2015 ICC Cricket World Cup Final: New Zealand vs Australia - 29th March, 2.30pm AEDT @ MCG

[Tas]

Faulkner can be a touch expensive at times, but not sure you can really ask for much more from your 4th bowler than a strike rate of a wicket every 32.8 balls.

He puts the ball up to be hit and his slow ball has a lot more bounce which makes batsmen mishit him a fair bit, but he does give the batsmen some opportunity to score.

 

[Showbags]

Still reckon there could be a few minor twists and bumps to overcome for Aus to win this thing.

 

[Dugdale2Dwyer]

Wa

What? What did he say?

Warne said that as Clarke is retiring he now has to pick the next guy to wear 23, as Warne picked Clarke, then he went on to say it's a great tradition in AFL of players 'annointing' the next player with their number. Warne didn't say annointing, that's my description of his sentimients.

 

[Tas]

Few early wickets and Eden Park demons might start to appear. Should be romp though. You'd be ecstatic losing the toss in a WC final and knowing you'd chase less than 200. Massive choke would be needed, otherwise it's Five (5) x World Champions.

We only need 3.68 per over, we should not play too risky, just push the ball into the gaps, MCG is damn hard to plug all the holes, damn hard to rely on blasting boundaries.

 

[3rdManUp]

The only bad thing with chasing 184 is that only one of our batsman can get a ton

 

[Badesumofu]

Faulkner is sometimes a bit expensive because he bowls 3 PP overs and 3 death overs nearly every innings. You can't compare those overs to middle-overs. His economy for the times in the innings he bowls is outstanding. Second only to Starc in our squad. Posters talking about 'if we picked a 4th bowler' are just clueless about the format and the players involved. I'd say simply that Faulkner IS our 4th bowler except for the fact he's most likely the third bowler picked.

 

[crownie]

Still reckon there could be a few minor twists and bumps to overcome for Aus to win this thing.

yep the pressure the world cup final brings.

if its a normal game no one would bother tuning in.

 

[Millky95]

We only need 3.68 per over, we should not play too risky, just push the ball into the gaps, MCG is damn hard to plug all the holes, damn hard to rely on blasting boundaries.

Classic cricket is all that is required. Push through gaps, rotate the strike. Do that at 4-5 an over, easy. But NZ won't make it easy at all

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Keep running Southee!

 

[matty lloyd the champ]

Wa

Warne said that as Clarke is retiring he now has to pick the next guy to wear 23, as Warne picked Clarke, then he went on to say it's a great tradition in AFL of players 'annointing' the next player with their number. Warne didn't say annointing, that's my description of his sentimients.

I don't know about a great tradition but the better players are often consulted about who should wear their number.

 

[TradeDraft]

Aussies should not think they have already won.

IF they do they will lose

 

[peternorth]

the key to winning is to play your natural game

 

[ep2018]

No words can be said anymore, you are consistently the most pessimistic poster I've seen on BF in the 6 years I've been on here

We used to have an Eagles posted called Cuzz09 and he was just like me. But now I am worse.

 

[Spitta09]

Expecting us to lose 1 or 2 early wickets. We should steady and do this with the loss of 3 or 4 wickets. Hopefully its not too much of a nail biter though! Cmon Aus

 

[kBuck]

Damn, this between innings break is so damn boring, GIVE ME CRICKET!

 

[Costanza_]

Who /prayingtoallah;buddah;jesus/ that Starc learns to bowl with a red ball?

I get as cranky as anyone seeing him get selected over and over in the test side and spraying it - but man you can see why they persist. Right side of 25 left armer who can swing the ball late at 150k.

After tonight completely ban him from picking up a white ball. Red ball in the nets, send him to play County in England, take him to the Windies. Force him into a test bowler pls.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

the key to winning is to play your natural game

Agreed! We play horrible trying to be classic, just get out there, hit boundaries early.

 

[Richard Pryor]

Clarke will be an asset in this run chase. Sensible stuff is what we need more than the heavy artillery.

 

[TradeDraft]

the key to winning is to play your natural game

Could not say it better myself

 

[Hamingja]

Cool photo from cricinfo.

 

[The Falcon Strike]

NZ's fifth bowler becomes irrelevant now. Doubt they'll even get an over in

 

[Confuscius]

No

Warnie is an idiot

Saints have done it since about 2003. Burke Loewe and Hayes at least have done it, probably a few others I've forgotten about. Makes sense since Warnie is a saints man.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

We'd have to choke from here.

 

[Dugdale2Dwyer]

I don't know about a great tradition but the better players are often consulted about who should wear their number.

If anything then Warne started the tradition and AFL copied it.

 

[Damon_3388]

Not really. It has happened quite a few times at various clubs.

It's hardly the massive deal he made it out to be though.