big wickets getting hayden and martin early.

GO ENGLAND!!

ponting is again the key for either team.

hoggard bowling absolutely brilliant!!

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Originally posted by gumble Collingwood and Pieterson were awesome. Until they just padded off spinners for ages...

In fairness Warne just kept throwing them outside leg from around the wicket. Not much else they could do with that type bowling

I think the lack of a viable 5th bowling option really hurt us. Once they got on top of 2 bowlers (and with Lee ho hum at the moment) we were always going to be in trouble. I suppose we've been lucky in that recently no teams have been good enough to take it to more than 1 bowler but England have shown that weakness. Good on them, they have played well this test so far

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good stuff from england, ponting has had some lifelines but apart from that it's been good. Funny to hear ian healy having to come up with excuses too "it's a different pitch" was the main one. time for me to sleep though, and if i wake up later be able to watch more, if not, it's the highlights.

geez what the hell? haha
looks like a bit of a contest now hehe
great stuff from collingwood and pietersen, we could be in a bit of trouble tomorrow, i guess it will be a draw?

haha! england 5/78 with a lead of around 110! looking very interesting....

Another wicket lol

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But that was just a dream, That was just a dream, But that was just a dream, Try, cry, why try? That was just a dream ,Just a dream, just a dream, Dream

CALL me a philistine. Worse, call me un-Australian, but has mankind ever invented a more soporific waste of perfectly good time than Test cricket?

I try to get into it, honestly. One feels almost duty bound.

Rugby league is over for another year (all hail the mighty Kangaroos and all-conquering Darren Lockyer), so cricket is now apparently the national obsession.

In fact, it's now Sunday afternoon, and I've been listening to the third day of the Adelaide Test on ABC radio.

Well, sort of listening while I obey lawful directions from the long suffering Mrs Syvret who is waging her annual war on household clutter. (I don't know how the cricket will finish, but I can promise you that in our household the war on clutter is about as winnable as the Iraq conflict.)

Right now the commentators are debating what time it is in Peru – must have missed the relevance of that one while I had a brief but sharp domestic about whether surround sound systems can be defined as "clutter".

Anyway, perhaps the Peru digression had something to do with Paddington Bear. Or maybe seagulls – they have seagulls in Peru, and seagulls in the outfield are a staple of cricket commentators worldwide when the grass on the pitch is growing about as fast as the game is progressing.

Earlier in the day we were discussing daylight saving and the relative sizes of Australia, India and Siberia. As you do. Nothing worse than dead air, as they call it in the radio business.

It's a thrill a minute your Test cricket.

What was the headline in the Sunday papers? "BORE WAR – Poms ready to put Aussies to sleep" from memory. Says it all really.

Sorry, interruption time again. The subject on the cricket commentary has now switched to the Sixth Floor Museum in the Texas School Book Depository and Lee Harvey Oswald and signs about no hand guns. Fascinating stuff.

We'll soon interrupt this commentary for the cricket no doubt. Which as we write looks like it is heading for a thrilling fifth day draw. Can't wait to buy the highlights DVD, released one assumes by Insomnia Studios.

Maybe this is being a bit unfair. Cricket can be a fun game to play in the backyard on Boxing Day with your children, a wheelie bin, a tennis ball, and a plentiful supply of Fourex.

Like most Aussie children I played cricket when I was at school. In my case dismally. I'd argue it had something to do with being red/green colour blind and therefore only discovering where the ball was when it hit me in the temple.

Cricket can be fun when you attend a big game for all the spectacle and chanting and the colourful characters of the Barmy Army, beachballs, the Mexican waves and the beer wenches.

Damn.

Sorry about that – I forgot all the above fun has been banned these days in an effort to make cricket about as vibrant as a chamber music recital.

Live update time. The seagulls – 20 or 30 of them gathered in the outfield right now according to the ABC commentary – are quite like the British press pack. They peck each other apparently.

Hang about. We've now moved to the cathedral bells in Adelaide and what time Evensong is. Must remember that next time I'm in Adelaide, which those of you who have had the misfortune to visit would understand is probably the most appropriate city on the planet to host the world's most boring sport.

But wait. Ponting just punched a shot down towards the seagulls, which "should be quite interesting" the radio tells me.

Obviously there were no avian casualties, because now we've moved the topic to the Collingwood AFL team song and the Wombles. Talk about eclectic.

Wombles. Aren't they something to do with Wimbledon and where the tennis – which at least has rules that allow for a winner – is played?

Never mind, I'll keep listening on the off chance I might pick up a nice recipe – given one of the Pommy commentator's obsession with pies.

No. Stuff that. I might give it a break for a while now and crank up the surround sound (some wars are winnable). And Ponting's just out. I can't stand the excitement.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,2359...5007146,00.html

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I can only watch test match cricket when Warnie is bowling. He is the whole package. The guy is surely in the top 5 sportsmen ever!

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Oh, life is bigger ,It's bigger than you,And you are not me,The lengths that I will go to, The distance in your eyes ,Oh no, I've said too much, I set it up

That's me in the corner, That's me in the spotlight, I'm Losing my religion, Trying to keep up with you ,And I don't know if I can do it, Oh no, I've said too much,I haven't said enough, I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you sing, I think I thought I saw you try.

But that was just a dream, That was just a dream, But that was just a dream, Try, cry, why try? That was just a dream ,Just a dream, just a dream, Dream

holy crap england is 7/97!!! australia might be able to snare a victory.

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he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?

WARNEY!!!! you fucken beauty

A recent english Poll was ran, and asked 100 females if they would sleep with Warnie! 90% answered they already had!

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Oh, life is bigger ,It's bigger than you,And you are not me,The lengths that I will go to, The distance in your eyes ,Oh no, I've said too much, I set it up

That's me in the corner, That's me in the spotlight, I'm Losing my religion, Trying to keep up with you ,And I don't know if I can do it, Oh no, I've said too much,I haven't said enough, I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you sing, I think I thought I saw you try.

But that was just a dream, That was just a dream, But that was just a dream, Try, cry, why try? That was just a dream ,Just a dream, just a dream, Dream