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  • Alexander's Horse!!! Skanky!! Ockers!!!

    Go on!! Rub it in!!!



    Will our shame never end?

    Hayden ton sets up Australia win

    Second one-day international, Christchurch
    Australia 314-6 (50 overs) beat New Zealand 208 (40.4 overs) by 106 runs

    Opener Matthew Hayden struck 114 before injuring his shoulder in Christchurch as Australia went 2-0 up in the one-day series against New Zealand.

    Ricky Ponting (53) and Damien Martyn (58) provided the support for Hayden as the Aussies totalled a huge 314-6.

    The Kiwis slumped to 73-6, with Adam Gilchrist taking five catches, before succumbing for 208 in the 41st over despite Daniel Vettori's rapid 83.

    Hayden hurt himself while catching Chris Cairns and will be monitored.

    He had earlier celebrated a wonderful return to top form, hitting two sixes and 12 fours, but suffered a grade one strain to his right AC-Joint and is in doubt for the third match of the series.

    New Zealand must now win all three remaining matches - starting at Auckland on Saturday - to take the series, but such a turn-round looked a remote possibility at Jade Stadium.

    Skipper Stephen Fleming chose to put Australia in after winning the toss, with former rugby star Jeff Wilson included in the New Zealand team for his first one-day international since March 1993.

    He was taught a harsh lesson as his six overs cost 57 runs, with only left-arm spinner Vettori (0-31 from 10) able to exercise any measure of control over the Australian batsmen.

    Gilchrist was caught behind off Daryl Tuffey from the second ball of the match but Hayden and Ponting set about putting things right with a stand of 99 for the second wicket.

    Ponting cleared the ropes twice as he raced to 50 off 51 balls, but only added three more before he was run out by Hamish Marshall.

    By then, Hayden was into his stride and he and Martyn added 133, although it took them 24 overs.

    Martyn was run out off the final ball of the 41st over, but the final nine cost the Kiwis 82 runs as Australia raised the tempo.

    Hayden's century came up off 110 balls but he eventually fell to a catch by Wilson off Kyle Mills, leaving Michael Clarke to add 23 off 13 balls and Mike Hussey 32 not out off 20 as the total mounted past 300.

    The new ball pairing of Brett Lee and Glenn McGrath made short work of New Zealand's top order, claiming two wickets each - all of them catches behind the wicket by Gilchrist.

    He claimed another when Andrew Symonds found the edge of Craig McMillan's bat and when Cairns followed for 22, the home side were in danger of being embarrassed.



    Vettori and Brendon McCullum (20) halted their decline by sharing a stand of 62 before McCullum gave a return catch to Symonds, who finished with 3-41.

    Wilson made 22 in an eighth wicket stand of 62 but the end came quickly once he was caught by Ponting off Jason Gillespie.

    Having passed fifty for the first time in a limited overs international, Vettori was denied a century when he was caught at deep square leg off Gillespie after hitting 10 fours in his 77-ball knock.

    Mills was last to go, run out by Clarke, after setting off for a quick single and being sent back by Tuffey.

    New Zealand: S P Fleming, N J Astle, M S Sinclair, J Wilson, C D McMillan, H J H Marshall, C L Cairns, B B McCullum, K D Mills, D L Vettori, D R Tuffey

    Australia: M L Hayden, A C Gilchrist, R T Ponting, D R Martyn, A Symonds, M J Clarke, M E K Hussey, G B Hogg, B Lee, J Gillespie, G D McGrath
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    Only feebs vote.

  • #2
    Any game where you can feasibly get beat by 106 of anything is retarded.
    Tutto nel mondo è burla

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    • #3
      Re: Alexander's Horse!!! Skanky!! Ockers!!!

      Originally posted by Agathon
      Go on!! Rub it in!!!



      Will our shame never end?
      If you're lucky New Zealand will have a One Day series with England soon. That'll cheer you up.
      One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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      • #4
        Any game where you can feasibly get beat by 106 of anything is retarded.
        Sounds like me and golf.
        Only feebs vote.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Boris Godunov
          Any game where you can feasibly get beat by 106 of anything is retarded.
          So that's why we don't see you beer bellied, comb-overed, cigarette bedecked and pint of ale handed, playing darts.
          Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

          ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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          • #6
            Or taking part in the decathlon for that matter.

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            • #7
              New Zealand were whitewashed by England over here last year - just like the Aussies will be in the ashes.
              It is better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt

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              • #8
                anyone wanna explain the rules?
                "Everything for the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State" - Benito Mussolini

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                • #9
                  I don't even know what game it is, but it's obvious that New Zealand is very bad at it.
                  I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
                  - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
                    anyone wanna explain the rules?
                    Simple version.

                    You have a field, with a 22 yard pitch in the middle with a wicket at either end. You have two teams of 11. At any one time you have a team bowling/fielding, and 2 batsmen from the other team - one at each end of the pitch, on the field of play.

                    Bowling side attempts to get wickets: By either bowling over a batsman's wicket, catching him, or hitting a wicket whilst he is attempting to run between the wickets. There are other ways of being out, but they are simple ways.

                    Batsmen attempt to score as many runs (a run being the act of both batsmen running, from their respective ends, the 22 yards between the wicket creases) before being out. Hit the ball, and if you can complete x runs before the fielders can get the ball to hit your wicket you get x runs. Boundaries count 6 (no bounce) or 4 (at least one bounce).
                    One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                    • #11
                      you forgot the googly.
                      Only feebs vote.

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                      • #12
                        He can use google for that.
                        One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                        • #13
                          I've always found it amusing that explanations of cricket inevitably create more confusion than they solve. The whole parliance, both in discussion and explanation of the game, sounds like very broken, halted English.
                          "The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
                          "you people who bash Bush have no appreciation for one of the great presidents in our history." - Ned
                          "I wish I had gay sex in the boy scouts" - Dissident

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                          • #14
                            I'm disappointed in AH. He of all people loves gloating.
                            Only feebs vote.

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                            • #15
                              Well, when you're facing a run rate of over 6 right from the get go there's always a very good chance of missing the target by a large margin.
                              Many teams fall a long way short in similar situations.


                              Originally posted by some English Plonker!
                              New Zealand were whitewashed by England over here last year

                              I'll be sure to remember this in a few months at the conclusion of a British tour of NZ in another sport ...

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