* * * The Ashes - Official Thread * * *

[highway61]

I agree mate. To be honest KP needs to chill out and look to seeing the day out with Cook, if they can do that they will be ahead by about 50 with 8 wkts in hand.

 

[highway61]

Well all seems to be going well

 

[pottert]

Keep going
I'm only 37 but this is the poorest Aussie team I have ever seen.

 

[highway61]

Keep going
I'm only 37 but this is the poorest Aussie team I have ever seen.

am 57 and agree. its the lack of an attack really thats screwing them up

 

[pottert]

If this was a boxing match the ref would have stopped it by now

 

[highway61]

If this was a boxing match the ref would have stopped it by now

Very hard for Ponting really. If you dont have the players then he is buggered really. But what goes around comes around, as England well know. We certainly have had our periods when we have been short in areas. There turn now, so sod them lol

 

[Paxton Dazo]

Got £1 at 33/1 Cook breaks the record for runs by an English batsmen in an Ashes Series (905)!

Problem is, I doubt we'll bat again in this test..

 

[highway61]

may not matter if he gets a 200 each test!

 

[Paxton Dazo]

As it stands he's on about 425 - 475 to go

 

[pottert]

What the odds have been before the first test

 

[highway61]

I wonder if anyone is going to back Aussies to win this test!!!! currently 25/1

 

[Stumpy Tim]

This mornings paper

 

[Mendoza]

In our last 2 innings, we've racked up over 800 runs, for the loss of 3 wickets

 

[highway61]

This mornings paper

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very good...Well goodnight all, its time for shut eye. see you all tonight for day 3 of Nightmare in Adelaide

 

[pottert]

It's catch 22
We don't need to win but we should make the most of it when we are on top
Should we make sure we don't lose or try to win

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Still early days but the interesting thing is, Australia simply don't look like they have the bowlers to do anything about this. It's not a form issue- maybe apart from Johnson- merely that the players they do have aren't good enough.

If this carries on, will Ponting last the series?

BRILLIANT, isn't it?

 

[Beach Hut]

Need to get to 550 plus and then put them in

 

[Marc]

what a WONDEFUL score to wake up too

 

[Wozza]

This mornings paper

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Typical Australian attitude. Get outplayed, turn it into a Pom-bashing insult.

 

[pottert]

550 was not enough 4years ago