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The "Real" death of English Cricket
| Barry Foote | 10/07/2009 19:00:13 |
 161 forum posts 93 photos | Advantage Aus.......A great days batting........Tomorrow will be the deciding day I think.. |
| Peter Fitness | 11/07/2009 00:25:39 |
 510 forum posts 215 photos | Shame about the weather, though, I hope the series is not badly affected by the fickle British weather.
Barry, I'm sure the Welsh would be pleased, having received your stamp of approval, however grudgingly given
 Peter. |
| Barry Foote | 11/07/2009 22:00:48 |
161 forum posts 93 photos | Well played Austalia. They really gave us a lesson today. Should be interesting tomorrow, fighting for a draw!! |
| Barry Foote | 12/07/2009 18:53:08 |
161 forum posts 93 photos | Here we go again. 2005 repeated. What a Test match. Austarlia gave us a lesson, but did not manage a win. Who has the advantage now.....England or Australia??
Brilliant....Roll on Lords.. |
| Peter Fitness | 13/07/2009 00:20:50 |
510 forum posts 215 photos | No real advantage to either side, Barry, England held on well under extreme pressure, and the relatively inexperienced Australian attack now know they are up to the task. From our point of view, one moral victory in the fact that it's the first time in Test history that 4 batsman from the one team have scored centuries in the same innings.
England's obvious time wasting tactics were rather disappointing, but that should have been dealt with by the umpires. However, full credit to Jimmy Anderson and Monty Panesar for holding on.
Peter. |
| Dave Milbourn | 13/07/2009 23:29:17 |
 4025 forum posts 282 photos | I was amused to see my firsy whingeing Aussie. Complaints about time-wasting from the team that brought "sledging" to the game smacks of pots and kettles................
That said, England can only improve on this performance.
Dave M Edited By Dave Milbourn on 13/07/2009 23:29:41 |
| Peter Fitness | 14/07/2009 06:07:18 |
510 forum posts 215 photos | Dave, I don't approve of sledging, either, but even the English commentators, including David Lloyd, were complaining (whinging???) about England's rather obvious time wasting tactics. As I said previously, the umpires or the match referee should have dealt with it.
BTW, I wasn't whinging, but merely stating a fact that was readily apparent to anyone watching the game.
Peter. |
| Dave Milbourn | 14/07/2009 07:20:16 |
4025 forum posts 282 photos | Aw heck, Peter - surely no-one could expect a tail-ender to play with soggy gloves???
Some wag on the Beeb actually suggested that it was a Health and Safety issue........
(Me? I've just caught another Aussie on the line
 )."Make boats, not war".
Dave M |
| Barry Foote | 14/07/2009 08:48:16 |
161 forum posts 93 photos | Tsk tsk Mr Milbourn......We have kept this very polite.....so far!!
Mind you Dave......Love that sence of humour!!
Soon be Thursday, but it looks like Flintoff is going to cry off again with a minor injury. He really may as well either just play the game working through the pain, as they used to do, or call it a day and retire.......No longer an English hero I am afraid!!! |
| Paul T | 14/07/2009 15:18:11 |
 7340 forum posts 1229 photos 2 articles | Where do they run the sledges? is this some kind of summer bob sleigh sport? |
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