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

[PY]

You not listening to it mate?

 

[Scaly piscine]

Don't worry, you can enjoy gems such as these:



Thhat's three mistakes in an over :d

Yea, I liked the one I mentioned earlier for 22.5:

22.5 Flintoff to Martyn, FOUR, back of a length and just slipping down
leg, Martyn shimmies across and clips that one past the diving
keeper to the fine-leg fence

What actually happened was Martyn gloved it onto his body and it just landed wide of Geraint and went for four.

 

[Shane Warne]

Have to agree that this is the best line-up I've seen on any cricket coverage since I've been watching cricket.

Does it get any better than Atherton, Boycott, Greig, Slater and the King (Richie).

(Yes I have missed someone out there )

Yeah, the best of the lot.

Lord Mark Nicholas.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

This is fascinating stuff right now. Giles was really troubling Langer, so happy to see him off. Flintoff and Gilchrist is great to watch, and Flintoff seems to trouble him, but Gilchrist only needs a session to turn the match, or an hour to have an influence on it. If these two are still together at stumps, I'd still put Australia in front, batting last or not. Another wicket in the next hour though, and it's a different proposition entirely.

Why anyone would prefer one day (or, heaven forbid, 20/20) cricket to this is beyond me.

edit: Actually, Flintoff is off, not Giles. He sure seems to have some stamina issues.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Have to agree that this is the best line-up I've seen on any cricket coverage since I've been watching cricket.

Does it get any better than Atherton, Boycott, Greig, Slater and the King (Richie).

(Yes I have missed someone out there )

Yep. Boycott and Richie are the best there are, Slater is the most impressive of the new Australian commentators by a long way, Atherton and Nicholas are pretty good and Greig is an annoying old coot but the rest make up for him.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Vital wicket that. Just when Australia were starting to get on top, just like in the afternoon session with Clarke. England should bowl Australia out for not much more than 300 now, assuming Gilchrist doesn't have an on day.

 

[Pedro Delgado]

Big, big wicket that.

 

[_Ed_]

What a ball there from Jones. Wow.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Heh @ just clipping them?!? (Channel 4 commentators) It's hitting 3 quarters of the stump.

 

[Adamc]

Good ball there, took Langer completely by surprise. Gilchrist/Gillespie (if it happens) should be the key partnership now.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Simon...I love you...

 

[Linda]

Ohhhhhhhhh.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Grrr Giles throws in the 4 ball as the pressure builds on Warne.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Not sure surviving 5 balls without scoring is pressure for a tail ender really. Gilchrist is obviously the key for Australia now, the other batsmen just need to survive. Of course, Warne will have delusions of granduer and want a quickfire 50, but really he just needs to not get out.

 

[steds]

Simon...I love you...

I'm sure he feels the same way about you, but a Norwegian and a Brisbane Broncos fan could never hold any sort of meaningful relationship together over a long period of time. It's a forlorn hope, Håkon.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Lovely stuff from Jones, really is. Best reverse swing spell I've seen since McGrath got 6 in New Zealand a few months back.

Warne hits a textbook cover drive too. Funny how he can sometimes look so incredibly classy, and sometimes looks like a slogging number 11.

 

[Shane Warne]

Yet again, and as I predicted yesterday, after Warne was getting plumb LBW's turned down, when it came to a debatable LBW decision when England were bowling, they would get it in their favor.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Not sure surviving 5 balls without scoring is pressure for a tail ender really. Gilchrist is obviously the key for Australia now, the other batsmen just need to survive. Of course, Warne will have delusions of granduer and want a quickfire 50, but really he just needs to not get out.

It's pressure for Warne, if it was Gillepsie it wouldn't be pressure.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

I'm sure he feels the same way about you, but a Norwegian and a Brisbane Broncos fan could never hold any sort of meaningful relationship together over a long period of time. It's a forlorn hope, Håkon.

Jones, not Fitzsimmons.

 

[steds]

Jones, not Fitzsimmons.

In that case, you never know. Ashley Giles is married to a norwegian...