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

aussie

aussie

Hall of Fame Member
interesting battle between mentor & student, but i reckon Hollywood has what it takes to outfox KP.
 
Scaly piscine

Scaly piscine

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
And now Vaughan can't play a gun barrel straight ball after he's been out there for 20-30 minutes. I feel sorry for the England bowlers who have to produce miracles to compensate for the utter sh*te the majority of the top 7 produce, batting or fielding.
 
aussie

aussie

Hall of Fame Member
where was Vaughan's footwork, he played completely down the wrong line, well all hopes for England are surely gone now.
 
FaaipDeOiad

FaaipDeOiad

Hall of Fame Member
This has been a masterclass from Warne and Lee... a joy to watch. How good was Warne's over to set up Bell? And how many times today has Lee beaten a batsman for pace and hit them, or in Vaughan's case bowled them? Completely innocuous ball, Vaughan just wafted pointlessly at it and missed it by a mile. I hope Richard saw that one...
 
King_Ponting

King_Ponting

International Regular
FaaipDeOiad said:
This has been a masterclass from Warne and Lee... a joy to watch. How good was Warne's over to set up Bell? And how many times today has Lee beaten a batsman for pace and hit them, or in Vaughan's case bowled them? Completely innocuous ball, Vaughan just wafted pointlessly at it and missed it by a mile. I hope Richard saw that one...
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Richard will say lee was lucky. The batsman lost the ball in the crowd :p
 
FaaipDeOiad

FaaipDeOiad

Hall of Fame Member
Scaly piscine said:
Figured this would happen, I miss the decent England batting because of the horse racing and I turn back to see 3 batsmen who like to leave straight balls hit their pads.
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My god. You don't think, perhaps, he was beaten by variation? Warne bowled five leg-breaks that over, including two wide, big spinning ones which Bell would have been worried about the turn on, then the last ball was a well disguised slider, pitched in the same place as the other leg-breaks, and went straight on. Bell, probably having minimal experience playing quality leg-spin, let it go not wanting to play at a ball that might turn sharply and catch the edge. That's why Warne's a good bowler. Watch the next time they face each other for Warne to do the same thing, Bell to plonk his bat down at it expecting the slider, and it will turn and Hayden will catch the edge at slip.

Poor batting had nothing to do with it.
 
FaaipDeOiad

FaaipDeOiad

Hall of Fame Member
An hour to go, five in hand. If this partnership doesn't last it could be over by stumps. We get to see Warne vs Pietersen and Lee vs Giles again too, provided Jones gets out.
 
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