[Cricket] Second Ashes Test - England vs Australia - Lords

[Bold Seagull]

Difficult not to see a comfortable Aussie win here. A good toss for them. As flat as the pitch is, it will break up by the fourth day, regardless. Lyon will be a handful.

Not so sure. Held up well against NZ, only the first morning and Day 5 did it look a problem to bat on. Day 4 England scored 355 runs for 4 wickets, with Cook getting 162. It still wasn't that bad on Day 5, just that NZ gave away some poor wickets and succumbed to the pressure.

 

[pasty]

Not looking forward to this today. I reckon Aus will be looking at racking up 500+ and declaring around tea for a bowl at us tonight. Although, as Botham just said on Sky, if we can then bat long and get to the point where we avoid any potential follow-on, it pretty much guarantees a draw.

 

[dazzer6666]

First session of accumulation out runs, an afternoon of bat-flailing, 600+ by tea and a declaration. We then need to be batting well into Sunday. Hopefully will be quite boring and we walk away at 1:0. I'm not confident.

 

[pasty]

Sunday could help....

 

[pasty]

Woah, vicious open from Jimmy

Hope Rogers is ok.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Woah, vicious open from Jimmy

Hope Rogers is ok.

He's fine, disappointing that Jimmy didn't follow it up with the same ball.

 

[Titanic]

Woah, vicious open from Jimmy

Hope Rogers is ok.

Followed up with a selection of pies.

This is going to be a very dull day - when is the golf back on??

 

[Prince Monolulu]

This is going to be a very dull day - when is the golf back on??

Kicked off at 10.

 

[Titanic]

Kicked off at 10.

Thanks... especially with that ****wit Warne in the comm box... golf on... cricket with the sound off just in case something interesting happens.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Thanks... especially with that ****wit Warne in the comm box... golf on... cricket with the sound off just in case something interesting happens.

Really? You don't want to know anymore about his trip to Vegas? How he got on, how far he got, how he felt when he lost. I thought he was incredibly restrained in not talking even more about himself....

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Finally!

Rogers bowled Anderson 173

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Honours even then

 

[Nathan]

Thank **** for that, hopefully a few more will follow quickly.

 

[dazzer6666]

Finally!

Rogers bowled Anderson 173

Broad !

 

[Badger]

17/07

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Broad !

Yes - sorry. The state of the game, has me only half listening. Blowers' excited exclamation woke me up, rather.

 

[The Wizard]

This match has draw written all over it, I'm struggling to see the Aussies taking 20 wickets on this pitch myself.

 

[Titanic]

Really? You don't want to know anymore about his trip to Vegas? How he got on, how far he got, how he felt when he lost. I thought he was incredibly restrained in not talking even more about himself....

It says it all that I would rather listen to Peter 'boring old fart' Alliss whittering on about nonsense from yesteryear than that Aussie ****.

 

[dazzer6666]

Yes - sorry. The state of the game, has me only half listening. Blowers' excited exclamation woke me up, rather.

Wouldn't be surprised if Blowers said it was Anderson. Or Underwood. Or Trueman.

 

[Danny-Boy]

It says it all that I would rather listen to Peter 'boring old fart' Alliss whittering on about nonsense from yesteryear than that Aussie ****.

I actually recent met "BOF" at the Seaford Head GC clubhouse opening and found him far from boring, in fact charming and helpful, happy to have himself "selfied" for over two hours with the locals. Knew a lot about local golf and my elder brother's course where my bro was a member for 50 years and got down to +3 at one stage.

Also spoke out in his address of opening about the takeover of sports by Sky. A thoroughly decent old cove.