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*Official* Second Test at Lords

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.matt

School Boy/Girl Captain
These 2 are batting so awesome. Hopefully they last until the end of the day and then it pisses down tomorrow.

Well Haddin is batting that good by himself but he is sticking around with Clarke.
 
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oitoitoi

State Vice-Captain
This test is starting to smell hideously of Sydney 07/08, surely England are the luckiest side in the world? They just seem to keep getting these things going there way? Indeed the comms are talking up the english attack but as we saw in Cardiff...and the West Indies....and India...and against SA last year....when the ball's not nipping around this attack is pretty dire.
 
pup11

pup11

International Coach
Matt79 said:
The difference between here and India is that we had the team badly wrong in India. Hayden was past it, we had WHITE as our spinner ffs, Lee and Clark were both unfit.
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There isn't much difference mate, Hughes has been as poor in this game, missed Hauirtz in the 1st innings, Johnson might not be unfit like Lee or Clark, but certainly bowled as if he was unfit, which pretty much left us with two bowlers (Siddle, Hilf), but despite that wrapping England up for 425 was a decent effort in the end.

Its really the batting that has cost us the game both at Mohali and now at Lord's.
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
oitoitoi said:
This test is starting to smell hideously of Sydney 07/08, surely England are the luckiest side in the world? They just seem to keep getting these things going there way? Indeed the comms are talking up the english attack but as we saw in Cardiff...and the West Indies....and India...and against SA last year....when the ball's not nipping around this attack is pretty dire.
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That applies to virtually all sides. The skill of being a good bowler is to get the ball to nip around on the majority of occasions. If it doesn't, any bowler will struggle.

England have had a hell of a lot go their way this Test, but Australia have still mostly been ****e and would've lost against said England performance regardless of any of the ill-fortune.
 
Demolition Man

Demolition Man

State Vice-Captain
pup11 said:
There isn't much difference mate, Hughes has been as poor in this game, missed Hauirtz in the 1st innings, Johnson might not be unfit like Lee or Clark, but certainly bowled as if he was unfit, which pretty much left us with two bowlers (Siddle, Hilf), but despite that wrapping England up for 425 was a decent effort in the end.

Its really the batting that has cost us the game both at Mohali and now at Lord's.
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*cringe* at the mention of White. People forget just how bad our spinning stocks are.
 
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