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The Ashes 2010/11

what's so good about brett lee? i'm talking personalities btw.

Plays the game with a big smile on his face and interviews very well, always has a joke with players and the crowd.

Does anyone remember the warm up match before the last ashes (England A maybe?) when he was having a joke with the crowd on the boundary and Ponting saw it and lost his rag and brought him straight onto bowl? If I remember correctly he took a couple of wickets and, as a result of not being given enough time to warm up properly, picked up an injury which kept him out of the bulk of the tests.
 
Plays the game with a big smile on his face and interviews very well, always has a joke with players and the crowd.

Does anyone remember the warm up match before the last ashes (England A maybe?) when he was having a joke with the crowd on the boundary and Ponting saw it and lost his rag and brought him straight onto bowl? If I remember correctly he took a couple of wickets and, as a result of not being given enough time to warm up properly, picked up an injury which kept him out of the bulk of the tests.

If that was the match at canterbury, I was there. Good bit of back and forth from Lee and the crowd.

Liked him for it I must admit.
 
A young man with poster-boy good looks who on his day was able to propel a cricket ball as fast as almost anyone who's ever tried to do so. Played a long, if injury-hit, career in one of the greatest teams ever assembled and is now easing seamlessly on to a second career as a Bollywood movie star.

And yet, for all that, he comes across as someone who is eminently likeable.

Compare and contrast Shoaib Akhtar. What a nob.
 
for all his faults, shane watson is actually my favourite aussie player. good lad and has a sense of humour and humility.
i like him too, but he's a long, long way behind either the English or Indian openers. He came out of the ashes well simply because him, Hussey and Haddin were the only recognised aussie batsman who didn't have a complete disaster.
e2a: We're also a long way from the point where the sight of shane watson striding out to open the batting (or the bowling) will fill his opponents with foreboding and apprehension
 
Bah, turned it on in time to miss the wee collapse and catch Finch's saving knock, though the total's pretty shaky.
 
why is collingwood in this 20/20 side? cant bat, cant bowl.. purely for his 'leadership'?

His fielding placements earn more runs than most IPL batsmen. The first over in Australia's innings went for 1 run I think, even though the batsmen were striking the ball well.
 
Oz commentators beginning to really grate.

As is that mind-numbing tune in the advert the Indian broadcasters show.
 
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