go peter sizzle

Now I know that the Vics are foxing.

Surely no one would allow Beau Casson to make runs unless they were playing with the minds of the opposition.

I said if he made a hundred this game it would take 5 days, he has certainly proved my point for me.

Congrats to Peter Sizzle on getting 8 wickets in this match so far.

That is a hell of an effort, if only someone else could take wickets as well the Vics might actually finish this innings.

The good news is Brett Lee might make his maiden (I’m assuming) first class hundred.

I am still pretty confident Victoria can score up until 900 runs, but any more than that and we might struggle a bit.

Assassination leads to the down fall of Victorian civilisation

Every Victorian fan knew the collapse was coming.

We have done it all year, it wasn't abou to change now.

We knew that without Hussey to slap them around the NSWelsh would be able to plug away for long enough until the longest tail of all time was exposed.

White, was set up beautifully by Clark, very similar to how he set up Sehwag, but what hurt about it was that White was just starti8ng to look good.

Then Hodge, fu©ken Hodgey, padded up to MacGill from around the wicket and the stumps were damaged.

Crosthwaite, the x man, was gone before I’d even realised he was in, edging to his enemy behind the stumps.

Then sizzling Siddle came in, predictably Lee came straight on, and payback was swift, merciless and very unlike Lee.

Lee hit him with a beauty, Siddle laughed, Lee sledged Siddle smiled.

Next ball Lee bowled a ball that would have dethroated a number 112, instead it flicked sizzle’s shoulder and he was given out before Haddin completed the catch.

Then the Facebook kid McGain came out, you could see he wanted to get behind the ball, but out of love for his son, he couldn’t quite get there. Eventually Lee bowled a straight one and McGoo was put out of his misery.

Harwood came out next, and Lee tried to kill him as well, he batted ok for a moment or two, before cutting an obvious front foot no ball to gully.

Then Dirty Dirk came in, he stood right in behind the ball, perhaps because he wasn’t quick enough to move out of the way. Then he got hit with a straight one.

All out, and now we are in more trouble than a white DJ capping a black woman a nappy haired ho.

Lee who bowled tripe all day, ok not tripe, but not great, seemed to be saving himself for Peter Sizzle, and he tore the tail apart.

MacGill got the important wicket of Hodge, and he bowled really well from beginning to end.

Clark worked over Jewell and White like a seasoned pro, and Bracken bowled ok.

Beau Casson was not required.

Michael Clarke was the sniper on the grassy fu©ken knoll.

the final - tea day 2

Brad Hodge is looking pretty good early on, he looks like he is set for at least a 60 odd.

Nick Jewell is getting an A grade work over from Stuey Clarke.

I usually love watching Stuey Clarke work a batsmen over, but this is painful. It’s like watching a kid melt an army figure, if that army figure was a tall ex footballer.

Stuey MacGill is a pretty cluey dude, he has somehow noticed that Nick Jewell is not an umpire, and he also felt the need to tell Jewelly of this fact.

Jewell had decided to play for stumps straight after lunch, but then he got bored, hit it straight to Thornley and ran himself out.

Was a bit odd.

“Dominic Thornley, he knows what its like to play 3 pura cup finals,” Brendan Julian. I’m assuming he would, being this is his third final.

Then Future PM David Hussey came out and played like he was playing a club game, flew to 9 off 7 and then got dropped at gully by the young opener Hughes.

Hussey offcourse next over put his head down, and got in behind the line and defended.

Actually he just slapped another 4.

It’s a very tense point in the game, because 2 wickets here and NSWales are in charge, if not, these two are very adept at putting on big fast partnerships that demoralise attacks.

The fifty partnership is up off almost as many balls. The Future PM just makes things happen. Sign the petition.

Hussey is given out for no real reason at all.

Conspiracy.

Had to be, how else would Michael Clarke get out the great man.

I don’t even know why they
appealing? It wasn’t LB, it wasn’t caught, perhaps it was because he is too damn good.

