*Official* Fifth Test at the SCG

[zaremba]

Another half thousand for England - 4th of the series I think - great to see

Re Hughes' "catch", the more I look at it the more I think it might have been out - the ball might have bounced up off his fingers rather than the ground

 

[King Pietersen]

Keep bowling there Mitch, Prior'll smack them for 4 all day long.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Collingwood retiring from tests? My missus will be in mourning all bloody weekend now.

 

[zaremba]

Sky are saying that Prior has the 3rd best strike rate in Ashes history, after Jessop and Gilly

 

[GIMH]

Johnson bowling turd, Prior hitting him with the contempt he deserves.

 

[Top_Cat]

For context, Hilf has really only had one good season for Tassie, 06/07 where he took 60 wickets at about 25 in a Shield-winning season. Took 3 bags of 5+ and several of 4.

Since then, in almost 4 years, 2 bags of 5, none of 4, a whole heaps of 2/fers, average mid-30's. He was injured for most of last season, of course but geez, that a fair stretch of poor form.

 

[King Pietersen]

Botham to Nasser regarding Hughes: "He's not a love-child of yours is he, with that beak?"

 

[joels344]

I wish both networks would just shut up over this whole 'Hughes is a cheat" ordeal. Sky and Channel 9 are both godawful.

 

[Mister Wright]

Another half thousand for England - 4th of the series I think - great to see

Re Hughes' "catch", the more I look at it the more I think it might have been out - the ball might have bounced up off his fingers rather than the ground

You can't be serious. It clearly bounced.

 

[91Jmay]

Beefy perfectly illustrated why Hughes was a sly little cheat yday.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Both stands by his words. "Hughes is a cheat sez Sir Ian": official.

No way Hughes's fingers were under it as far as I can see tho.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Classy from Warne there. In the background, he was going on "Mahanama - deduhdeduhde"

 

[Mister Wright]

For context, Hilf has really only had one good season for Tassie, 06/07 where he took 60 wickets at about 25 in a Shield-winning season. Took 3 bags of 5+ and several of 4.

Since then, in almost 4 years, 2 bags of 5, none of 4, a whole heaps of 2/fers, average mid-30's. He was injured for most of last season, of course but geez, that a fair stretch of poor form.

Yeah, but he bowls well.

Surely he's played his last test.

 

[GIMH]

Beer should get another go after this series for the Aussiesn he's looked okay.

 

[zaremba]

You can't be serious. It clearly bounced.

I'm not saying it was a catch, I'm just saying that the more I look at it, the more I think he might actually have caught it. It clearly bounced up but it's incredibly difficult to tell whether it bounced off grass or fingers.

Maybe it's just a perverse reaction against Botham's bombast

 

[BoyBrumby]

I'm no expert, but Beer really doesn'y put a lot of work on the ball at all, does he? Nice high arm action, but barely puts any revs on the ball at all.

 

[Woodster]

Botham to Nasser regarding Hughes: "He's not a love-child of yours is he, with that beak?"

That was funny, although Beefy not doing too much to endear him to the locals after his recent comments. Not that I imagine he worries too much about that.

 

[zaremba]

Sky are saying that Prior has the 3rd best strike rate in Ashes history, after Jessop and Gilly

My statsguru research has revealed that this is a load of crap. I may have mis-heard

 

[Woodster]

I'm no expert, but Beer really doesn'y put a lot of work on the ball at all, does he? Nice high arm action, but barely puts any revs on the ball at all.

I agree mate, doesn't seem too many revs on the ball on the way down. Looks more a roller out of the hand than giving it a real rip.

 

[GIMH]

My statsguru research has revealed that this is a load of crap. I may have mis-heard

I thought I heard that too