*Official* Second Test at the Adelaide Oval

[DingDong]

He was a good batsman. He wasn't awesome though, so being "almost as good" isn't anything to write home about.

oh its on now punk

 

[Son Of Coco]

FFS how far behind is my stream? cricinfo hasn't updated it either...

I was way behind with my comment, had to go out for 30 mins. Didn't realise the streams were the same.

Edit: Ah ha, see where the confusion was now.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Agree with whoever criticized Broad's action. Don't like the way his left hand falls away at all.

Yeah that was me. Not so much a criticism, as it seems to work ok. Just looks a bit weird.

 

[Mike5181]

Averaged 40 and underachieved, he was well capable of 45 and had the burden of captain

 

[Son Of Coco]

For me he is just playing on with an injury against a pretty good bowling attack and its something that's doing no good to either him or the team.

Reckon his back was ok today. Wish it was worse as he mightn't have gotten near Anderson's delivery it if he was more limited in his movement

 

[Spark]

Good little battle here between Swann and North.

 

[Furball]

North is not terrible he just needs to add consistency. A couple of 30s and 40s between those hundreds and his record would be pretty good. He only averages like 3 runs less than Symonds did and he seems to be playing really badly.

North is pretty consistent, probably more so than any other batsman in the Australian team. It's just not the type of consistency you want from a middle order batsman.

 

[pasag]

oh its on now punk

In all honesty, Anderson is carrying this lineup atm. Doing a brilliant job, but needs some help from his mates to stick the nail in our coffin.

 

[Mike5181]

North is pretty consistent, probably more so than any other batsman in the Australian team. It's just not the type of consistency you want from a middle order batsman.

True that

 

[ripper868]

1/140 ****s

 

[Ruckus]

According to his previous scores, North has a 50% chance of scoring a ton now, and a 70% chance of scoring at least 90.

 

[Spark]

Wow there have been a lot of good drives into that offside field.

 

[Hurricane]

Swann has created one chance which cook blew. Beyond that he has been handled well by the Aussies. Swann just needs to bowl the same ball over and over again and wear out North's patience with leaving those close ones outside off stump.

 

[pup11]

Any left hand bat who doesn't use his feet against Swann and goes at him with hard hands is asking for trouble, therefore it might just be the matter of time before Swann knocks North over.

 

[TumTum]

Swann has created one chance which cook blew. Beyond that he has been handled well by the Aussies. Swann just needs to bowl the same ball over and over again and wear out North's patience with leaving those close ones outside off stump.

North will sweep, a guy will do that when on a 100.

 

[vic_orthdox]

North bringing out his sweep against Swann for the first time, in the last over.

 

[Spark]

Surprised he's only just started to play it, it's a productive shot for him

 

[Ikki]

 

[vic_orthdox]

At the fact that North's getting runs? Or the start of the game?

 

[TumTum]

The pitch is very quick, why would they have so many catching men in front of the wicket?