Must admit Vaughan & Strauss looking very confident this morning. Playing with belief that they can win.
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England are the most BORING cricket team on the planet
- Thread starter Chesney Christ
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BensGrandad
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People knock Vaughan but he is well capable of taking on the task and winning the game himself provided he has batsmen that can stay with him.
dougdeep
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145 to win. Half way there and still only 1 wicket down. Looks cut and dried.
Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
...don't say things like that Doug...we are talking English cricket here...expert at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!
Zesh Rehman
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England are amazing
crodonilson
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Fantastic stuff from England this morning, from down and out this time yesterday they have fought back maginificently and now look a shoe in for victory.
Well done boys!
Well done boys!
Chesney Christ
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Boring Andrew Strauss reaches his 3rd fifty in row... 118-1.
Isn't Test Match cricket, especially England's way of playing it, just SO DULL?
Sarky twat. When I originally posted the thread, Michael Vaughan had just spent 133 balls getting a meagre 30, Pietersen had tossed around for 80 balls getting the scratchiest 26 I have ever witnessed and Bell and Collingwood had faced several balls for f*** all. All this in a test match AT HOME to a team ranked SEVENTH in the ICC Test Championship. The run rate was UNDER 1.50 and the game was tedious as shit. This was on a pitch where batting aggressively was an absolute must, given the unpredictable nature of the pitch. Look at how New Zealand batted in the first innings, idiot.
Since then, England (well, Panesar) have bowled very well and they have come out and batted with a little more positivity, thank f***. None of this changes my view that English cricket has been coma-inducingly boring for the last couple of years. The batsmen have played with fear and have bored me to tears. We won the Ashes in 2005 by batting aggressively. Why we have reversed that policy I will never know.
The only reason we are in a position to win this match is because Monty bowled beautifully, not because of anything the batsmen did. He dragged us out of this mess and if New Zealand had got anywhere near their first innings total we would be dead and buried. I was criticising the batsmen, not the bowlers.
dougdeep
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223/2, only 71 needed.
And Strauss completes a hopefully match-winning 100
178 balls 11 fours, well batted indeed.
but didn`t England and Monty attack with their bowling............... its a team game Chesney.
Chesney Christ
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They did indeed, although Anderson and Broad (as much as I rate him) didn't really contribute in the second innings.
OzMike
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Listening live on 5 live extra on internet, armed with 6 pack and nibbles; we should win this
SeagullTim
Boomer Sooner
OzMike
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Pietersen out! spoke too soon may put a couple of tinnies back in fridge
OzMike
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OzMike
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Bollocks, Justin TV just tuned into 2nd div play off final, shit timing
And ENGLAND win the Test Match, with an historic run chase in the 4th innings!
crodonilson
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England win by 6 wickets.
Tremendous stuff, a comprehensive victory after many had written them off yesterday lunchtime.
Well done boys
Tremendous stuff, a comprehensive victory after many had written them off yesterday lunchtime.
Well done boys