*Official* Second Test at Lords

[Jakester1288]

No 10 wicket victory anymore.

Damn, Katich was the key.

If there is a time for Ponting to play a captains knock, it's now.

 

[Richard]

Freddie!!! Would love for him to get his 3rd Fivefer today(Jimmeh to get the other 5 obv)

Think it'll enhance his legend if he ends with just 2 TBH.

 

[Craig]

Ponting's H/S is 42 in all Tests at Lord's.

 

[Adamc]

The man best suited to dead-batting for two days out already, can't see a loss being averted here.

Wish we had Gillespie.

 

[pup11]

C'mon Ricky need a special effort from you here....

 

[Richard]

If there is a time for Ponting to play a captains knock, it's now.

Nah, it was Old Trafford 2005. It required one hell of a performance, and quite a bit of rain, to save that game; it requires an even bigger amount of both today (and tomorrow). Any sensational knock in this innings will almost certainly be wasted.

 

[JBH001]

Ugh, didn't need to play at that.

Dont know about that, mate. I reckon the line made Kat have to play.

 

[Richard]

All too predictable, really.

FFS Kat.

He made a century last game - can't do that every game, Katich is hardly Bradman.

 

[duffer]

Dont know about that, mate. I reckon the line made Kat have to play.

Thought it pitched outside off angling well away.

 

[pup11]

Ponting's H/S is 42 in all Tests at Lord's.

This is most probably his last test at Lord's, so I guess its about time he gets his name on the board at Lord's.

 

[Athlai]

Think it'll enhance his legend if he ends with just 2 TBH.

Murali 11.67 W per 5fer
McGrath 19.41
Pollock 26.31

Freddy 110.5

 

[Matt79]

Jeez, this is going to be hard enough without the umpires missing total no balls like the one Flintoff delivered for the Katich wicket.

 

[JF.]

No real dispute that the bowling hasn't quite been there in this Test. They deserve some emnity for conceding 450, sure. But, for me, the batting is a far, far larger problem.

What to do? Not sure yet. Will rest, for me, on what they do today and tomorrow.

I'm wondering whether what we are witnessing is a group of players who just have no idea of how to dig in and fight it out. Is this the result of so many years of success? Have we bred a generation of players with no fight? Seems even Katich is losing his fighting qualities

 

[JBH001]

Thought it pitched outside off angling well away.

Thought it pitched on the stumps, and was bowled a little wider of the crease.

Need to watch a replay to confirm, I guess.

 

[Richard]

Jeez, this is going to be hard enough without the umpires missing total no balls like the one Flintoff delivered for the Katich wicket.

Oh well, we were denied the wickets of Trescothick and Vaughan in 2005 thanks to no-balls.

 

[superkingdave]

Jeez, this is going to be hard enough without the umpires missing total no balls like the one Flintoff delivered for the Katich wicket.

Yep, they've been missing them all match

 

[Craig]

This is most probably his last test at Lord's, so I guess its about time he gets his name on the board at Lord's.

SRT and Lara also don't have their names on the board.

 

[Top_Cat]

Christ, big no-ball on the Kat wicket there.

 

[Adamc]

Jeez, this is going to be hard enough without the umpires missing total no balls like the one Flintoff delivered for the Katich wicket.

Yeah, was a clear no ball actually. Shame.

 

[Matt79]

Just highlighted it on Sky - massive no ball.