No one beats a certain young Mr Broad in terms of punchability. Don't really dislike him but that face is the most punchable playing in this series.
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*Official* Second Test at Lords
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marc71178
Eyes not spreadsheets
Even more reasons to definitely enforce it.
Aside from anything, none of the bowlers are tired and there's a potential time issue if there's a lot of rain.
marc71178
Eyes not spreadsheets
Siddle - reduce them to 2 bowlers, and it's likely that Haddin's replacement would concede fewer byes...
sephiroth123
Cricket Spectator
Rain shouldn't be an issue to be honest, maybe the odd shower here and there but given the Aussie's are nearly finished thier first innings I would think the odds are any rain stoppages will have pretty much 0 effect on the outcome.
I'd expect no more then an two to three hours worth of stoppages over the next 3 days combined. Thats if Lords is very unlucky and gets hit head on...and I certainly wouldn't take the "it might rain angle" that has been mentioned, esp when showers are involved, just can't call them!
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Was and still is a road.
Puts paid to the comments about England needing 500 to be competitive, though. No matter the pitch, chasing 400 is its own pressure and the Aussies proved yet another case in point as they did in 2005.
Burgey
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You're not suggesting Anderson's spell yesterday was anything better than just good, solid spell are you? Because if that's the sort of thing that's considered outstanding (or indeed Hilf's in England's 1st innings) then cricket really is dying.Hope Siddle was taking notes during yesterday's play then.
Anyway, wasn't it you who all but suggested that Anderson bowled the best spell in the history of cricket in the first innings at Cardiff, but that Hughes somehow managed to not only survive but score off him? You can't turn around and start ripping into Anderson now after using him like that to prop up 'the new Hayden'.
They both bowled well, but hardly made the ball talk. Each side's batsmen have gifted multiple wickets to t'other, though England bowled better as unit by a fair margin than Australia.
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It's a bloke thing.
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Yup, completely agree. Anderson hit a nice groove and laid on the pressure but geez, so many get out shots last night.
pup11
International Coach
Well said.....
I think the most disappointing thing is, in 2005 the caliber of bowling from England was much higher then what we saw yesterday, had Australia been brought down to this position by some excellent bowling, then maybe I won't have been too disappointed, but almost every Aussie batsman just virtually threw his wicket away.
Most of them were batting as if they were still at Cardiff, starting from where they left off in that game, to their credit Freddie and Anderson bowled well, but they hardly bowled any unplayable deliveries, to bring about as absurd a batting collapse we saw from the Australian middle order.
As an Australian fan, this a pretty hopeless situation to be in, though I still really hope that they bat miraculously in the 2nd innings and save this game somehow, given the way Australian batsmen have batted under pressure in recent times, chances of that seem to very bleek.
irfan
State Captain
Just watched the highlights.. FFS what's with all this crossbatted nonsense - diabolical batting from everyone bar Ponting & Hussey. If I was Strauss, I'd defo bat again and not enforce the follow-on, besides Ponting and maybe Hussey & Clarke - none of the Australian batsman have the capability to stonewall for a day Collingwood-style. Plus Australia have only got 1 reliable non-sick/non-injured/non-spray gun bowler.
Really hope Midge can somehow find some form with the ball in the 2nd innings, Australia can't afford to carry him. Bloody Hauritz - dislocates his finger when he should have caught the ball. Pathetic.
Really hope Midge can somehow find some form with the ball in the 2nd innings, Australia can't afford to carry him. Bloody Hauritz - dislocates his finger when he should have caught the ball. Pathetic.
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
Dan Doran would've bowled better than Johnson in this test. ****ing spastic. Get it right or go home ****.
pup11
International Coach
The damage has already been done mate, no matter how well Australia bowl, or how poorly England bat from here on, Australia would still have a monumental task on their hands, to just save this game now, and AFAIC winning is no longer an option for Australia in this game.
dontcloseyoureyes
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Haha thanks for that amazing insight.
irfan
State Captain
Don't be so quick to make a snap judgement. Of course, it doesn't look good now but Australia can still hold hope of saving this match provided the big 3 (Ponting, Katman and Clarke) fire in the 2nd dig.
JBH001
International Regular
Think he was replying to wdfu_ben, Burgey.
JBH001
International Regular
Yeah, he does have a noticeable stutter. Good on him, as you say.
Dont think the last comment all that funny tbh, taken too much crap like that myself (especially as a boy) to find it amusing.
pup11
International Coach
Effects of listening to Bumble Lloyd all day long....