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Just been announced that Josh Hazlewood will miss the first test due to start in Perth next Friday. This is a big blow to the Australians as they will already be without their captain and no.1 pace bowler Pat Cummins.

Englands preparations for the tour has been questioned by many as they have opted to play no warm up games aside from a one off against the English lions. 

Many are saying that its crucial that we get of to a good start in Perth which basically means we cant afford to lose seeing as the 2nd test in Brisbane is a day/night game ( fucking ridiculous) where the Aussies are strongly fancied.

Looking forward to this now but really unsure of how it will play out, I guess I'd still make them slight favourites due to home advantage. Going to be a few all nighters in the coming weeks for me, let's hope it'll be worth it.

Need to beat Oman 

Scotland going well v Nepal
Two Englishmen at the crease

Fauxstralian wrote: ↑17 Feb 2026, 12:11 No play so Zim go through to the 8’s & Australia & Ireland are out
Fair play as a 20 over game turning into a 5 over coin toss would have been a travesty 

Not sure how the groups are fixed by India for the 8’s but can see India, S Africa , Sri Lanka & Windies in the semis & maybe a SA v India final 

Fauxstralian wrote: ↑17 Feb 2026, 11:26 It’s t20
Just a bit of fun

I guess the Ashes debacle is in the past now
Not as far in the past as Englands last series win of course
Is the Kiwi match fixer still running England?

 

Fauxstralian wrote: ↑17 Feb 2026, 10:26 You do seem spiky about your deportation
Hope you have paid up for both passports 
Am off to Australia next month which suits me fine 

Raining at Zim/Ire which could end up as a 5 over game 
Australia deserve to go home so an Ireland win that keeps them partially alive would be a travesty 
Will have to make do with the Ashes (plus every other bilateral Test trophy) plus 6 ODI World Cups 

 

No play so Zim go through to the 8’s & Australia & Ireland are out
Fair play as a 20 over game turning into a 5 over coin toss would have been a travesty 

Not sure how the groups are fixed by India for the 8’s but can see India, S Africa , Sri Lanka & Windies in the semis & maybe a SA v India final 

It’s t20
Just a bit of fun

I guess the Ashes debacle is in the past now
Not as far in the past as Englands last series win of course
Is the Kiwi match fixer still running England?
 

Stop living in the past, and take your pathetic showing here on the chin.

You do seem spiky about your deportation
Hope you have paid up for both passports 
Am off to Australia next month which suits me fine 

Raining at Zim/Ire which could end up as a 5 over game 
Australia deserve to go home so an Ireland win that keeps them partially alive would be a travesty 
Will have to make do with the Ashes (plus every other bilateral Test trophy) plus 6 ODI World Cups 
 

Will be interesting to see if the paddies can beat Zim this morning.

Fauxstralian wrote: ↑17 Feb 2026, 06:32 Ha ha
Its a cricket thread that has adapted into the t20 World Cup comments
I see Fraser the deportee from Australia still has a chip on his shoulder about people laughing at his toothless junkie grin while wearing sandals & socks & a knotted handkerchief on his head

Ha ha
Its a cricket thread that has adapted into the t20 World Cup comments
I see Fraser the deportee from Australia still has a chip on his shoulder about people laughing at his toothless junkie grin while wearing sandals & socks & a knotted handkerchief on his head

onsideman wrote: ↑16 Feb 2026, 21:16

Fauxstralian wrote: ↑16 Feb 2026, 19:09 Smith & Alex Carey should have been two of the first picked
Had the Big Bash just before & ignored several form players 
Picked players past their sell by date .. Maxwell , Stoinis etc
and others who weren’t fit for months or when the tournament started
Hazlewood last played in November, missed the entire Ashes and was only replaced 2 days ago
Utterly bizarre
I know it’s only t20 but Bailey should be on his bike.


 

who cares?

zebthecat wrote: ↑16 Feb 2026, 19:02 I enjoyed the TMS commentary.
Australia's bowling attack is very threadbare.
Marcus Stoinis can't have opened the bowling very often and it went downhill from there.

 

Fauxstralian wrote: ↑16 Feb 2026, 19:09 Smith & Alex Carey should have been two of the first picked
Had the Big Bash just before & ignored several form players 
Picked players past their sell by date .. Maxwell , Stoinis etc
and others who weren’t fit for months or when the tournament started
Hazlewood last played in November, missed the entire Ashes and was only replaced 2 days ago
Utterly bizarre
I know it’s only t20 but Bailey should be on his bike.
 

Smith & Alex Carey should have been two of the first picked
Had the Big Bash just before & ignored several form players 
Picked players past their sell by date .. Maxwell , Stoinis etc
and others who weren’t fit for months or when the tournament started
Hazlewood last played in November, missed the entire Ashes and was only replaced 2 days ago
Utterly bizarre
I know it’s only t20 but Bailey should be on his bike 

India presumably will be lined up for a home semi final with the other finalist forced to play in Sri Lanka before going to India 
Reckon S Africa are a reasonable chance to spoil their party

I enjoyed the TMS commentary.
Australia's bowling attack is very threadbare.
Marcus Stoinis can't have opened the bowling very often and it went downhill from there.

Game of the tournament so far, sounded like a right ol ding dong on the radio. Dream start given to Australia by Head and Marsh then they contrived to lose a game they had no real right to. Steve Smith made a brief appearance as a sub but the silly fucker forgot to bring the sandpaper from the dressing room.

Nowhere near enough 
SL win at a canter
Bit of a debacle at the selection table
Picked injured players , out of form players & has beens & never got going 
George Bailey as selector rightly will come under pressure 

Head & Marsh get off to a flier but the rest fall in a heap & Australia scrape to 181
Might be enough but maybe not
Smith left out for a bunch of batsmen who have done nothing 
Will have to win & smash Oman to get in on NRR

Brook "We have to be more brave with the bat" say the captain of a team who beat Nepal by 4 runs, I am looking forward the day this regime comes to end  

England being called sloppy and Finn again deflecting the subject elsewhere 

On TMS Henry alluded  to  Bazs casual attitude to coaching Finn fumbled around the accusations made during the Ashes series and backed out of making a comment

Surrey's Will Jacks saves the day for England with a superb unbeaten 53 from 22 balls to take England above 200.

Steve Smith finally added to the Australian squad replacing Hazlewood who hadn’t played since November!
No certainty for the must win game v Sri Lanka today as Mitchell Marsh’s testicle has reduced from the size of a basketball 
Been a bit a selection debacle & Australia are out if they don’t win today