Beautiful from Prior

It would be hilarious after all the carping about England’s tactics if they did pull off a win here.

Hope Faulkner got some good sledging.

Smith too…

Interesting balance with a declaration or if we get 6 quick wickets. At what run rate do you simply not bother and play for the draw? The Aussies have to take the bigger gamble in the end if they want to declare.

Opps, should have said 5 quick wickets!

And Harris in!

Gutted that cricinfo didn’t publish my comment. I suggested Rogers to bat at 11, and it’s starting to look a good prediction.

Clunk!

Review that!

hope this crap comes back to bite the aussies in the arse !

Make that 4 quick wickets

Warnie.

Shut it you thick bogan

The current Athers debate on sky could be on STW!!! Not sure who the Aussie talking is?

(Athers just mumbled “not the point!” after the other guy. Funny!!)

edit – ok its warnie, thx!

It’s australia’s current best bowler

I think it was a Yukka !

priceless tms at the mo 🙂

’twas Warne, who’s still probably Australia’s best bowler

Shane Warne is an absolute boor and can generally be relied upon to get things exactly opposite to the truth on almost any given subject. Shame as I think he is capable of being insightful.

Smith looks to dump Broad into the stands at long on. “Shot!” exclaims Shane Warne on commentary. A pregnant pause. And then Swann takes the catch.

😆

what were you then ? a new romantic !

A declaration…

This does mean I’m going to get no sleep…

Ooooh. This will be interesting.

aussies declare ! should be interesting

So Strauss has bigger balls than Atherton? Whereas Holding…….!?!?

(re the run chase!)

And england open with two opening batsmen, which is nice, and in contrast to Australian practices

can’t see England going for this.

So, to listen to TMS about six seconds ahead, or to put up with Warnie’s incessant whinging?

wheres gordon greenidge when you need him ?

MUTE button Zokes

They are going for it anyway[ well as best as these big hitters can]. I expect top 5 to go for it then shore it up.
Not sure they can up their game or score quickly tbh

Will be a god psychological blow if either team wins

looks like i’m wrong ! 😳 and not for the first time 🙂

the crowd have just made their feelings known….

STAND UP, IF YER THREE NIL UP!

Root out

Unleash the Trott when you need quick runs

Why did England not do what the Ausies do and send out Broad see if they can make him cry 😉

Probably because it was pretty apparent that 1-day boshers are woefully outclassed by test bowlers with the new ball

I think once the run rate gets over 6 that’ll be it, england will pucker up tighter than a snaredrum

Unleash the Trott when you need quick runs

A man with an ODI strike rate of 77.2 – which is pretty decent given his usual role – good call.

I really hope England have a go and make this – they’re not far off the required rate (currently ahead of D/L par score). Can we please have an interview with Faulkner if they do?

D/L par 39/1 off 10 (would be 55/2 off 10, which shows the difference a wicket might make, even if it does bring in one of our big hitters).

In case anybody is interested, here is the D/L table (apologies for STW messing with the formatting, you should get the idea):

Table of over-by-over Par Scores
+——-+———+————————————————–+
| overs | overs | wickets down |
|bowled |remaining| 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 |
+——-+———+————————————————–+
| 0 | 44 | 0 18 38 62 89 118 147 175 198 215 |
| 1 | 43 | 2 19 39 63 89 118 147 175 198 215 |
| 2 | 42 | 5 21 41 64 90 118 147 175 198 215 |
| 3 | 41 | 7 23 42 65 90 118 148 175 198 215 |
| 4 | 40 | 10 25 44 66 91 119 148 175 198 215 |
| 5 | 39 | 12 27 45 67 92 119 148 175 198 215 |
| 6 | 38 | 15 30 47 68 92 119 148 175 198 215 |
| 7 | 37 | 18 32 49 69 93 120 148 175 198 215 |
| 8 | 36 | 20 34 51 71 94 120 148 175 198 215 |
| 9 | 35 | 23 37 53 72 95 120 148 175 198 215 |
| 10 | 34 | 26 39 55 74 96 121 148 175 198 215 |
| 11 | 33 | 30 42 57 75 97 121 148 175 198 215 |
| 12 | 32 | 33 45 59 77 98 122 148 175 198 215 |
| 13 | 31 | 36 48 62 79 99 122 149 175 198 215 |
| 14 | 30 | 40 51 64 80 100 123 149 175 198 215 |
| 15 | 29 | 43 54 67 82 101 124 149 175 198 215 |
| 16 | 28 | 47 57 69 84 103 125 149 175 198 215 |
| 17 | 27 | 51 61 72 87 104 125 150 175 198 215 |
| 18 | 26 | 55 64 75 89 106 126 150 175 198 215 |
| 19 | 25 | 59 68 78 91 108 127 151 175 198 215 |
| 20 | 24 | 64 72 82 94 109 128 151 175 198 215 |
| 21 | 23 | 68 76 85 97 111 130 151 175 198 215 |
| 22 | 22 | 73 80 88 100 114 131 152 175 198 215 |
| 23 | 21 | 77 84 92 103 116 132 153 176 198 215 |
| 24 | 20 | 82 88 96 106 118 134 153 176 198 215 |
| 25 | 19 | 87 93 100 109 121 136 154 176 198 215 |
| 26 | 18 | 93 98 104 113 124 138 155 176 198 215 |
| 27 | 17 | 98 103 109 117 127 140 156 177 198 215 |
| 28 | 16 | 104 108 114 121 130 142 158 177 198 215 |
| 29 | 15 | 110 114 118 125 133 144 159 178 198 215 |
| 30 | 14 | 116 119 124 129 137 147 161 178 198 215 |
| 31 | 13 | 122 125 129 134 141 150 163 179 198 215 |
| 32 | 12 | 128 131 134 139 145 153 165 180 198 215 |
| 33 | 11 | 135 137 140 144 150 157 167 181 199 215 |
| 34 | 10 | 142 144 146 150 154 161 170 182 199 215 |
| 35 | 9 | 149 151 153 156 159 165 173 184 199 215 |
| 36 | 8 | 157 158 160 162 165 169 176 186 200 215 |
| 37 | 7 | 164 165 167 168 171 175 180 188 200 215 |
| 38 | 6 | 172 173 174 175 177 180 184 191 201 215 |
| 39 | 5 | 180 181 182 183 184 186 189 194 203 215 |
| 40 | 4 | 189 189 190 190 191 193 195 198 205 215 |
| 41 | 3 | 198 198 198 199 199 200 201 203 208 216 |
| 42 | 2 | 207 207 207 207 207 208 208 210 212 217 |
| 43 | 1 | 216 216 216 216 216 217 217 217 218 220 |
| 44 | 0 | 226 226 226 226 226 226 226 226 226 226 |
+——-+———+————————————————–+
TableID: 44-226/44 (Sun Aug 25 17:14:26 BST 2013)
(c) 2013 International Cricket Council

D/L is not applicable to test cricket as tests don’t have restrictive fielding positions.

It’s still a useful guide though

D/L is not applicable to test cricket as tests don’t have restrictive fielding positions.

It’s just as relevant, as it takes no account of fielding positions, simply of resources.

also not reaching the required total in a test is not a loss.