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The Ashes 2009

Well you can hardly blame the pitch for that, can you.

Equally you can't blame the groundstaff for the lamentable way that Swann and (less so) Panesar are playing. When there's so little pressure and so many loose options it's no wonder the score's stacking up. England's bowlers should be showing more than this.
 
Well you can hardly blame the pitch for that, can you.

Equally you can't blame the groundstaff for the lamentable way that Swann and (less so) Panesar are playing. When there's so little pressure and so many loose options it's no wonder the score's stacking up. England's bowlers should be showing more than this.
Absolutely right. And Broad has been very disappointing too. England should at some point in this innings have been able to bowl a long spell of tight spin from both ends.
 
This is precisely my point. The better team is winning.

Only cause they don't get themselves out. Not denying they've batted better and our bowling has been below par, though. Just think the pitch has had too big a say in it all, if we concentrated more we could've got to 550 or something. Our lack of concentration was our downfall.
 
the black clouds are indeed gathering...

is that the only way engelund can get anything by relying on weather intervention? and that's 'good'? rather than winning fair n square through sportsmanship wotwot :confused: typical again:p

Too right! I'm not proud. We built an empire on moral flexibility and oppotunism :D

ah so it's the pitch's fault! of course :D

It is a dull pitch - but the situation is the fault of the England batsmen. We all thought "wow, even the tail-enders are getting runs, we must be good". When in fact we should have been saying "look, even the tail-enders are scoring on this track wtf is wrong with our specialist batsmen?"
 
Pietersen epitomises England's problem. If Australia were given the chance to pick Pietersen I seriously suspect that they might say no thanks. He'd probably get in ahead of Hussey now, but I'd take all the other Aus top six before him. He's really not as good as he thinks he is.
 
Pietersen epitomises England's problem. If Australia were given the chance to pick Pietersen I seriously suspect that they might say no thanks. He'd probably get in ahead of Hussey now, but I'd take all the other Aus top six before him. He's really not as good as he thinks he is.

He is good, but could be much much better. I think they would choose him over hussey and it wouldn't seem as big a problem if he fucked up sometimes as the others would score loads anyway.
 
Pietersen is very, very good, the problem is - pound-for-pound - the crims are better. Mostly down to attitude, it seems to me - not convinced by North's technique but he's got two excellent scores in a handful of high-pressure tests (c.f. Bell)
 
This year, Pietersen has been very, very ordinary.

What bothers me about him is not so much that he plays the odd stupid shot when he's in, but that he tries to justify it afterwards. It makes him sound like a prima donna arse.
 
lazy bitter unsporting engrish fans already lashing out and making excuses.
true to form then!

grow up or back the fuck off butchers, not going to rise to your slur, looks like you got lapdog trippy licking your behind anyways.

does this inconvenience finish today or tomorrow?
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650-5!?!? :eek: Fuck me! Don't most teams declare by now? It's only a draw if both teams don't finish their innings isn't it? i'm not overly up on cricket as you can probably tell.
 
lazy bitter unsporting engrish fans already lashing out and making excuses.
true to form then!

grow up or back the fuck off butchers, not going to rise to your slur, looks like you got lapdog trippy licking your behind anyways.

does this inconvenience finish today or tomorrow?
ta

Christ, fuck the fuck off will you, you sad little wanker :rolleyes:
 
If you look at the way both innings have gone, then you can read something into the pitch sometimes.

But anyway, why are you being such an arsehole to the english? This is why wales shouldn't have a test match, but money talks bullshit walks,eh.

So Ddraig spouts off a bit and that is a reason for us not to get a test match, grow up ffs. We have as much right to a test match as any other county in England. So Old Trafford have been staging them for 128 years or whatever it is, fine we'll have a few more then please before you get another one as we have a bit of catching up to do
 
Anyway, back to what matters. We need to learn from what the aussies did and try and bat the next day and a bit without worrying too much about other things.
 
Ahem. Back to the cricket.

This is a true test of character now. Pitch isnt doing much - still - but it will tommorrow. Nerves will decide the outcome....

Just hope our top order have learnt from the 1st innings and dont give away their wkts cheaply.......
 
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