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  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    I've got some great pics of siddle and ponting when they make mistakes like that. Every replay the cheer is hilarious!
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    Bopara just dropped by Ponting in the slips (a Dolly). LOL
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    edited July 2009
    Jesus, how out of nick is KP? Almost dragged on there - and everything he's doing is either too tentative or waaaaay too aggressive. No flow to his batting at all. Hopefully that extra life Bopara just got off Ian Hislop will be the catalyst for a big score. Love watching Punter make a ricket - hate that twat with a passion.

    Got to say good work by Peter Siddle. I've seen him bowl in a sum total of three & a half innings and I already hate the prick!
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    I think KP's problem here is mental rather than anything to do with being in or out of form.

    Unfortunately RavBop is at the other end rather than someone like Strauss or Collingwood who could exert a bit of a calming influence on him. You can be sure that the Aussie slip cordon/keeper and bowlers are winding up KP here and trying to get him to self-combust.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    [cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]I think KP's problem here is mental rather than anything to do with being in or out of form.

    Unfortunately RavBop is at the other end rather than someone like Strauss or Collingwood who could exert a bit of a calming influence on him. You can be sure that the Aussie slip cordon/keeper and bowlers are winding up KP here and trying to get him to self-combust.
    Yeah - good shout. Have a butchers at Haddin - jawing at KP every time he's facing
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    edited July 2009
    [cite]Posted By: Leroy Ambrose[/cite]Jesus, how out of nick is KP? Almost dragged on there - and everything he's doing is either too tentative or waaaaay too aggressive. No flow to his batting at all. Hopefully that extra life Bopara just got off Ian Hislop will be the catalyst for a big score. Love watching Punter make a ricket - hate that twat with a passion.

    Got to say good work by Peter Siddle. I've seen him bowl in a sum total of three & a half innings and I already hate the prick!

    I hated Siddle before I saw him bowl. Just his face, the sun block on his lips and that necklace did it for me.

    NB Hauritz = Stephen Hendry FACT.
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    A mate of ours is sat near Curbishley
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    130-2 Tea.

    340 lead.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    RS Bopara c Katich b Hauritz 27

    147/3, a lead of 357.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    Bollocks. The closer the convicts get to a deficit of less than 500 the more they'll fancy it with nearly two days left and a flat pitch
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  • mart77
    mart77 Posts: 5,658
    [cite]Posted By: suzisausage[/cite]A mate of ours is sat near Curbishley

    Get him to ask Curbs when does he think he'll be back in charge at the Valley!
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    Another muppet dismissal. KP is so out of nick its not true. I bet they skittle us now before we get a lead of 450
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    A lead of 384...

    We should have enforced the follow on.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    Nah - still think we were right to bat again. The batsmen they've got can score very, very quickly. Would have been a psychological nightmare to have put them back in and have them at 400-3 at stumps. Thing is, it was always going to be tricky to decide whether to be circumspect in the batting and not really go for it and run the risk of only being 420-odd in front, or really go for it and run the risk of giving wickets away. England have done OK - but still given daft wickets away.

    Definitely - DEFINITELY - need a lead of 500 here - because the pitch is awesome for batting on and looks like staying that way.
  • RedZed333
    RedZed333 Posts: 3,103
    edited July 2009
    Forcing the follow on would have been a huge morale booster for England and an even greater demoralisation for the Aussies...

    Runs have become immaterial now, getting the Aussies out is the only thing that matters and that's what we should be doing now....

    All we need is some shiite weather and the Aussies can escape just like we did in the first test...

    Bad call by Strauss...
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    236-4

    lead of 446.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Still 20 overs left tonight, at this rate of scoring we'll have a lead of over 500 at stumps.
  • Valley_floyd_red
    Valley_floyd_red Posts: 3,194
    20 overs to go. Been listening to it all day although I've only enjoyed it after tea. Good work from Prior.
  • Valley_floyd_red
    Valley_floyd_red Posts: 3,194
    The weather is going to be pretty dreadful tomorrow.
  • Valley_floyd_red
    Valley_floyd_red Posts: 3,194
    that's a shame.
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  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    Quality fielding there
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    Freddies in !

    Prior Run Out

    260-5.

    470 lead.
  • Valley_floyd_red
    Valley_floyd_red Posts: 3,194
    Ah now this is more like it!
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    500 lead and 13 overs left.

    I wonder if we'll see a declaration tonight and Australia given an uncomfortable half hour?
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,802
    Light is rubbish, the Aussies would take it the second they walked out
  • Valley_floyd_red
    Valley_floyd_red Posts: 3,194
    I reckon we should carry on batting.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Yep, all being well and if the weather holds up and there is no sudden collapse I'd declare after an hour or so tomorrow morning. Say another 20 overs and give Flintoff the chance of a 50 in his last Lords Test, or maybe a ton.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Collingwood goes...

    311/6, a lead of 521 and rain stops play.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    And that is close of play...
  • Super_horns
    Super_horns Posts: 1,299
    Declare tomorrow first thing and we have 2 days to bowl the Aussies out (depending on weather)

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