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The Ashes 2015

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  • Nice catch
  • Cook gone, caught at gully off a wide ball from the limping Starc.

    17-1 and a lead of 139.
  • Silly shot from Cookie with 8 minutes left before lunch.
  • Ricky Ponting: "I would like to see the Aussies put the out swinger away because it's not carrying anyway and focus on the stumps".

    Next ball, away-swinger, Cook goes for it and gets a massive outside edge to backward point.

    :-)
  • If this is how Starc bowls when he's 'injured' imagine how good he'll be when he's fully fit!!
  • 21-1 at lunch

    Lead of 143
  • Does anyone know the cricketer whose batting average exactly equalled his bowling average, so that in effect he cancelled himself out?
  • Not a good start to the 2nd session. Ballance out to a rising ball from Haslewood.
  • This innings could also be the perfect platform for Bell to rediscover some touch, should (hopefully) we have added a decent number of runs by the time he has to bat


    When I said this, I didn't mean this platform....
  • Ballance for Nought
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  • Wow, the quintessential Ian Bell drive through cover point, beautiful.

    Hopefully that is a sign that the tide is tiring with his form.
  • And another! Lovely.
  • Wow, the quintessential Ian Bell drive through cover point, beautiful.

    Hopefully that is a sign that the tide is tiring with his form.

    It could even be a sign, that the tide is turning.
  • It could even be a sign, that the tide is turning.
    :-( IPhone autocorrect.

    Anyway, yet another drive through the covers. So it really is tiring now ... :-)
  • Play your shots, is the way to go, on this pitch.

    No point messing around, with the variable bounce.
  • Don't want to jinx him but Bell looking good so far. Backing himself to play his shots definitely the best approach in this situation
  • 50 partnership off 49 balls
  • Lyth gone to a great catch by Clarke off Lyon for 37

    73-3and a lead of 195
  • Key part of the game now in my view.

    We have to bat through this and not lose any more wickets. We need 250 plus.
  • A lead of 300 is certainly possible and might be very hard to chase
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  • I think we will have a lead of at least 350. Currently stands at 232 with 7 wickets in hand and we still have Stokes, Buttler and Ali to come. And no new ball for another 50 overs.
  • One brings two, and all that. All of our batters are capable of getting out for nought. Not saying that they will, but let's see where we are at stumps...
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  • He's not playing for England, while Ian Bell (batting in KP's position!) can't buy a run ...
    50 for Ian Bell ... :-)
  • Bell gets his 50. His 43rd to go with his 22 hundreds.

    149-3 for a lead of 271
  • First test of the series and both of our 'out of form' batsmen now have 50's. Nicely timed return to form!!
  • The snail back to his best. Good to see Bell in the runs. Good position but need to push on and grind these Aussies into the dirt.
  • This is the session where we can take the game away from the Aussies by building a big lead
  • Scoring is so quick these days that we could (in theory) build a lead of 500+ and still have five sessions to bowl them out
  • Ball gone for 60 bowled by Johnson.

    170-2 and a lead of 292
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