At first sight, I thought - hmmmmm code.
2 hrs and then we form an opinion.
Stuff happening here today. Hanscombe gone, Marsh saved by DRS, run rate considerably higher.
Well back into some sort of signal and the score north of 300 isn't a good sign. Opening under the lights?
England will struggle to make the follow on.
Loving learning about Nugget Rees, who's scored a hundred on every Australian test match ground
Yup, might end up facing a declaration at this stage. Bowling been pretty good today, very unlucky with not getting edges, but fact remains, they haven't.
Marsh 100, Oz 400 and a bit then declare?
lol bes quote of the day from my mate in there
Michael Smith - Good drinking weather Jonnie?Jonnie - They can stick their beer up their arse though. XXXX Gold is the only beer on tap at the ground.
I leave at the end of the day hugely bloated and my bank account is more hammered than I am.
I've moved to the cider...
surely sending them back out to bowl some more is considered cruel and unusual punishment...
You've been here long enough to know the Aussies don't give a fig about UN conventions
yeah, but at least we just got one. Cummings not going to get his century just his best ever test score.
Why has cricinfo become such a shitty website (if there was another source for ball by ball I'd never go there again)?
spied from the top, cricket Australia one does it properly for this series with graphs and a work mode that makes it look like excel
Cook to silence his critics with a 50 ball century? 😆
Well I'm sat enjoying a fine beer in a wonderful Tassie pizza joint, the Bnb I'm staying at has a TV and the cricket on, I'm not rushing back for this one
So maths time... everyone needs to get 44 how hard is that?
Basically 11 4's so 3 overs each?
Aussie bowling exactly how England should have, but didn't.
Full and moving it around.
Stoneman and Cook looking good and watchful so far....
That's not out either!
We're missing Otis Gibson. Who replaced him? On the previous occasion Gibson left the setup, England reverted to default short and wide. It's not that difficult surely for a professional bowler to work it out and be able to pitch the ball on a postage stamp is it?
Stoneman gone, but at least it looks nice at dusk...
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you at the ground or in the new RAH there zokes!!
and another lol
George Dobell
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The ground-staff's struggle with the wind is the most competitive thing the crowd in Adelaide have seen today.
The ground for now. The rain has prevented the standard of cricket driving me to exit from my lofty perch up here.
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Looks awesome up there! Might be a good time for a shower or some heavier stuff
This made me chuckle
Jon Matthews: Pollution stops play at Delhi. Good idea: let's get every English person in Australia driving around and around the ground until the umpires stop play.
Big cover just come back on again. Few more showers yet to come on the radar. Can apparently play until 10.30pm here apparently...
Most amusing thing I've seen today is six police evicting the Pope from the fanzone
All continuing as expected. Vince wafts at a wide one.
Wow that's looks amazing zokes,lucky you.Well there goes cook,i am only going by bbc text updates but why the hell is he getting out from nothing balls,need someone to go into boycott mode and block the **** out of it for a day or so,jeez.
They do indeed. Malay gone now, Bairstown in. Surprised the Aussies don't all have helmets on 😆
Well this was always going to happen, sigh.
So from an English perspective this is dire and i can see it being 5-0 again.
The best players in England can't get any of the aussies out when they are supposed to and they can't stay in when they're supposed to. Dismal
I have man flu and went to bed early last night, and that was the BBC headline I was expecting I'm afraid . "England collapse..." sigh.
Well thanks to the bowlers we have made it to the dinner interval, 24 runs needed to avoid the follow on. If they can make that mark (not that the Aussies would have enforced it) then England only need rain and to bat for 2 days or make 400...
Rain not completely unfeasible. England batting on the other hand...
Why, should England not creep within 200, wouldn't Australia want to enforce the follow on?
Option is to go at them hard under lights but they have bowled 70 overs and the quicks are looking a bit slower at this point, bat 1 1/2-2 sessions and rest the bowlers
Cheers, I just went and had a read on Wikipedia of all places, which sets out several reasons.
Bancroft gone. An edge at last FFS
Yep 2 days too late. Bowling looks a lot better this time around.
I was just discussing with the font of all knowledge cricketing wise (the Indian man that runs the local shop where I get the milk from for work)
He reckons it is a mistake not enforcing the follow on.
For (not enforcing): the bowlers are tired
The Aussies can bat us out of the game and ensure a draw first and foremost, plus the chance to set attacking fields - then we're at least 1 down with 3 to play which with perth up next makes us very up against it for levelling the series.
Against - when you have the foot on their throat don't allow them up
Psychology, don't show you're weak (tired)
30 overs with a new ball under the lights / dusk; should be perfect for Jimmy; we could just possibly bowl ourselves into some kind of position.
Weather
I must say i do like the day-night format, with there being other things to consider for a skipper like the impact of the dusk period. The tradionalist says that it's changing the game that's basically been the same since the 1800's, but equally I do see the need to evolve, when you look for example at the crowds at the NZ-WI test (I say crowds - I paused the TV briefly and counted them myself)
Anderson firing a little.
Is there the slightest glimmer of hope?*
*We all know the answer, don't we?
41-3
*Saying nothing*
3 down, what a good start there, going to make some kind of impression on the Aussies there
and Smith reviews....
and he is.....
a lucky boy, nearly didn't review that going to be a hard few overs here. get rid of these 2 and it's going to be fun
