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

[howardj]

hating this game......Its 11.50pm in NZ and I have a presentation to do at 8am.....Gotta watch this 2nd session now - Its too exciting

Presentation won't be too flash

lol

make sure you include plenty of diversions - eg sausage rolls; flashing lights etc

 

[Zinzan]

God knows what will happen, but Jones has managed to frustrate us a fair bit this series - and although he hasn't played any tests up to this point, Collingwood's been hard for us to remove too, in the ODIs.

I still wouldn't say Australia are overwhelming faves right at this point.

yeah....I reckon its 50-50 at the moment. If Australia can get 3 wickets in the first hour .....they will have their noses in front.

I must say...Its probably easier to watch from a neutral point of view.....must be tough goin for you Aussie and English fans

 

[nick-o]

Just one word to sum up England this morning...






Thorpe

 

[Slats4ever]

Yawn, welcome to ignore imbecile - only in spirit tho sadly.

Gotta love these morons who think every one of 620 wickets was a brilliant bit of bowling.


Edit: Warne's 620 wickets

man it's all part of the parcel. no **** they're not all good balls but they all come from the spinning hands that is shane warne.

 

[marc71178]

Praise Flintoff, Vaughan, etc as much as you like but to give Fletcher any more than a tap on the head is to grossly exaggerate the situation.

No, it would massively underestimate his effect.

 

[marc71178]

hey kiwi frig the negative talks

Why should he apologise for speaking the truth?

 

[Zinzan]

Yawn, welcome to ignore imbecile - only in spirit tho sadly.

Gotta love these morons who think every one of 620 wickets was a brilliant bit of bowling.


Edit: Warne's 620 wickets

What an extremely sad and spiteful sole....I'm sad for ya

 

[marc71178]

Bell should be Dropped for India series

No doubt replace him with Kadeer?

He'll likely never have to face such a great attack in his life.

 

[social]

No, it would massively underestimate his effect.

So, he can bat, bowl, or field for them.

Don't kid yourself!

 

[marc71178]

That could be costly, Hayden dropped Pieterson

I wonder does it count as 2 drops from one ball?

And how would that work on the first chance theory?

 

[marc71178]

Bloody KUERTZEN!!

Shoulda been LBW

Except it hit him outside when playing at it?

My initial thought was it was missing leg and not out - turns out it was not out for another reason.

 

[marc71178]

A ball turning that much will never be given (assuming they play a shot at it) because it is either going to hit outside the line, or miss leg.

It turned so much that Hawkeye deemed it impossible!

 

[social]

Flintoff middled the ball to a fielder, get a grip on reality.

Set up, set up, run, out.

Either he's dumb, you are, or Warne's a genius that has taken 600 wickets.

You choose

 

[marc71178]

Hawkeye said out.

No, it didn't.

It said hitting outside off.

 

[marc71178]

superb 1st hour for Australia, i still cant believe why KP wasn't given out but overall i'm happy.

Because it hit his shoulder?

 

[marc71178]

How we've gone in the past has nothing to do with this test match, the fact is that Australia have been very hard done by in terms of the umpiring

Not in this match they haven't one bit.

 

[marc71178]

Oh dear.... Who would have expected Warnie to miss something like that...

A bit like the Flintoff drop yesterday morning.

Flintoff then bowled like demon to rip some men out, hope Warne doesn't take after him in that respect as well

 

[social]

Marc's right.

KP wasnt out.

 

[marc71178]

Dunno, but it helps that Pietersons had 3 chances, 2 dropped chances and an shocking LBW call

That was far from a shocking LBW call - if it had been on an Aussie you'd have been arguing that it wasn't conclusive enough to give.

 

[marc71178]

hey whats wrong you Kiwis today, all these nonsense negative talks.....

So any talk which isn't "Aussie are great, Aussie are being cheated, how have they not won the game already" isn't allowed then