The Ashes 2009

[1927]

90mph=40.2m/s

Pitch=22yards or allowing for crease and fact that you play ball down pitch say 19yards or 17.4 metres.

17.4/40.2 = .43 sec. This assumes that you can decide your shot at the moment of impact when in reality you have to decide much earlier!!

 

[TrippyLondoner]

goodbye ya crap aussie

 

[gabi]

goodbye ya crap aussie

Good player imo. He'll score tons this series.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Good player imo. He'll score tons this series.

Its banter, don't take it seriously.

 

[kyser_soze]

Woo hoo!!

 

[TrippyLondoner]

nearly got him then

 

[Idaho]

Piling on the pressure. Good for us this. Slowing down the runs and pressuring the batsmen. All the while the pitch and ball are drying and roughing and getting all the better for the spinners.

 

[London_Calling]

17.4/40.2 = .43 sec.

The time to react is very similar to a fast serve in mens tennis, obviously a different speed and distance.

 

[mattie]

The time to react is very similar to a fast serve in mens tennis, obviously a different speed and distance.

And different pain.

 

[Barking_Mad]

And different pain.

I batted for 20 overs the other week before realising i had no box on!

 

[Barking_Mad]

England need to put the lid on this run rate and create some pressure.

 

[waterloowelshy]

Come on, we've only bowled 8 overs - it's hardly time to start making judgements is it?

Can I say it now then? Not much seems to be happening?

eta - the silence is deafening in here. what are you waiting for? a wicket so that you can say we don't miss harmy. we are missing him at the moment!

 

[Barking_Mad]

I hope Anderson proves me wrong but i've never thought he is a test match quality bowler - at least not against the top opposition. I'm surprised he is still in the reckoning as others have been given far less chance than him. That said, he is capable of really good spells in between the averageness that he serves up....fingers crossed.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Ever since the wicket its been a rather boring session tbh.

 

[butchersapron]

eta - the silence is deafening in here. what are you waiting for? a wicket so that you can say we don't miss harmy. we are missing him at the moment!

You said play him to get Hughes out though didn't you? He wasn't needed for that. If he was bowling they may have been on 200 by now or simply fielding. The one thing he may have offered us was provided by flintoff.

 

[aylee]

137-1. This is looking slightly ominous.

 

[London_Calling]

They just grind and grind and grind and grind. Absolute fucking nightmare to beat.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

No wonder they did shit in the 20/20 world cup.

 

[Idaho]

They just grind and grind and grind and grind. Absolute fucking nightmare to beat.

It's a 5 day game. Patience, persistance and planning...

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Close one...

 

[Santino]

We've been here before, a huge early partnership, but they're only a couple of good overs away from England being back in charge. No need to press the panic button just yet.

 

[El Sueno]

I already pressed the panic button, all that happened was I heard a distant toilet flush. So back to plan A.

 

[ddraig]

any messages for teh team as i pass the ground shortly?

apart from 'ANYONE BUT ENGLAND, CUMMON AUSTRALIA' very loudly?

 

[mattie]

any messages for teh team as i pass the ground shortly?

apart from 'ANYONE BUT ENGLAND, CUMMON AUSTRALIA' very loudly?

I can't even begin to explain why you're an idiot. There's just not time.

 

[Relahni]

Boring as fuck...

 

[London_Calling]

Meanwhile, in the soiled underwear department:

Draw 2.72

Think I will lay some of that draw, result here imo.

Got to pray for an England collapse now, I suspect.

 

[tarannau]

The Aussie cricket team must be the most boring team side in the world. There's something positively Germanic about their efficiently dull techniques.

 

[London_Calling]

If it were the England team we'd all be admiring the 'backs against the wall' spirit.

/Dunkirk

 

[tarannau]

I fucking wouldn't. I'm used to the finer arts and cavalier spirit of the West Indies - ie no control and an ability to turn a dominant position into a rapidly collapsing loss.

 

[mattie]

I fucking wouldn't. I'm used to the finer arts and cavalier spirit of the West Indies - ie no control and an ability to turn a dominant position into a rapidly collapsing loss.

England usually manage at least some of that.