We're fukd.
...be far to interesting an outcome for this pitch. Draw, all over it. I just want Jimmy and Harmo to get some wickets.
Actually I want KP to get a 5 for. But that would be ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as Ian Bell being allowed to bowl.
Australia 771ao. England 912-8 (Collingwood 471no)
That's awesome cricket.
that we will be batting by saturday
Innings defeat anyone? What odds?
We'll get skittled out for 27 or something, follow-on and get 500ao and lose by an innings and 1 run. Thus an innings defeat. Oui?
no-one will get to a second innings before tea on day 4 on that pitch
draw.
Always the optimist!
have faith young un!
the worst.
Given the confidence-sapping first day performance, it'll take something super special to lift it for the second. I just want to hug Steve Harmison and tell him i still love him, the big homesick underconfident Geordie lump :(
like we get them all out for just over 400, before dinner?
That'd be nice.
But yeah, it would be lovely.
OMG!
I predict that by the end of day 2:
Aus 546 a/o Eng 115/2
and can surround the bat, it's very very difficult to do anything. I would be surprised if we managed to make Australia bat twice.
By tonight...
Australia 603-6
England 12-2
we'll bowl them out for 405 then struggle to 220 tonight.
I feel the Aussies will declare around 500-600. Then we will struggle to about 50-2.
the night shift tonight, via Radio 4 longwave. Well until I collapse from tiredness anyway.
Now I am already praying it's not a series whitewash.
that would have to be an incredible bowling performance.
Strauss Joyce Cook Pietersen Collingwood Bell Flintoff Read Hoggard Anderson Panesar
If you have a world class spinner, you don't need five bowlers. Flintoff is clearly 100%. This should be the team.
Aus 621-7 dec. (Ponting 235, Hussey Gilchrist 101*, Hussey 81)
Eng 70-1 (Strauss 30*, Bell 10*).
Bugger.
Nah
England losing would...
...be far to interesting an outcome for this pitch. Draw, all over it. I just want Jimmy and Harmo to get some wickets.
Actually I want KP to get a 5 for. But that would be ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as Ian Bell being allowed to bowl.
Giles 8-347
Australia 771ao. England 912-8 (Collingwood 471no)
...all by lunch on the second day?
That's awesome cricket.
i have a sneeeeekkkkky suspicions
that we will be batting by saturday
...our 1st or 2nd innings?
Innings defeat anyone? What odds?
we wont need to bat again for that though
?
We'll get skittled out for 27 or something, follow-on and get 500ao and lose by an innings and 1 run. Thus an innings defeat. Oui?
wut?
no-one will get to a second innings before tea on day 4 on that pitch
draw.
English sports fans:
Always the optimist!
have faith young un!
I fear
the worst.
So do I
Given the confidence-sapping first day performance, it'll take something super special to lift it for the second. I just want to hug Steve Harmison and tell him i still love him, the big homesick underconfident Geordie lump :(
something super special
like we get them all out for just over 400, before dinner?
That'd be nice.
Highly improbable
But yeah, it would be lovely.
IT@S RAINING IN BRISBANE
OMG!
should have played Panesar....
sweepstake?
I predict that by the end of day 2:
Aus 546 a/o
Eng 115/2
When Warne has a huge score behind him
and can surround the bat, it's very very difficult to do anything. I would be surprised if we managed to make Australia bat twice.
By tonight...
Australia 603-6
England 12-2
I reckon
we'll bowl them out for 405 then struggle to 220 tonight.
Tonight...
I feel the Aussies will declare around 500-600. Then we will struggle to about 50-2.
I shall be doing...
the night shift tonight, via Radio 4 longwave. Well until I collapse from tiredness anyway.
We had to get a good start
Now I am already praying it's not a series whitewash.
If we bowl them out for 405
that would have to be an incredible bowling performance.
Second test line-up should be
Strauss
Joyce
Cook
Pietersen
Collingwood
Bell
Flintoff
Read
Hoggard
Anderson
Panesar
If you have a world class spinner, you don't need five bowlers. Flintoff is clearly 100%. This should be the team.
by tomorrow
Aus 621-7 dec. (Ponting 235, Hussey Gilchrist 101*, Hussey 81)
Eng 70-1 (Strauss 30*, Bell 10*).
Hussey Gilchrist?
Bugger.