32nd Match - England v Australia

[Groundking]

Choosing to bowl has just put us on a hiding to nothing here Morgan you ****ing idiot

 

[King Pietersen]

This is just crap bowling now.

 

[social]

Lords crowd doing their Indian crowd impression

 

[quincywagstaff]

He's bowled this length since about his 3rd over, he was too back of a length right at the start though.

He has bowled ok, not much luck and not supported by Archer and Aus have batted great.

He was pretty decent, but just always a tad too short so when he cut Warner in two more than once it went over the stumps instead of bowling him.

 

[stephen]

To put McGrath's Lords statistics in perspective, Anderson has the most wickets at Lords with 103, which he has taken 23 tests to take. If McGrath took wickets at the same rate as he took them in the three tests he played he'd have 199 wickets.

Alternatively, he took more wickets at Lords than any foreign bowler other than Hadlee. But Hadlee took one extra test to take the wickets and did so at an average 10 higher than McGrath.

 

[quincywagstaff]

After their awful opening with the bat against the Windies, what odds would have been given then that Australia wouldn't lose a wicket in the opening 10 overs of their next five matches?

 

[rythy]

Choosing to bowl has just put us on a hiding to nothing here Morgan you ****ing idiot

Morgan's decisions in this WC have been quite strange. Not sure why two spinners on overcast day and not Plunkett. Opting to bowl when the team have crumbled under pressure while chasing.

 

[Grasshopper]

England rather fluffing their lines here.

 

[artvandalay]

The pitch map shown earlier didn't look good. Only 3 deliveries hitting the stumps. Pitch does look bouncy though which saved fnch and explains that map where it's behavibg more like an Aussie pitch.

 

[Top_Cat]

I can understand sticking to plan but I don't understand why the plan to these guys wasn't to attack the pegs.

 

[trundler]

That montage shows England have been doing the 'bowl a meter short and long unlucky' thing

 

[91Jmay]

Mark Wood is back to his usual self them.

 

[Burgey]

This deck is hard to time on when it’s full, too. Both blokes have already cracked the toe on their cues and there have been a lot of mistimed shots to fullish seeds. Hope or blokes are watching.

 

[Burgey]

**** me that is a great shot.

 

[Spark]

Finch looks a million times the batsman he is otherwise when he actually transfers weight onto his front foot rather than just standing there and hitting through the line

 

[trundler]

Mark Wood is back to his usual self them.

Bowling 90 MPH and being an aggressive wicket taker? Nasser lead me to believe he's the English Waqar.

 

[artvandalay]

Yup shot of the afternoon. Finch isn't a pretty player to watch as such but that was such a clean cover drive.

 

[Zinzan]

Fantastic Australia, turning the screw here.

 

[trundler]

Run rate crosses 5. They'll be looking to get to about 110 without a loss in the next 4-5 overs. Australia in the catbird seat, if I'm not wrong.

 

[Burgey]

Finch looks a million times the batsman he is otherwise when he actually transfers weight onto his front foot rather than just standing there and hitting through the line

Wish he was in this form last home summer