*Official* Second Test at the Adelaide Oval

[James]

Discussion around the Second Test at the Adelaide Oval

 

[Pothas]

England to bat first and rack up 1000/1

 

[Johnners]

Sounds more like their odds to win the match tbh

 

[howardj]

Katich
Watson
Ponting
Clarke
Hussey
Haddin
Smith
Harris
Krejza
Siddle
Bollinger

 

[Pothas]

Sounds more like their odds to win the match tbh

Or Mitch getting a wicket.

 

[Spark]

Katich
Watson
Ponting
Clarke
Hussey
Haddin
Smith
Harris
Krejza
Siddle
Bollinger

You're dreaming mate.

Nice dream though.

 

[ripper868]

Australia by an Innings, Ponting to tonne up. Cook to pair up.

 

[pasag]

Katich
Watson
Ponting
Clarke
Hussey
Haddin
Smith
Harris
Krejza
Siddle
Bollinger

Do not trust Clarke enough to play. Should have an enforced rest.

 

[Spark]

He looked freer third innings as stated.

However the true test would've been if he'd batted today, which he didn't. C'est la vie.

He'll play.

 

[Tom 1972]

Katich
Watson
Ponting
Clarke
Hussey
Haddin
Smith
Harris
Krejza
Siddle
Bollinger

You're dreaming mate.

Nice dream though.

As much as I'd like to see changes, they'll probably go in with the same Aussie line-up.

 

[GotSpin]

Katich
Watson
Ponting
Clarke
Hussey
Haddin
Smith
Harris
Krejza
Siddle
Bollinger

Why do you want Smith in there though? He really hasn't done much with the bat lately?

 

[GotSpin]

As much as I'd like to see changes, they'll probably go in with the same Aussie line-up.

Nah there are going to be some casualties. It's the Ashes and they'll begin to panic

 

[pasag]

You can't get 1/517 scored against you and not make major changes to the bowling attack. Need a whole new attack for Adelaide, anything less and we'll see the same crap happening.

 

[centurymaker]

Will be another drawn test!!!

 

[Spikey]

Doherty out
Hauritz in

And that'll do the selectors. They wouldn't want to "disrupt the team harmony" too much. Johnson will stay because "we feel he's about to return to his best form. He did have a great Shield match the other day and the pitch didn't really suit him". North like-wise "has shown himself to be a reliable member of the batting order".

 

[GIMH]

Another draw I reckon

 

[Spark]

Yeah I don't quite think either lineup has it in them to get 20 wickets. Especially if we continue to play Swann with such contempt.

 

[vcs]

Yeah, hard to look past a draw considering the traditional behaviour of the Adelaide Oval track and the way the bowlers have done for both sides so far.

 

[morgieb]

Yeah I can't see Adelaide being anything but a draw. Since McGrath/Warne retired the only game that got a result was 2008, whereas Brisbane was the first non-Adelaide draw in Australia since 2005.

 

[Pothas]

Would seem that way but we should not forget that both batting sides do have weaknesses and have certainly not been alien to sudden collapses. Adelaide obviously might not be the one but I do think we will get some relatively low scoring tests this series.