GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
I like to think so
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*Official* First Test at Swalec Stadium, Cardiff
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marc71178
Eyes not spreadsheets
Same here - as I see it that'll be the day we clinch the series 3-0 with a game to spare.
scorpiogal
U19 Debutant
That was ****ing fab! The Aussies managed a choke. Wow....so close! Johnson was a bit disappointing though, he needs to fix that up right away.
zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
Thinking back to my posts at the close of Day 1, I'm still fairly disappointed (if that's the right word) with the Crim bowling attack. Their wickets came, in the 1st innings, courtesy of England's batsmen, and in the 3rd innings, courtesy of the runs put on the board by the Aussie batsmen.
Johnson will certainly bowl better later in the series but was generally pretty poor all match. The rest were competent (as you'd expect from an Aussie bowling attack) but by no means world-beaters.
In my view both sides are light in the bowling department. And so this series will all come down to the batsmen. England's batsmen have plenty of ability but need to learn from their mistakes and from what Collingwood did today.
Johnson will certainly bowl better later in the series but was generally pretty poor all match. The rest were competent (as you'd expect from an Aussie bowling attack) but by no means world-beaters.
In my view both sides are light in the bowling department. And so this series will all come down to the batsmen. England's batsmen have plenty of ability but need to learn from their mistakes and from what Collingwood did today.
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four_or_six
Cricketer Of The Year
Amid all the complaints that seem to be flying about that we didn't play within that famous Aussie phrase "the spirit of cricket", Strass has been able to have his say.
Drink spilled on the gloves, nice one.
PhoenixFire
International Coach
Yeah, TBF, I'd be fuming if I was an Australian, but I don't doubt for a second that they'd do exactly the same thing if they were in our position.
four_or_six
Cricketer Of The Year
Yeah, they'd do just the same, that's why it's funny. That and what GIMH said... has Ponting been brought in front of the match referee for that yet?
zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
Yup.
How long should any team need to dismiss Monty ****ing Panesar on a 5th day pitch? 40 minutes not enough? Then the reason you didn't win is staring you in the face, Ricky.
And we're only talking a couple of minutes delay; perhaps one over at most. Even if those minutes hadn't been wasted, would they have managed to dismiss Monty or Jimmy in that extra over? And if they had, would they have scored the 14 (or more) to win in the one over available to their batsmen?
Anyhow I can't imagine that he and the Australian set-up will waste too much time (no pun intended) and energy between now and Lord's whingeing about this.
But if they do, it's a sign that this draw (just corrected a Freudian typing error of "defeat") has really hurt them badly.
zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Should we have a whip round and buy Ponting a harlequin cap?
