*Official Third Test at Edgbaston

[Langeveldt]

How good is Matty Hayden on TMS? Never heard the guy before, what a gun..

 

[TT Boy]

Is it true that anything over 20 overs and you don’t get a refund? Just watch the ground staff go into overdrive at around 3pm…

 

[GIMH]

It's something like that, after a certain amount you can still have half back (that may well be just one ball though), and then after about 20, tough ****

 

[Woodster]

The rain has abated for now, work is going on on the ground, but still at the earliest it's looking at around mid-afternoon, hopefully, according to Rudi Koertzen. Again it depends how heavy the showers get before that time.

 

[GIMH]

Fed up, didn't take the day off to just sit on CW, I can do that in work. Stupid English weather, I blame Burgey

 

[stephen]

Wish pommieland had some real weather instead of this ridiculous on/off rain garbage.

 

[GIMH]

Inspection at 2pm, FFS

Playing the Edgbaston 05 Test. I watched highlights of it on Monday on ESPN so you would think I'd want something different. But to be honest, this will do

 

[Richard]

Would prefer Edgbaston 1981 TBH but realise that's unrealistic, and it's impossible to get tired of this Test, especially that first day.

The day when 16 years + 1 Test was turned on its head.

 

[GIMH]

Yeah, always forget about how at a point thinks looked a bit grim though, after an immense start we're now 180ish-4.

 

[Richard]

There were three blocks of England that day: Trescothick and Strauss' opening stand and Trescothick and Vaughan's continuation; then Flintoff's intervention; then Pietersen's rollicking along with the lower-order in tow.

 

[GIMH]

Freddie so good with the bat in this series, killed them

 

[Nate]

Haha, finally got SBS happening in my room, shocking form. Greg Matthews is senile.

 

[Burgey]

Fed up, didn't take the day off to just sit on CW, I can do that in work. Stupid English weather, I blame Burgey

GFC. I'm at a dinner listening to a former High Court judge rabbit on. Hope it rains all ****ing day!

 

[Richard]

That's unlikely, but it is very, very possible that it'll rain enough to avoid any play being possible.

 

[GIMH]

Reckon we'll get about 20 overs in tbh

If the whole day gets rained off then it makes the Australia follow-on even more likely

 

[Richard]

Wonder if this 2005 Edgbaston replay will jog a few memories about how effective and useful Harmison wasn't?

Doubt it TBH.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Can anyone give me an estimate of how long play is likely to be?

 

[Richard]

If there was likely to be any, yes. But, sadly, no.

 

[Uppercut]

Can anyone give me an estimate of how long play is likely to be?

I'd be happy to see any play today tbh.

 

[Richard]

One thing I'd almost forgotten about Jones in this 2005 Edgbaston match is how much he veered from utter nonsense, bowling a couple of Half-Volleys per over, to brilliance, where he could produce the magic ball from nowhere.

EDIT: and also just how much criticism there actually was of Vaughan's captaincy while the game was going on. Doubtless from the same types who claimed he was so brilliant after the event.