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ASP - Anstey, Hussey and Katich
Welcome to ASP, Overnight we see the Melbourne Tigers take a 2-1 lead in the Grand Final Series over the Sydney Kings, Melbourne won a gripping shootout, that almost saw the Kings hold on with 9 seconds remaining on the clock, every King though they’d claimed it but they all forgot to remind feisty young Tiger - Sean Lampley who knocked down the three. Melbourne down Sydney 89 to 87. Coming into the fourth game of the series in Melbourne, it could finally decide who claims the ring and trophy for NBL Champions. Will history repeat itself? When the Tigers overcame the table-topping Kings in a superb Grand-Finals Series, two years ago?
Results just in, point squarely at a Victoria - New South Wales Pura Cup Final. The Victorian Bushrangers put in a superb effort, that saw them easily account for a seriously under-manned Queensland outfit. Victoria got all six points, winning outright. They surpassed Queenslands second-innings score in just twenty overs.
While over in the Southern state, the NSW Blues were just far and away too good from the SA Redbacks. On the back of first-innings batting performances from Domenic Thornley, who collected a tidy 169, Brad Haddin, producer of a very fine 119. Nervous Nineties were obviously in the air as Brett Casson fell aganisingly short, nicking one through to the Keeper on 99. The Blues went on to record a win with an Innings to spare and plenty of runs.
Despite the VICs top performance in Melbourne, the match for Pura cup victors is set to be decided on the spinner friendly stylings of the SCG. After NSW’s more than emphatic win. At last count the scoreboard only seperated the two teams with 0.4 of a percent.
Hope you enjoy the week in sport, this is ASP
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A Big week of Sport - Tendulkar, Anstey and Gram
Welcome to ASP, starting this week there will be only a weekly podcast of ‘The Week in Sport’. All other breaking news and highlights will be a blog. What a big week in sport it’s been, three of the most popular codes in the country are winding up and finding the silver-winners of there competitions. The NBL will wrap in about a week’s time when the best of five series between the Melbourne Tigers and Sydney Kings finds a winner. The third match of this grand-final series is to be held in Sydney tonight. The series currently stand at one-a-piece with each winning there respective home ground finals to date. In cricket, the Indians have finally taken up the offer of taking there bat and ball and heading off home, they’ve also picked up another piece of luggage for their troubles, a huge silver thing that holds remarkable resemblance to a hammer. In all seriousness though, the Indians finally showed they have what it takes to consistently and resoundingly beat Australia on two separate occasions, even if this did mainly lie around the incredible back bone that is one Sachin Tendular. Scores of 119 and 91 in the finals made up for what was without argument a disappointing one-day series that was a let down from the Sachin of Old, and the Sachin that got the greatest of them all, Sir Donald George Bradman drawing comparisons. That we saw in full flight during the test series. From one positive to another, the Indians may still have the eldest statesmen of them all in the one-day side, but they also have a huge league of fire-branding young fast-bowlers, as well as big-hitting batsman, all in the ilk of a certain Roy Symonds. All led by one of the brightest up and coming stars in world cricket MS Dhoni. The summer may have seemed odd to some, with side-comment the like of which hasn’t been seen in this country, but I suppose it all comes with the rolling circus that is Indian Cricket. The summer has to split 1-1 in, all monkeys aside between the Supremos that still is Australia, and the King-Force that will always be India. After all that, we move onto the much smaller issue that is the AFL’s pre-season. Adelaide and St Kilda fought hard for the NAB Cup and the offer of a 7-figure sum if they also win the real season, in 40plus heat. On what was one of the hottest recorded nights in Adelaide’s illustrious Meteorological history, it also incidentally turned into one of the best for the Saints as well. Winning with a gutsy 69, they outdid the Crows who fell agonisingly short with a solid 64, at the half-filled AAMI Stadium last night. Gram was best for the Saints, picking up the Michael Tuck medal for best on ground in the same storm that also netted him a super-goal and 33 touches. That’s enough of the complimentary ego-stroking that always goes with the pre-season, enough of that, and more of the real stuff, which starts on the 20th with a double header starting in Adelaide with a Grand-Final rematch between the Port Adelaide Power and the Geelong Cats, can the cats show they are still 20-goals in front of the competition, either way Ports coach will still be able to say it was and improvement. Thursday night Football continues in Melbourne when Carlton takes on Melbourne at the home of football and numerous other sports, the MCG. Also, in looking forward to next weekend’s big week of Formula 1 racing. All eyes will be on young gun Lewis Hamilton, with every expectation in the land on him cleaning up the first round of the 2008 season, now minus troublesome team mate Fernando Alonso, crawling back to his good old Renault after a disappointing season behind the wheel of the silver bullet. Hope your looking forward to the next week in sport just as much as ASP is. Enjoy
