***Official*** NatWest Series/Challenge

[shaka]

Pieterson will probably play better because he knows he can have good support in the form of a batsman in Solanki.

 

[Slow Love™]

Interesting watching KP here. He clearly has a weakness outside off stump, and looks like a joke when he tries to play anything wide there, even when he gets it right he looks very shaky indeed.

He tends to make a strange Monica Seles-like grunt when he awkwardly reaches outside off, too. He's building his innings nicely though, looking for a final flurry like at Bristol.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Five overs left from the "fifth bowler" now. I'd say Ponting will try and run through four of them consecutively now before Gillespie comes back before the death bowlers.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Haha wow. Kasprowicz does a Vaspert Drakes but it doesn't count.

 

[Slow Love™]

Wow, amazing catch from Kasprowicz there, for six runs.

 

[Hoggy31]

Geez! What a fantastic effort from Kasprowicz

 

[Barney Rubble]

Kaspa catches KP on the boundary but steps over the rope - Blowers made it sound like KP was out, I was distraught for a moment there.......

 

[wpdavid]

OK, going back to England's top-of-the-order ODI batting. Over the last year and a bit (i.e. since the start of last year's NWS) and excluding games against Bang & Zim, the average scores when we've lost our first 4 wickets have been 28.8, 41.7, 74.2 and 116.2
If anything, that undestates our problems in building a decent score, since most of the better performances have been when chasing a lowish total.

 

[shaka]

Andy Bichel or Chris Harris would have managed to catch it and stay in the field of play

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Kaspa catches KP on the boundary but steps over the rope

Understatement of the century there. More like "Kasprowicz leaps in the air, catches it with one hand behind his head and almost kills himself landing on the speaker on the other side of the rope"!

 

[Hoggy31]

Andy Bichel or Chris Harris would have managed to catch it and stay in the field of play

Chris Harris would''ve had to stop for a break and a quick nap during the catch

 

[Scaly piscine]

Understatement of the century there. More like "Kasprowicz leaps in the air, catches it with one hand behind his head and almost kills himself landing on the speaker on the other side of the rope"!

Yorkshi*e's Sayers would have still claimed the catch...

As for England they can still get 250+ but it's only a sort of 10% type chance - but that's what they have to go for with Gough, Giles and probably Collingwood bowling 30 probably unthreatening overs. If Australia can play them out without trying anything then Flintoff and Harmison aren't likely to bowl 10 guys out between them.

 

[Pedro Delgado]

Botham - "..and with that fifty he's (KP) undoubtedly played himself into that first Test at Lords".

Not saying who he'd drop though.

 

[Hoggy31]

Super-Solanki starting to look comfortable now

 

[shaka]

would the catch of been that easy for him?

 

[Pedro Delgado]

Yorkshi*e's Sayers would have still claimed the catch...

As would Lancashire's Fairbrother.
(me? bitter? never).

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

This is the 10th over from the 5th bowler now that Clarke is bowling. Gillespie and McGrath should come on now, with Lee to bowl 3 of the last 5.

England probably need 100 more to be competitive, a bowler short. Has to be KP.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Understatement of the century there. More like "Kasprowicz leaps in the air, catches it with one hand behind his head and almost kills himself landing on the speaker on the other side of the rope"!

Wow. I look forward to seeing that one later tonight.

 

[Hoggy31]

Whats his bat made off??? Mistimed pull goes for 6!

 

[Barney Rubble]

KP steps down the wicket and pulls a bouncer off the front foot for six over long-on!!!!