Aaron Bird has what some would call a suspect action. Others would call it a fúcking chuck, but then they’d be accused of racism.
However, biomechanical analysis has shown Bird was within the tolerance level of an elbow extension of 15 degrees or less for every delivery. So we can thank the ICC for passing laws that legitimise the action shown in the animated gif below
Anyway, the bloke is from and plays for New South Wales, so I obviously like him. Just wish he’d keep his elbow straight.
First off, hats off to the Mighty NSW Blues – what a bunch of deadset champions.
I’ve been to sydney olympic stadium a heap of times for rugby games, and there’s never any atmosphere. Usually the excuse is like, “well, there were only 35000 people and it’s such a big ground, it seems empty”.
Bullshit. Tonight 17000 champions rocked that ground. Sure, there were some gaps, there are like 90000 seats, but bugger me if there wasn’t atmosphere on tap. Did I mention full strength beer, and even a variety of choices. The staple was Toohey’s New, $6 in a plastic cup, but they also had Becks, Heineken and Squires for $7.50. Funny thing, didnt’ see a single person too pissed, no fight, and no-one ejected that I saw for drunkeness.
Another great thing was the police/securaty presence. About 1/100th of what they have at the SCG for an ODI/Test, and shock horror, everybody lived. Thing only went for 3 hours so no real time for venomous beer snakes, they could have your eye out you know. They didn’t even try to ban the wave, crowd got bored with that pretty quick thouhg, there was quality cricket to be seen.
Quiney played his arse off for hte Vics and set us one hell of a target, I would have loved to see him bring up his century, he sure as hell deserved one for that knock. Funny times at the end when Tubby completely farked up, saying words something like “well done to Quiney who we’d like to give man o fthe match to…. ” Quiney walks up … “but we instead are giving it to Rorher.”. Top effort Tubs. DIckhad.,
Brett Rohrer got man of hte match, I probably would make him share it with a Bird. Came in at the same time as Thornley and were both 0(0). At the time we eneeded 72 off about 30 somethign, and were deep up sh1t creek with no paddle in sight.
There was speculation that McDonald bowling to Thornley would see the Ranga-on-ranga effect, kind of like putting the north poles of two magnets together. Didn’t eventuate, but who said Twenty 20 cricket obesy the laws of physics?
Top knock by Brett Rohrer, champion effort. Kudos to Thornley as well, his pivotal role gave us the wickets in hand at hte end, and his 4 made it so. Bit of ablemish getting out 3rd last ball though, but I’ll rmeember his cheeky 4’s off Dirty Dirk – funny as.
The tension at the end of the game was the most I’ve experienced at a limited overs match. Last over and we needed 9 with Harwood bowling. Two off the first then a wide that was 15mm shy of leg stump, and we’re needing 6(4). Dominic Thornley chips one off his legs fine for 4 and it’s 2(3). The Harwood clean bowls him, Fark Me! 2(2) and Daniel Smith, the keeper we kept with McCullum in the side is to face. Straight to mid-on, misfield, quick single. One to go. Rohrer on strike for the last ball of the match. Scores Level. Missed it, to the keeper. They run, keeper misses, bowles relays on to the stumps. Did he have his bat down? Blues think they’ve won it. Ground Announcer thinks they’ve won. 3rd umpire takes an eternity while the ground announcer is waxing lyrical about our win. He’s safe! GO NUTS! FARK YEAH GO THE BLUES!!!! NEW SOUTH WALES, NEW SOUTH WALES!!!
Blues win by 5 wickets. And McCullum did fark all so the Vics have less excuse. Did I mention we got fulls trength beer?
I honestly can’t see myself pumped to watch another ODI live, and I’m saying this in the middle of an intriguing series between us and the saffas.
There’s much talk about poor Victoria who will be forced to field an under strength team in tomorrow’s Twenty20 final. They’ve even tried to recruit Adam Gilchrist, which would have been awesome for the spectacle, but they obviously didn’t front up with enough cash.
Here’s who they’ll be missing tomorrow night
Brad Hodge – avg 42, sr 136. Top Twenty20 run-scorer in Australia. Top Twenty20 run-scorer in the world. Injured in Elimination Final.
