Test Cricket aka real cricket

[MFKS]

Also Poms biggest strength last few series at home was stacking the team with lefties to negate our bowlers.

Might not have the same luxury now.

Bell Pieterson Trott Prior Root are not left handed.

Other than Strauss and Cook we have only seen rabbits like Broad and Anderson bat left handed.

Where they have beaten us is at times our batting has just folded under pressure. We have just lost games where we have been skittled and lost clumps of wickets for no reason of note. A little bit of circumspect batting and grinding it out and we probably win at Durham and Trent Bridge last time around.

We basically snatched defeat from the jaws of victory a few times in the last 3 series in the UK

[plague]

yeah you're right. for some reason i remembered england as having a stack of lefties.
now i don't know what to believe anymore........

{checks internet, confirms Griff scored the winner in the GF}


ok I'm good.

[plague]

I've mentioned before the dangers of drugs right??????

[belchardo]

it's on (again). coverage from half 7 on GEM. big night of sport really isn't it!

predicting a drawn series, 2-2.

[hawk]

Carn straya. watch us go to water

[leftrightout]

it's on (again). coverage from half 7 on GEM. big night of sport really isn't it!

predicting a drawn series, 2-2.

I'm going to go 3-1 to us. They will be better than last time around and being over there helps but i still think we will get it done.
So much sport on at the moment but this is my favourite!

[plague]

predicting a drawn series, 2-2.

You should put money on that.
I bet a drawn series at 8/1 the other day.

Caaaaarrrrrrrnnnnnn

[northern_swan]

Not a bad start. Ball hooping about a bit!

[hawk]

2-1 poms. has to be washout/drawn games.

[hawk]

bout time johnson. but keep the ball up round theirs ears ffs

[belchardo]

2 for 42. Give it up now england!

[hawk]

fo root

[Jetmaster]

Bowling was poor all round. To many loose deliveries and no build up of pressure at any stage.

This game is England's already as the pitch will deteriorate.

[Grimario]

Bowling was poor all round. To many loose deliveries and no build up of pressure at any stage.

This game is England's already as the pitch will deteriorate.

If they bowl well. Last time in Cardiff they made 435 and we hit 670.

[q-money]

what a honking pitch zzzz

[Jetmaster]

what a honking pitch zzzz

I shudder to think what it will be like on the final day - we need a 150 lead to press for the win.

What worries me is that our batsmen like to go after the ball but this pitch won't let them - on the other hand it may play better tonight.

[leftrightout]

What worries me is that our batsmen like to go after the ball but this pitch won't let them - on the other hand it may play better tonight.

I saw Joe Root going at the ball a fair bit...

I love how people (not you specifically you guys) judge a batting and bowling performance before both teams have had a bowl/bat.
You really cant gauge how good,bad or average England or we were until they bowl and we have a bat.

[hawk]

I saw Joe Root going at the ball a fair bit...

I love how people (not you specifically you guys) judge a batting and bowling performance before both teams have had a bowl/bat.
You really cant gauge how good,bad or average England or we were until they bowl and we have a bat.

i seen the aussie falter many atime when chasing runs in eng.

At 3/42 and a serious chance dropped they should have been out for under 250. big chance missed.

[belchardo]

looking pretty easy out there now.

[belchardo]

although england getting some absolutely ridiculous luck!