The Ashes 2009

[mattie]

Dear God. Is the pitch so placid that their number 9 can smack a medium-quick for consecutive sixes?

 

[paulhackett]

even worse mattie, its the number 10.. he'll have Matt Priors wife on his lap next..

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Full, fast and straight. That's how you deal with the likes of Stuart Clark.

 

[Upchuck]

I find a crap attack frustrating and disappointing. They seem to have no heart.

 

[Nemo]

Five for Broad. Clark drags on. Whatever may be said about Broad, credit to him for persevering.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

So that's Broad's place in the team safe then.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Five for Broad. Clark drags on. Whatever may be said about Broad, credit to him for persevering.

Good attitude blah blah blah

pah

 

[Nemo]

Good attitude blah blah blah

pah

Well he is the only England bowler who actually seems to have been trying to get wickets over the past hour or so.

 

[paulhackett]

tuffers talking abou boycott just about to receive his hall of fame cap 'there's just a chance he moght not be able to get it on his head' very catty..

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Well he is the only England bowler who actually seems to have been trying to get wickets over the past hour or so.

His bowling was shit this morning when it counted much more. Credit for persevering, yes, but England's resources are thin indeed if he's one of the top three bowlers.

 

[mattie]

Broad will do a Botham.

Long blond locks. Erm, that's about it.

 

[Nemo]

tuffers talking abou boycott just about to receive his hall of fame cap 'there's just a chance he moght not be able to get it on his head' very catty..

How did himself take that?

 

[paulhackett]

How did himself take that?

boycs is waiting by the pavilion to go out at tea, which is what the cheering and laughing was a few mins ago.. he won't have heard.. but he takes a ribbing nowadays so i imagine he'll call him a cheeky so and so..

 

[littlebabyjesus]

boycs is waiting by the pavilion to go out at tea, which is what the cheering and laughing was a few mins ago.. he won't have heard.. but he takes a ribbing nowadays so i imagine he'll call him a cheeky so and so..

He'll be fine with it. It's a different sort of comment from the Hayden one.

 

[mattie]

I reckon he may even take pride in it.

 

[Nemo]

Six for Broad. All out 445 which is a decent total. Well played from North.

 

[mattie]

Well, we can't bat as badly as we did yesterday. Can we?

 

[Upchuck]

Right. Next fow? I say 1/3

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Right 10 wickets down, 10 to go. Half-way there, lads!

 

[paulhackett]

Didn't Anthony Clare saying after interviewing him for In the Psychiatrists Chair 'I always believed no man is an island until i met Geoff Boycott'?

 

[paulhackett]

probably just as well boycs isn't in the box as aggers is interviewing General Sir Richard Dannatt

 

[Nemo]

Well, we can't bat as badly as we did yesterday. Can we?

With England all things are possible.

 

[mattie]

With England all things are possible.

Except consistency, which should mean we knock up 500.

Which still won't be enough.

 

[Nemo]

Anyway, if England don't make a better fist of it here, all in favour of taking Bell, Bopara, and Harmison out back and shooting them pour encourager les autres.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

343 lead...only positive is there's plenty of time to bat.

 

[Diamond]

I'm confident that we'll do pretty well in the second innings and will still be batting come Monday lunchtime.














How's that for a jinx.

 

[mattie]

Yep, Bopara has to go.

eta: oops, two posts in the way of the one I was replying to.

 

[Nemo]

Except consistency, which should mean we knock up 500.

Which still won't be enough.

Basically, England need to bat until tea on Monday and hope they make a better fist of bowling at the buggers. Ain't going to happen, but that's what they need.

 

[Nemo]

Bowling looking ominously good.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Bowling looking ominously good.

Pitching it up?