The Ashes - Final Test - Day One

[Gazwag]

Last night is History, the next five days will wipe away the gloom

Come on England

And did those feet in ancient time ................

 

[Gazwag]

England Win the Toss



And BAT

 

[Mr C]

 

[CHAPPERS]

f***ing WICKED toss to win.

 

[Simster]

England Win the Toss



And BAT

Vital toss to win

 

[Scarface]

England team:
ME Trescothick, AJ Strauss, *MP Vaughan, IR Bell, KP Pietersen,
A Flintoff, PD Collingwood, +GO Jones, AF Giles, MJ Hoggard,
SJ Harmison.

Australia team:
JL Langer, ML Hayden, *RT Ponting, DR Martyn, MJ Clarke,
SM Katich, +AC Gilchrist, SK Warne, B Lee, GD McGrath, SW Tait.

Even with that batting lineup, an Aussie attack of Warne, McGrath, Lee and Tait will be a tough test. Hopefuly McGrath isnt fully fit and Lee and Tait are too fired up and become erratic.

 

[JJ McClure]

Vital toss to win

*awaits England collapse*

 

[larus]

1 Marcus Trescothick,
2 Andrew Strauss,
3 Michael Vaughan (capt),
4 Ian Bell,
5 Kevin Pietersen,
6 Andrew Flintoff,
7 Paul Collingwood,
8 Geraint Jones (wk),
9 Ashley Giles,
10 Steve Harmison,
11 Matthew Hoggard

We bat down to no 9. Be nice to post big score on day 1.

Come on Tres & Strauss, big opening stand please.

 

[Gazwag]

"All" we need to do is bat all of today, post 300+ on the board and only lose 6-7 wickets. With the rain tomorrow we could still be batting at lunch on day 3

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

have we won 4 of the tosses or something!?!

 

[Hiney]

f*** me that was goosebumps stuff

Brilliant

COME ON ENGLAND!!!!!!!!!

 

[RonnieO'Sullivan]

f*** me that was goosebumps stuff

Brilliant

COME ON ENGLAND!!!!!!!!!

what a superb build up to the test!

 

[RonnieO'Sullivan]

1-0

 

[Simster]

Anyone watching? Is the wicket doing anything?

 

[RonnieO'Sullivan]

Anyone watching? Is the wicket doing anything?

im watching, and nope its looks a flat batting track full of runs, lee getting a bit of inswing but nothing major to worry about.no movement as far of the pitch.

 

[Trufflehound]

11 - nil. It's just like watching Brazil...

 

[RonnieO'Sullivan]

im watching, and nope its looks a flat batting track full of runs, lee getting a bit of inswing but nothing major to worry about.no movement as far of the pitch.

eat my words, glenn mcgrath just bowled a ball short on about middle stump and it seamed and swung and left over 1st slip!! went for 4 runs! too short delivery tho.

 

[Simster]

30/0

 

[RonnieO'Sullivan]

38-0 tait on for lee already

 

[Stat Brother]

Bugger, I missed out on 5-live's 'guess the amount of runs scored in the 1st 10 overs competition', by only 3 runs.