**Official** Tour Matches

[DIRK-NANNES]

Jesus, Katich gone in the second over

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Wattoooooo

 

[aussie tragic]

Team is

1. Watson
2. Katich
3. Ponting
4. Hussey
5. North
6. Johnson
7. Lee
8. Hauritz
9. Hartley
10. Clark
11. Siddle

Surprised they didn't give Hughes another go in case someone is injured before the Test..

,,,Watto is 92* off 80 balls at Lunch

 

[BoyBrumby]

Plunkers & Woakes both taken a bit of tap.

 

[aussie tragic]

2nd game in a row that Watson played out the first over and then Katich was out in the first over he faced (4th ball both times)..

...maybe they want to work on rotating the strike early...

 

[Frakstar]

watto doesnt want a hundred this tour obviously

 

[Pizzorno]

He's just saving it for the Oval.

 

[Pigeon]

He's just saving it for the Oval.

Hope it will be with the ball.

 

[GIMH]

His hundred? Nah, I don't think they'll give him ten overs.

 

[pasag]

Can't wait to see the highlights of that.

 

[GIMH]

Good move to pull Trott out of this anyway. We missed a trick by playing Onions in the first one.

 

[Bloody Hell]

I cannot believe Hughes is not playing this game....absolutely ropeable.

 

[irfan]

I cannot believe Hughes is not playing this game....absolutely ropeable.

Should have came in for the Katman

 

[pasag]

What's the point of him playing if he's not going to be picked for the fifth? Would rather people that will be playing get some time in the middle in between a longish break.

 

[Nate]

Johnson batting ahead of Hartley. Niceeee.

 

[aussie tragic]

Johnson batting ahead of Hartley. Niceeee.

They also have Lee and Hauritz ahead of him on the cricinfo scorecard so I can only assume they only want the Test Players to bat and they'll probably declare before his turn...

...for the record Hartley scored 524 runs @ 34.93 last season, with 2 centuries and 3 fifties, so he can bat (he scored more runs than Dussey and North btw, albeit in 18 innings vs their 14)

 

[Bloody Hell]

What's the point of him playing if he's not going to be picked for the fifth? Would rather people that will be playing get some time in the middle in between a longish break.

He should be in the selectors minds. Even if he isn;t you can't see any future value in him playing this match? Shortsighted imo.

 

[pasag]

He should be in the selectors minds. Even if he isn;t you can't see any future value in him playing this match? Shortsighted imo.

Yeah there'd be a little bit of value but not compared to the value for the players actually playing next week. Plus what Hughes needs isn't time in the middle as much as full time working on his flaws ahead of the Australian home season so we can see debut mk II.

 

[Pigeon]

Hussey goes. Dunno how much this 65 would help him...

 

[Bloody Hell]

Yeah there'd be a little bit of value but not compared to the value for the players actually playing next week. Plus what Hughes needs isn't time in the middle as much as full time working on his flaws ahead of the Australian home season so we can see debut mk II.

He was dropped over a month ago. Probably been in the nets every day since.