Australia in West Indies 2012

[Crookbond]

Tied ODIs' date=' Tied T20s, hopefully WIndies tie the Tests, then India move above Australia in Tests [b']Effortless stuff from Dhoni:hysterical:

Right out of the Ramiz Raja commentary book! :hehe:

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miss warner

wow. Aussies lost yesterday when she the created match thread.. :cantstop: Let her create test match threads also. No Sir John please.

[Old guy]

wow. Aussies lost yesterday when she the created match thread.. :cantstop: Let her create test match threads also. No Sir John please.

its jsut the miss warner effect she already said that shes not gonna make any more match threads :hysterical:

[The Dark Horse]

link for Highlights?

[Sir john]

Am gonna open test thread :peter:

[The Dark Horse]

First give link for highlights SJ :orderorder:

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Just shows how good rohit sharma is.

[Number]

Just shows how good rohit sharma is.

:--D :good:

[Sir john]

First give link for highlights SJ :orderorder:

yeeh looh [ame]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpsxbq_wi-a-t20-2-to-divx-clip0_creation"]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpsxbq_wi-a-t20-2-to-divx-clip0_creation[/ame]

[The Dark Horse]

^that was 2nd T20, still:two_thumbs_up:

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Wade guaranteed a baggy green Matthew Wade has a week to contemplate his receipt of a baggy green cap after the national selectors guaranteed his place as Australia's wicketkeeper for the first Test against the West Indies in Bridgetown More... Australia in West Indies 2012 Wade guaranteed a baggy green Daniel Brettig in Barbados April 1, 2012 Matthew Wade has a week to contemplate his receipt of a baggy green cap after the national selectors guaranteed his place as Australia's wicketkeeper for the first Test against West Indies in Bridgetown. In naming the team for a three-day fixture against a West Indies Board XI at the Three Ws Oval from Monday, the national selector John Inverarity rested Wade, David Warner and Michael Hussey - all three tagged for major roles against the hosts in the three Tests to follow. Peter Nevill will take the gloves in the tour match and thus walk his first steps in the national team uniform, but short of a bad training accident it will be Wade who dons the gloves at Kensington Oval from Saturday in the absence of Brad Haddin. Though he was always the next man in line once Haddin was forced home by personal reasons to be with his family in Sydney, Wade's displays in the limited-overs matches have oscillated between the capable and the awkward. However he will gain confidence from the knowledge that his Test place is now certain. The match offers the returning captain Michael Clarke and numerous others a chance to get acquainted with Caribbean cricket. Ed Cowan, Ricky Ponting, Peter Siddle, Ryan Harris and Michael Beer will all play their first active part in the tour, Beer allowed to bowl though nominal 12th man for what is a non-first-class engagement. There is a buoyant mood around Barbados about the prospects of Darren Sammy's team following tied ODI and Twenty20 series, in which Australia's cricketers were confounded by opponents who demonstrated far more resilience than may have been anticipated. While three Tests promise to offer a much more complete examination of a team, the Australians have grown rather more guarded about the battles to be fought across the next month in Bridgetown, Port of Spain and Roseau. Ponting, who first toured the West Indies in 1995 and has witnessed both memorable victories and stunning defeats in the region, said the team had spoken frankly of the task ahead following the undulating path followed during the limited-overs leg of the tour. "[it is] hard to make judgements on them after just one-day cricket and Twenty20 cricket," Ponting said. "The thing that always tests out countries without great depth is Test match cricket. The Kiwis are probably a really good example of that, In Twenty20 and one-day cricket they're always very competitive but once the longer version of the game comes around they find it hard to win games. "You've got to give the Windies credit for what they did in the one-dayers and T20s here, but I guess by the end of the Test matches we'll have a better idea of where they're at. We spoke yesterday about how competitive they'll be and we have to be prepared for that. "We're definitely not taking them for granted or taking them lightly. I guess that's a big part of my job in the next few days, to make sure we don't get too carried away with things and preparing as we would for one of the powerhouse nations in world cricket." Led by the wicketkeeper Carlton Baugh, the WICB President's XI is dotted with players of Test match ambition and potential, alongside a few experienced heads including Fidel Edwards, Devon Smith and Baugh himself. Johnson Charles and Kieran Powell have the chance to follow up on their appearances in the limited-overs matches, Powell in particular wanting to make a better impression in creams. "I am very much looking forward to the game," Powell said, having also shrugged off illness since he was dropped from the ODI team following three slim scores. "It is a wonderful opportunity not only for me, but the other players on the team to go out there and do well. "I have done some technical work with the coaches to help overcome some of the errors I have made, but I was sick over the last week, and did not train too much. I think things have been coming together nicely over the last few days and I believe I am in a much better place now." WICB President's XI Carlton Baugh (capt, wk), Ryan Austin, Nkrumah Bonner, Johnson Charles, Kyle Corbin, Fidel Edwards, Jason Holder, Delorn Johnson, Nelon Pascal, Kieran Powell, Devon Smith, Devon Thomas. Australians Ed Cowan, Shane Watson, Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke (capt), Peter Forrest, Peter Nevill (wk), Peter Siddle, James Pattinson, Ryan Harris, Ben Hilfenhaus, Nathan Lyon, Michael Beer (12th man but can bowl).

