***Official*** 3rd Test at the WACA

[stephen]

Geez I'm glad we had Marsh for those 9 overs at 5 rpo. Maxwell could never have done that with his offies.

 

[Gob]

The Poms were quite reasonably thinking 500 until an hour ago.

400 is always nice to have on the board 1st innings, but feels a fair bit under par here.

Think Aust just have to try and match England's first innings. 3rd innings collapse will take care

 

[morgieb]

Whether it's enough to be a dominating score or not it's still a great recovery from 130/4.

But a terrible collapse from 4/360 or whatever it was.

Bottom line is that partnerships matter.

 

[morgieb]

Think Aust just have to try and match England's first innings. 3rd innings collapse will take care

I think if Australia are cautious against the new ball I see us going big.

 

[adub]

Yep, one super partnership that should have been ended last night @ 271. Probably gifted another 80-100 runs.

Partnerships and catches. You need em.

 

[Burgey]

England will be very disappointed with that. Fell away terribly

 

[adub]

England will be very disappointed with that. Fell away terribly

Their tail's inability to deal with pace and bounce will go a long way to being the difference.

 

[stephen]

Isn't that the case with most sides though? The tail tend to wash in local conditions but overseas they collapse like a house of cards.

 

[social]

Pretty rare in Oz for 400 to be a poor first innings score and I don't think that this is one of those times

Would not be surprised if the soap dodgers have a lead when both teams have batted

 

[stephen]

1.4 indicates some variable bounce is on offer.

 

[stephen]

I would hope that Bancroft can score well here. Home ground advantage and all.

 

[vcs]

Great reflexes from Bancroft to get back there.

 

[Burgey]

Pretty rare in Oz for 400 to be a poor first innings score and I don't think that this is one of those times

Would not be surprised if the soap dodgers have a lead when both teams have batted

Yeah it’s fair to say Australia could go from four down to all out pretty quickly. Six, seven and eight aren’t what you’d call consistent contributors.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I'll put my fist through Clarke's mouth if he doesn't stfu

 

[Spark]

Yeah it’s fair to say Australia could go from four down to all out pretty quickly. Six, seven and eight aren’t what you’d call consistent contributors.

Nine is though

 

[StephenZA]

Really disappointing from Eng this morning (once again)... Watching this opening spell from Englands main two pace men does not give me hope. Just don't look fast enough to really put pressure on the Aus batsmen, and such a nice surface with the ball coming onto the bat.

Can see Warner scoring a quick fire hundred here...

 

[Gob]

Yeah it’s fair to say Australia could go from four down to all out pretty quickly. Six, seven and eight aren’t what you’d call consistent contributors.

Cummo

 

[flibbertyjibber]

This is going well.

Time to find something else to watch.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Really disappointing from Eng this morning (once again)... Watching this opening spell from Englands main two pace men does not give me hope. Just don't look fast enough to really put pressure on the Aus batsmen, and such a nice surface with the ball coming onto the bat.

Can see Warner scoring a quick five hundred here...

This is how I rad this

 

[Starfighter]

Nice to see Woakes bowling the old invisi-ball.