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This is going to end rather quickly.

maybe not

are you getting the same commentary as us?

I apologise for Michael Clarke, if you do. Then again, you deserve it, for foisting Pietersen upon us.

I'm following text commentary.

If England get Slapsie about now there might be a twist.

But it'll take a choke for the Aussies to lose this now...

what did the text have to say about Maxwell's let-off?


Clarke was incensed. I think he took it as a personal insult - after he had 100% assured us that this was out.

Text on cricinfo said that Roy misjudged the catch anyway, so all in all a crap day for him.

What is the point in Billings?

Buttler is either brilliant or awful, nothing in between.

budgetmeansbudget wrote:Buttler is either brilliant or awful, nothing in between.

Yep, but when he's brilliant, he wins games single handedly. England have enough strength in depth to carry the off days of a few players who blow hot and cold.

Crap team effort yesterday though.

GarlicJam wrote:are you getting the same commentary as us?

I apologise for Michael Clarke, if you do. Then again, you deserve it, for foisting Pietersen upon us.

Michael Clarke is playing T20 in Hong Kong

could be worse... he could be sliding about on the ice in St Moritz

budgetmeansbudget wrote:What is the point in Billings?

seat warmer for Stokesy, I imagine

I still think Willey up top with everyone moving down one. Malan to keep Stokesy's seat warm at 5 and Dawson in at 7. Drop a seamer when Stokesy is back

Aussie left armer Ben Dwarshuis is new to me. South African?

Cricinfo are expecting unchanged sides tomorrow for England v Australia part two.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Aussie left armer Ben Dwarshuis is new to me. South African?

Only ever played T20 at state level apart from one fifty over game in which he went for a lot of runs. Born Kareela NSW, which is on Oyster Bay in the distant suburbs of Sydney. Most of the streets in Kareela are named after winners of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Population 3325.

Lord D'Arcy is from Katherine in Northern Territory. 320km from Darwin, population 857 swollen to 6300 by the RAAF base. It's where the outbacks meets the tropics. It's on the Adelaide to Darwin railway line and trains stop twice a week.

Hope these two fellas are enjoying their visits to the big city.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Aussie left armer Ben Dwarshuis is new to me. South African?

Only ever played T20 at state level apart from one fifty over game in which he went for a lot of runs. Born Kareela NSW, which is on Oyster Bay in the distant suburbs of Sydney. Most of the streets in Kareela are named after winners of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Population 3325.

Can't believe everything you read on the internet, Arthur.

So I am here, courtesy of the internet, to set things straight.

Kareela is about 10 miles from downtown Sydney, as the crows flies, and only about 2 mile from where I grew up - there's just Sylvania Waters between us....


I've only seen/heard of Dwarshuis play when the BBL starts up. This would have to be his 3rd, maybe 4th, season for the Sixers. He has matured nicely in that time, decent pace and a fair bit of control - I can't see that he is at a standard to play for Aus yet, even though T20i's are a joke of a format. I reckon he would still be 23 y.o. or less.

He's 23.

I saw a film called Oyster Bay which presented it as a remote self contained community along a river, so I spun off from there.

Lord D must be genuinely from the wilderness though.