*Official* Fourth Test at Chester-le-Street

[GIMH]

How long left?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

This is a choke of mammoth proportions.

 

[Pothas]

Well, don't get any closer than that do you.

 

[Cooky Monster]

and if you weren't so pompous you'd probably realise I was joking.

Not out for me.

Pompus haha thats a new one, just putting you right.

Great joke btw.

 

[Furball]

Spot of good fortune that.

Neither side with any reviews and Tony Hill at one end. This isn't going to end well.

 

[grecian]

Pompus haha thats a new one, just putting you right.

Great joke btw.

I know I'm a witty guy, what can I say.....

 

[Spark]

good night all. not worth staying up further for this

 

[Cabinet96]

I reckon that would've hit the stumps but the bail wouldn't have been dislodged. Haddin unlucky.

 

[Ikki]

So we've lost 5 wickets in the span of less than 40 runs...

 

[Spikey]

good night all. not worth staying up further for this

great stuff, ajdude

 

[abmk]

that one looked a bit high and was maybe sliding down leg as well. Anyways this is a massive collapse after such an excellent start.

 

[Spark]

it's ****ing absurd.

an international ****ing side should not be losing four wickets in five overs on this pitch against an old ball. one or two? yes, england have bowled extremely well. but four? **** off..

 

[GIMH]

Off the arm onto the stumps doesnt qualify for annoyingly bad.

Maybe not and I can understand why he played it like that. It looked awful though.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

So we've lost 5 wickets in the span of less than 40 runs...

15 more like.

 

[grecian]

Got to give Broad, Bresnan and Cook a bit of credit here, he took off Swann, when I couldn't quite understand why, and these two have bowled well in tandem, stopped giving easy runs and the pressure has tolled.

 

[Furball]

Bizarrely the Haddin wicket looked a lot more out 2nd time round.

 

[Johann]

Bizarrely the Haddin wicket looked a lot more out 2nd time round.

I thought this too

 

[grecian]

Weren't people saying earlier in the series how reliant we were on Jimmeh?

 

[Spikey]

it's ****ing absurd.

an international ****ing side should not be losing four wickets in five overs on this pitch against an old ball. one or two? yes, england have bowled extremely well. but four? **** off..

let's break it down though: Warner and Clarke got great balls, Watson got a ball right in his danger area, good bowling again, Smith forearmed a ball onto his stumps, unlucky, if poorly played and Haddin was unlucky to have been given, again if poorly played (let's compare this to Bresnan this morning.........). I'm not too upset. Disappointed sure, and already blaming luck, but I think on the whole a lot of it is fairly forgiveable and/or fairly understandable (bar Usman). England fought back well. They landed the ball in the rights spots and got a bit of luck.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Weren't people from Australia saying earlier in the series how reliant we were on Jimmeh?

Fixed