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Bit optimistic, that...
Ben Dirs on the BBC:
England coming apart like a badly-packed kebab...
😀
maybe not too optimistic after all... 😀
Game over 🙁
Well lets see if Broad is worth his place as a batsman!
Game over 🙁
For Grumm...
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Plenty of time left in this one, though it is an ABYSMAL start from Engerland... good tight bowling from the Aussies though and just enough movement in the air to make it difficult
Nice bit of swearing there from Haddin!
Well lets see if Broad is worth his place as a batsman!
FAIL
Ohhhhhh dear... shocking morning for the Poms... absolutely shocking... this is more like it 😈
Meh that catch didn't carry!
72-6 😆 not a good start
Oh go home... his fingers were definitely beneath it (and anyway, even id it didn't, which it did, it'd make up for the LBW decision first ball 🙄 )
Oh well - feeling slightly less gutted as I had some tickets for the fifth day which I couldn't make it to - looks like I'll get a refund anyway. 😉
even id it didn't, which it did, it'd make up for the LBW decision first ball
Who's first ball? Broad's first didn't hit him on the pad.
Who's first ball?
Strauss', I guess....
ah, sorry, didn't make that clear 🙂 yes I was referring to Strauss (though thankfully in the end it didn't cost much 😀 )
Forgive me, but given the overcast conditions and headingley's reputation for swing I'd assumed that we'd been put in having lost the toss.
The weather forecast for tomorrow and Sunday is good and will be a good time to bat - so what the **** was Strauss thinking of??
(10/10 hindsight)
Well at least we've passed our lowest total at Headingly, and looks like we should get 100.
What do you reckon on our chances at the Oval - looks like we'll be needing a win (though realistically we always needed to win one of these matches)?
England coming apart like a badly-packed kebab...
Why does this remind me of Selina Scott?
Actually, why are we being so pessimistic? According to the Hawkeye stats we've still got 10% chance of winning this (and almost as much chance of salvaging a draw)!
I'm as positive about getting 100 🙂
That should read NOT ofc.
Two landmarks in one - 100 runs, 53 innings 🙂 Got to take the positives from this!
You can edit your posts, brassneck, or given we've now gone past 100 you could just leave the first and edit the 2nd 😉
****SOCKS.
jeez.
And that, as they say, is that... top half-days work from the Aussie bowlers 😀 Now to see if our batsman can carry it on and twist the knife a bit 😈
All out for 102!!!!! Grrr what a shower of...
According to the Hawkeye stats
what are these Hawkeye stats you speak of?
where the aussies playing possum all this time
how come theyve gone from sh!t to brilliant in a week and how come weve done the reverse?!
No worries - Harmy will get 8 for 20.
I do think Harmison will be a bit of a handful, the pitch looks to have a bit of bounce in it, should suit him
edit: though I don't know about 8-20 🙄
how come theyve gone from sh!t to brilliant in a week and how come weve done the reverse?!
Because, sadly, natural order has been restored to the Universe.
(Don't expect to see Button on the F1 podium for the rest of the season either)
yeah come on - our turn now....
well, Harmison only took 2 balls to bowl a ridiculously wide wide 🙄 😀
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?
😆