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Jason Gillespie, showing few signs of burnout, advances to 135. Mike Hussey is also not out on 149; between them, the pair has scored 41 boundaries in a 248-run partnership.
UPDATE. He’s aiming for a Dizzy Double! Gillespie not out 172, Hussey not out 175, partnership 311. Total: 3/522
UPDATE II. Hussey out for 182. Seems likely he’ll be outscored by the dashing South Australian right-hander.
UPDATE III. Jason Gillespie has scored a Test double-century.
UPDATE IV. Australia declares; Gillespie not out 201.
UPDATE V. “Think of all the greats Gillespie now has a higher Test score than,” writes Infidel Tiger. “Mark Waugh comes to mind.” Here’s a list of greats (and not-so-greats) now outscored by Gillespie:
Steve Waugh: 200
David Boon: 200
Matthew Elliott: 199
Lindsay Hassett: 198*
Ian Chappell: 196
Warren Bardsley: 193*
Jim Burke: 189
Mike Hussey: 182
Peter Burge: 181
Norm O’Neill: 181
Kepler Wessels: 179
Joe Darling: 178
Darren Lehmann: 177
Graeme Wood: 172
Ian Redpath: 171
Ross Edwards: 170*
Colin McDonald: 170
Brian Booth: 169
Gary Cosier: 168
Charles Bannerman: 165*
Damian Martyn: 165
Archie Jackson: 164
Ian Healy: 161*
Bill Woodfull: 161
Warwick Armstrong: 159*
Wayne Phillips: 159
Mark Waugh: 153*
Michael Clarke: 151
Percy McDonnell: 147
Keith Miller: 147
Alan Kippax: 146
Greg Ritchie: 146
David Hookes: 143*
John Benaud: 142
Geoff Marsh: 138
Victor Richardson: 138
Jack Fingleton: 136
Alan Turner: 136
Rod Marsh: 132
Greg Matthews: 130
John Dyson: 127*
Rick McCosker: 127
Paul Sheahan: 127
Simon Katich: 125
Craig Serjeant: 124
Richie Benaud: 122
Peter Toohey: 122
Andy Hilditch: 119
Ian Davis: 105
Dirk Wellham: 103
Gus Gilmour: 101
Les Favell: 101
UPDATE VI. Whale Spinor reports:
I had two of my four daughters up in Brisbane from S Aust over the last week and they went back tonight. We spent today at the pub. I disgraced myself, in my wife’s eyes anyway, by moving to an area where I could watch the cricket. My youngest daughter (god bless her) at least understands cricket, and as I came out for well deserved refills she said things like “what’s Dizzy on now?”. And I said, over time, “130’s, 140’s ... 180’s, 190”. And as he was in the 190’s about 30 people materialised around the screen and everyone cheered as he got his 200.
I don’t care if they are looked upon as cricketing minnows—in fact we barely managed to avoid the follow-on against them in the first Test. The pitch was turning and some balls were keeping low but Dizzy faced 425 balls over what, a day and a half and made 201 runs undefeated.
Good onya Jason.
Yes indeed.
UPDATE VII. Gillespie abandons a nudity plan:
“He [Matthew Hayden] reckoned he’s going to do a nude run of the oval if I got 200. I said if I got 200, I’d do a nude lap too. Not sure about that one, being in a Muslim country, I don’t think it’ll be perceived right, unlike anywhere else.”
Gillespie is looking for a double - this is ridiculous
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 04 19 at 01:01 AM • permalinkKnocking out a few centuries against the Bangas prolonged Boof’s career by a few seasons - what will a double ton do for Dizzy?
Posted by attilathepun on 2006 04 19 at 01:27 AM • permalinkThink of all the greats Gillespie now has a higher test score than - Mark Waugh comes to mind. This is fun, but definitely a sad indictment on the standard of bowling and pitches presented in this day and age. Crikey, i sound like a boring old drunk at a pub - I’m currently sober and 30.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 04 19 at 01:42 AM • permalinkNext time someone say’s “my grandma could beat Bangladesh” I may take them seriously.
There should definitely be an inquiry into the first test and to the whereabouts of Salim Malik.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 04 19 at 02:47 AM • permalinkHAHAHAHA - a double ton for Dizzy, Australia declare.
As stated above:
a) the Bangas are a joke
b) the world is coming to an end
Posted by attilathepun on 2006 04 19 at 03:10 AM • permalinkI have egg on my face twice now, just two days after predicting Jason wouldn’t get a ton…Darn. Bangles has reverted to type.
I spoke to Dizzy in Adelaide Airport last September. I need to catch him again now and apologise..Interestingly, his batting strike rate was 47.7 [normally 66] and his bowling strike rate is 47.27.
