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>Well Taylor has done it again.
>On an overcast day and a good bowling pitch he has elected to put Australia
>into bat.
The day was overcast but I wouldn't say that the pitch was that bad to bat
on, Elliott got out to a pearler, Taylor chased a wide one, Mark Waugh left a
_big_ gap between bat and pad, Steve Waugh got a very good ball but it didn't
do a massive amount, Blewett got a ball which swung in and then cut away,
Bevan played a limp shot. Healy chased one and the tail showed that runs
could be made. As did Thorpe and hussain.
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> Is he perhaps over anxious to get out there and hit himself into
>form? Well if that was his idea, it didn't work, as you would all know by
>now. The Australian's are (as I write this), in some dissarray, three out,
>Blewitt just bowled on a No Ball. And then Caught. 28/4. And who was the
>man who put them there? TAYLOR.
I'd say that gough and Caddick deserve the credit for getting Australia in a
bad position more than Taylor deserves to be criticised for deciding to bat.
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>He is IMO a liability, and must be left out of the next test.
I would still agree but it will be hard after he's scored 100 in the second
dig. The real worry is that after 20 innings without a 50 isn't enough to
have him dropped what will be?
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> Right now it
>could be McGrath and Gillespie ripping into the English batsman.
They got their chance later in the day and didn't look anywhere near as good
_in_these_conditions_ as the English attack. Kasprowicz looked the best of
the bowlers to me.
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> But Taylor
>has (to take an extremely inflamtory view, which as you know i'm good at
>when it comes to Taylor) put himself before country, being so concerned
>with his batting he has decided he wants to get out there,
The decision to bat first was reasonable, but good bowling and terrible
batting gave a poor result (from the Australian point of view).
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> and in doing so
>has put Australia into a bad spot after less than an hour has passed.
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>MMMMmmmmm.......DONUTS!! (Barts Dad)
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