i dont like the idea of cameras in the change rooms and am sure cricket australia probly dont either.
i dont like the idea of cameras in the change rooms and am sure cricket australia probly dont either.
Yobbos? just hit E for eject
By James Phelps
October 18, 2006 12:00am
SPECTATORS at this summer's Ashes Test at the SCG may be able to use mobile phones to have troublemakers kicked out.
Cricket Australia yesterday confirmed it was considering a proposal to have fans text message a security hotline to have unruly fans removed.
The dob-in-a-yob system would allow fans who felt threatened by misbehaving patrons to anonymously dob them in without fear of reprisal.
"We are reviewing all the security arrangements for this summer," a Cricket Australia spokeswoman said.
"We haven't finalised the details but it should be worked out by early November. The SMS system is on the agenda."
The dob-in-a-yob hotline has been used successfully in the UK to have football hooligans punted from soccer matches.
Patrons can send an SMS to a security number, which is displayed on the venue's big screen and on the back of tickets.
Offended parties must include the nature of the offence as well as a location. Once the message is received, stadium security use CCTV cameras to zoom in on the area and see if the complaint is legitimate.
The text hotline is expected to be introduced at the Gabba for the first Test.
Premier Morris Iemma said he would support the proposal.
"We will support any good idea they bring forward. Everyone wants this series to be remembered for what happens on the field," he said.
A spokesman for Telstra Stadium said NSW's biggest venue was also looking at the mobile phone technology.
"We are monitoring how the system performs," he said.
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Originally Posted by Queenslander
sounds like a really smart idea..
:rotflmao:Originally Posted by ~Michel~
whahahah is he still bitter about that leg break warne gave him in the 93 series lmao
gees media is just annoying.Originally Posted by Queenslander
leave the guy alone
Hayden mauled by dog
Robert Craddock and Terry Smith
October 22, 2006 12:00am
MATTHEW Hayden has been attacked by a dog and Stuart MacGill suspended for misconduct in bizarre setbacks to Australia's Ashes preparations.
Hayden was attacked while out jogging on Friday during a visit to his parents property at Kingaroy and was taken by a neighbour to hospital with a gashed ankle.
Tests have revealed there is no tendon or ligament damage. But Hayden said last night the wound, about five centimetres long, would remain open for several days to minimise the risk of infection before being stitched.
"It was a vicious attack," he said.
"I was was out for a leisurely run. You are always a bit shocked by that sort of thing but I was more disappointed than anything.
"It just hasn't been my week."
Hayden was already out of cricket for a couple of weeks after breaking a finger taking a catch in last weekend's Pura Cup match against Tasmania.
"The hand injury would have kept me out for longer than this one anyway," said Hayden, who added there was no doubt surrounding his fitness for the first Test against England at the Gabba on November 23.
Meanwhile, Test leg-spinner MacGill has been suspended from the NSW team until November 2 after a run-in with an umpire in club cricket.
It leaves MacGill sidelined from Wednesday's day-nighter against Queensland at the Gabba, and the Pura Cup game against the Bulls starting on Friday.
The fiery leg-spinner pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly and improper conduct but has appealed against the severity of the sentence.
A Cricket NSW spokesman said the appeal was expected to be heard tomorrow.
The Blues leave for Brisbane on Tuesday.
If the appeal is upheld, MacGill could still fly to Brisbane for Wednesday's game.
He is desperate to press for an Ashes call-up, believing the Australians erred by not playing two spinners against England on last year's tour.
MacGill allegedly swore at an umpire while playing for Sydney University against Campbelltown-Camden at University Oval last week.
The flare-up occurred as MacGill took six wickets on the first day of the match. Neither umpire, Terry Keel nor Bill Hendricks, would comment yesterday.
MacGill looms as a key to this summer's Ashes campaign, when he could join forces with Shane Warne in a dual leg-spin attack.
He took a career best 8-108 against Bangladesh in April, taking his total Test wickets to 198.
