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Message: [QUOTE="1910, post: 3476021, member: 8272"] When they won in 2004 it was played at the start of our summer September-October- no BBL and they played a warmup game against Mumbai they then went into the first Test a week later and won by 217 runs. Look at that warm up game (minutes batting)- Hayden 142, Katich 102, Martyn 177, Gilchrist 91 even Lee got an hour. Second Innings- Langer 190 minutes, Clarke 145 minutes, Hodge 73. They all got time in the middle. They have done none of that, the best they did was try and turn North Sydney Oval into an Indian pitch and got it scuffed up for a hit. No where near enough. They needed prep with the SG balls, they needed time batting over there and getting used to things like three spinners. You can see improvement in the bowlers- Lyon particularly from the first test to second test. Imagine what could have been done with a warmup game. [/QUOTE]

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