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

[Majin]

To someone who has no idea about either, which do you think would be harder to explain, the LBW rule or the Offside rule? :}

 

[aussie]

well the way how Martyn left it thier wasn't surprsing because he is form the W.A.CA & batsmen like him normally leave more on the lenght of the ball rather than the line, but he should becareful of that when batting at the pavillion end with the slope factor.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

How long until Giles bowls? I think excluding some great bowling from the seamers he will bowl this session some time, and it will be interesting to see what happens. I'd say it's going to be a clear plan from the Australians to score heavily off him when the pitch isn't taking turn, rather than let him send down overs for 1 or 2 apiece pitching the ball outside leg. Gilchrist in particular will go after him like he did against Vettori.

 

[Majin]

Seriously! Aleem Dar and Ian Bell need to get a room. xD

 

[aussie]

well that would be expected faaip, i cant see the Australia's playing him with much respect whe he comes on...

 

[Nate]

Agreed. Bring Giles on.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Agreed. Bring Giles on.

Stuff that, bring GBH on first.

 

[shaka]

He must come on soon, be a variation from pace.

 

[aussie]

Seriously! Aleem Dar and Ian Bell need to get a room. xD

lol, but anyway Ponting beggining to look good as we all know when he gets through his early innings worries has we have seen so many times in the past he normally scores a big one. Flintoff should come off now he bowled 4 balls on the pads in this over....

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Stuff that, bring GBH on first.

Yep. Giles would be worth a try if Harmison can't get a wicket though. The runs are just coming way too easily at the moment.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Harmison should have been on straight after lunch anyway, only bowled 6 overs and none too many in the first innings - 40 minutes should be a long enough break.

 

[aussie]

its 7000 to ricky , dont want to get to far ahead but Punters is young enough, fit enough & to me when he retires could be the leading runscorer in test....

 

[Adamc]

Michael Holding (if I heard correctly): "So many rude things have been said about Tasmania." Hehe.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

its 7000 to ricky , dont want to get to far ahead but Punters is young enough, fit enough & to me when he retires could be the leading runscorer in test....

That will probably be Tendulkar assuming he eventually recovers from his injury. He's only two years older than Ponting and has over 3,000 runs on him. Dravid two years older too and 700 runs ahead, Inzy five years older and 1,000 ahead, and Kallis is actually one year younger and has a few hundred runs on Ponting as well. Lara five years older and second in overall scoring now, closing in on Border. Ponting is next, among current players.

 

[shankar]

It's much more noticable with Ponting than others. If you don't get him out early he tends to make a big score, but he's quite vulnerable early on. Tendulkar recently is in the same boat, but players like Dravid, Kallis, Steve Waugh etc aren't so easy to get out early on. Regardless, the point is that if you let Ponting get set he's very dangerous, you need to exploit his technical problems early on.

I suspect you're right, But that statistic doesnt bring it out as most of those batsman have a similar average to ponting when they pass 20.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Hundred up. Martyn loves that shot.

Run rate is way too high from an English perspective right now. If this continues for another hour the game won't be far from gone.

 

[Majin]

What do they mean when they say Peiterson played "Gun Barrel Straight"?

 

[King_Ponting]

with a straight bat id say

 

[Burpey]

Sad to see the Don being passed by Ricky. Well done to him though. Noticed that G Chappell is the only Aussie to play less than 100 tests to score more runs than Ponting

 

[aussie]

What do they mean when they say Peiterson played "Gun Barrel Straight"?

well i didn't hear neither commentator say it, but i believe it means KP played very straight while he was batting...