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Ryan Harris, Peter Siddle, James Pattinson, Beer and Ben Hilfenhaus prosper on parched surface Ryan Harris, Peter Siddle, James Pattinson and Ben Hilfenhaus all bowled with purpose as they worked their way through the WICB President's XI More... WICB President's XI v Australians, Bridgetown, Day 1 Pacemen prosper on parched surface Daniel Brettig in Barbados April 2, 2012 Australians 81 for 2 (Watson 42, Clarke 11*, Ponting 8*) v WICB President's XI 201 (Dwayne Smith 62, Harris 4-22, Beer 4-41) Scorecard Thirty years since it ravaged the pitch for a Headingley Ashes Test, Fusarium or something very much like it appeared to have afflicted the surface for Australia's tour match against the WICB President's XI at the otherwise elegant Three Ws Oval in Barbados. The national selector John Inverarity was a participant and a spin bowling beneficiary in that infamous 1972 match, won by England on a strip supposedly left almost devoid of grass by the aforementioned fungi. At Cave Hill he was a quizzical lunchtime pitch inspector as the tourists' Test bowlers became acquainted with the kind of grassless, slow and spinning wickets they are likely to face in the Test series that begins on Saturday at Kensington Oval. While they did not find much in the surface to enjoy, Ryan Harris, Peter Siddle, James Pattinson and Ben Hilfenhaus all bowled with purpose as they worked their way through the President's XI, Harris nipping out a quartet of local batsmen to build his case for inclusion in the first Test team. The hosts were rounded up for 201, leaving the visitors to reach 81 for the loss of Ed Cowan and Shane Watson by the close. Nathan Lyon and Michael Beer initially fared less successfully despite the slow spin on offer to them, claiming a wicket each but also subject to some free hitting by Dwayne Smith, Kieran Powell and Jason Holder. Beer's flatter trajectory appeared to pose more problems on this surface for established batsmen, and Lyon was later to sit in discussion with the coach Mickey Arthur during the tea break after his first 12 overs went for 54 runs and the wicket of Kyle Corbin. Beer rolled up the tail and finished with four wickets. There is some intrigue surrounding the shape of the pace attack, after Harris indicated that he did not think himself part of the best XI of the moment. Such a scenario would have Pattinson, Hilfenhaus and Siddle sharing seam-up duty with Watson, but Harris' swift and straight bowling in conditions redolent of last year's Sri Lanka tour demonstrated his likely usefulness in the Caribbean. It was Harris who cut through the invitational batting after a soporific morning session, in which 58 runs were scrapped for the loss of Devon Smith. Hilfenhaus was the most unfortunate of the bowlers, twice the victim of dropped chances that robbed him of the wickets his accuracy warranted. Powell was turfed by Watson at third slip, before Nkrumah Bonner fenced outside off stump and the edge eluded Peter Nevill, nervous in his first match as an Australian gloveman. Harris began his incisive afternoon spell by knocking out Powell's off stump, the batsman trying to drive a full delivery that moved back at him slightly. Bonner was beaten for pace when he tried to flick to midwicket and was lbw, and next ball Harris pinned Devon Thomas with another delivery whirring in at the stumps. Carlton Baugh averted the hat-trick but made only 6 before he cuffed Siddle onto the stumps while trying to leave a delivery of searching line, and at 72 for 6 the Australians could glimpse an early turn at the batting crease. However Smith's 103-run stand with Holder offered some spine to the local innings, forcing Michael Clarke to revert to Harris after tea. He had Smith slicing to gully where Peter Forrest held a sharp chance, and Beer then teased out the rest. Watson and Cowan had 20 overs to negotiate before the close, the former guiding Nelon Pascal's first ball to the third man boundary, and neither batsman looked particularly troubled until Cowan proffered a leading edge to Ryan Austin's off-break and was pouched at short cover. Watson was lbw to Pascal after a sustained appeal as the shadows lengthened. Greater challenges await in the Tests, on surfaces equally parched as this one.

[Cricket Tragic]

Must be a **** batting line up if Beer is taking wickets.

[Sir john]

defeat ahead for baugh team.

[Cricket Tragic]

I hope that it's a decent contest. The ODI series was pretty good.

[Sir john]

West Indies include Deonarine for first Test

West Indies have recalled the batsman Narsingh Deonarine for the first Test against Australia in Barbados, starting April 7. The 13-member squad also includes the fast bowler Ravi Rampaul, who missed the one-dayers and Twenty20 due to injury. Squad: Darren Sammy (capt), Kirk Edwards (vice-capt), Adrian Barath, Carlton Baugh (wk), Devendra Bishoo, Kraigg Brathwaite, Darren Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Narsingh Deonarine, Fidel Edwards, Kieran Powell, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach

[Sir john]

so powell nd roach will sit out

[Crookbond]

I will be surprised if the Test matches match the intensity of the ODI series.

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Australians close out comfortable win Australia's batsmen were briefly discomforted by spin for a second time before rolling to an eight-wicket victory over the WICB President's XI in the three-day tour match at the Three Ws Oval in Barbados More...

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Clarke alert to collapso dangers Seductive as it may be in these parts, it can take as little as an hour to tumble towards Test match defeat More...