Son Of Coco
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Gilchrist coming out and smashing them everywhere at Edgbaston in 2001 was a personal favourite. I remember sitting up and watching it happen. Also Perth 2006 when he almost broke the record for fastest century.
Told ya so.First Test (Lord's, Australia won by 239 runs)
Seventeen wickets fell on the first day. On what was essentially a pretty good pitch, that was quite a start to the Ashes. Three guys were hit on the head in the first hour. It was all on: Test cricket the way you want to play it.
I was at the ground for that one, it was awesome. It didn't register at first how the ball had made it to Flintoff, was too hard to comprehend.Gonna put Harmy's first ball of the series to Flintoff up there. Laughed quite hard.
Seem to remember reading that somewhere before TBH. Either way, Ponting is wrong. Someday, I'll find HawkEyes for that match and show how many balls bounced either too high or too low, how many held up or shot through, and how many did not go straight on but moved left or right.I'm not usually a 'told ya so' person but, in Richard's case I'll make an exception. Remembering how I said there wasn't a lot wrong with the Lords pitch in 2005, Richard said he couldn't conceive how anyone could rate it as anything other than a flyer. Well, don't just take my word for it, take it from someone who actually played on it;
The Ashes: Ricky Ponting looks back at the 2005 Ashes - Telegraph
Note the following paragraph;
Told ya so.
You, sir, are impossible. Read this;Ponting, being a better batsman than me, might find the pitch a bit easier than he should.
I'd prefer take the word of what I saw rather than some vague reference to how good something patently wasn't.
Read the study; being good means you're in a better position to evaluate things, not because you find it easy, you can't understand how others don't.Being good at batting means you might well underestimate how difficult a pitch was. Ponting in my view has undoubtedly done so here. How good\bad it was depends on how uneven\seaming it was, not how easy someone found it.
A little known fact about 1997 is that it's the only home Ashes series since WW1 when England have been ahead going into the third test.Like others, day 1 of Edgbaston 1997 was extraordinary.
No, but if I was I'd be offendedYou blind or something?
Read the study; being good means you're in a better position to evaluate things, not because you find it easy, you can't understand how others don't.