Test Cricket aka real cricket

[plague]

so was it really THAT good or do modern batsmen not know how to bat to save a match?

Trying to bat 5 sessions is near impossible these days. More than anything the 'threat' of turn and variable bounce can put thoughts in your head that don't need to be there. You are preparing for way more possibilities than you would on a 2nd or 3rd day pitch.

Cook hasn't played such a silly shot in ages. Ali got a dead set snorter. Stokes (?) was run out just plain not thinking.
Bell was playing for spin from Lyon (what a wally).
The rest just fell victim to real good bowling. Hazelwood at the end was superb fast full and straight to tail enders who were shitting themselves waiting for the one round thier chin.

Great performance.

Rogers worries me, best bat in the team not named Smith he will be missed if not fit.


Oh and I have him at $7 to be Aussies highest run scorer.

[The Dunster]

Hazelwood at the end was superb fast full and straight to tail enders who were shitting themselves waiting for the one round thier chin.Great performance.

Hazelwood was my pick of the bowlers as well.

Bowlers like Hazelwood and McGrath in the past have always done extremely well at Lords.

When you add Starc and Johnson to the mix with their pace it's a lethal combination.

[leftrightout]

so was it really THAT good or do modern batsmen not know how to bat to save a match?

Only 5 teams in history have batted 5 sessions to save a test... i don't think its necessarily a modern day thing!

[belchardo]

But these guys didn't even bat for 2 sessions! How long did the aussies bat for in the last innings in the last test?

[plague]

But these guys didn't even bat for 2 sessions! How long did the aussies bat for in the last innings in the last test?

70 overs (twice as long).

[belchardo]

game on! (until the rain starts, then it's "game off!")

[plague]

Sport can be cruel
cc: Brad Haddin

[belchardo]

Great ball from finn to get clarke. Pretty crap batting though also.

[seldom]

As soon as they said great toss to win I knew we were doomed

[q-money]

took the draw at 3.60, reckon it's a goer

[hawk]

we can lose this within 3. Thanks top order retards

[q-money]

fkn jeeeeez pete nevill, lel

[plague]

Just a reminder that your boy Plague got Rogers@$7 to be the top Aussie bat for the series.

Silver linings and all that.

[belchardo]

There's a bit in this pitch isn't there! Two brilliant balls from Johnson.

[Jetmaster]

Guess what the last two pitches will be like? England have realised that they have to take some short term pain from Johnson to knock Australia off cheaply in return.

Vale Ashes.

[belchardo]

I think we're still in with a (very small) chance. if we can scrape to 120-140, then it gives us something to defend at least.

that said, the more I think about what they'd have to do, the less likely it seems. smashed in two and half days, pretty pathetic.

[Nelson Bay Road]

clarke out

[belchardo]

clarke out

he already is!

[belchardo]

Tail enders showing the top order how it's done. Again.

[belchardo]

Nice catch. Turd.