Great sportsmanship.
Ashes I - 2013 - In England
- Thread starter ghaliboy
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Great sportsmanship.
Some of the worst batting today I can remember for a long time. Tough to judge whose top order is worse. Utter dross.
30-3, England 263 ahead .... still sure it was right, not to enforce follow on?
This series? Both sides have been a shambles. Bell has saved us from similar low scores.
Your comment made it seem very general rather than series wise and even then I'd still stick with England's Top 5.
Regardless of the result England should have enforced the follow on. Negative from Cook and co
Nah a Cook, Trott and Pieterson in form and we're comfortably better. But they are all out of nick.
Lets see ... 400 target on day 2.5 (+-) is very get-able.
At some point this Aus side will score 400+ runs in an innings, they are no Zimbabwe!
If they get 400 chasing in the 4th innings then fair enough, but what are the chances of that? Even in-form it's unlikely, what's the record like 435?
my opinion is redundant cos they batted, but i would have enforced follow on.
I'd have made them follow-on too but either way England have the upper hand, 233 first innings lead is huge.
End of day 2:
England 31-3, lead by 264.
Australia still to bat last innings.
England 31-3, lead by 264.
Australia still to bat last innings.
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/en...esult=1;template=results;type=team;view=match
Very unlikely to get 350 or above batting 4th.
Very unlikely to get 350 or above batting 4th.
Incredible so many wickets have fallen considering how flat the pitch was yesterday. Looking forward to the highlights and seeing how poor the batting was.
So you expect this Aus side to break the world record for a chase on a pitch thats going to fall to bits.
You must be kidding.
English fans on this thread overrate Australia. All of them barring Clarke (and he looks out of form) are incompetent. I'll be surprised if they score above 300 in this series at this rate
Seriously? That pitch is going to be heaven for Swann with another days wear & tear, it's already taking spin.
Are you fecking kidding me mate?
Oh and England should've enforced the follow on. Swann was in his rhythm, they should've gone for the kill.
Yes... if we were batting 4th we'd probably be 30-8.
fecking hell Australia..I agree. Morning session on day 3 gonna be very interesting
Aus back to their usual caper. Went to sleep just after Hughes got out. Was expecting maybe 7fer but not bowled out.. Really shocking stuff. To be honest, none of these guys really should be earning any money with so little ticker that they are showing.
Really shocking stuff. To be honest, none of these guys really should be earning any money with so little ticker that they are showing.Aussies should have never let Hussey retire. The logic behind dropping Katich looks daft now as well.
England will get about 170 then bowl the Aussies out for about 250. You heard it here first
England have alot of scope for improvement yet, so this series could become very embarrassing for the Aussie's.
Lets hope so
Lets hope so
I still can't get over the fact they agreed to move the next Ashes a year forward making this back to back within 6 months.
This is going to be such a disaster for Test Cricket.
This is going to be such a disaster for Test Cricket.
How do you work that out? that last test was excellent for test cricket.
The last test was Australia playing as well as they could and England playing as badly as they could, and England still won.
Even this test England have been able to get into a ridiculously commanding position with the top order not contributing.
Not been impressed with Bresnan and Root this morning.
'Well Cook and Trott got out inside edge onto the stumps so lets chase wide ones and be really loose'
All they need to do is tighten up and there's runs, runs, runs to be had here even for a nightwatchman.
'Well Cook and Trott got out inside edge onto the stumps so lets chase wide ones and be really loose'
All they need to do is tighten up and there's runs, runs, runs to be had here even for a nightwatchman.
The last time was a one off, that record 10th innings partnership (which also had a number 11 set new records for highest score and highest score on debut) papered over the cracks. What we are seeing this test is far closer to what we'll see throughout the next 8 matches and not that much time between them.
If this Ashes event was meant to boost Test Cricket up then Test Cricket is in all sorts of trouble.
Its still been entertaining and therefor good for test cricket though
I still can't get over the fact they agreed to move the next Ashes a year forward making this back to back within 6 months.
This is going to be such a disaster for Test Cricket.
I cant understand that either, will just devalue it.
The Ashes should be played for every 2 years.
This is shit... nothing happening. They have 350+ lead now, so why not go after the bowling?
Why the feck are we just clogging away with the seamers?
Milestones. Root wants a century and Bresnan wants a 50 at the very least. Understandable as both have questions over their place.