Australia vs England-ICC C.T.-Semi Final

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And that concludes the 7th wicket partnership, Wright out, c: Paine b: Siddle once again, regulation catch brings Paine his 5th catch for the innings. With three wickets left he could set some records.

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Twice in a row Paine is a couple of inches away from his sixth catch; off Lee. 7/234 after 42.5.

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Yes, that bar graph looks like England have traveled to another city. 141 for the 7th and 8th wickets combined.

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Brilliant throw from the outfield by Hauritz, England are now 8/245

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Gone, going the tonk as you would hope from an England point of view, Bresnan has middle stump pushed back but the damage has been done already by the batsman, 9/251.

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Some cricket suicide ends the innings, yes, no, yes, no and Anderson is out. Sub Voges throws to Paine and England is 257 all out after 47.4 overs.

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Watto= GUN.

Career bowling average below 30 now.

[Gozu]

England 257

Bresnan 80 (76)
Wright 48 (68)

Siddle 3/55
Watson 2/35 (8.4)
Lee 2/46 (9)

Australia 1/258

Watson 136* (132)
Ponting 111* (115)

Onions 1/47 (8)

MOTM: Shane Watson

Australia won by 9 wickets

[locky801]

Thats a belting in anyones language

[rod_rooster]

Watto and Ponting were superb. Great stuff.

[Pup]

Watto and Ponting were superb. Great stuff.

Agree. Very Very good performance.

[Johno6]

anyone know where i can get my hands on teh leading run scorer for the tournament so far?

[mal]

EG defeated by Tasmania !!!

PAINE/WATTO/PONTING all original Tasmanians got the runs between them
Years ago there was a lotta people saying they were not worthy of being in the comp

ALLROUNDER
WATTO
2/35
136 not out
In a Milleresque performance
A very unique cricketer our Watto , opens the batting and now in frontline bowling form
The doubters and the critics are now happy with the SAFOOTY iconic ververous allrounder
0,0,0,28 I reckon were his previous 4 digs

TECHNIQUE
WATTO has changed his technique
His batting stance is his back foot a few inches in front of his front foot
Now with the ball jagging into him he is in postion to strike in dippers rather than that jab dab of his
He now can straight and on drive with power
Its just 1 dig, but the signs are there

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WATTOS 136*[132]
The Poms about 80 years ago devised a plan for BradMAN with bodyline
Now they are trying it with WatSON
What were they thinking, after an English summer of trapping WATTO LBW they bounce him
The SAFOOTY iconic allrounder thrived on the short stuff
Score was 1/101 SWANN to WATTO...WATTO drives to long on and dropped and six !!!!!
WATTOs half ton with that zac
Score 1/207 JIMMY to WATTO short seeyooooooooooooooooou pull for 6
WATTOS ton, the dressing room stood and ovated the chosen one
COLLYWOBBLE to WATTO 3 zacs in an over to move from 116-122-128-134 [bigger than RANNs hits]
In all 7 zacs
His third ODI ton
The chosen has come a long way since being the number 7 bat and a very ordinary bowler in ODIs

WATTO had great support from Ricky Ponting who got his 12000th run in ODI in this dig
PONTING only made 111* [115]
PONTING since retiring from blink20 cricket is looking in career best ODI form
Perhaps Chris GAYLE should take note and retire from Test Cricket and concentrate on 20/20
And perhaps Michael CLARKE should retire from Blink20 cricket as well ....

[Gozu]

anyone know where i can get my hands on teh leading run scorer for the tournament so far?

I'm not sure if it's official but on the news today they said Ponting is now the leading run scorer in the tournament.

I'm just a bit worried about what's gonna happen when NFC hears about this great knock from Watto, spontaneous combustion?

[magpie in the 80's]

anyone know where i can get my hands on teh leading run scorer for the tournament so far?

TOP 10

RT Ponting (Aus) 287
GC Smith (SA) 206
PD Collingwood (Eng) 202
Shoaib Malik (Pak) 178
DPMD Jayawardene (SL) 163
SR Watson (Aus) 160
Mohammad Yousuf (Pak) 155
TM Dilshan (SL) 149
EJG Morgan (Eng) 147
OA Shah (Eng) 145

[Johno6]

i had 5 on ponting most runs for the series paying 17....

im hoping tonights game is real low scoring so ponting is over 100 ahead of everyone else in the final on monday

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Yeah sure you can say Ponting has lost the Ashes twice. He hasn't been rattling off hundreds like some point in his career (2003 odd). But this is why he should be there for at least 3 or more years. Who's going to take over the captaincy? Who is capable? If this century is not an "up yours" century, then as they say in the classics "I'll go he for chasey".

And WattoooooOO! I'm watching the replay and . He flat bats one into the crowd and one spectator misjudges the catch and it scones him. Then a couple of minutes later, he is holding up a sign which says "Ouch"