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3rd Ashes Test

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  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    edited August 2013
    Lunch. 35-3, 20ovs.

    Root 13*
    Bell 2*
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    Afternoon session lasts three balls and they're off again. More rain.
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    Wonder if we will see the Aussies take the field in sunglasses etc like we had a few years ago. Made me chuckle.
  • gotta love the rain at times like this
  • Retained!

    Perhaps in the best possible way. :-)
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    bit of a shame we didn't get the 5-0!
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    edited August 2013
    saved by the rain .. OK 'we' won or at least retained the ashes.. but the batting is still a big worry for me .. so inconsistent. As I said after the last game, if we'd'a lost this one, Bairstow would be gone .. as it is he's here for the rest of the series. In Australia he'll hardly make a run.
    Durham ?: Onions in for Bresnan for me, especially on his home turf
  • who cares how we do it, we will win atleast one more game and then dance joyously around the aussie embassy
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,352
    Ha ha
    Ha ha
    Ha ha
    Ha ha...

    Unlucky sports!
  • saved by the rain .. OK 'we' won or at least retained the ashes.. but the batting is still a big worry for me .. so inconsistent. As I said after the last game, if we'd'a lost this one, Bairstow would be gone .. as it is he's here for the rest of the series. In Australia he'll hardly make a run.
    Durham ?: Onions in for Bresnan for me, especially on his home turf

    Improvement is definitely needed, but Australia have been able to do following the shambles at Lords. A lot of eyes will be on Bairstow.
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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    It was a strange day yesterday, everyone got up looked out of the window and assumed there would be no play, including the England players! Then it stops raining, and amazingly the drainage is so good that play could start at 11:30, catching everyone out, I got there just in time, the ground was pretty empty. We even had some sunshine.

    At lunch, things were tense, but the wind changed direction (as anticipated by the weatherman there) and once the proper rain arrived at 2pm, that was that!
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Lol! Or maybe I should say PMSL.....

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-23600037
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    I thought intoxicants are forbidden in Sikhism?
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,737
    Pieterson is also being accused of lining the edges of his bat with silicon to stop hot spot working. He has denied it on twitter and been having a go at a journo'
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167

    Pieterson is also being accused of lining the edges of his bat with silicon to stop hot spot working. He has denied it on twitter and been having a go at a journo'

    Would appear to be a bit dim even for him seeing as it could stop an edge saving you from LBW too; just like in the first innings.
    Anyway I don't think it's against any law to put tape on your bat.

  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Riviera said:

    Pieterson is also being accused of lining the edges of his bat with silicon to stop hot spot working. He has denied it on twitter and been having a go at a journo'

    Would appear to be a bit dim even for him seeing as it could stop an edge saving you from LBW too; just like in the first innings.
    Anyway I don't think it's against any law to put tape on your bat.

    Against the spirit of the game though perhaps?
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    What? Taping the cracks on your bat? You never had a bat or played cricket?

    The whole technology minefield is against the spirit of the game.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Riviera said:

    What? Taping the cracks on your bat? You never had a bat or played cricket?

    The whole technology minefield is against the spirit of the game.

    Well... I am a bowler! Haha

    Thought you were talking about silicone tape.

  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Kevin Bloody Peiterson is also against the spirit of the game.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,900
    Riviera said:

    What? Taping the cracks on your bat? You never had a bat or played cricket?

    The whole technology minefield is against the spirit of the game.

    the impact of technology and umpiring in lets say "normal cricket" can be detrimental to the spirit of the game

    the preamble to laws say that you cannot question the word or decision of the umpire by word or deed ..and of course every young cricketer/cricket fan sees players doing exactly the opposite in test matches and even then 3rd umpire decisions being questioned ....this culture creeps into club cricket and downwards

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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    Panesar accused of 'urinating in public' .... and he seems like such a nice young chap
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    He harassed some women, got thrown out of a nightclub and then pissed on the bouncers. Not entirely consistent with the behaviour one would expect from an international sportsman, even a footballer. He needs to sort himself out
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,352
    Apparently he's all in a spin !
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    McBobbin said:

    He harassed some women, got thrown out of a nightclub and then pissed on the bouncers. Not entirely consistent with the behaviour one would expect from an international sportsman, even a footballer. He needs to sort himself out

    He's managed to behave worse than David Warner...