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*Official* Second Test at Lords

Pizzorno

Pizzorno

State Vice-Captain
Gah, Broad opening again. I hope Strauss gives Anderson the chance to get his 5'fer and further nail down that knighthood of his.
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
superkingdave said:
FFS Broad opening up
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Yeah when I first spotted that I was like "... can't remember, hopefully he was in the middle of an over?" But nope.

Can't remember who it was that said "Strauss seems to think his job as captain is not to win but to bowl Broad as much as he can" but they were on the money. 8-)
 
Ikki

Ikki

Hall of Fame Member
Richard said:
The only way it could sound like that is for someone with a preconceived notion that follow-on enforcing > not.
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England are in an unbelievably good position to win this game and even wrap it up early. They have really no reason not to. Unless they are THAT gutless that they'd rather hand Australia that bit of slack that would make a loss less likely and up the odds on a draw at the expense of trying to win.
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Can see the logic in opening with Broad, he's good at getting the tail and it keeps Flintoff fresh for the new ball. Hope Jimmeh gets a chance for his Michelle though
 
Pizzorno

Pizzorno

State Vice-Captain
dontcloseyoureyes said:
Love how all these members are like "yeah man I like Jimmy have for ever what a good bowler always had potential".

18 months ago you had him bowling for Lanc's 15th XI, so stuff you.
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I love every Lancs player and I always give them my full support when they represent England. Even Saj...
 
superkingdave

superkingdave

Hall of Fame Member
Richard said:
Yeah when I first spotted that I was like "... can't remember, hopefully he was in the middle of an over?" But nope.

Can't remember who it was that said "Strauss seems to think his job as captain is not to win but to bowl Broad as much as he can" but they were on the money. 8-)
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Was me tbh, and i thought exactly the same as you with regards to the incompleted over.
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Ikki said:
England are in an unbelievably good position to win this game and even wrap it up early. They have really no reason not to. Unless they are THAT gutless that they'd rather hand Australia that bit of slack that would make a loss less likely and up the odds on a draw at the expense of trying to win.
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This game is under no circumstances going to be drawn, barring some phenomenal batting from both sides. It's a question of whether Australia win or England win. England give themselves the best chance of winning and stopping Australia winning by batting again.

Wrapping the game up early is completely useless. Why on Earth would you want to win by an innings and 14 in 4 days when you can win by 350 runs in 5 days?
 
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