Alice Springs

[Rik E Boy]

Stinking hot, second stringers, rebounding from a big Test defeat. Whoever put this Alice Springs fixture on the tourists' calendar (or whoever agreed to it) is the gift that keeps on giving. Hope you've packed plenty of sunscreen boys.

I'm not sure who will be in the eleven but you reckon Cook will have the day off.

regards,

REB

[Brodlach]

39 and humid tomorrow

[Booney]

Two day game, I hope we win the toss and bat until just before tea on day two.

[am Bays]

Stinking hot, second stringers, rebounding from a big Test defeat. Whoever put this Alice Springs fixture on the tourists' calendar (or whoever agreed to it) is the gift that keeps on giving. Hope you've packed plenty of sunscreen boys.

I'm not sure who will be in the eleven but you reckon Cook will have the day off.

regards,

REB

Great place Alice Springs, 1 000 000 000 flies can't be wrong (as the 80's souvenier T-shirt said).

Storms forcast for the next two days in Alice, the Todd will be flowing by tea time day two. Hope they've packed the cards

The Treager Park wicket is lower and slower than Glenelg oval, and any well timed drive on the deck is only worth two (the outfield is so thick).

The cricket they play there will be so far removed from what they experienced in Brissie and what they will get in Adelaide it's not funny.

[heater31]

Stinking hot, second stringers, rebounding from a big Test defeat. Whoever put this Alice Springs fixture on the tourists' calendar (or whoever agreed to it) is the gift that keeps on giving. Hope you've packed plenty of sunscreen boys.

I'm not sure who will be in the eleven but you reckon Cook will have the day off.

regards,

REB

Great place Alice Springs, 1 000 000 000 flies can't be wrong (as the 80's souvenier T-shirt said).

Storms forcast for the next two days in Alice, the Todd will be flowing by tea time day two. Hope they've packed the cards

The Treager Park wicket is lower and slower than Glenelg oval, and any well timed drive on the deck is only worth two (the outfield is so thick).

The cricket they play there will be so far removed from what they experienced in Brissie and what they will get in Adelaide it's not funny.

So in English terms its just a village match against a bunch of scrubbers?

[therisingblues]

Pommies 2/56
Trott last man out, caught in the gully.

[Brodlach]

Pommies 2/56
Trott last man out, caught in the gully.

That would be Root

[Rik E Boy]

Pommies 2/56
Trott last man out, caught in the gully.

That would be Root

Give him a break, he hasn't watched a game for 13 years.

regards

REB

[therisingblues]

Pommies 2/56
Trott last man out, caught in the gully.

That would be Root

Oops! That's right.
Sorry, it's the R,T and O just in a different order.

[therisingblues]

Pommies 3/72
Mackin, Herrick and Lalor with one wicket each.

[therisingblues]

Pommies 2/56
Trott last man out, caught in the gully.

That would be Root

Give him a break, he hasn't watched a game for 13 years.

regards

REB

Yes, it's really screwed up my spelling.

[stampy]

who pickedthe chairmans xl? cazzulino? honestly1

[stampy]

spin in the 7th over wtf

[stampy]

gets the result, clinger caught at deep mid off, not a bad catch either 1/32

[stampy]

fummee head i think it is bowled by boland right on tea, 2 wickets in less than 2 overs ffs

[valleys07]

I reckon you have the wrong thread stampy

[stampy]

derrrrrrrrrrrrrrr sorry

[therisingblues]

From the cricket Australia website:

Cricket Australia has stood down ground announcer David Nixon after England spinner Monty Panesar was introduced in an Indian accent on Saturday.

"Cricket Australia deemed the conduct of the PA announcer as inappropriate and as such he will take no further part in the match," a CA spokesperson said.

Panesar, 31, has played 48 Tests.

The left-arm spinner claimed 3-41 in the Chairman's XI's first innings of 8-254 on Saturday and is pushing for a possible recall to the Test side in Adelaide next week.

Panesar was born in Luton of Indian descent.

It's understood the player had not heard the remarks and England's team management have said they had no knowledge of the matter until the announcer was replaced.

Nixon, an ABC producer, was also cautioned by CA on Friday's first day of play according to a News Limited report.

His comments included: "You can go and have another drink now, Joe" when England's Joe Root was dismissed.

Root had a late-night incident with Australia's David Warner in a bar during the Ashes series

[therisingblues]

Australia creamed them in the end:
1st Innings:
England 7(dec)-212 off 78ovs.
Ballance 55
Bairstow 31 no.
Mackin 2/32
Australia CM's XI 8(Dec)-254 off 84.5ovs.
Cazzulino 48
Harris 49
Lalor 45
Turner 39no.
Swann 4/56
Panesar 3/31
Recovering from 6-142 at one stage

2nd Innings:
England 1-47
Michael Carberry 37no.
Man of the Match: Ballance (England)

Not one of the Australian XI has played any 1st class cricket this year. Also, the team included a 16 year old who plays seconds for NSW, Doran. Scored 17.

[RustyCage]

So in a two day game the ground announcer managed to get a reprimand on day 1, and sacked on day 2! That's quite the achievement!