Janice - yes, not out.
robot_guy - sorry, you’ll just have to pick it up by osmosis (although the current example isn’t, er, typical)
It’s ridiculous! As much as one tries to respect the Bangladesh effort, Dizzy getting a double ton and now having a higher top score than that list of greats shows that atilathepun is on the money.
Although if a Bangladeshi tail-ender scored a double ton against Oz then that really would have been the end of the world. At the very least, Kirribilli House would have been stormed in Sydney and PM Howard ejected. The rivers would have reversed and Victorians would have given up Aussie Rules.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 04 19 at 04:10 AM • permalinkMore other news, Margo bangs out a paragraph that makes sense and contains no spelling errors.
Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 04 19 at 05:01 AM • permalinkSo this guy Jason Gillespie hit how many home-runs?
Posted by David Crawford on 2006 04 19 at 05:12 AM • permalinkThe former award-winning designer of fjords arrives too late!
A lone Krikkit warship has escaped the envelope and is looking for the three stumps and two bails that will form the Wikkit Gate; the key that will unlock the Slo-Time envelope and release the Krikkiters to complete their genocidal mission.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 04 19 at 05:14 AM • permalink#24 David
In your currency, (this analogy was made in a previous thread by some-one else), the equivalent would be a pitcher, just past his prime, didn’t get picked for the last World Series.
Relegated to the secondary leagues.
Brought back for one last harrah due to other pitchers being injured. Put into bat. Ho Hum. Usually gets struck out.
Proceeds to perform a match batting performance vaguely comparable to Babe Ruth at his top. 10 home runs! Whatever.
Yeah, you want to swab the opposition pitchers and watch the bookies closely, eh?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 04 19 at 05:33 AM • permalinkStop the presses:
Greg Murphy to drive for Ford Australia in 2007. Since NZ now signatory to Kyoto, it means he can now only drive Holden built peddle cars for rest of this season.
David Hicks converts to Mormanism, sites, “Too many house calls by Seven Day Adventists”.
Dizzy scores double tonne!!!!!
It’s all Good.
Posted by deadparrot on 2006 04 19 at 05:41 AM • permalinkDizzy, I’m so dizzy my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool it never ends
And it’s You “man” makin’ it spin
You’re making me dizzy
[Dizzy Written by Tommy Roe and Freddy Weller]Posted by stackja1945 on 2006 04 19 at 05:44 AM • permalinkGo Dizzy! Not a bad effort for a “has been”.
Must be the haircut.I have a wonderful mental picure of the selectors sitting around their opulent boardroom in the leafy East Melbourne HQ of Cricket Australia, all with great globs of egg dribbling down their faces, and huge steaming plates of humble pie in front of them.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 04 19 at 06:46 AM • permalinkmmmh - no wickets for gillespie at stumps. He needs to get his act together
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 04 19 at 08:24 AM • permalinkTommy Canyouhearme from Tennessee asks: is staying in the crease for hours like getting the extra ball on a pinball machine?
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 04 19 at 09:09 AM • permalinkMM Yes, but he had one dropped off his bowling. This is probably the last post on this but I’m going to put it in anyway -
I had two of my four daughters up in Brisbane from S Aust over the last week and they went back tonight. We spent today at the pub. I disgraced myself, in my wife’s eyes anyway, by moving to an area where I could watch the cricket. My youngest daughter (god bless her) at least understands cricket, and as I came out for well deserved refills she said things like “what’s Dizzy on now?”. And I said, over time, “130’s, 140’s ...180’s, 190”. And as he was in the 190’s about 30 people materialised around the screen and everyone cheered as he got his 200.
I don’t care if they are looked upon as cricketing minnows - in fact we barely managed to avoid the follow-on against them in the first test. The pitch was turning and some balls were keeping low but Dizzy faced 425 balls over what, a day and a half and made 201 runs undefeated.
Good onya Jason.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 04 19 at 09:29 AM • permalinkMark Waugh on Fox was less than comlimentary of Gillispie’s efforts when he presented his lunchtime summary and was firmly of the opinion that Ponting should declare without further ado.At the time I couldn’t understand why he was being so mean spirited however thanks to the list of “star” batsmen who haven’t managed to score more than 200 it now becomes crystal clear.
I can’t say I have a lot of respect for Mark Waugh. He was a very lazy cricketer.
I can’t remember how many times he was under pressure to heep his place… scored a century and then got himself out of trouble.
Mark’s 128 tests at an average of only 41 seems even more pathetic as the years pass.
Posted by bad templar on 2006 04 19 at 09:11 PM • permalink
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The burnout may kick in when he tries to bowl.