* * * The Ashes - Official Thread * * *

[16bha]

Do you think Siddle could get man of the match even when they are getting soundly thrashed?

 

[Blackadder]

We won't declare before Trott gets his 150.

 

[SirElliotBennett]

Probably him or Trott

 

[Titanic]

22 runs in 11 overs... what is the point of that?

At least Johnson is on now....

 

[Blackadder]

Do you think Siddle could get man of the match even when they are getting soundly thrashed?

If he's involved in a couple of more wichets, yes it's a possibility

 

[Titanic]

150 for Trott

 

[1066familyman]

150 Trott

 

[SirElliotBennett]

Well batted JT, 150.

 

[Blackadder]

We won't declare before Trott gets his 150.

Good, you can throw the bat now!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Johnson is just the lamest sledger ever.

Have a go by all means when you're some kind of decent bowler, but when you have one good game in ten, and spend the other nine lobbing pies in every direction except that one occupied by the batsman, it really doesn't hold water.

 

[16bha]

Notice the Channel 9 cameras often look at Clarke. Possibly the Aussie pundits are talking about the Captain in waiting?

Well don Trott!

 

[1066familyman]

Johnson's action is so low it really does look like he's chucking it.

 

[Titanic]

At least Johnson is on now....

7 off the over... that's more like it.

 

[16bha]

Johnson is just the lamest sledger ever.

Have a go by all means when you're some kind of decent bowler, but when you have one good game in ten, and spend the other nine lobbing pies in every direction except that one occupied by the batsman, it really doesn't hold water.

why is he so dislikable?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

why is he so dislikable?

I suspect he's probably a pretty nice bloke, but that's what makes his attempts at sledging all the more contrived, because it's just not in his character.

It's like he's trying to cover up his unthreatening bowling by convincing the batsmen he's a tough guy.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Incidentally, does anyone else find that 888 poker advert very disconcerting?

I'm sure it's exactly what the ad-men were thinking when they came up with it, but hearing Shane Warne ask "Do you want to know what I've got in my hand?" brings up all sorts of unsavoury images in my mind nonetheless.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Yeaaaaah, slap that, Swanny.

 

[Blackadder]

Runs are starting to flow now!

 

[Titanic]

And 10 off that Johnson over. Nice.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Widest over yet from Super Mitch