ASHES 09

[hasbeen]

England to win 2-1 ... Ponting to chuck biggest wobbly ever seen when a pissed spectator comes on as a specialist fielder ...

 

[Morgan30]

I haven't been following too closely for a while - do we have anyone that can "reverse swing", or will we be whinging about that yet again when it's cloudy and the ball swings all over the place?

We have the Poms bowling coach from the 05 series, Troy Cooley. Apparently he's been working on getting the Australia bowlers to get the Irish swing happening

Siddle will swing the ball both ways but not much, same for Johnson.

Only need to swing it half a bat width to do the damage

FFC, whats the news on Simon Jones? I'm a huge fan of him, even though he's a Pom

Simon Jones is f**ked, hes out for the county season with injury and many believe he wont return despitewhat he has been telling the press

 

[Arabmariner]

http://www.watching-paint-dry.com/

;D

 

[Jazzie]

http://www.watching-paint-dry.com/

;D

..... tsk .... not a lover of the red ball game then! huh!

 

[marinersman]

Here's the pom's squad for the first test.

Andrew Strauss (capt), Alastair Cook, Ravi Bopara, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Matt Prior, Andrew Flintoff, Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann, James Anderson, Monty Panesar, Ian Bell, Graham Onions.

I think we'll win 2-1 with a couple of rain affected draws. The poms to win a dead rubber. Ponting and Johnson are the keys. If Ponting fires the poms have no chance and if Mitchell can get the reverse swing going it could be a bigger margin than 2-1.

Watching Harminson in the past few days, they have made a big mistake leaving him out.

 

[tuftman]

Here's the pom's squad for the first test.

Andrew Strauss (capt), Alastair Cook, Ravi Bopara, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Matt Prior, Andrew Flintoff, Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann, James Anderson, Monty Panesar, Ian Bell, Graham Onions.

I think we'll win 2-1 with a couple of rain affected draws. The poms to win a dead rubber. Ponting and Johnson are the keys. If Ponting fires the poms have no chance and if Mitchell can get the reverse swing going it could be a bigger margin than 2-1.

Watching Harminson in the past few days, they have made a big mistake leaving him out.

Agreed, none of those bowlers strike me as being, to sound like Bill Lawry. genuine wicket takers. Phil Hughes must be breathing a sigh of relief

 

[kanewillow]

well australia look to be on top after day 2 at 1-249 katich and punter both reaching the hundreds aand are still at the crease

 

[Jazzie]

Fell asleep during the tea break ... woke up during the last over ... and missed all the action!    Pup is due for a big one, pile it on Aussies! 

 

[hasbeen]

Aaaah .. kanewillow & jazzie ... where were your posts after the 1st day ...?

 

[Jazzie]

Aaaah .. kanewillow & jazzie ... where were your posts after the 1st day ...?

Didn't watch the first day.... although I did read about it at length... have the flu and the news made me feel sicker... btw, where were your posts?

 

[kanewillow]

tbf 7-336 is a pretty even day

 

[adz]

yeh 336 is a fair rate but 7 wickets. btw stating the obvious but how much do we miss Warney cleaning up the tail? Extra 100-odd runs because of that.

 

[kanewillow]

yer ohwell 1-249 says it all two batsmen on 100

 

[adz]

yeh we can prob bat all day today and most of tomorrow and go for the innings + runs win

 

[Jazzie]

yeh we can prob bat all day today and most of tomorrow and go for the innings + runs win

Adz, please don't put the mockers on 'em ...lol ...

 

[tuftman]

yeh 336 is a fair rate but 7 wickets. btw stating the obvious but how much do we miss Warney cleaning up the tail? Extra 100-odd runs because of that.

We're playing England, so its not just the tail..its 1-11 tbf

IF we score at 4/over thats another 360 on the board, which takes us beyond 600 and means only one team can win from here. Its plenty do-able, Johnson at 8 could have a field day against a tired and rather predictable bowling attack

 

[mariners4ever]

yeh 336 is a fair rate but 7 wickets. btw stating the obvious but how much do we miss Warney cleaning up the tail? Extra 100-odd runs because of that.

We're playing England, so its not just the tail..its 1-11 tbf

IF we score at 4/over thats another 360 on the board, which takes us beyond 600 and means only one team can win from here. Its plenty do-able, Johnson at 8 could have a field day against a tired and rather predictable bowling attack

or it could quite poosibly be a draw if ricky makes a bad captaining decision to either declare or bat out at the wrong

 

[tuftman]

yeh 336 is a fair rate but 7 wickets. btw stating the obvious but how much do we miss Warney cleaning up the tail? Extra 100-odd runs because of that.

We're playing England, so its not just the tail..its 1-11 tbf

IF we score at 4/over thats another 360 on the board, which takes us beyond 600 and means only one team can win from here. Its plenty do-able, Johnson at 8 could have a field day against a tired and rather predictable bowling attack

or it could quite poosibly be a draw if ricky makes a bad captaining decision to either declare or bat out at the wrong

True.. I'm sure him and Tim Nielson have talked about declaration points and all the rest at large

 

[Arabmariner]

Maybe this is a dumb question but why are England playing Australia at cricket in Wales ?

 

[Atomic]

Maybe this is a dumb question but why are England playing Australia at cricket in Wales ?

According to Wiki... and as per what I thought... the England cricket team actually represents England and Wales. The governing body is the ECB... which stands for the England and Wales Cricket Board. I guess EWCB was too much of a mouthful.

So there you are, the ECB is just spreading the love by playing in Wales. I suspect they are trying to expand the brand in a territory that gets no top class cricket. Sound familiar??? Like some little A-league club we know???