Australia v England - 3rd Test

[Beach Hut]

262/4 Cook out

 

[SeagullTim]

Oh dear Hoggy

 

[dougdeep]

and again.

 

[Beach Hut]

261/5

 

[Titanic]

promptly followed by the night watchman Matthew Hoggard.

Simply too good.

 

[Titanic]

Flintoff plays and misses... twice!

Double-wicket maiden for Glenn 'passed it' McGrath.

 

[tedebear]

Well thats helped lighten my hangover a little...

Heres to Glenn "you may think he's past it, but he'll still take 5 wickets tomorrow " McGrath

 

[BensGrandad]

My team if all are fit would be

Strauss
Prior
Cook
Vaughan
Bell
Peiterson
Collingwood
Flintoff
Hoggard
Broad
Harmiston
Panesar.

 

[Trigger]

My team if all are fit would be

Strauss
Prior
Cook
Vaughan
Bell
Peiterson
Collingwood
Flintoff
Hoggard
Broad
Harmiston
Panesar.

Would be nice if you could get away with 12 players although I suspect Duncan 'McGhee' Fletcher would still struggle.

 

[BensGrandad]

Sorry meant to put Broad/Hamiston.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Harmiston? Who's he?

Might work as a secret unknown player the Aussies haven't seen before .....

Simon Jones, if fit, should be on that list IMHO

 

[Robot Chicken]

21 runs from the first 8 overs of the morning. 286-5 at the moment.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

9/346

 

[Mendoza]

we were going great for the 1st hour
we honestly looked like we may take it quite close, maybe til tea at least
freddie was smashing it all over the place with pietersen holding fire. they both got to 50 in the same over and it looked to be going well.
then warne bowls his worst ball of the day and freddies middle stump gets cleaned out

jones comes in looks dodgy, warne appeals for lbw, while he's appealing to the umpire, ponting runs out jones whos out his crease, and runs off celebrating and warne turns round not knowing whats going on. his appeal was given not out but his team mates were running around celebrating, was a picture

then the collapse, and now one wicket is needed after lunch, which is more likely as pietersen wants to be not out and keeps taking singles off the 1st ball of the over

i guess thats ashes over with half hour after lunch

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

And that's all she wrote.

Warne is the greatest bowler ever,700 wickets.

 

[beardy gull]

And that's all she wrote.

Warne is the greatest bowler ever,700 wickets.

Yes. Yes he is. He is also a f***ing annoying fucker who makes the most ridiculous outrageous appeals and hence gets people out who f***ing aren't.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Yes. Yes he is. He is also a f***ing annoying fucker who makes the most ridiculous outrageous appeals and hence gets people out who f***ing aren't.

When you spin the ball like he does anything spinning back towards the wicket is worth a shout for the obvious reason he's still throwing em down 80kph or quicker and the umpire has a tough job lining up where the ball will end up.

Most of the people he get's out who might not be out is because they don't offer shots. You can't play Warne with your pads like you can with some spinners.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

we were going great for the 1st hour
we honestly looked like we may take it quite close, maybe til tea at least
freddie was smashing it all over the place with pietersen holding fire. they both got to 50 in the same over and it looked to be going well.
then warne bowls his worst ball of the day and freddies middle stump gets cleaned out

jones comes in looks dodgy, warne appeals for lbw, while he's appealing to the umpire, ponting runs out jones whos out his crease, and runs off celebrating and warne turns round not knowing whats going on. his appeal was given not out but his team mates were running around celebrating, was a picture

then the collapse, and now one wicket is needed after lunch, which is more likely as pietersen wants to be not out and keeps taking singles off the 1st ball of the over

i guess thats ashes over with half hour after lunch

oh well

 

[tedebear]

Rather cheery this morning I am....

 

[bhafc99]

Disappointing but inevitable. Apart from a decent innings at Adelaide and a reasonable bowl at Australia in the first innings here, we've never really looked contenders at all.

And after two ducks here, Jones has to go.