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  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    We'll be all out for 250 now!
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,777
    " My fancy is a drawn series. Our attack is better than theirs but, on the other hand, our batting is inferior which rather leads me to conclude that both teams will struggle to bowl each other out.

    I've had a bit at 120 on Betfair on 0-0 (really from a trading perspective should the first couple of Tests be drawn) with 1-1 (at 15) the main bet and a saver at 10 on 2-2."



    0-0 currently trading at 16 on Betfair. With these two bowling attacks even that looks a bit big!
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,333
    Ricky Ponting squealed like a stuck pig when England used a substitue fielder (Gary Pratt) for Simon Jones, when the bowler was hospitalised in the fourth Test in '05.

    On that basis, can we assume that Australia will decline the use of a sub, now that Hauritz has gone to hospital?
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,018
    Bopara LBW to Hilfenhaus
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,018
    [quote][cite]Posted By: WSS[/cite]We'll be all out for 250 now![/quote]

    With England, anything is possible lol
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,012
    Here comes the collapse!
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    255-2 at tea. 62ovs.
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,018
    KP gone...caught behind by Haddin
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    267-3 Pieterson c behind off Siddle 32
  • Super_horns
    Super_horns Posts: 1,299
    Hopefully not the start of an England collapse!
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  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,012
    A couple more wickets before the close and a day that looked like it was going to be dominated by us, will have been evened right up.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    302-4. Collingwood out for 16. Caught at mid-on off Clarke.. we'd be in a bit of trouble if it weren't for the opening partnership.
  • mart77
    mart77 Posts: 5,658
    England need to make 500+ as the Aussies could easy make a similar or bigger score but it'll be harder if England have a decent score on the board.

    Damn, Prior out 317-5 - now real problems.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    317-5. Prior out for 8. Bowled by Johnson.

    New ball due in 3 balls, not looking good now.
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    Well Freddie has the capability of staying there for a while...

    (will I regret saying that?)
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    333-6. Flintoff gone for 4. Caught at slip off Hilfenhaus.. oh dear. I think you might very well regret saying that WSS. :)
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,333
    edited July 2009
    [cite]Posted By: WSS[/cite]Well Freddie has the capability of staying there for a while...

    (will I regret saying that?)
    Yes.

    333-6
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    Pish.
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    Lol - he should retire.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    Pietersen 32, Collingwood 16, Prior 8, Flintoff 4. By my reckoning:

    Broad, 2
    Swann, 1
    Anderson, 0.5
    Onions, 0.25.
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  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,012
    It was going perfectly up until about 3pm now we've thrown all the good work away.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    Australia's day now. How we can go from winning that first session and a half so comprehensively - then even more comprehensivley losing the last session and a half is absolutely beyond me. Ridiculous batting from Collingwood in particular - from the sublime (last Sunday) to the ridiculous (today)
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    364-6 at the close of play
  • Super_horns
    Super_horns Posts: 1,299
    Captain leading by example then...just a shame most of the others couldn't follow!

    Strauss wasn't happy with Collingwood from what they were saying on the radio with him throwing the wicket away.
  • Spankie
    Spankie Posts: 1,537
    It's the opposite from the 1st innings in Cardiff where the openers misfired and the middle order gained us a decent enough score. This time it's the openers who've scored big and the middle order has gone cheaply. The first 196 runs for zero wickets then the next 168 for 6. It's been a good day but could have been a whole lot better...that's the same as Cardiff!!!
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    Oh well pimms was good!
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    Just about to head off with me old man, thanks to mog again!! Not much sleep last night, it will rain at some point but not as bad as predicted yesterday, bit nippy tho.. will update live from the ground.... get me ;-)
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    The sun is out!! Beefy out on the pitch loads of cameras with him, the mcc members are like somthing from a victorian costume drama you can almost smell there upper class smugness from over here, saw a few go in this morning who could hardly walk was like the living dead!! Still 20 mins to go no beer till midday I said so just gona have a quick walk about before trip to the karsee then settle down for first session.
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    Bugger straus bowled by hilfenhouse
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    That took long.

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