David Hussey – avg 32, sr 140. Second top Twenty20 run scorer in Australia. Restrictive bowler. Playing for Oz.
Cameron White – avg 35, sr 154. Destructive batsman and part time bowler.
Boo fúcking hoo. I realise it’s a new experience for Victoria to lose players to the national setup, but this is something that happens to us all the time. Here’s the first choice players on our books that we’ll be missing tomorrow night:
Nathan Bracken – avg 19, eco 7. Worlds top ranked ODI and T20 bowler. Man-hair model. Playing for Australia
David Warner – avg 29.5, sr 150. Destructive opening batsman, playing for Oz.
Michael Clarke – avg 23, sr 130. Quality middle order batsman, economical bowler. Injured playing for Australia
Brad Haddin – avg 20, sr 110. Quality keeper and agressive batsman in superb form.
Stuart Clark – avg 18, eco 6.6. Econimical and threatining bowler. Injured playing for Oz
Nathan Hauritz – avg 15, eco 6.3. Restrictive bowler. Playing for Oz.
I can’t work out why these articles only mention the absent Victorians. On the balance I’d say NSW are in fact more weakened through injury/abscence than Victoria, but obviously both teams are missing a lot of quality. Regardless, it’s hard to agree with the sob story coming from south of the border.
I refuse to lose to these bastards, and for the time being, Prince Brendan is an honorary bastard.
Forget about Warne, Gilchrist or Keith Miller, you have the talent to win this game.
The bowling line up is all there, and NSWales couldn’t score against it before.
The batting has the talent, even if it is inexperienced.
This should be a victory.
Anything less is not good enough.
NSWales has more players out of their side than we do.
Sure the Ego of Hodge, the Bear like nature of White, and the ferocity of future PM Hussey are hard to replace, but the idea of Victoria winning all the time is that our players go on to play for their country.
And this is the perfect time to beat them, our stars are out, their stars are out, but they have pulled in a big gun.
They can’t whinge about their stars being out, they can’t gloat about producing the next generation, because they have opted for an import.
We can take these fuckers down.
Dirty Dirk is more than a bowler in 2020 cricket, the man is a wrecking ball of furious destruction.
The angry man Harwood is still one of the best 2020 bowlers on the planet, he doesn’t need a grey and yellow uniform to prove that.
Bryce is back baby, and this is the game for him, his performance in the one day final last year was what legends are made of.
The X man Crosthwaite is made for 2020 cricket, he loves a scrap, scores quick, and talks just as fast.
The human Headline Blizzard is due for another match winning few overs, remember last year’s final?
And 10 points Quiney loves smacking the blues around, it’s just a shame he doesn’t get to do so against Lee & Clark like he did at the G.
If this isn’t the time to win the title, I don’t know when is.
So back yourselves boys, leave it all out there, and make sure NSWales know that this is our title, if they want to win, they better play out of their assholes.
Superb news for the Blues as we hope to break the dirty Vics run of 3 domestic T20 finals in a row, especially with our first choice ‘keeper Brad Haddin tied up against the Saffas. One can’t blame Prince Brendan for hedging his bets – if the KKR don’t make the pay day then he’s definitely in with the Blues, fair play to him.
New South Wales have secured a major coup with Brendon McCullum, the big-hitting New Zealand wicketkeeper, drafted in to the state’s squad for the Australian domestic Twenty20 final in Sydney on Saturday. McCullum owns the most famous century in the format for his 158 off 73 balls in the opening match of the inaugural Indian Premier League and by playing for the Blues he will immediately qualify for the lucrative Champions League Twenty20 in October.
However, in the same article are these comments from NSW CEO Dave Gilbert which I find most disturbing
“With the potential losses the New South Wales squad may suffer depending on which two IPL teams qualify for the Champions League, it is vital that we strengthen our squad ahead of that tournament,”
What the FúCK! If the qualifying IPL “franchises” contain any New South Wales players, they get to pick OUR players to play for them AGAINST US! I can’t fúcking believe this. Stupid bloódy Indian franchises with their 9 months of history and poxy names, throw cash around to loan our players for the IPL, fair enough they can use the money, but to then have first pick of OUR players AGAINST US is a fúcking outrage.
