*Official* First Test at Trent Bridge

[Ruckus]

Great knock from Bell. Very likely a match winning one.

Na, will prove to just be another worthless innings when Watson smashes a run-a-ball 200, wins the match and begins his career as the greatest opener the world has ever seen.

 

[LegionOfBrad]

This is a serious question

Do you think Root will be the opener for the first test in Oz?

My prediction is that he will be the 2013 version of Hughes '09

No I don't. Whether its Compton or someone else I don't know. He should have been at 6 for another year IMO. Which is where I think he will be back at in Oz.

We finally had a competent number 6 for the first time since Collingwood retired but they went with the "brave" call. When Bairstow really isn't good enough at the mo.

 

[Maximas]

England probably have one of the most boring tails to watch.

nah mate, you should see them when they don't give a ****...

 

[grecian]

Yay, Straussy finally telling the idiots in the box, about pitches not deteriorating the way they used too.

Seems patently obvious to me, but they keep on banging on about record chases.

 

[GIMH]

Pick your dummy up Starc, wanker

 

[Burgey]

Been a serious want of luck the past 24 hours.

 

[MW1304]

Starc just isn't likely to get many lbws bowling like that, i'm not sure what all these appeals and confused looks are all about.

Much more likely for that to happen.

 

[grecian]

Look Swann this is painful, it isn't your natural game, smash it like normal.

 

[Maximas]

Pick your dummy up Starc, wanker

The guy makes me shift in my seat as an Aussie fan and as an Australian...

 

[Ruckus]

we need these last 2 wickets within about 10 runs or we are ****ed

 

[GIMH]

Poor innings from Swann really

 

[Tangles]

Clarkie!

 

[MW1304]

Ugh yucky innings, lead won't get much bigger.

 

[Esperance]

Finally.

 

[Cabinet96]

Yay, Straussy finally telling the idiots in the box, about pitches not deteriorating the way they used too.

Seems patently obvious to me, but they keep on banging on about record chases.

Yeah I mentioned earlier how the commies always seem to think that pitches will break up more than they ever do. Nagpur at the end of last year probably the best example.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Most un-Swann like stuff.

The Watford Wall and the Burnley Lara to add <10 here.

 

[Ruckus]

would people prefer we get rolled for 100 or get within 50 odd runs here but still lose

 

[BoyBrumby]

would people prefer we get rolled for 100 or get within 50 odd runs here but still lose

I reckon yer countrymen will go for:

c) Knocking the requisite runs off.

That's yer lot then. 311 to win.

 

[Maximas]

repeat of Jo-burg would be swell

 

[GIMH]

Jimmy in a rush to get bowling IMO