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geeze am I eating my words now. Credit where its due, England are all over us and it looks that way for the rest of the series.
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| Originally posted by S_madis geeze am I eating my words now. Credit where its due, England are all over us and it looks that way for the rest of the series. |
a fairly quiet night for me last Friday. Ended up hopping into the sac at 4am Sat ..... that's how much I am rating this Ashes series. BIG props to SBS for their coverage.
*does rain dance*
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| Originally posted by Light The Fuse *does rain dance* |
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| Originally posted by Ian^ http://uk.weather.com/weather/hourbyhour/UKXX0092 if that works glad to see your coverage is top notch too. do you get our assholes commentating (that is boycott and greig ?) I swear next time i hear 'welcome to our telecaarst i'll scream so loud you'll hear it) |
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| Originally posted by Trance Nutter yep, but its hosted by some pom who does the soccer coverage over here, Dean Jones and Greg Matthews. I really don't rate the 'expert' insights from those two. So while we get your commentary, the coverage is hosted by locals. Is it me or has a bird shat on the back of Freddy's head? |
to tell you the truth i am quite disapointed in the way england went about this game. they posted a target which was defiantly not going to be obtainable in one day, they needed to give a target that enticed the aussies to go for it, bah !!
I would've done what they did. Bat us completely out of it as they've got the (deserved) belief they can bowl us out in a day. Anything less than 400 and if we have good day and our batting miraculously turns round we might have been a shot.
where's bill lawry when you need him? warney would have made that hundred if bill was there to spur him on.
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| Originally posted by Ghostface I would've done what they did. Bat us completely out of it as they've got the (deserved) belief they can bowl us out in a day. Anything less than 400 and if we have good day and our batting miraculously turns round we might have been a shot. |
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| Originally posted by Ian^ http://uk.weather.com/weather/hourbyhour/UKXX0092 if that works glad to see your coverage is top notch too. do you get our assholes commentating (that is boycott and greig ?) I swear next time i hear 'welcome to our telecaarst i'll scream so loud you'll hear it) |
looks like they're gunna go for it, why not! common aussies!
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| Originally posted by S_madis looks like they're gunna go for it, why not! common aussies! |
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| Originally posted by Trance Nutter Are you watching the same game? They defintely are not going for it. |
only 200 runs to go hehe. with 5 wickets in hand, hopefully they'll play out sensibly and we can rescue a draw 
fuck when was the last time we would have been thinking that hehe.
I really wouldn't be surprised if the report of Warney and Punter haveing a 'tactical discussion' is true, that was a shocker of a call by Ponting at the toss last time. And Warney probably has no respect for the man who he porbably thinks took his job...............
^^^ huh?
42 overs to go, 200 runs, as long as they don't play too stupidly, i reckon its gettable, get a boundary every so often for a while, and singles, and then push on at the end like they were playing a 1 day match. unlikely i admit, but still gettable... is that even a word?
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| Originally posted by Philby ^^^ huh? |
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The Australian camp have laughed off suggestions, from an English tabloid, of a rift between Ricky Ponting and Shane Warne during the second Test at Edgbaston. According to a report in The Mail on Sunday, Warne and Ponting were involved in a stand-up row at Edgbaston, and had to separated by the vice-captain, Adam Gilchrist. However, both Gilchrist and Glenn McGrath denied any sort of rift and termed the story a "fabrication" and a "blatant lie". Gilchrist said the mood in the team was "pretty good". "We're under siege a little bit," he said in the Sydney Morning Herald. "The crowd are all over us and the press have started again and there's something in today's papers that is an absolute fabrication and totally made up. I don't know where people make up these lies but we know that's the way this machine operates." "I think it's quite funny," said McGrath while speaking to the press after the fourth-day's play. "I've been around the changing rooms the whole time and I haven't heard or seen anything like that. It's disappointing that it's in the papers when it never happened." McGrath has a column with the Mail on Sunday and said he was "keen to have a chat" with the writer of the story, Peter Hayter. "The biggest disappointing thing is that it's not the first time something's been in the papers over here that actually didn't happen ... It's a blatant lie." The row, which the London-based paper said took place in the dressing-room and could be overheard by the England team next door, stemmed directly from Ponting's decision to bowl first in that match. In Glenn McGrath's last-minute absence, Warne was his side's most likely matchwinner and would therefore have benefited from last use of a turning track. He went on to take ten wickets, including a magnificent 6 for 46 in the second innings, but at the close of play on the penultimate day, he gave an indication of his sour mood at the end-of-day press conference. "To take 10 wickets in the match doesn't mean anything if you lose," he told reporters. "I don't like using the word hate, but I hate losing." Warne's mood had not improved over the weekend, added the paper, and he was also alleged to have sworn at autograph hunters in the team hotel. And things got significantly worse for him on the fourth day at Old Trafford, where he missed out a maiden Test century, allowed a catch to pass straight between himself and Ponting in the slip cordon, and then watched Gilchrist miss two stumpings off his bowling |
269 -7
154 to win, 2 hours left to play
i cant take the suspense anymore 
that's what cricket is about, gutted we didn't win, but proud of every englishman for their efforts today and this year. I think that many aussies thought we were being overconfident for no reasons beforehand, but I hope now you'll see why we feel confident in this current team and feel then can do special things.
Congrats to ponting, warne, clarke and lee for their efforts today, sadly I think Bucknor showed why i think he should be on his way out shortly as an umpire, one or two dodgy decisions which 2 or 3 yrs ago he'd not have got wrong.
That aside, 1-1, 2 to play, bring on trent bridge 
Shit that was close. Well done to Lee and McGrath for hanging on. Good to see the Punter back in form. Hopefully we can regroup now.
its great to see cricket being exciting and competitive again!!!
well done to all
that was one hell of a day's cricket. well worth the 4am finish.
I have to agree on some of the umpiring, being a character in the game is no substitute for getting decisions right .
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