He who gloats first... 😳
definitely some awkward bounce in this pitch...
a ridiculously wide wide
Twas only ridiculously wide cos it seamed a long way. What's more, that didn't hurt my stats prediction, as byes don't count against the bowler 😉
Q. What's Australian for 'Your best Birthday and Christmas present ever all rolled into one'??? A. Harmison
Are England throwing this game?? How can they be playing so bloody badly all of a sudden!? I reckon they've got a bet on against themselves to lose (the odds must've been pretty good at the start of the day? Does anyone know what they were?)
I'm suddenly feeling much, much more optimistic.
"Australia have never won a decisive final Ashes Test without Don Bradman in the team."
Why are they bowling so short when the ball was swinging for Australia? 😡
all they have to do is get 8 aussies out without loosing 40 runs
england arent a badly packed kebab they are a kebab with no pita and no wrapping
just a load of meat pickles lettuice and chilli\ garlic sauce dumped in your hand, dribbling through your fingers
At last! The start of a collapse?
😆
🙁
[crying]
Oh dear... a little collapse perhaps 🙁
Well you can but hope!
that's a bloody tough call! bloody tough... round the wicket, slanting across, [i]maybe[/i] hitting leg, but there's got to be doubt there surely?
Bit like being given out caught when the ball hit your arm then?
that was a mercy killing 😆
Almost exactly the words I was about to use, grumm!
actually, for some reason (maybe schoolboy cricket?) I always thought that your forearm was considered part of your bat?
What about when it hits the glove then? 😡
it's a shame i think cricket is not a proper sport or i could laugh at england being crap
Wunhundred not out!
Its making the Aussies look good now, and we all know they are not the team they used to be..
ah, I get post 103, that's one more than the English team made all day 😉 😆
Go for it then, If Aussies bat till lunch tomorrow then declare, the ultimate shame of losing by an innings is staring Straus right in the face, and, sods law, the rain aint gonna save us as I think Headingly is dry this w/end.
I don't think the Aussies quite made enough there. When Bopara makes his double ton, supported by Bell with 150 or so, I can't see them chasing down the target we'll set them.
He who gloats first...
Like this, you mean?
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Now who has the rub of the green?
Well played England - made it to day 3.
only just... what a debacle for the Poms 🙄 That's gotta be the end for Bopara's career out of this test?
another crap umpiring decision mind.
Yeah, if the umpire hadn't made that mistake I'm sure he'd have gone on to make at least 200 as I predicted.
A very English performance but the Oval is going to be interesting 😀
A very English performance but the Oval is going to be [s]interesting[/s] a draw
Over by lunch
That might have seemed an obvious prediction at the time!
We need less than 100 to make them bat again. Now if it hadn't been for that awful umpiring preventing Bopara getting his double hundred...