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

[Tom Halsey]

Take Giles off, fer feck sake.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Another absolute garbage delivery from Giles - even the sweepers can't cut those off.

 

[Shane Warne]

Hahaha... Yeah, I know the feeling. If Bucknor bolloxes one up in our favor at the end of the day and we save it, I'll take that. He really should be off the panel, though.

Agreed.

I knew the umpires would bottle it.

 

[chaminda_00]

Not only did that Gilly knock save that test, it nearly won it. Australia were chasing nigh on 500 in that game and needed 400+ to win on the final day (sound familiar?) and Gilchrist and Steve Waugh were absolutely murdering the bowling in the final session until Waugh was run out by a deflection onto the bowler's stumps, and Warne fell quickly. Gillespie and Gilchrist blocked out the draw then, with Australia about 50 short.

Steve Waugh was of course the captain then... wouldn't mind a bit of that!

You need a platform for that type of attack and Australia can't get one partnership happening in this innings

 

[Shane Warne]

It's a comment on the umpire, more than on the English. It was extremely, extremely poor. I do think this happens though, when a home team is dominating - Australia very much included.

I wasn't watching it, but as soon as I saw LBW on the scorecard I thought and knew it would have probably been dodgy.

 

[Nate]

You need a platform for that type of attack and Australia can't get one partnership happening in this innings

Now is the time Chaminda... now is the time.

 

[chaminda_00]

Agreed.

I knew the umpires would bottle it.

and i thought australian don't blame umpires for being in losing positions

 

[Mister Wright]

What would we do for Steve Waugh right now?

Uh Hum.

 

[Mister Wright]

and i thought australian don't blame umpires for being in losing positions

The poster you are referring to is a different breed.

 

[Shane Warne]

and i thought australian don't blame umpires for being in losing positions

I'm from the breed who is determined to expose the facts that England are being favored by the umpires.

 

[chaminda_00]

The poster you are referring to is a different breed.

was he born in tasmania

 

[Slow Love™]

It'd be really strange if Gillespie managed to occupy the crease for an hour or more and got us to a draw with the rest of the tail, and this was his final test after being dropped for the next one.

 

[Shane Warne]

KATICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Should be dropped, absolute idiot.

Even when you look at him you can see he's soft. He looks sickly and weak and this proved he doesn't have any balls.

 

[Loony BoB]

I'm from the breed who is determined to expose the facts that England are being favored by the umpires.

So basically you're just doing what pretty much any other person does in your position - whining. Don't worry, most of us do the same at some point. *pats* A couple of years in therapy and you'll get over it.

 

[Mister Wright]

It'd be really strange if Gillespie managed to occupy the crease for an hour or more and got us to a draw with the rest of the tail, and this was his final test after being dropped for the next one.

Yes it would, but you also have to look at the other side of the coin, and say if he hadn't bowled as badly as he did we may not have been in this situation. You cannot select a player for his batting. I just hope he gets a bat and gets the 13 or however many he needs for 1000 test runs.

 

[social]

Should be dropped, absolute idiot.

Even when you look at him you can see he's soft. He looks sickly and weak and this proved he doesn't have any balls.

Forgetting the test and series he saved in Sydney v India arent we.

 

[Shane Warne]

Forgetting the test and series he saved in Sydney v India arent we.

India are equally as fragile and mentally weak so it's easy to do it against them.

 

[Adamc]

It was WG Grace. Nobody appealed on the last ball of the day. That evening he had a drink with the batsman who said he had been a bit lucky nobody appealed.

Grace appealed the next morning and the umpire gave him out.

They've changed the laws since then.

Hehe. I think I thought of Tony Greig because he tried to run-out a batsman after the last ball of the day, as they were walking off the field. He was given out, I think, but was reinstated the next day after the public outcry. Actually, that might have been someone else as well.

 

[chaminda_00]

Forgetting the test and series he saved in Sydney v India arent we.

nah all that matters is how someone players in his last three test, as that is all that it takes to make a test career.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Giles absolutely wastes the footmarks against Gilchrist again, rubbish down leg-side, some nothing balls and a short one to pat away for a single. If England don't win this they can look at him for doing sweet FA thus far.