The Ashes 2009

[JimW]

Cracking run Onions

 

[Nemo]

50 for Broad.

 

[JimW]

Smart work Stuart

 

[TrippyLondoner]

broad 50! declare now!

 

[JimW]

It's relaxed him too

 

[JimW]

Wouldn't declare. Over soon enough and every run another nail in their coffin

 

[Cerberus]

Great shots from Broad in his 50.

Nice to see him winding the aussies up too

 

[slaar]

From Guardian online:

"As good as some of this year's Ashes has been, I can't help feeling like we're watching two slightly lesser teams," says David Lian. "If Warne did whip off the tie and get out there he'd run through England's fragile batting line up like a case of food poisoning." It does have a slight 1985 feel doesn't it? The same result would do nicely.

 

[Nemo]

I think Hilfenhaus is quite lucky that last one didn't hit him on the head. Broad gone now anyway. 376 all out.

 

[JimW]

As I was saying...

 

[Cerberus]

gone. good knock.

c'mon lads get right in their faces now..

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Maybe two lesser teams, but thats life.If ya wanna focus on the negative then thats your own downfall.

113 run lead is good enough.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Can we actually still win this?

Would be

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Can we actually still win this?

Would be

very very unlikely, but possible

 

[Nemo]

Can we actually still win this?

Would be

It's possible. It should be either that or a draw.

 

[JimW]

Four down before close of play and I'll feel confident

 

[JimW]

Perhaps Onions can do us a repeat performance? get off on the right foot

 

[paulhackett]

Can we actually still win this?

Would be

Yes.. 30 overs this evening, so enough time for the ball to start swinging..

 

[TrippyLondoner]

get atleast a couple of wickets today and we'll be rockin

 

[JimW]

Let's tag this thread two-nil in anticipation

 

[Nemo]

Maiden first up. Decent start.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

freddie! freddie! freddie!

 

[Nemo]

C'mon England. Now's the time to prove you don't need overcast conditions to bowl a side out.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

big lbw appeal not out

 

[Nemo]

Wasn't a great chance tbh.

 

[Cerberus]

ooh........bit of swing but not coming back enough. Heartening

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Wasn't a great chance tbh.

Agreed.

 

[Nemo]

Aussies looking none too comfortable out there, esp against Anderson.

 

[paulhackett]

Caddick to retire at end of season

Good bowler.. but..

"Taking on the media at their own game, as Andy Caddick found to further humiliation, is a futile exercise.

Caddick's mistake, on England's 1993-94 tour of the Caribbean, was to demand an apology in print from West Indian journalist B C Pires, after Pires had seen Caddick bowling into the wind at Sabina Park in Jamaica. "He was struggling against the wind resistance created by his massive ears and I thought, 'My God, if he trips he will hanglide'."

Pires crafted an 800-word grovel that ended, "I am very sorry indeed that Andy Caddick has big ears." The piece shut Caddick up for the rest of the trip"

 

[strung out]

Good bowler.. but..

"Taking on the media at their own game, as Andy Caddick found to further humiliation, is a futile exercise.

Caddick's mistake, on England's 1993-94 tour of the Caribbean, was to demand an apology in print from West Indian journalist B C Pires, after Pires had seen Caddick bowling into the wind at Sabina Park in Jamaica. "He was struggling against the wind resistance created by his massive ears and I thought, 'My God, if he trips he will hanglide'."

Pires crafted an 800-word grovel that ended, "I am very sorry indeed that Andy Caddick has big ears." The piece shut Caddick up for the rest of the trip"

lol. don't like caddick.