Olympics.... Australia KO1 England

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Limited as he may be he's a big hitter who can have limited success in ODI's and England don't have too many of those.

 

I think Mascarenhas is a better option, with both ball and bat :deal

Anthony McGrath would fit the bill as well. If he didn't play for Sussex he would be nowhere near the international set up.

 

McGrath is a great shout though he's getting on a bit now. I remember when he played for England quite a few years ago-he showed that he could perform at the top level and didn't look out of place. He was better than Craig White in his prime who got quite a few chances with England.

 

Aust P4P one of the worlds strongest in sports.

Olympic medal race between Aust and UK will be close this year......nah Aust KO3 :deal

 

McGrath plays for Yorks no? Plus he's out with a hamstring injury at the moment.

 

McGrath does play for Yorkshire and has played really well the past couple of years.

I would have said him and Chalky were about on par - Maggs the better and more consistent batsman, whilst Chalky was a top class bowler in his prime, hard to get away with his late swinging yorkers and could hit a long ball.

World ODI XI

Hayden/Smith/Tendulkar
Hayden/Smith/Tendulkar
Ponting (c)
Sangakkara
Symonds
Dhoni (wk)
Bravo/Afridi
Vettori
Lee
Bracken
Muralitharan

 

Not sure who it was that decided half of all the medals in the Olympics needed to be for swimming but it certainly assists countries that do lots of swimming.

The equivalent in athletics would be having 4 different medals for the 100m, one for running, one for skipping, one for crawling and one for hopping. This would then be repeated for the 200, 400, 800 and 1500m and we would then introduce additional "medley" events where longer distances would be divided into 4 and competitors would consecutively run, skip, crawl and hop the 4 legs.

 

Have you seen Mendis yet? Incredible.

 

Not seen anything of him, but heard enough!

I was toying whether or not to include Jayasuriya instead of Vettori and bat Tendulkar at 4 shunting everybody else down.

That way you get a run a ball at the top plus a handy bowling option - you already have the two leading quicks in ODI cricket in Lee and Bracken backed up by Murali and one of Bravo and Afridi

 

89% of Australian medals are won in Swimming evens. Nobody cares, we not fish.

 

It's one of the main sports in the games, not as popular as the track and field, but still pretty popular.

Also, if memory serves me correctly, I think we won more medals than you in the athletics during the last Commonwealth Games.

All in all, I think you guys will have a good Olympics, much better than the Athens Games anyway, and that we will sit pretty close to each other in the medal tally.

 

Always laugh when sport gets brought up with the British. Any sport that they loose to the Aussies at they dont care about, it's boring, we are not fish and many other excuses. yet any sport they are good at are the only real sports. I go for Australia in all sports and feel bad everytime they loose no matter even if it is Sycronised swimming. I feel great when they win as well. get some spirit guys there are people competing for there country after years of sacrifie and you guys dont give a ****. shocking

 

indeed you did mate! I cant see us being close to you guys, you have quite a good few sports you excel in. Our sprinters of the past are not as good - but have got a good few youngsters coming through.. bring back dwain!

Below is harry Aikines-Aryeetey - we won 100m and 200m world junior champs... London 2012 he should be up there

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Yeah i was very surprissed it reminded me of when Wessels was in charge of Australia (Very Bad Time). Me i would have gave the job to Bell. But hey each to there own.

 

Probably get done for drugs soon then.:-(