Australia v South Africa, 1st Test, Perth

[Scotty]

Australia's performance on day three has been utterly pathetic.

This is the day that Australia lost many things: the match, the series, the no.1 ranking, and and semblance of respect they had in world cricket.


Pathetic.

[Chelsea4thewin]

yep what a joke

after yesterdays awesome performance especially by Siddle they have thrown it all away

170 odd run partnership of the ninth wicket pairing is a joke in any form of the game

what is going on with the bowling

Lee, Hauritz, what have u two been doing?

[Scotty]

Lee is injured - but that is no excuse.

[Chelsea4thewin]

why is he playing then

we are meant to have the best depth in world cricket

[Scotty]

He sustained the injury during the game.

It's Symonds that shouldn't have been playing, Watson should have replaced him in the side. They knew his knee was dodgy beforehand.

[Chelsea4thewin]

well the brett lee hasnt been the same at all the last few months, lost his pace and just seems too predictable

[benschke]

I was hoping to wake up today & find that it was all a bad dream yesterday. I don't turn the cricket off very often but while driving 4 hours back to Adelaide yesterday I couldn't take it anymore...

Fair chance if there was soccer on the radio there may have been a slight chance of me listening to it.. Now that's desperate.....

[maccatak11]

Ok im now on the Hayden = Hack bandwagon.

Out again for twenty-something playing a really poor shot. Get rid of him.

Aussies are 2/46 still trailing by 19 runs.

[Scotty]

Make that 3'fer.

Hussey needs to be dropped as well as Hayden.

[Scotty]

Assuming Brett Lee can't bat - that actually makes the Aussies 4 down.

So, having just erased the deficit, they are effectively ... 4/7.