Thread: The Ashes Tour

Yipee! Things are looking better for the Aussies!!

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It only looks like we will get 2 sessions cricket tomorrow before the weather sets in so maybe another draw if England don't take early wickets. I can't beleave what I've seen from the Aussie bowling attack we have 3 reserve bowlers that would walk into the Aussie team.

we have 3 reserve bowlers that would walk into the Aussie team

who??

Originally Posted by Poo and Pee

Andrew symonds was a good batsmen with handy bowling

C'mon, discount him, born and bred Pom....well...West Indian....ish........certainly not a drop of Aussie gold blood in him.....

Originally Posted by Poo and Pee

who??

certainly Panesar as a spinner....I'll allow him to justify the other two......probably I'm one of them cos your lot are rather poor....

Panesar still hasn't developed his game. That's why he was dropped.

Shane warne summed him up when he said "Monty has played the same test match 20 times" or something like that.

He's a very predictable bowler.

Tremlett seems to have improved. Don't think he would make the Australian team though.

yep...Panesar isn't that good.....but..........

Chris Tremlett: He is 6 ft 7 in tall and is a medium-fast bowler able to extract bounce on most surfaces. Took 7 wickets in the last warm up game against Australia A.

Tim Bresnan: He is a fast-medium bowler, as well as being respected for his ability with the bat. Took 6 wickets in the last warm up game against Australia A.

Monty Panesar: He is a left arm spinner bowler as good as anything team Aussie has. Took 3 wickets in the last warm up game against Australia A.

time for the aussies to nut up or shut up.

ASHES FANS UNABLE TO DISTINGUISH DREAMS FROM REALITY

BLEARY-eyed cricket fans are currently living in a confusing, surreal dreamscape where England know what they are doing
Many have described the disjointed half-world as a cross between Inception and Jack Russell's 1987 book of cricketing anecdotes A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Headingley.

Cricket fan, Julian Cook, said: "At 4am a midget danced into my living room backwards and gave me an apple made out of children's faces.

"Then he said Pietersen had managed to put 227 on the scoreboard without chasing some hopeless ball like a kitten after a butterfly. What can it all mean?"

He added: "I woke up on the couch in a tangle of bedclothes with Ian Botham staring at me like the rising sun wearing a hideous moustache.

"I've no idea what's real any more and my worry is that my dream last week where I punched my boss in the nuts during an especially dull meeting may have actually happened."

Cricketing dreamologist, Dr Wayne Hayes, said: "Folklore tells of a mythical character called Freddie that killed people's hopes while they were asleep, but he was finally seen off last year after a series of increasingly disappointing sequels.

"Ashes dreams are usually a subconscious manifestation of a person's deep-seated hatred of everything in their life, but these latest ones where everyone's happy have become deeply unnerving.

"It's still early days though, and I'm sure that before long we will experience the very real sensation of screaming horror and self-satisfied Australian bastards."

Heavy rain predicted for 9.00am....

They've taken to the crease, already 2 chances for england

85.2
Finn to Hussey, OUT, Finn strikes! The big wicket of Hussey! Banged in short from around the wicket, Hussey tried to fetch the pull shot from around off stump but could only top-edge and send it looping to Anderson at mid-on who took the chance and roared in the direction of the Barmy Army
MEK Hussey c Anderson b Finn 52 (107b 5x4 1x6) SR: 48.59
"Interesting decision to take the new ball with how much it is spinning, particularly after Swann just had Hussey dropped," writes Mark. "I imagine Hussey and North will both be thanking Strauss for that."

not sure MEK will be now

MEK Hussey c Anderson b Finn 52 (107b 5x4 1x6) SR: 48.59

they have to bat for some pride now.

not for Haddin!

Hatrick?
Harris becomes only the second Australian ever to bag a king pair.

Swann gets his man!

8 and counting...

A collapse of English proportions, not good for the Aussies going into the next test; hard to imagine a worst test for them, on home soil, than this one...

Swann hits the stumps but the bails don't fall!

Poor Xavier Doherty, likely to get the chop for the third Test in Perth, has the misfortune of attempting to keep a rampant James Anderson from smashing through his defences. His first delivery is a snorter - a nasty delivery which rears alarmingly off a length - and Doherty looks about as comfortable as a four-year-old watching Question Time. He flicks a single to length and Peter Siddle manages to keep Anderson at bay with the remainder of his over.

well 80 overs to go
come on australia you can do it

WICKET

Doherty bowled Swann 5 (Aus: 295-9)
Almost over. Doherty misses a straight delivery which rearranges his furniture. Almost there...