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***Official*** 2nd Test at the Adelaide Oval

Nate

Nate

You'll Never Walk Alone
Martyn for Perth? Na-uh. Brainless, playing it like it`s a 20/20, or he`s opening the innings in an ODI.

I`m not meant to be nervous.
 
Barney Rubble

Barney Rubble

International Coach
Nnanden said:
Why is Flintoff allowed to bowl when he`s been off?
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IIRC the rule about not bowling after you've been off only applies to absences of over 20 minutes, or something like that. It's to allow for toilet breaks during spells and such like.

Martyn gone to Fred!!! England still in this game. Amazing. :-O
 
Slow Love™

Slow Love™

International Captain
FaaipDeOiad said:
My understanding is that the new ICC time regulation does not apply on the 5th day of a test. Basically, the rule is to encourage teams to bowl their full allotment and decrease use of floodlights etc in test cricket, but it has no bearing on the final day. Play will continue, light permitting, until 90 overs have been bowled in the day.

And yeah, as you say, once the umpire declares the "last hour" has begun, there has to be 15 overs, regardless of how long they take. This is obviously designed to stop teams stalling for time when defending a total. The last hour should be in progress now, though I haven't actually seen anything about it yet. Either way, Australia will get at least 14 more overs after this one.
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Thank god for that. It's common sense, really, but I was a bit concerned, particularly given some of the delays between overs at that stage. Used to be 20 overs in the final over on the fifth day, as I recall.

Bye bye Marto. That shot will really define his departure from test cricket, sadly. But it's just about a trademark. Well, he just made the selectors job very easy.
 
FaaipDeOiad

FaaipDeOiad

Hall of Fame Member
That's Ponting's first dismissal for under 100 in the series. 447 runs in two tests now, on target for a massive series.

The best Ashes series for a batsman in the last decade is Vaughan's 633 in 2002/03, which Ponting looks set to smash. 750 has only been done five times in a five test Ashes series, and not in 70 years. Four times by Bradman and once by Hammond, though Mark Taylor scored 839 in six tests in 1989.
 
Nate

Nate

You'll Never Walk Alone
Barney Rubble said:
IIRC the rule about not bowling after you've been off only applies to absences of over 20 minutes, or something like that. It's to allow for toilet breaks during spells and such like.
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Cheers. :)
 
Nate

Nate

You'll Never Walk Alone
Barney Rubble said:
No worries. Although if one of my players took a toilet break of 20 minutes, I'd be questioning the team dietician rather thoroughly. :D
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7:30AM in England then? What are you meant to be doing today?
 
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