[Cricket] Third Ashes Test - England v Australia - Edgbaston

[Titanic]

Bell has two fours after 5 balls... 19-1, 102 required.

and three more FOURs off Starc's next over 20 from 10 balls... and he is DROPPED by Clarke at 2nd slip... WOW

36-1 (7 overs), 85 required.

 

[Monsieur Le Plonk]

dropped by the captain too

 

[The Wizard]

Bell is going to meet his end very shortly if he's not careful. Clarke drops him

 

[Pavilionaire]

Bell making Warner's innings seem like Tavare. Is he going for the fastest 50 in Ashes history?

 

[The Wizard]

Boundaries GALORE at the moment

 

[Pantani]

Clarke

Thanks mate, put your team in when winning the toss, bowled out for 136. Score 10 then 3 when batting. Don't bowl your best bowler, the man all of the Englishmen have a complex about when they are chasing 120. Then drop a dolly off the man who will win England this test if you do not get him the next 5 overs.

Nice one, before this series everyone thought Clarke was a better captain than Cook

 

[Pavilionaire]

Weird that Clarke only brings Johnson on when England are already 39% of the way there.

I wonder whether Clarke dropped Bell because his focus was on the three boundaries already hit in the over and the fact he'd cocked up by not starting Johnson straight after lunch?

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Marvellous AURAL scenes on TMS - Crowd vs MJ

 

[simmo]

When you have these low scores (130ish) to get, sometimes this is the best way.... to go for it. It throws the bowling side off and all their plans to build pressure go out of the window. C'mon England

 

[Titanic]

England 51-1 (8.5 overs)

just 70 need now

 

[simmo]

England 51-1 (8.5 overs)

That would be an acceptable T20 start

 

[Pavilionaire]

It would be ironic if Bell - a man dumped out of England's one-day team because he scores too slowly - then went on to score the fastest Ashes fifty. Perhaps he'll be more circumspect against Johnson?

 

[Titanic]

Lyth is given... LBW... it's going to be reviewed... but looked good...

 

[pasty]

Looks pretty out to me

 

[Titanic]

It's OUT... 51-2, Lyth 12 from 27 balls, 3 fours.

70 still needed

Lyth averages 12 in the series.. 72 runs in 6 innings (6, 37, 0, 7, 10, 12). He will remain under pressure, but perhaps England won't want to change a winning team (other than the injury-forced Anderson change).

 

[The Wizard]

Plumb. Another failure from Lyth.

 

[Pantani]

Terrible review that. The guy at the other end needs to take more responsibility for these. That was as plum as you can get.

 

[MrShaun15]

Lyth has looked seriously average so far for our opener...

 

[JJ McClure]

Can you keep picking an opening bat just because he's good in the slips?

 

[Titanic]

Root SMASHES his first ball for FOUR... this Test cricket is a funny old game

55-2 (12 overs), 66 required