Balls to the Aussies the cricket thread (Read 361875 times)

tomtom · November 23, 2010, 03:54:12 pm

For those wanting some SCIENCE behind the Ashes......

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2948013/enso-ashes.pdf

Drew · November 25, 2010, 12:10:19 am

Quote from: Sloper on July 08, 2009, 12:58:52 pm

The first morning of the first test and England are in difficulties.

I thought it quite apt to quote the first post. Not the start we wanted really.

john horscroft · November 25, 2010, 08:52:08 am

The more the meejah talk England up, the further they fall. Still, it's only day one I guess

grumpycrumpy · November 25, 2010, 05:57:25 pm

Early days ......

tommytwotone · November 25, 2010, 08:17:42 pm

I stayed up late night to listen to the first few overs and then eventually retired to bed with TMS in the headphones. This resulted in some excellent cricket dreams, including:

a) I bowled Ricky Ponting out
b) I woke up and England had made 819/8

Anyway... In praise of having TMS back in my life - while I was dropping off Geoffrey and Jim Maxwell were on and on rare form. Geoffrey was on about uncovered pitches and the corridor-of-you-know-what within 5 minutes, and Jim reckoned that Trott's preparations before facing a ball had "more movements than a Dvorak symphony...". Genius!

Sadly I can't listen tonight, but look forward to waking up tomorrow to find us batting again having skittled them out for 150...you might think I'm mad, but scores in the last Gabba test were 262, 75 and 96 respectively.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ausdomestic-2010/engine/match/474025.html

Come on England!

robertostallioni · November 25, 2010, 08:38:48 pm

Obvious, but we won't know where we are until both sides have batted once. First innings may not be as wonk as made out. or it might.

Plattsy · November 25, 2010, 09:26:07 pm

completely. Forecast says there should be some cloud cover today, 60% humidity and a chance of some rain. With similar conditions lets see how our bowlers do.

Bobling · November 25, 2010, 09:40:33 pm

Bloody Warney picks it again saying Siddle was the man for the job. Not a terrible showing IMHO. Good to see KP got some on the board despite my misgivings. A really good contest though, let's hope the rest of the series provides the same amount of excitement

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GraemeA · November 26, 2010, 12:01:57 am

Its ready to start again, reckon I will be watching until 'lunch' ie 2am.

No ball by Broad first ball.

andy_e · November 26, 2010, 12:24:21 am

Good start by the English.

GraemeA · November 26, 2010, 12:31:51 am

Quote from: andi_e on November 26, 2010, 12:24:21 am

Good start by the English.

Apparently p2p.eu allows you to watch it with about a 5 second delay.

Bobling · November 27, 2010, 12:10:28 am

Damn you fiendish review system

Dolly · November 27, 2010, 12:25:02 am

How come Jimmy hasn't takesen a wicket yet ? Beaten the bat so many times

Bobling · November 28, 2010, 12:22:12 am

Christ, can we have some sanity back after that JCM thread? Strauss and Cookie looking good.

andy_e · November 28, 2010, 01:43:27 am

aye, not a bad play by the lads there.

DaveC · November 28, 2010, 06:41:47 am

At 305-1 with Strauss the only man out (for 110- a great captain's knock) and Cook and Trott going along nicely, England are now pretty much safe from defeat and with a little enterprise (and some last day turn to help Swann) could pull off an unlikely win. Who'd have thought it?

Jaspersharpe · November 28, 2010, 09:41:07 am

Too right. Couldn't believe the score I woke up to this morning!

butters · November 28, 2010, 11:13:41 am

Tuned in and heard the last couple of overs before lunch and was pretty happy that we had made it without losing a wicket but to go the whole day with only losing the one wicket was a damn fine effort. Strauss seems to be maintaining the defensive position at the minute but with the lead standing at 80 odd and a flat track to bat on it's understandable.

Jaspersharpe · November 28, 2010, 11:34:52 am

Highlights here.

http://tinyurl.com/35snw8x

GraemeA · November 29, 2010, 12:04:31 am

Dare we be optomistic that we could actually win this. Get the lead up to 250-300 by halfway through the second session then have a go at them $:-\$

GraemeA · November 29, 2010, 12:06:13 am

Yeah Ricky, you have been messing around with the field and you took 3rd slip out, Cook would have been a goner. Ypu're a great captan there mate.

GraemeA · November 29, 2010, 02:06:18 am

Fookin' hell 439-1 at lunch with a lead of 218. Partnership is 251. Loads of records falling. WTF is going on. Alarm clock set for 5am just in case it's worth getting up to watch the Cons getting humilated.

DaveC · November 29, 2010, 03:51:03 am

Some of us over here suspected this sort of thing could happen (including some members of the press.) Australia simply does not have bowlers who can winkle out good batsmen on unhelpful pitches anymore (a-la Warne in Adelaide 4 years ago.) The biggest disappointment is Mitchell Johnson who ha salways been a bit hot-and-cold but seems to have settled at a distinctly tepid level!
I started this series thinking England could win it 2-1 with Australia's win likely to be in Brisbane but on the back of a draw in this game I'll change my prediction to 2-0.

tomtom · November 29, 2010, 08:17:05 am

whoop whoop

Bobling · November 29, 2010, 09:28:27 pm

I'm going to stick my neck out here and give a series prediction. Another draw at Adelaide, England win at Perth, Oz get a consolation series leveller at the G and it all shapes up for a thrilling showdown in Sydney. I am not going to say who wins that one

Can't help but feel sad for KP, runs for the taking and he didn't get off the launch pad