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mariner4life

@mn5 said in Sports Memes:

that Australia A team was fucking awesome.

MN5

@mariner4life said in Sports Memes:

@mn5 said in Sports Memes:

that Australia A team was fucking awesome.

Hayden and Langer opened from memory.

Awesome series.

mariner4life

@mn5 said in Sports Memes:

@mariner4life said in Sports Memes:

@mn5 said in Sports Memes:

that Australia A team was fucking awesome.

Hayden and Langer opened from memory.

Awesome series.

most of the team went on to become the backbone of the next all-conquering Australian side.

yeah, even from NZ it was compulsory viewing

Fuck i miss the Benson & Hedges World Series. Great cricket

MN5

@mariner4life said in Sports Memes:

@mn5 said in Sports Memes:

@mariner4life said in Sports Memes:

@mn5 said in Sports Memes:

that Australia A team was fucking awesome.

Hayden and Langer opened from memory.

Awesome series.

most of the team went on to become the backbone of the next all-conquering Australian side.

yeah, even from NZ it was compulsory viewing

Fuck i miss the Benson & Hedges World Series. Great cricket

Damien Martyn and Ricky Ponting there too.

As good as Tubby, Slats, Boonie etc were those guys were another level of awesome.

I don’t remember big Merv in Aus A but there he is in the pic !

MN5

Aus A had a who’s who of a batting line up but check the bowlers in comparison…..a bunch of absolute nobodies

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/benson-hedges-world-series-1994-95-60964/australia-vs-australia-a-1st-final-66408/full-scorecard

mariner4life

Blewett was a really handy bowler back then, but yeah, hardly a who's who

antipodean

@mn5 said in Sports Memes:

Back when the shield was the driving force of talent.

mariner4life

@antipodean said in Sports Memes:

@mn5 said in Sports Memes:

Back when the shield was the driving force of talent.

10,000 shield runs and you still couldn't get a test gig.

MN5

….and over the ditch Blairs Hartland and Pocock were opening the batting for us. Definitely a period where you watched cricket over there in awe of how amazing they were compared to us.