoring a massive 287 but never reached 3 fugures any other time So who are the 2 Aussies? We're working on an honour system here so googling is not allowed!!

Great nickname too ... Bison! Suits him to a T! He really smacks the ball He could make a big 100 tonight (mozz factor de-activated!) Nice hitout tonight prepping for the big SF against South Africa ... and the match will almost certainly be played next Thursday. With India to play NZ in the other SF on the Wednesday

Oaks day tomorrow and Zardozi ($3) will be hard to beat in the feature event Dangers might come from Basilinna, Aethelflaed & Amazonian Lass (all at value odds) Tropical Squall has claims as well

@DeeSpencer @Go the Biff @titan_uranus @BDA @Dr. Gonzo @Clintosaurus @DemonDave @Dee Zephyr @Dappa Dan 1 point on offer this week (the bonus point on offer as well) Just as tough this week! Leaderboard Tipping Comp 3 - Dr. Gonzo, Clintosaurus, DeeSpencer*, Macca* 2 - DemonDave, Go the Biff, layzie 1 - Gorgoroth 0 - Everyone else 🤔 * Denotes 1 bonus point awarded

Recorded and now watching from 7-112 (Maxwell could have been out 3 times in the last 10 minutes!) Did listen to the broadcast throughout the night and fell asleep (again) when we needed 60 off 60 (or thereabouts) The innings is certainly one for the ages and high praise indeed from Sachin Tendulkar, describing the knock as the best he's seen at ODI level Edit: Just finished watching 'The Innings' ... truly amazing and when considering that his whole body was cramping, quite incredible!! I've never seen anything like it although there are parallels with the late Dean Jones' double century in Madras in 1986 Glenn Maxwell take a bow!

Tampa Bills Seahawks

Beating England is always joyous! We're now playing some very good cricket with games against Afghanistan & Bangladesh to come India play South Africa tonight which should be a beauty. India look strong but anything can happen in white ball cricket ... it's a lot like a baseball game in that sense One bowler or one batsman gets hot and the game sways

Matilda's just a must watch these days. There's something magical about how they play and they're great to watch Holding on to the ball, winning it back, the precision passing and the creativity is tremendous The first goal to Mary Fowler tonight was a gem. Taiwan were very brave but the Matilda's are on a roll

Ha! We're all getting caught out on trap games ... but trap games aren't easily identified! The good news is that this week is there aren't any trap games but if anyone can come up with 3 road winners, they'll probably pick up a well deserved bonus point