2nd npower test Lords 16th-21st july

[jakarta]

The Aussies must be fed up with fielding so......


Bat again tomorrow, instruct Flintoff and Broad to give it the long handle & have them chasing around for the first hour. Get at least 550 lead, declare & have best part of two days to bowl them out.


Look forward to watching Priors innings on the highlights, both Bopara's and FIGJAM's sounded crap......

 

[happypig]

Agreed, try and put on another 50 or 60 so the aussies have a huge total to aim for but need to score 3+ an over then we;ve got the best part of 2 days to bowl them out

 

[dougdeep]

Bat for one over just to be awkward.

 

[Seagull Fred]

Monty Panaesar may be a hero after the last match, but he is still a poon and should be dropped from the squad, he's not consistent enough and frequently has let england down over the past year tbh x

 

[Robot Chicken]

he is still a poon

I had to look up the word "poon"

 

[Seagull Fred]

I appologise for my bad language robo chicken, what i meant to say was that monty panaesar is a cack handed bufoon who is incapable of fielding, bowling and most other things cricket related x

 

[Robot Chicken]

I appologise for my bad language robo chicken, what i meant to say was that monty panaesar is a cack handed bufoon who is incapable of fielding, bowling and most other things cricket related x

Not bothered about the bad language but it's a word I've never heard before. I was used to the more widely used word beginning with c. Outstanding, you learn something new every day.

 

[Seagull Fred]

I also love c^ck despite being a white supremacist if that didn't come accross ;0 x

 

[John Boy]

England have declared, and play is due to start at 1115

 

[Gully]

Aussies set 522 to win with just less than six sessions of play to go, they will need to set a record total for a fourth innings (currently 418) for victory...surely the best chance we have had to beat them at Lords in many a year, my only fear is that the weather will intervene and a draw remains the most likely result!

 

[dougdeep]

Aussies set 522 to win with just less than six sessions of play to go, they will need to set a record total for a fourth innings (currently 418) for victory...surely the best chance we have had to beat them at Lords in many a year, my only fear is that the weather will intervene and a draw remains the most likely result!

Which was the reason we should have enforced the follow-on. We could even have won by now.

 

[bright1064]

This is fairly positive from Strauss. I thought we would have batted for at least a little while this morning.

That said, the way we bowled last time, we should be home and dry...Weather permitting of course!

 

[Gully]

I would have enforced the follow on too, but I am not the England cricket captain so my views on the matter are an absolute irrelevance...though it did appear to be an opinion shared by most of the TMS commentators, who have largely excelled at test match level, so maybe it is the right one.

I don't think the Aussies will go after the total, at least not to start off with...the maths are fairly simple, they need to score about 100 runs per session and we need a couple of wickets...there is potential for a classic. I think we will know by tea time today which way it is likely to go...if the Aussies are on something like 200 for 2 then they will think they can win, if it is 150 for 4 then we will.

 

[Mendoza]

Just hoping we have a 3rd man in place to stop easy runs, and also wish Broad stops bowling bouncer after bouncer.

 

[pasty]

Right then, here we go...

COME ON JIMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

 

[bright1064]

Is there any online stream for this?

 

[Snoop Dogg]

I guess time will tell whether Straussy shoud have enforced the follow-on or not. If I remember correctly we were in a similar position against the Windies earlier in the year, decided not to enfoced the follow-on and then we ended up with a draw.

Anyway IMHO providing the weather holds out for us, I reckon we'll be 1-0 up by the end of tomorrow!

(Apologies if something similar has already been said, but I can't be arsed to trawl through 19 pages of this thread........)

 

[pasty]

YEEES

First blood. Katich gone for 6.

 

[bright1064]

17-1 !!!