The Sunday Mail
I hope that Hayden recovers quickly...As for Mcgill...after taking 6 wickets in a day's play( anyone would think he would end the day on a positive note)...big mistake to be swearing at an umpire and earning a misconduct charge. :whatd:
yeh an idiot he is for that.Originally Posted by ~Michel~
bad enough for me to see it in footy let alone cricket.
i hope hayden recovers quickly too
Harmison 'England's weak link'
By Ben Dorries
October 23, 2006 THE fast bowler they call Grievous Bodily Harmison has been identified as a potential weak link in England's Ashes campaign.
Steve Harmison is way down on confidence after being hammered for 1-45 off 4.5 overs in England's meek Champions Trophy capitulation against Australia.
He appeared a shadow of the intimidating figure who savaged Australia with 17 Test wickets during England's famous 2005 Ashes triumph.
The giant fast bowler suffers from homesickness and is much better on English soil, performing well in the recent Test series against Pakistan.
Harmison has never had the heart for one-day cricket - but his terrible figures in Jaipur gave Australia's batsmen confidence they could target him Down Under this summer.
"If he comes to Australia and bowls that way we would be looking at doing exactly the same thing," skipper Ricky Ponting chirped.
England skipper Andy Flintoff claimed he wasn't worried that Harmison's unpredictable performances could lose the Ashes.
"Stevie's working hard at his game, so I've got no concerns," Flintoff said. "Every now and then it doesn't go your way.
"It's a collective effort and we don't point fingers."
While England has its problems with Harmison, Australia maintains it is not concerned by the unspectacular form of Glenn McGrath.
McGrath has rarely threatened since returning from compassionate leave - and was targeted by England for an early attacking onslaught.
He was belted for 0-27 from his initial four-over spell - before returning much better to finish with 2-36 off nine.
"He went for two boundaries from the first two balls he bowled and he came back reasonably well after that," Ponting said.
"His second and third spells were terrific for us, I thought. You don't end up having a lot of concerns about one of the greats of the game in Glenn."
Damien Martyn answered his knockers with a crisp 78 and then revealed he had longed to stride out against England again after being dropped following the Ashes loss.
"We've been waiting for this game for a long time," Martyn said. "We enjoyed the moment because we've had a lot of bad moments."
Source:Courier Mail
Warnie backs McGrath
Tuesday, 24 October 2006 @ 8:51 PM
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Champion leg spinner Shane Warne has said Australia will need all the experience, guile and expertise that Glenn McGrath brings to the team if it is to win back the Ashes this summer.
McGrath has come under fire for his indifferent performances with the ball for Australia in its recent one-day matches since coming back from an eight-month break from the game.
But Warne said very little could be read into his form in the one-day version of the game and believes the pace bowler will be an invaluable part of the Australian line-up for the Ashes.
" wouldn't be writing Glenn McGrath off. He's a champion, I think Australia need Glenn McGrath," Warne told The Australian.
"By the time the first Test comes around I think he'll be ready to go."
Asked if Australia had gained an early psychological edge over England with the six-wicket win in the Champions Trophy in India Warne re-iterated that they are two very different forms of the game.
"We saw last year in the Ashes build-up England won a Twenty20 game at the Rose Bowl, it wasn't a psychological edge, they're two completely different games."
"You could lose a one day series every one of those games, 5-0, and still go out and win a Test."
Warne also said England's Test team this year would be tougher than last year's team that claimed the Ashes in England.
"I actually think they're stronger," he said. "In Australia you need your spinner, and you need your keeper performing well.
"They've strengthened their keeper department (with Chris Read) who I think is the best keeper in England, and their spin bowling department (with Monty Panesar)."
The Ashes kicks off at the Gabba in Brisbane on November 23.
Bowling Stone Jagger could come to Ashes
From Sydney Confidential
October 25, 2006 12:00am
YOU can't always get what you want but if Australian cricket circles have their way, Rolling Stones legend Mick Jagger will be heading to Australia for this summer's Ashes series.
Whispers around the sport are Jagger - a cricket tragic - has been courted by series broadcaster Channel 9 to make a cameo appearance at at least one of the five Test matches between Australia and England.
A Cricket Australia insider said yesterday the network was behind a push to lure the veteran singer with the big lips out to Australia to further ramp up hype for the most anticipated Test series between the old enemies in years.
"I know it's something Channel 9 is working on,'' the insider said.
