Oz In Decline

[mittheimp]

Oz win by 3 wickets!!!!

Fair play to Ricky Ponting, but i think some big cracks are beginning to show in the rest of the team!

Has to be said Oz are not helped by their schedule - but perhaps the greedy australian cricket board need to be blamed for that!

[Old Croc]

What a cricket game!

Bangladesh awesome for the first two days. They can be very proud of their performance and can hold their heads up high.

Australia given a bath early and looking very ordinary with bat and ball, but proved their class and guts to fight back against impossible odds. Can also hold their heads high.

Sixty million, bad sportsmanship poms with their heads bowed, weeping into their warm insipid ales bemoaning a lost opportunity to stick the boots into Australia.

[surin]

What a cricket game!

Bangladesh awesome for the first two days. They can be very proud of their performance and can hold their heads up high.

Australia given a bath early and looking very ordinary with bat and ball, but proved their class and guts to fight back against impossible odds. Can also hold their heads high.

Sixty million, bad sportsmanship poms with their heads bowed, weeping into their warm insipid ales bemoaning a lost opportunity to stick the boots into Australia.

Why wouldn't we treat Bangladesh seriously...I remember that we were beaten by the Poms once

[Old Croc]

What a cricket game!

Bangladesh awesome for the first two days. They can be very proud of their performance and can hold their heads up high.

Australia given a bath early and looking very ordinary with bat and ball, but proved their class and guts to fight back against impossible odds. Can also hold their heads high.

Sixty million, bad sportsmanship poms with their heads bowed, weeping into their warm insipid ales bemoaning a lost opportunity to stick the boots into Australia.

Why wouldn't we treat Bangladesh seriously...I remember that we were beaten by the Poms once

Only once in a couple of decades, and the way the poms are currently imploding it should be a doddle to put them back in their place at the end of the year.

(hows retirement treating you? )

[Old Croc]

A little bit of sanity has returned for the second test.

Bangladesh all out for 197. Gillespie, Warne and MacGill got 3 each, but Lee still struggling - 0/36.

[Old Croc]

Did I say a little bit of sanity has returned to the tests!!

Violent brawls disrupt Bangladesh Test

Sunday Apr 16 21:47 AEST

Wild fighting erupted between police and local journalists on the field during the lunch break in the second cricket Test between Australia and Bangladesh.

Tensions became heightened between the two camps after a leading Bangladesh sports photographer was bashed by a policeman while trying to enter Chittagong Divisional Stadium by the wrong gate.

The anger developed into open brawling at the side of the field at the luncheon interval with journalists being kicked and hit with the butts of police rifles.

The ugly scenes threaten any possibility of international cricket returning to the port city in the nation's south after Australia's tour and the International Cricket Council could look into the matter.

The majority of the local press went on strike for the day after the dramatic events and threatened to boycott the rest of the Australian tour.

Several reporters were left bloodied and battered from the altercations.

The situation degenerated when the angry journalists went to stage a second protest on the ground during lunch after calling for the responsible officer to be stood down from his duties.

Dozens of fuming scribes went out to voice their anger on the pitch but were met by police and wild brawls broke out like spot fires at the side of the ground.

The police showed little restraint by singling out and surrounding journalists and belting them in savage fashion.

The media mob then streamed onto the ground before going into the Bangladesh team's change room to voice their protests.

The drama delayed the start of play for the second time after journalists initially protested before the match began by sitting next to the pitch.

©AAP 2006

[surin]

What a cricket game!

Bangladesh awesome for the first two days. They can be very proud of their performance and can hold their heads up high.

Australia given a bath early and looking very ordinary with bat and ball, but proved their class and guts to fight back against impossible odds. Can also hold their heads high.

Sixty million, bad sportsmanship poms with their heads bowed, weeping into their warm insipid ales bemoaning a lost opportunity to stick the boots into Australia.

Why wouldn't we treat Bangladesh seriously...I remember that we were beaten by the Poms once

Only once in a couple of decades, and the way the poms are currently imploding it should be a doddle to put them back in their place at the end of the year.

(hows retirement treating you? )

Terrific Mate...Now the Press have stopped hounding me..Had about 30 units all wanting a story..including A current Affair etc., they can't believe you could give up a Politics for life in Surin. My Thai house was the most famous house in Oz for 3 weeks and all had a different slant or story!!

[Old Croc]

What a cricket game!

Bangladesh awesome for the first two days. They can be very proud of their performance and can hold their heads up high.

Australia given a bath early and looking very ordinary with bat and ball, but proved their class and guts to fight back against impossible odds. Can also hold their heads high.

Sixty million, bad sportsmanship poms with their heads bowed, weeping into their warm insipid ales bemoaning a lost opportunity to stick the boots into Australia.

Why wouldn't we treat Bangladesh seriously...I remember that we were beaten by the Poms once

Only once in a couple of decades, and the way the poms are currently imploding it should be a doddle to put them back in their place at the end of the year.

(hows retirement treating you? )

Terrific Mate...Now the Press have stopped hounding me..Had about 30 units all wanting a story..including A current Affair etc., they can't believe you could give up a Politics for life in Surin. My Thai house was the most famous house in Oz for 3 weeks and all had a different slant or story!!

Now the weight's off the shoulders I bet you're starting to settle into the good life.

Edited April 16, 2006 by Old Croc

[Old Croc]

Isanity definately reigns in the tests in Bangladesh

A bowler, who has never before made a century at any level of cricket from backyard through grade to first class, has scored an unbeaten 103 in a test match!!

Congratulations Jason Gillespie, night watchman extrodinaire.

Has anyone, ever before, scored their only career ton at this level?

[Nignoy]

What a cricket game!

Bangladesh awesome for the first two days. They can be very proud of their performance and can hold their heads up high.

Australia given a bath early and looking very ordinary with bat and ball, but proved their class and guts to fight back against impossible odds. Can also hold their heads high.

Sixty million, bad sportsmanship poms with their heads bowed, weeping into their warm insipid ales bemoaning a lost opportunity to stick the boots into Australia.

Why wouldn't we treat Bangladesh seriously...I remember that we were beaten by the Poms once

Only once in a couple of decades, and the way the poms are currently imploding it should be a doddle to put them back in their place at the end of the year.

(hows retirement treating you? )

Terrific Mate...Now the Press have stopped hounding me..Had about 30 units all wanting a story..including A current Affair etc., they can't believe you could give up a Politics for life in Surin. My Thai house was the most famous house in Oz for 3 weeks and all had a different slant or story!!

was very impressed by the way you handled yourself through all flak you were getting!!enjoy life in Surin nignoy

[Old Croc]

Isanity definately reigns in the tests in Bangladesh

A bowler, who has never before made a century at any level of cricket from backyard through grade to first class, has scored an unbeaten 103 in a test match!!

Congratulations Jason Gillespie, night watchman extrodinaire.

Has anyone, ever before, scored their only career ton at this level?

Gillespie 186 n.o. at lunch!!

The highest score by an Australian against Bangladesh. The highest ever score by a nightwatchman, a partnership of more than 300 with Hussey (182). Will they bat on after lunch for him to get 200?

Studio commentator Mark Waughs expression when informed Dizzy had passed Waughs best ever test score - priceless!