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

[FaaipDeOiad]

Ponting's playing rather beautifully.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Don't we all

Err nope, get the feeling if England get a bit of run Australia could lose 9 for 100 quite easily.

 

[Mister Wright]

Don't we all

Yeah, a Hayden 100. As ugly as it might be.

 

[Mister Wright]

Ponting's playing rather beautifully.

Yeah, he's looking quitegood now.

Hayden's hogging of the strike, or more likely lack of being able to get off strke, has helped Ponting settle.

 

[Nate]

Bowled around his legs. Damn.

 

[andyc]

Yeah, a Hayden 100. As ugly as it might be.

Not any more

 

[DJellett]

Hayden b. Flintoff, Australia 2/96

 

[Pedro Delgado]

I think everyone was expecting that.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Bah. Matt, what's wrong with you mate?

Completely and utterly thrashed by Flintoff, from the start of that spell to the end. It would have been a travesty if he survived it really.

 

[Nate]

We can`t lose another wicket before lunch. We just can`t.

 

[Burpey]

What kind of a dismissal is that ? A Test opener should not be bowled behind his legs like that

 

[Nate]

Still Jones to come with his reverse...

...can anyone see us surviving this? I can`t.

 

[Mister Wright]

Not any more

At least I can concerntrate on uni work now.

 

[Slow Love™]

Flintoff's on fire. What an amazing spell.

Anybody ever seen that done to Hayden before? Can't remember seeing it.

 

[Jono]

Oh my God that is brilliant! Said it many times in this thread along with the NWS one... Freddy = King!

That was as good a planning of a wicket as you will ever see. So many balls outside off stump had Hayden in two minds, then he bowls him around his legs. FANTASTIC!

 

[Scaly piscine]

What kind of a dismissal is that ? A Test opener should not be bowled behind his legs like that

I knew someone would say that, I was expecting it to be social tho.

 

[Nate]

Flintoff's on fire. What an amazing spell.

Anybody ever seen that done to Hayden before? Can't remember seeing it.

Well now that Boof is out of the team, someone has to do it.

 

[andyc]

God how close was that to being run out!?

 

[Slow Love™]

Well now that Boof is out of the team, someone has to do it.

Ha - I didn't just mean the bowling behind his legs though (although that was definitely part of it). Just the setup and the 1-2-3 punch. It felt like Flintoff saying "you're not good enough to be in this caper anymore... Now get the hell out of my office."

 

[Scaly piscine]

God how close was that to being run out!?

Yea, once he had hold of it that was a pretty good chance - anything near the stumps (assuming Geraint takes it...) would have got him as well I think.