redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Well 430 certainly gives you enough to bowl at. England now need to use the new ball a bit better than they've done in a number of recent matches.
The Ashes 2015
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littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Those three number 6s can come in handy. 
Hopefully a few runs will relax Moeen so that he bowls well.
Hopefully a few runs will relax Moeen so that he bowls well.
liquidlunch
fargonebeauty
its 10.30 pm and ive just got to see whats happening,430 you bastards,Joe Root should have been gone,"its come off his thoomb"said Lloydy,fair play to your lot tho,done the job,not a draw in sight tho,we will be hanging onto that urn like a scotsman on a 5 pound note
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Mostly bollocks but I've some sympathy with points 6 and 7.
The opening ceremony was ridiculously dire, and why play any national anthems at all, let alone one of a country just because that's where you are?
It's like playing the national anthem of the host nation of the football world cup before playing the ones of the teams competing.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
meh! Walesonline is a shitrag anyway!
you ever been down here then?
I haven't been to Cardiff for many years. I should be there now as a group of lads from my club got tickets and are there for the whole test but I had to work. My old club used to tour to Swansea once a year though, and my best game ever (51 not out, and 6 wickets) was against BP Llandarcy in 1987!
We still lost.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Smith gone - i have no idea what he was trying to play there. Maybe about 4 shots at once.
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
Lovely to see Johnson leaking a ton of runs, getting no wickets and not looking all that monstrous. Let's hope he's back to his usual self of bowling like a demented sea lion for the rest of the series.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Does that bloke know anything about cricket?
One is a perfectly fair criticism, while it's not terrible (and has benefited England) it's not a wicket that has done the game any favours. To pretend otherwise is just idiocy.
And while the size argument doesn't hold that much water with me this
is a particularly stupid comment. The whole reason why Glamorgan (and other counties) are in the financial difficulties he mentions elsewhere is because of the ECB's stupid bidding process. The idea people can't criticise that idea because it was decided some time ago is fucking moronic. It was a stupid idea at the time and it's still a stupid idea now.
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Sophia Gardens isn't even that small, 15,000 innit? Not much different to Trent Bridge for example
I objected to the Welsh anthem too. But then I objected to the Australian anthem and GSTQ being played as well, completely un-cricket. Fucking nonsense
Anyway, local paper in chippy response to real or imagined slights. Shock horror
Athos
Well-Known Member
We've seen some good cricket - both batting and bowling - with 700 runs and 15 wickets in two days. The game is fascinatingly poised - could go to either side, or to draw. I don't think there's much wrong with this pitch!
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
The position of the game owes more to the approach of both teams (particularly the over-agresstion of the Australians) than the wicket. I'm not saying it should be reported to the ICC but it's not giving a lot to any of the bowlers - no bounce, no pace, not much movement, not even much turn.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
Athos
Well-Known Member
It's rewarding patient, probing bowling. Nothing wrong with that in a test match, in my opinion. And, best of all, it's giving nothing to MJ!
Tend to agree. At least three of the Australian dismissals today were fucking idiotic shots. The pitch has got sod all in it for the pace bowlers
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
The pitch did exactly what it was meant to - to stop the demented sea lion.
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
It seems like he's back to bowling how he has done for most of his career, ie not too bad, quick and mainly not at the stumps. He's done well since the last ashes series but hopefully, as I said, he's returned to his normal self but that's difficult to determine whether that's true or not off the back of a single innings.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Good start
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Classic Watson.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Not a bad start to the morning...
