*Official* Second Test at Lords

[Top_Cat]

By the way, pathetic effort for a Sat night that all of us are here, boys.

 

[.matt]

Finally Siddle got justice for his good bowling and not Johnson. Finally KP ran out of luck and finally Haddin did something decent with the gloves this match.

 

[GIMH]

haha, lucky Prior

Personally think KP may have to sit out the next match

 

[vic_orthdox]

By the way, pathetic effort for a Sat night that all of us are here, boys.

That's what 9am Sunday morning training does...

Prior to follow in the footsteps of Gooch, Crowe and Warne?

 

[tooextracool]

Siddle to Prior is a good idea. Got to get those inswingers going against him early.

 

[GIMH]

By the way, pathetic effort for a Sat night that all of us are here, boys.

It's only afternoon here. Beer later...

 

[wfdu_ben91]

By the way, pathetic effort for a Sat night that all of us are here, boys.

Mmmm, I'm playing football in 8 hours. Prob should head off soon.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

That's what 9am Sunday morning training does...

Haha I've got cricket training tomorrow morning, way too early in the year for it but lord knows I need the fitness hit out, barely lifted my ass this holidays except for a few games of futsal.

 

[tooextracool]

Pietersen gone, disagree with the commentators that the RR will be slowed by that, Prior and then Flintoff know how to hit them

KP looks in bad shape doesn't he?

Was a poor nothing shot that he played to get out to a ball that was wide enough of off stump to leave alone.

 

[Richard]

Pietersen gone, disagree with the commentators that the RR will be slowed by that, Prior and then Flintoff know how to hit them

Just have to hope they manage to. Will be disappointed if we get less than 3.5-an-over for the remainder of this evening.

KP looks in bad shape doesn't he?

Yeah, as I said earlier, since the Second Test in WI, he's looked bad to me.

 

[tooextracool]

By the way, pathetic effort for a Sat night that all of us are here, boys.

morning here, so just hungover

 

[Richard]

Could be an important innings in the context of the series though, Pietersen getting some time out in the middle and batting back into a semblance of form by the end of it.

I'm hoping that might be the case... whether it is remains to be seen, but I've seen such a thing not happen as often as I've seen it happen.

 

[GIMH]

Was a poor nothing shot that he played to get out to a ball that was wide enough of off stump to leave alone.

I meant fitness-wise, but yeah. Did it flick off his elbow after the bat or did I imagine that?

 

[vic_orthdox]

Collingwood looks so much better coming down the track and hitting over mid-off or the bowler's head, rather than over mid-on.

 

[Top_Cat]

It's only afternoon here. Beer later...

morning here, so just hungover

Was clearly talking about God-like Aussie posters, not felching English pedants.

 

[pup11]

Would be pretty interesting to see how the Australian camp looks at things from here on, they would have close to 2 days to bat, and that's really a long, long time to bat to save a test, last time around that Australia faced a similar situation was at Mohali, where they were set 550 odd to win, and surprisingly they went out trying to chase those runs down on that occasion and self-destructed in no time, wonder what their tactics would be this time around..?

 

[Goughy]

Personally, an innings defeat is so much more embarrassing than a big number.

This

 

[Richard]

Collingwood looks so much better coming down the track and hitting over mid-off or the bowler's head, rather than over mid-on.

Against the ball turning into him? Yoravvinalaff.

Collingwood's speciality is the loft over mid-on with the spin. Not quite so keen on him trying it against the spin but have still seen him nail it many times.

 

[superkingdave]

Collingwood looks so much better coming down the track and hitting over mid-off or the bowler's head, rather than over mid-on.

Neither are exactly a thing of beauty. Most boring batsmen even when scoring quickly

 

[Richard]

Prior looking good so far... can he make it count?