Matt (The Bat) Hayden notched up a world record 380 runs in a test innings about an hour ago and about 80 km up the road from me. Best individual score in over 123 years of test match history.

All hail "THE BAT" :D :D :D

Pity his untimely dismissal halted the Aussie charge at the Poms team record of 902. Tugger must have yaken pity on the opposition once Mighty Matt was dismissed ;) .

Wrong in so many ways.

Highest innings score in a test match was 952-6 Sri Lanka v India 1997.

England's highest was 903-7 in 1938. Was it against Zimbabwe or Bangladesh? Neither, it was against the Australians!

And Hayden's 380, was it against South Africa or England? Neither, it was against Zimbabwe! Crikey mate, even England beat Zimbabwe!

:D

Pleased he took that Lara score off of the record books though. ;)

What price a new world record against Georgia on Sunday?

Just where, oh Donut of most correctness in everything, did I mention that we coveted the Sri Lankan's world record test score - hmm - nowhere hmm - just as I thought :D . The only goal that I had was that we Aussies achieve a higher test score than the Poms. Really my good fellow - do you think that anything else really matters ;) .

[ 10-10-2003, 05:20 AM: Message edited by: Davros ]

Magnificent! Mesmerising! Memorable!

Australian domination of the (sports) world takes another step foreword [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img]

I won't pull you up on the spelling Wellhard because I know english isn't the first language in Australia!

;)

Was great to see! I think Bat was about 360 or so and one of the radio commentators was pondering whether Tugger thought the 700 odd they had was enough - seriously! :D

Interesting to see that Heath seems to be learning from the Nasser school of toss-winning :D

500 to avoid the follow-on - will Tugger remember the hoodoos from India and not enforce it [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img]

If we dont win this game i'm going to walk naked backwards to queensland :eek:

*checks the weather forcast first*


And a big [img]graemlins/whackya.gif[/img] to Donut [img]tongue.gif[/img]

LOL

"Win the toss and always bat first, if in doubt think for a moment then always choose to bat first."

I think Heath and Hussien will have this engraved on thier tombstone. [img]graemlins/laugh3.gif[/img]

Ain't it great how history repeats itself :D .

Still, you have to admit that these opposing captains probably take one look at our batting line-up headed by "The Bat" and with Gilly a lowly number 7 and think that perhaps the only way to dismiss us twice is to PRAY that there is some life in the wicket in the first session. If you have an attack full of seamers with no real spinning talent (ie rule out pretty much everyone else but India's spin twins and Sri Lanka's "Murrali") then it is not surprising that so many teams try this tactic on us.

I sort of wonder if there isn't perhaps a hint of a tactic knowing that OZ always plays for the win. By having us bat first a side can always pray that the test match gets shortened badly by rain. When this is the case they usually benefit from sporting Australian declarations that set gettable targets to try and force a result. I seem to recall one or two sides in the past 5 years (England on at least one occasion - possibly more than once) being successful over us in these cirumstances. Maybe the tacticians are analysing the pattern of our losses and have come up with this as a 15% winning formula.

Doh! I mean Ouch! ;)