One more wicket and we are in all sorts.

Hodge strolls to a Hussey inspired 50.

Worst thing about the blatantly pro NSWales decision was it means we don’t get to see Hussey V MacGill.

As I write that, the commentators are saying that krab katich was hiding MacGill from Hussey.

Little bitches.

White looks a little dodgy, but that is nothing new for him at the start.

Hodgey is looking very comfortable.

That’s tea.

2 wickets that session, and odd suicide by SOT, and a callous assassination on the Future PM.

the final - lunch day 2

I think I have a nickname for Peter Siddle.

Peter Sizzle.

Oh yeah, I like it.

Just perusing the paper and the reason he looked like he was giving birth yesterday was that his tooth was infected.

At some stages it looked like he had swallowed about 3 teeth.

Sizzle accounted for Bracken quite easily.

And that brought out the two stuey’s, two of my favourite tailenders in world cricket.

Stuey Clark got a couple away, and Stuey MacGill looked like a man who hasn’t held a cricket bat in 8 years.

Dirty Dirk finished off Clarke with a short ball he didn’t seem to watch but still hit to deep backward square.

The Speedblitz blues on their way to the grandstand at 280 odd.

I haven’t wanted to jinx this or anything, but the Vics opening partnership is already the best for the year. Probably not statistically, but in real terms this is the best they have looked.

Not sure if I jinxed them, but 10 runs after I wrote the above sentence, Lord Mash got a nick of bracken, typical out for an opener. Must say that the Krab Katich probably made a mistake not giving Bracken the new ball.

Was a pretty quiet first session for the Vics, they lost just L9ord Mash, but overall played the best domestic bowling attack in the world very well.

Nick Jewell was not always pretty, but he is not a pretty guy, he is an old school opener. And so far has done his job.

Bracken was the best of the bowlers for the Blues.

Honours go to the bushrangers for this session.

If Jewell can occupy the crease, the Vics have the cattle at the other end to very quickly get the 280 very quickly.

Highlight of the session was Shane Harwood saying he would take a tooth infection if it got him a five fa.

the final - stumps day one

If Brad Hodge has fielded worse than this I’d like to see it.

The plans for getting the wickets is bowl short to Thornley and bowl wide of off stump to Haddin. The Thronley plan could work, the Haddin one is working for Haddin.

NSWales are really trying to cut loose and regain their authority, but right at the moment they look like they are about to lose a wicket and capitulaion may follow.

And then the mad Ballaratarian continued to work Thornley over until he didn’t get an edge through to the keeper but was given out anyway.

So he should be.

Peter Siddle looks like he is about to give birth to a beautiful baby girl. The man is going through seriously painful breathing at the moment, and he’s off the ground.

Beau Casson just doesn’t look like a cricketer, and I’m not just saying that because he doesn’t have a fat @ss.

Casson just played a bouncer from Harwood like a disabled blind boy who is ducking a pumpkin.

Mark Waugh and Greg Blewett bagged Ashwell Prince going for 180,000 in the IPL.

Casson played for stumps from the first ball he faced. He made 99 in his last dig, if he were to do that in this match Victoria will never get a bat.

Haddin is seeing them very well, but Casson is doing his best to make sure he doesn’t face too many balls.

Casson eyes light up when White bowled a half tracker, and found a way to edge between slip and keeper for 4.

Even though McGain is keeping the NSWelsh, especially Haddin, honest. White is really bowling well, he is creating a chance per over.

The new ball has been ignored.

As I say that they take it and Peter Siddle puts Casson out of everyone elses misery and he walks.

He may well have been given out anyway, but, I couldn’t imagine a real NSWelshman walking against the Vics in a final.

Siddle backs his batting skills by bouncing Lee and all but decapitating him.

Lee is given a real work over by Siddle, who must have bought a new chest guard and arm guard dfor this game. He just ripped one into Lee’s gloves.

