***Official*** 2nd Test at Adelaide

[Cow]

Staying fit is also part of a sportsmans abilities.

 

[GIMH]

GIMH is a wonderful poster.

Thank you for your kind words

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I've been following Test Cricket for nearly half a century and have never seen England get anywhere near 350 to win a Test. In fact you could count the number of times they've achieved over 300 on the fingers of a fairly injudicious hand gesture. I don't think the current balance of this match indicates that's likely to change.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Would love England to win just to laugh at Australia's decision not to enforce the follow-on, and their ****witted, arrogant declaration.

But it's long odds.

 

[Cow]

I've been following Test Cricket for nearly half a century and have never seen England get anywhere near 350 to win a Test. In fact you could count the number of times they've achieved over 300 on the fingers of a fairly injudicious hand gesture. I don't think the current balance of this match indicates that's likely to change.

Pitch looks fine to me.

 

[Cow]

Saker thinks it wasn't a great decision to bat again.

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[Gob]

Would love England to win just to laugh at Australia's decision not to enforce the follow-on, and their ****witted, arrogant declaration.

But it's long odds.

Battles have been won against greater odds.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Battles have been won against greater odds.

I would guess it would be in the realms of a 6 or 7 to 1 shot. So there certainly have been much longer odds.

None of the England batsmen have shown the ability to score more than 40s/50s so certainly something new needs to happen, either Root getting a big hundred or a 50 + 70/80 elsewhere.

I hope that some of the usual crowd can at least see now that the declaration was utterly stupid. In virtually every imaginable scenario those extra runs would have helped and would have simply hastened their goal to score whatever the requisite number of runs over two innings was. All the declaration achieved was to make the draw fractionally more likely and make an England victory a few percent more likely - and obviously reduced Australia's win % to compensate.

 

[Black_Warrior]

For any England fans feeling a bit optimistic

1st Test, Border-Gavaskar Trophy at Adelaide, Dec 9-13 2014 | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo

242/2 chasing 364 at Adelaide.
Lost by 48 runs
Lyon got a 7fer

 

[harsh.ag]

A Bairstow 70 is on the cards. Overton to hit the winning runs.

 

[Cow]

Didn't Aus score 350+ batting last against SA recently ?

 

[Spark]

Didn't Aus score 350+ batting last against SA recently ?

If you're talking about Jo'burg that doesn't count as recent and it was more like 300.

 

[vcs]

It's rare, but does happen every now and again. Like India chasing 387 against Flintoff-Anderson-Harmison-Swann-Monty on a disintegrating day 5 wicket in 2008 and Pakistan chasing 370+ in 2015 against Herath in SL.

 

[Cow]

It's rare, but does happen every now and again. Like India chasing 387 against a team led by Kevin Pietersen.

fixed

 

[OverratedSanity]

fixed

Steve Smith isn't exactly Mark Taylor when it comes to tactical leadership.

 

[JRC67]

An England win would be good for cricket and the series. White washes all well and good by they don't really stick in the memory, whereas victories in competitive series do.

 

[Furball]

I would guess it would be in the realms of a 6 or 7 to 1 shot. So there certainly have been much longer odds.

None of the England batsmen have shown the ability to score more than 40s/50s so certainly something new needs to happen, either Root getting a big hundred or a 50 + 70/80 elsewhere.

I hope that some of the usual crowd can at least see now that the declaration was utterly stupid. In virtually every imaginable scenario those extra runs would have helped and would have simply hastened their goal to score whatever the requisite number of runs over two innings was. All the declaration achieved was to make the draw fractionally more likely and make an England victory a few percent more likely - and obviously reduced Australia's win % to compensate.

A stopped clock is right twice a day.

 

[smash84]

i didn't want drop in and say

Caarnnn England, because every time I do that England suffer a blow.

But come on Root, show us what you're made of. Get this chase done successfully

 

[harsh.ag]

Steve Smith isn't exactly Mark Taylor when it comes to tactical leadership.

Would Mark Taylor have the vision to lose a test match in order to re-ignite an Ashes series and perhaps test cricket as a whole? I doubt it.

 

[Gob]

An England win would be good for cricket and the series. White washes all well and good by they don't really stick in the memory, whereas victories in competitive series do.

An England win is never good tbh. I sincerely hope they would lose five zip and Anderson get his usual 1 for 70 for the rest of the flatter wickets to a point where everyone forgets this performance