"It's pretty universally known that he is a massive cricket tragic.
"He went to one of the Test matches in the last Ashes series in England.
"It would be absolutely huge for us.''
A Nine spokesman yesterday denied the network was campaigning for Jagger to make the journey but said "it would be no surprise if he were to come out because he loves cricket''.
A few days of Jagger in the stands at the SCG would give cricket heavies plenty of satisfaction, with fellow rock superstar Elton John already rumoured to have planned his tour around the series and has tickets to every day of every Test.
Jagger, who has previously described himself as a decent cricketer, famously purchased the rights to use audio from a one-day tournament in Sri Lanka so he could get coverage of the series over the internet.
Imagine Mick and Warney on tour together.
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From what I've seen of Mitchell Johnson he deserves a shot at this years Ashes
what makes these ashes exciting is the fact we are trying to get them back.it would be either way but us v them is better when we got more of a goal.
Under the pump
By Ben Dorries
November 07, 2006 12:00
Article from: The Daily Telegrap
RICKY Ponting mocked England's most recent flop ? and accused the Old Enemy of "pumping up their tyres" ? after Australia plugged the only hole in their trophy cabinet.
Australia's eight-wicket Champions Trophy romp over the West Indies was a heart-starter for the Ashes summer and gifted Ponting another chance to land some pre-Ashes blows.
England failed miserably in the Champions Trophy ? plunging out of the Indian tournament in the group stage ? and Ponting needled them before flying home to begin full-blown Ashes preparations.
Ponting hasn't forgotten how a ****y England insisted their semi-final win over Australia in the 2004 Champions Trophy was a launch pad towards 2005 Ashes glory.
But the roles have been reversed after Ponting's men battered the Poms by six wickets in a group match in Jaipur last month ? and claimed a maiden Champions Trophy in a cakewalk.
"I know England have pumped their tyres up a bit, judging themselves against us in the semi-final of the Champions Trophy last time," Ponting chirped.
"It will be interesting to see if they make the same assessment of themselves after the last game we played against them.
"Winning does breed confidence and we'll go home nice and confident."
Ponting was quick to tell his players not to get bloated heads after the Champions Trophy win, insisting the one-day tournament has little relevance to the Ashes summer.
However Australia have taken great heart out of the last month in India and several players will now go into the Ashes feeling they are in peak form.
Comeback paceman Glenn McGrath (10 wickets at 15.8) and veteran batsman Damien Martyn (241 runs at 80.3) were prime movers in the Champions Trophy while the Ashes stocks of young firebrand Mitchell Johnson (five wickets at 22) also soared.
Johnson may have been the big winner to come out of India because he performed above expectations ? and Ponting loves the nippy left-arm variety he provides.
The Queenslander has been pencilled into Australia's first Test plans ? partially because Ponting learnt some bitter lessons from England's pace attack during the last Ashes. There is also a feeling that seamer Stuart Clark could miss out because he is a Glenn McGrath line-and-length clone.
"You always want variety in your attack. If you look back at the last Ashes series, that was England's great strength against us last time ? the variety they had," Ponting said.
"Although they had all right-arm bowlers, they were all very different.
"Matthew Hoggard swinging the new ball, Steve Harmison banging it into the wicket, Andy Flintoff doing a bit of both and Simon Jones bowling reverse swing very well.
"Mitchell Johnson is improving game by game."
And reborn Australian swingman Nathan Bracken also did his Ashes prospects no harm with 10 wickets at 19.4 while allrounder Shane Watson shone at times with both bat and ball.
Australia's experimentation for next year's World Cup, with Watson opening and McGrath tried at first-change, has so far proved a success.
I LOVE "BULL" BAILEY
"WHAT A MAN, WHAT A MAN, WHAT A MIGHTY GOOD MAN"
How would you guys have the ashes team?
M.Hayden
J.Langer
R.Ponting
M.Clarke
M.Hussey
A.Gilchrist
S.Watson
S.Warne
B.Lee
S.Tait
G.McGrath
D.Martyn
S.MacGill
N.Bracken
M.Johnson
S.Clark
^Thats my team.
I LOVE MICHEL