The momentum has just swung back to NSWales, Haddin and Lee are using and abusing the new ball and the Vics looked very flat.

Dirty Dirk bowled and absolute ripper on the second last ball of his day and made Brett Lee look a little silly.

Now the Vics are up and firing and Bracken lets a very fast ball hit his hip.

Next nut Siddle, who looks like he has gone 26 rounds with Jack Johnson in Cuba, shot one into Haddin’s pads and the Vic’s celebrate a great day.

8 for 260 odd, well hello, those odds of 3.30 I got are looking pretty damn hot right now.

AB reads my blog (probably)

Fleming compared the Krab to Laxman, steady on chap, comments like that will get you a gig on channel 9.

I said yesterday Victoria has a fielding advantage.

Well they are giving that away with some beautifully shoddy work.

The Vics are playing this game on their terms, which is good and bad. They have decided on part time off spin while McDonald clogs up the other end.

They like to slow the game down, make it a war when they bowl, that is how they make their bread.

That said, White took it too far, Hodge bowled 3 overs too many, and when the change was made the breakthrough was had.

Siddle got Jacques with a very nice nut, was touch and go, but Siddle’s appeal was what won Rocket Tucker over.

He has bowled very well the young man.

Jacques has out crabbed the Krab today, fairly ordinary effort.

Michael Clarke comes out, with a 1st class average of 42, that Brendan Julian says are nice numbers.

No they are piss poor for a man of his talent.

The ball has started to reverse, so the angry man from Ballarat has been brought back on, in what could be his last game of cricket for Victoria.

Clarke is batting intelligently, he doesn’t look in great form but is rotating the strike, Phil Jacques should be watching this.

ALLAN BORDER JUST CALLED DIRK NANNES DIRTY DIRK.

Does he read my blog.

McGain tricks Katich with some flight and Nick Jewell does something he never threatened to do for Richmond, he takes an overhead mark.

McGain really likes bowling to katich, he is the only bowler who has had the wood on him this year. THis is the 4th time he has got his wicket I think.

Dirty Dirk comes round the wicket and Clarke is out, you fu©ken beauty.

Pretty plumb that, Clarke lost a bit of balance.

This is a sexy session, the money men are all but gone. One more wicket and Beau Casson has to come out.

Very good first day so far on a flat wicket.

Bring on session 3.

the final - lunch day one

Victoria are clearly foxing with NSWales early on.

By dropping Katich or Jacques, depending on which commentator was speaking, they were setting NSWales up for a huge fall.

The opening bowling spells were top class.

Dirty Dirk was snorting with authority on his way in to the crease.

His first five overs went for 5. The commentators said he bowled a bit short, for him he was actually quite full.

My biggest concern was that he didn’t fall over enough. That is when he is in top form.

Peter Siddle was on fire early on, he got rid of Hughes with a nice delivery then he completely dictated to Jacques for the longest time.

International coaches will store this tape for their next time they play Australia.

If you had never seen Siddle or Jacques play before, you would think Siddle was the international player and Jacques the domestic player.

But importantly he is still there.

Harwood started a bit way ward, I think he was way too keen to get Katich’s wicket.

Then he got his groove back, and while he didn’t look brutal, he certainly continued to make Jacques look average.

McGain looked to trouble both batsmen when they defended him, when they attacked him though they looked comfortable.

Andrew McDonald bowled an interesting spell where all he really seemed to do was bowl quick off spinners.

The Krab katich batted pretty well, when Jacques let him face. He looks very awkward when McGain pins him down, and McGain really likes bowling to him.

It’s a flat pitch, and Victoria are going to try choke NSWales to death.

NSWales have a very skinny batting line up for this match, if these two are both in at tea, the Vics are gone, but if they can get either out, the Vics have a real show here.

Moment of the session, Brad Hodges hissy fit, after dropping whomever it was.

I was making lunch, i thought it was katich, but the commentators kept saying different names.