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Anyone else watching?
Haven't felt this confident about beating the Ausies in a while
Strauss gone for a duck - sorry - my fault I jinxed it
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Yep, watching, confident.... Then Strauss get's out to a wide ball on a flat pitch, gutted!
Cricket (yawns and snores...)?
why're you posting on a cricket thread then? 🙄
Ah BUT, Test Cricket means even blokes can multi-task! I can sit and type sh*t on here and still watch the cricket!
Where apart from Sky?
Fantastic nudge past fourth slip for four (Glass Half Full!)
A perfectly fine edge that <gulp>
Why oh why!
We're in the lead!!!
i'm trying to watch it with a dog pestering to go for a walk and the damb fire won't work!!!!!!!!!!
i hate this review system
Not out!
Set fire to dog, throw dog on fire, open another can of beer.....problems solved.
That was a close one! Only just sliding down eh!
Wish it was warm & sunny here
Jaffa !
Losing Strauss while not 'ideal' is not a disaster. It will remind all that Aus haven't just turned up to get beaten, and make the rest of the boys dig in for the next hour or two.
You can't win the game on day 1, but you can lose it.
Evening. Just got tms for company. That one sounded close! Need Cook and Trott to make hay here.... Two average opening bowlers...
Very true, it's not McGrath firing them in..They need to stick around till tea stick a hundred partnership together
Aye the Aussies are going to want to rip it up on the 1st day here - best for us to keep an easy pace, build a partnership or two and keep the fireworks for later.
**** that was too close !
Ok - my premature confidence has gone now.
( bit like me on a bike really)
Just found 5Live Sports Extra on my Squeezebox and have the lovely dulcet tones of Geoffrey Boycott ("crikkit") wafting round my kitchen as I cook dinner. Get in!!
Dinner at 00:50?
Bugger
Yeah baby - Trott gone...
Looks like kp is going after the spinner.
Woke up early- thought I'd listen to it on my ipod touch in bed - but it doesn't seem to be possible 🙁 - listening on my computer instead.
Siddle 🙁
oops
Not too many runs for England. Can Australia be disposed of for fewer runs? I doubt it a bit.
Poor day for england overall
i reckon around 100 runs short of a defendable total. Maybe the bowlers will rip through the aussies tomorrow but thats a big maybe.
Only consolation was the form of Cook, Bell and Pietersen who all looked in good nick.
This test is likely to produce a result now, given that one innings is already complete and its going to take a major turnaround for it to go in England's favour.
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Anyone else watching?
Haven't felt this confident about beating the Ausies in a while
Falls about laughing... 😆
Well, it seems the aussies couldn't give a toss anyway. 2 overs to go and the bloody news comes on. If you ever, ever complain about British TV, just come to Oz for a week, it'll change your mind entirely!
I'm fairly sure even Sky back at home couldn't be this crap...
Falls about laughing...
Well, lets wait and see what the arrogant, pompous team scores. Then perhaps we may see who's laughing.
I think I need a couple of pictures of black pots and kettles to hand out to aussie commentators over here.
Stayed up till 2am to watch most of the first session, was slightly overjoyed to see Strauss out 3rd ball! 🙂 The look of anguish, disconsolation and disbelief on the face of the England Captain warmed the cockles of my heart at midnight! You could almost see the cracks appearing in the carefully prepared mental walls, lovely way to start the toughest tour he'll ever face 8)
Went to bed at 1:30ish with the score at 2-43 I think, wasn't much happening, though I did think that the batsmen didn't look all that comfortable with the bounce, but our bowlers weren't doing much with the ball or off the deck either.
Wake up this morning to find that one of our 'two average opening bowlers' had taken a sensational hat-trick, on his birthday no less! Really happy for Siddle, he's a proper Aussie cricketer, all heart and passion and a real character for the side. He reckon he'll be our bowling talisman this series, much like Flintoff was for England. To think that the Aussie press and pundits were questioning his inclusion in this team! Idiots... Warne likes him for much the same reasons I do, he's got the 'mongrel' air about him, and that's what an Australian team needs!
All in, a pretty awesome opening day for Australia, and a much needed reality check for the Englander's I think: this is not going to be easy for you, you're in enemy territory now and the natives are hungry! 😈
and the natives are hungry!
Not that hungry - the controllers at Channel 9 clearly had enough and thought that we all wanted to watch a news article about Will & Kate mugs. 👿
Funny that until today, I couldn't find many locals interested in talking about cricket actually...
You could almost see the cracks appearing in the carefully prepared mental walls, lovely way to start the toughest tour he'll ever face
are [b]you[/b] on crack?
not this early in the morning guv 🙄
Well well well. Game on!
Can't sleep anyway - just checked the score though and things could get interesting. Game on indeed.
Fairly balanced day overall - Anderson bowled pretty well I thought
thought we were a mixture of poor and unlucky early on - didn't quite get our length right and when we did we didn't get the edges. Afternoon session was much better from the highlights, and then Hussey (damn him) has done his usual dig in. He was shit in The Mission though.
If we can get them early tomorrow, then I think it's game on; we didn't bat brilliantly and Siddle had one of those days, I could see us posting a bigger total in the second dig and then toss the ball to Swann.
Hurrah for Hussey, bloody well deserved, real gutsy innings! Very tricky first hour today, all the luck went our way thankfully, that's cricket for you... looking good now, ball's not moving around and both Batsmen seem comfortable, time to build a handy 1st innings lead! Be nice to see Haddin get his ton next 8)
Meh, fair play to the aussies esp hussey, a fine innings how he survived andersons barrage I don't know. If only we had a review left. That's enough for me. Off to bed.
we should have had a review left after watson's nick yesterday - picked up by snickometer but that's not being used in this series. Cost us watson's wicket (which wasn't worth that much) but we'd have still had that review for the lbw too. Either adopt the technology or don't.
On the plus side - you have to look for plusses - once one end was opened we cleared them up for relatively few, which shows good mental strength to come back. And Haddin and Hussey aside, they barely mustered 120 between them.
Oh dear. Gonna a be a fairly mighty struggle to save this one.
Ha!
The empire strikes back!
The Aussie thought they had this one. Gonna be a great series
A draw would be an amazing result for England, level heads required tomorrow.
Do yo think Ponting has his " sucking a lemon" face on? Tee hee
Awesome stuff - looks like we could have a good contest on our hands for this series.
Soooooo
Can Australia survive?
Even if it's a draw England have placed extremely well over the past 2 days
It seems most of my office mates have suddenly lost their appetite for cricket. I wonder why...
Amazing batting performance! Did Cook get man of the match ?
Australia are ony good at swimming.