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It's shaping up for an interesting day tomorrow.
Could go any way.

 

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Yeah, except an Aussie win ya bastard...and it's "mmmbaaaarled Shiiine'.. or at least " BAArled warneee!!"

 

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Half a point is very good for Australia now.

 

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Top game despite the shite weather.
I was up late hanging on every delivery as oz muscled up and thwarted the Pommie advance.
Series has been fascinating so far and there are obviously plenty of tense moments left.

I thought the performance of Clarke and North was exceptional, they showed extraordinary nerve, concentration and technique, not to mention superb patience.

The game was alive until about ten minutes before tea, although I'm sure Heals kremmen had it safe a fair bit earlier than that.

Freddy looks like a worn out rug and Brett Lee might just make it in for the next one. Where's Stuart Clark? The conditions and situation seem made for him.

 

If the rain hadn't intervened, it would have been a better game.
I think Australia might have snatched it.

This good solid cricket a la Clarke is all very admirable, but can be a bit dull if you are on the receiving end.
I listen on the radio, and my tactics yesterday were to switch off the commentary for an hour or two and then come back to it.

Someone is spreading a false rumour that Warnee might be tempted back for the final match at the Oval.
Why not go the whole hog and dig up Bradman?

I don't think that Bell could stand a return of Warne. The mere sniff of his testosterone makes the Sherminator crumble.
I'm fed up of him already. Even with his uncle as the umpire, he could barely score Fifty.
Warne was commentating, and spitting feathers at his non-dismissals, which was amusing.

Freddy needs to rest for a match. Give Headingly a miss.
It's looking likely for another draw anyway, with a week of patchy weather forecast.
This is our worst summer in England for years, well, since last year anyway.

 

C'mon Kremmen, it was tense, dour, plucky stuff, hardly boring. It was also interspersed with some spectacular stroke play, heightened by the fact that the shot selection was impeccable.
I'm taking a lot from this match and the rub of the green is starting to favour the Aussies even from behind. Beware the antipodean with the sniff of blood in the water.
Nothing for the Poms to do from here but squander their opportunities.
I'm seriously disappointed that Ponting didn't have twenty odd overs at 'em just to ruffle some feathers. calling a match closed is bullshit, they should battle it out to the bitter end. It only takes ten deliveries to bowl a team out.
Stopping anything short of ten deliveries shy of the end is doing the game and the fans a disservice.

 

Granted, the match would have been gripping had the boot been on the other foot, but I'm sure that eight hours of Australian bowling at an impervious English duo would have sent you to sleep as well.

Batting for a draw was of course the right decision, but I bet Warne and Co would have had a crack at a win.

I think the deciding match in this series is going to be at the oval.
I'm hopeful of an English win.
A draw is useless to us.

 

getting sick of the ways the poms play for the draw. its no wonder people are turning away from test cricket

 

/chuckle...soooo...the Poms were bowling half volleys and rank long-hops to ensure that the series stays alive and keeping the folks down under feeling a little less hard on themselves and taking a little of the weight of that freakin' great colonial shoulder chip because they (you know Freddy and crew) are such compassionate folk and have no great desire to hold the charred remains aloft lest it keep the auld rivalry at a pitch just a bit too shrill for their gentler Anglophile demeanor.

Asguard, you are one sharp tool!

 

Did you pay any attention to this match at all?
Have you any idea what happened in it?
It was the Australian side who played for the draw.
They made a very good job of it.

 

D'you feel there should be changes to the sides for the fourth test? I personally feel Sidebottom should be given a chance (surely not Harmison though); a left-handed pacer makes a lot of difference? Also, with Brett Lee fit to play the fourth test, who's the Aussie paces to make way?

 

Maybe he's still sore about Gallipoli.
Bladdy Poms!

Scene at Gallipoli , 1915

English Commander:
Right chaps, it's time to go over the top

Brave Aussie:
Yer joking aren't yer mate? There's millions of bleeding Turks out there?
It'll be a bloodbath.

English Commander:
No arguments. Over the top you jolly well will go.
And smart about it.
I'll stop behind and, erm, do the washing up.

Brave Aussie:
(Sotto Voce) Yeeeeeee-ewwwww Bladdy Baarstaaard!
(Sets face like granite) OK Mate. But you poms see if you ever win at cricket again.

 

Oh guffaw!...snigger.. AAAAhahahahahaha!

Kremmen that's gold, yer killin' me.


And so, the ashes shall remain in our annally retentive grip ( it was their arseholes that were set like granite not their mandibles y'know!) for another cutla years.

Lee might just make a difference, a spell should have done him good and he can actually bowl really bladdy well when he's focussed, they should definitely bring Stuart Clark back to keep it tight and let lee rip with raw pace.

Aussies will not lose this next test, not gonna happen.

Over to asgraud for some elnighteig cement!

 

Headingley. The pitch is an enigma.
Who knows what will happen there.

I think that if an Oval match proves decisive, we should add an extra day if there is cumulatively a full day rained off.

There are precedents for doing so.

 

Good Call. He's in the squad.
I love watching Sidebottom bowl.
Like a great lolopping lion.

His quick left arm may add another dimension.

 

Yep.

The precedent I think you refer to was the timeless test which ran out of time.

I'm all for it, we need the odd tie breaker in cricket ( just the odd one).

 

Gallipoli Part Two.

The Brave Aussie is of course killed in a hail of bullets.
But then in 1969, a baby emerges from it's mothers womb.

Later, at the Baptismal ceremony.

Vicar:
And what will you call this precious child of the Lord?

Baby's Father:
We're gonna call 'im Shane after his 'ero Great Grandaddy. (Looks around the congregation)
Doyd et Gallepully.
(Congregation murmurs approval)
It's oither thet or Spud, but we don't know anyone called Spud.

Vicar:
But surely Shane is the name of a popular cowboy.
And I'm sure that Spud is the name of a vegetable, not a Saint.

Baby's Father:
Are you looking fer trouble Mate........?

 

Poppa Warnee.." Lissen Revrun, itsh eever vat or Frickin' Flipper wassit gunna be ay? " ".. 'sides, Dunno any gowbaws call shay'nyway!"

 

Spud your back!

*John hugs Spud*

 

What's wrong with his back ?