***Official*** Australia in England (The Ashes)

[King_Ponting]

Which is why I'm glad SBS gives us Channel 4.

Which also reminds me - is the Tour over yet?

No and its going overtime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mister Wright]

Great shot from Bell. He's learnt early what you have to do to Brett Lee. Just wait for the bad ball - it will come!

 

[Scaly piscine]

Really need grubbers like that.

 

[wpdavid]

18 for 3. Are we going to even reach 100 this time?

 

[Pratters]

The cold assasin.

 

[King_Ponting]

oh what whos out?

 

[Majin]

Vaughan. Now we'll see if Pieterson was worth Thorpes spot.

 

[Langeveldt]

C'mon South Africa!

 

[wpdavid]

oh what whos out?

Only Vaughan. So now we're down to the rookies, Fred & Jones and the bowlers.

 

[chalky]

I think I might put the Tour De France on now

 

[King_Ponting]

wouldnt be suprised if warne comes on now that peitersens in!

 

[Pratters]

C'mon South Africa!

haha

 

[Top_Cat]

I told people to wait for the Aussies to bowl on this deck before drawing conclusions.............

Funny what happens when you just hit a line and stick to it; Brett Lee take note.

Bad news for England; generally when McGrath goes past a milestone of some sort, he's in such a good mood about it, he bowls magnificently.

 

[wpdavid]

BTW what do we reckon about Ponting chirping at Vaughan when he came out to bat? He certainly had a lot to say for himself, so what's his problem today?

 

[Majin]

Does anyone know why Brett Lee bob's his head after the first couple of paces of his run up? I never understood why he did that, I think Hoggard does it as well.

 

[King_Ponting]

BTW what do we reckon about Ponting chirping at Vaughan when he came out to bat? He certainly had a lot to say for himself, so what's his problem today?

Maybe getting smacked in the head has something to do with it?

 

[Pratters]

I told people to wait for the Aussies to bowl on this deck before drawing conclusions.............

The Aussies batted poorly. Should have curtailed the rash shots in the first session of the test match. The pitch or England's batting or Australia's bowling does not discount that fact. Australia likes to play the shots but they went for too many shots too early even by their standards early on.

 

[Top_Cat]

Funny how some commentators are questioning the quality of the pitch. You were saying, Scaly?

 

[chalky]

Message to Steve Harmison:
DON'T BOUNCE MCGRATH

 

[wpdavid]

I told people to wait for the Aussies to bowl on this deck before drawing conclusions.............

Funny what happens when you just hit a line and stick to it; Brett Lee take note.

Bad news for England; generally when McGrath goes past a milestone of some sort, he's in such a good mood about it, he bowls magnificently.

Is it really such a bad deck? We all know McGrath can bowl magnificently on almost anything, and he's using the Lord's slop beautifully. And England have batted hopelessly against Aus all summer, so this isn't a huge surprise, and I don't see that it makes the pitch a big factor.