I think of players such as Dave Warner, Moises Henriques and Stephen Smith who’ve come through the junior development programs we have in place, and there’s obviously a fair investment over a period of time in these players. Now some bollywood wánker gets first bite cause they pony up with a barrow full of rupees?
Surely, at the very least they’ll need to get the player released by their home state, at the discretion of the home state, and with a very large wad of cash exchanging hands. The very notion that these Indian blow-ins own our fúcking players makes my blood boil.
I don’t know all the facts, yet, but that never stopped me before.
Here’s one for AB DeVilliers, just to let him know we show our own batsmen the same compassion that he received after what JC describes as
[Tait's] third ball thwacked into AB de Villier’s midriff. Doubled over in pain, de Villiers’ bat crashed into the stumps. As he crumpled to the ground in agony, the Australians clustered next to his quivering body, high fiving and celebrating. I think I may have seen Cameron White kick de Villiers in the ribs a few times while noone was looking. It was a moment that would’ve brought a tear to Jeff Thomson’s eye.
For me the highlight was the Victorian keeper Adam Croswaithe running up to the stumps for the sole purpose of clapping the bowler right in front of the batsmen. The bowler returns to his runup without so much as checking the fallen batsmen for a pulse. Actually, the slo-mo Chewbacca sounds are pretty cool too.
At least Hartley had the forethought to keel over away from his stumps. Good boy.
There was a horrible moment after victoria’s break down against NSWales when we all thought they could miss out on the Champion’s league.
The number one domestic 2020 on the globe could miss out on the first tournament of champions.
It would have been horrible.
4 men refused to let this be a possibility.
Dirty Dirk, is a fire breathing legend of 2020 cricket, it’s like the aliens invented the game just for him, surely an IPL team will sign him soon.
Brad Ego, we know know for sure what we thought all along, Brad can bat on ego alone, no need for hamstrings for him.
Nice Bryce, is back baby, sure it wasn’t one of his devastating white ball performances, but he ut the ball where he wanted, got a wicket in navy blue, and everything feels right again in the world.
And the X man, loves the pressure of a quick collapse, and without him the other three would have put in alot of great 2020 efforts for bubkas.
Now we have the plane ticket, but we really want to go back to back to back to back, don’t we.
And its against them cunts as well, even more of a reason to win it.
Ofcourse without White, Hussey, and now probably Hodge, it’s up to the young batsmen to shine.
Blizzard & Quiney need to explode.
Finch or McDonald need to hold together the middle order, and the x man needs to maintain the focus.
This evening will see Victoria and Queensland fight it out at the Gabba in a high stakes elimination final T20 match. The winner will not only gain entry to the lucrative world club championship, but also the privilege of a Twenty20 lesson from the top dog in Australian domestic Twenty20 cricket at the SCG on Sunday.
The Victorians are píssed off, as having their top players unavailable due to national service is a new problem for them. Now they’ll have to go without the services of Cameron White and David Hussey, who have a ODI on Friday and need their beauty sleep. There is no factual basis to reports that Cameron White Cried, again, at hearing the news, though it does sound likely.
Ryan Harris has been dropped from the national squad so will be available for Queensland, however they’ve replaced him with Mitchell Johnson so that’s probably worse for the New Texas Bulls, who’ll also be missing James Hopes.
CA have also denied requests for the players to be available of for the final, so NSW will be missing David Warner, Michael Clarke, Nathan Bracken, Brad Haddin and Nathan Hauritz.
This could well end up a good experience, as Michael Hussey is keen to explain IPL loyalties come before the state that bought you up, so depending on which IPL teams make the club championship any Australian side could be without their stars when the big bucks are on offer.
Victoria squad: Brad Hodge (capt), Aiden Blizzard, Rob Quiney, Aaron Finch, Andrew McDonald, Matthew Wade, Adam Crosthwaite (wk), Damien Wright, Shane Harwood, Jon Holland, Bryce McGain, Dirk Nannes.
Queensland squad: Chris Simpson (capt), Wade Townsend, Ryan Broad, Lee Carseldine, Nathan Reardon, Glen Batticciotto, Craig Philipson, Chris Hartley (wk), Ryan Harris, Nathan Rimmington, Ben Cutting, Alister McDermott, Ben Laughlin.
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