*Official* Second Test at Lord's

[TT Boy]

I should love this but for **** sake, at least one of their guys needs to show some fight.

 

[91Jmay]

This Aussie thing of having 2, 3, 4 being lefties is not going to work. Especially as they aren't any good.

 

[wpdavid]

Just looking at the scorecards for that series. In the third test Bradman entirely reversed the batting order, and they put up 564 with Bradman getting 270. When was the last time a captains done that?

That would have been when the pitch was a sticky as hell but was expected to dry out a bit by the time the proper batsmen came in. I vaguely remember reading about something similar in the 1950 series, or maybe it was just some very low scores in one of the matches.

 

[greg]

That's something we can agree on, social

Bad news i'm afraid. This is officially the sporting year when British sportsmen don't choke!

Murray
Rose
Froome
Lions
Ashes
Westwood

 

[Expressway76]

10fer for Swann?

 

[uvelocity]

How the **** is that umpire's call?

half the ball outside the centreline of the leg stump. everything is centreline of the stumps now - pitching, hitting, and prediction (which i mentioned looked like it was done wrong to me at tb)

 

[Maximas]

Well played Usi

 

[Ruckus]

I can;t believe there was a rumor floating around at some point that hughes was actually decent at playing spin

 

[NUFAN]

it is

ESPNcricinfo ‏@ESPNcricinfo 10m
RT @mohanstatsman: High% of LBWs (min 50 inngs) D Ebrahim 31% S WATSON 30% M Sinclair 29% D Ganga 28% RS Mahanama 28%

some great success stories there

Sounds like a group of Cricketers that Pews (remember him) would get excited about.

On that Hughes dismissal, I mean, how on earth did he not defend it. England are bowling good, but all 3 wickets have been due to our batsman's inability to put the bat in line with the ball.

 

[Uppercut]

This is a proper minefield now. The toss might have been too important even if Australia had remembered what sport they were playing.

 

[Spark]

This Aussie thing of having 2, 3, 4 being lefties is not going to work. Especially as they aren't any good.

this aussie thing of not having test standard batsmen isn't going to work more generally

 

[uvelocity]

no ****ing idea how i accidentally closed the thread

one of your finer moments

 

[91Jmay]

Good spell from Bressie lad.

 

[Cabinet96]

Reminds me of Melbourne and Sydney when Swann and Bresnan came in and just choked the scoring rate.

And just like in Melbourne Prior misses a stumping off Clarke.

 

[Spikey]

didn't clarke nick that

edit no i guess not

 

[dermo]

a regular Wade

 

[Ruckus]

That would have been when the pitch was a sticky as hell but was expected to dry out a bit by the time the proper batsmen came in. I vaguely remember reading about something similar in the 1950 series, or maybe it was just some very low scores in one of the matches.

I assume that means the bounce would be extremely unpredictable, and the logic is that anyone has pretty much the same chance against it, so why not put the pawns first etc., but would it really be much different to the context of an extremely green, seaming wicket? The best batsman still have to ride their luck on those.

 

[Spark]

one of your finer moments

as proud as matt prior is right now

reminds me a lot of how clarke got out here in '09 actually. the difference being he didn't get out

 

[ajdude]

my parents have it on GEM with a 2ish second delay from my austar, i just heard "ooh missed stumping missed stumping missed stumping missed stumping"

 

[GIMH]

Poor Pothas