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YTF couldn't they have come off four balls earlier...........
Lunch taken early.
Lunch taken early.
Can't see these blokes getting 500 in two days, especially with our pace attack and Lyon lurking on a crumbling pitch.
TBH, it's one of the delights of hindsight seeing how a disaster could've been avoided. Haddin's come out and acknowledged the Ashes tour was one too many for both Watson and himself. Although in Watson's case probably ten tours too many... Once Brad'd worked that out he questions why they were sent to the WIndies. Dean Jones reckoned many years ago there were times when it was harder to get out of the Australian cricket team than get in, in this case that holds true.
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EDIT: sawn off on 59 so 199 for the match. Surely that ball was going over the top of the stumps......
Players not coming back after tea. Weather coming in.
Play can start half an hour early tomorrow morning, so if standard Brisbane weather patterns occur, there will be enough time tomorrow to finish the match.
Channel 9 have gone to the news. Can't see players coming back on tonight.
Smith, in his first Test in charge since formally taking over from Michael Clarke, had spoken on the eve of the game of the need to respect the opposition. "I thought it was pretty disappointing. He's done it a few times and I'm going to have a word to him when we get back down in the sheds," Smith said of Starc. "So I don't think it was necessary at the time and hopefully he can improve and get better from that."
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket...s-head-in-by-steve-smith-20151109-gkueot.html