RCA Centre of Excellence v Australians : 1st warm up match

The Australians are playing their first tour match today and very interestingly, it is Katich who opened with Hayden and not Phil Jaques. Signs of things to come?

Katich is playing beautifully on 70 while Hayden, Ponting and Hussey have been dismissed for low scores.

Katich and Clarke are at the crease.

Rest of Australian squad have : S. Clark, BJ Haddin, PA Jaques, MG Johnson, DE Bollinger, JJ Krejza

So Lee, McGain and Watson are not in the team.

Australia: 113/3

Very interesting. Thanks for the news Chandan.

Perhaps Jaques is the one to make room for the dreaded Watson at no. 6!!

skully wrote:Very interesting. Thanks for the news Chandan.

Perhaps Jaques is the one to make room for the dreaded Watson at no. 6!!

Just notice that Jaques has not been omitted from the squad.

So Jaques is in the XI?? Yet Fleas is opening, and Watson is not in the side. Strange.

Chandan wrote:Katich is playing beautifully on 70 while Hayden, Ponting and Hussey have been dismissed for low scores.

Who got Ponting? Or more to the point, what sort of bowler got him?

skully wrote:So Jaques is in the XI?? Yet Fleas is opening, and Watson is not in the side. Strange.

I found it strange too. Lee is not playing either and probably McGain is not 100% as yet.

This is the bowler who got him. I've never heard of him. How can I , if he has played just 1 FC match before!!

You can follow the match here:
http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/indvaus2008/engine/current/match/369454.html

It is being updated after long intervals!

Hehehe, ironic that Punter was dismissed by Singh (but not Bhajji)!!

Cheers Chandan.

McGain is struggling to bowl at practice so it's unsurprising that he's not playing.

Shouldn't we be dropping Ponting for Watto?

WGAF about a 2 day game? Why couldn't they give us a 3 dayer instead?

Do you really GAF, Nath? Go and get drunk, man. You've earned it!!

Nath wrote:WGAF about a 2 day game? Why couldn't they give us a 3 dayer instead?

Because it's only a scratch match, not an official warm-up contest.

Nath wrote:WGAF about a 2 day game? Why couldn't they give us a 3 dayer instead?

CA has got it organised with the help of RCA. BCCI is not involved here.

It is a 13 man's squad trhat is playing for Australia. So it can't even be a FC contest.

Australia 176/7.

Clarke was dismissed for little as well as Haddin and Watson.

Lee and Krejza are batting at the moment.

WTF? On Chandan's link the score is showing 7-176 with (as Chandan says) Bung and Crazy at the crease and yet under the score it says:

"To bat DE Bollinger, PA Jaques, MG Johnson, SR Clark"

Is this a 13-a-side park game or what?

Oh and BTW, if you're lurking PB, Fleas top scored with 73.