well... you'd have to say it's been England's day, though I reckon it's pretty evenly poised at going into tomorrow... looks like there'll be some heavy rain again overnight and maybe in the morning, so I guess there'll be a delay to start the day 🙁
Will Engerland reach 200 runs tomorrow? Not so sure, not so sure...
Will Engerland reach 200 runs tomorrow? Not so sure, not so sure...
Should make 200... but I reckon we'll end up with a 1st innings lead at this rate 😀 But is a result possible with the time remaining... I wonder...
54 overs left today, bat out 44 of then then bowl out a couple of Aussies in the last ten overs, finish them off by tea tomorrow - then knock off the required runs
I have been known to put the kiss of death on things though
would be nice to see a sporting declaration this evening, but I somehow doubt it'll be forthcoming!
Would declaring with a 200 lead and 15 overs to go be a sporting declaration?
Don't worry - with 50 overs still to go, I think there's a good chance you'll get to bat today 😉
TBH, we'd be stupid not to declare if we're still in with 10 overs left.
Bollocks, looks like you'll be in quite soon
As an England supporter I should know better than to gloat 🙄
England all out 113 ahead - potentially 2hrs play left to bowl at the Aussies
hmmm... that's a tad more of a lead than I would've liked to see... bloody inability to bowl out tailenders yet again costs us (and indeed England in our innings...) Setting up to be an interesting finish to this Test, if the weather stays away tomorrow that is!
Ponting 😆
Yaargh... bit of a pain that, lovely ball from Swann though...
VERY nearly more of a pain for you - Hussey still sounds like a walking wicket
Is anyone else finding the shot of the perfect rectangle of Aussies sat, arms crossed, in the middle of the Barmy Army cheering quite amusing?
Could have done with another wicket to really put the pressure on but still not a bad position for England.
Let's hope the ball starts doing it's 30 over trick tomorrow morning. Forecast is cloud 🙂
Well it didn't, and from my total amateur perspective, that looks all over at tea.
Well, at least a draw is *kind* of like a wee bit of a win...
Condom Factory burns down in Australia ......
Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia, is awoken at 4am by the
telephone.
'Kevin, its the health Minister here. Sorry to bother you at this hour
but there is an emergency! I've just received word that the Durex
factory in Sydney has burned to the ground. It is estimated that the
entire Australian supply of condoms will be gone by the end of the
week!'
PM: 'SH*T!!! - the economy will never be able to cope with all those
unwanted babies - we'll be ruined!!'
Health Minister: 'We're going to have to ship some in from....Britain?'
PM: 'No chance!! The Poms will have a field day on this one!!'
Health Minister: 'What about South Africa?'
PM: 'I'll call SA - tell them we need ten million condoms; ten inches
long and eight inches thick!! That way they'll continue to respect the
wallabies!'
Three days later a delighted Kevin rushes out to open the boxes.
He finds ten million condoms, 10 inches long, 8 inches thick, all
coloured green and gold with small writing on each one...
MADE IN SOUTH AFRICA
- SIZE: SMALL
It appears to be still going, and Manou seems not to understand that his role is simply to fill in at the other end whilst Clarke gets his ton (he's rather hogging the strike!)
And that's that. Boredom got the better of them...
Nice knock by Clarke. Really sorted himself out since being the 'how on earth did you get in the national team' player* last time round
*see Ravi Bopara, Mitchell Johnson.