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Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 7:40 am
by Galasso
RaM wrote:Just back from my week away, where I barely slept for watching cricket until 3:30 in the morning. :lol:

I'm hoping the Aussies can do it. Time for Clarke to get a massive score. Although one wicket for the poms and its all over. :oops: Must say I thought it was going to be over very quickly after the fourth wicket.
Clarke's very tidy with the bat. I think if he can stay there for a while, reduce the total then the aussies have a chance.

And if we see as many fours when Johnson is batting than when he was bowling...then we're fucked :lol: 8)

Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:46 am
by flash gunner
1-0 up :D

Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:46 am
by Galasso
Flintoff is going to leave a big hole in this side.

Well done England :D :barscarf:

Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:54 am
by NBM
Top stuff, really thought we'd be in for a long afternoon of biting the nails! :barscarf:

Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:54 am
by RaM
Well, guess it won't be a really late night for me tonight then. :lol:

Australia will win the next one. :)

Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:51 pm
by corkbarry
RaM wrote:Well, guess it won't be a really late night for me tonight then. :lol:

Australia will win the next one. :)

Naw, it will rain for the rest of the summer :lol:

Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:09 pm
by NBM
Here's hoping! :barscarf:

Re: England Bat Again...SHOCK!!!!

Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:55 pm
by I Hate Hleb
mrgnu1958 wrote:Why didnt England let the Aussies follow on?????????
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

MADNESS!!!
Just goes to show Mrgnu, you shouldn't believe everything that the likes of Botham and the other 'experts' that were criticising Strauss for not inforcing the follow on say.

Remember that Strauss is the Middlesex skipper and knows as well as anyone how the surface at Lords is going to play. He rightly said after the second day that the pitch is normally at its best for batting on day 3 - which England took advantage of to score quick runs, whereas if the experts had been listened to, Australia would have enjoyed those benefits and set a stiff target for England to get in the 4th Innings. And with the way we handle pressure normally, whose to say we would have won?

I just hope the critics are as quick to praise Andrew Strauss as they were to give him stick, but I somehow doubt it. :roll: :roll: :wink: :lol: :wink:

Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:44 am
by RaM
In the group of people I was watching the match with, I don't think anyone expected England to send Australia in to bat.

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 3:24 pm
by flash gunner
Kevin Pieterson out of the rest of the ashes :?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 162048.stm

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:06 pm
by REB
flash gunner wrote:Kevin Pieterson out of the rest of the ashes :?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 162048.stm
you lot will miss the south african :lol:
have you any aussies or indians that might want to be english to play for you :lol:

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:07 pm
by flash gunner
REBEL GOONER wrote:
flash gunner wrote:Kevin Pieterson out of the rest of the ashes :?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 162048.stm
you lot will miss the south african :lol:
have you any aussies or indians that might want to be english to play for you :lol:
Being born here are you available next Thursday? Keep your phone on :wink: :lol:

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:39 pm
by REB
flash gunner wrote:
REBEL GOONER wrote:
flash gunner wrote:Kevin Pieterson out of the rest of the ashes :?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 162048.stm
you lot will miss the south african :lol:
have you any aussies or indians that might want to be english to play for you :lol:
Being born here are you available next Thursday? Keep your phone on :wink: :lol:
:lol:

give me a game of hurling anyday over that poncy game cricket :wink:

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:04 pm
by xDAVEYx
REBEL GOONER wrote:
flash gunner wrote:Kevin Pieterson out of the rest of the ashes :?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 162048.stm
you lot will miss the south african :lol:
have you any aussies or indians that might want to be english to play for you :lol:
its ok, we still have strauss and prior to keep us in check :wink:

is pietersen really a loss? is there any way he can take bopara and broad with him?

Cricket stuff....

Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 2:20 am
by wilson2.0
As an Aussie, the World Cup is our bread and butter. Won it 5 times with the next closest being India & the West Indies on 2. Won 3 of the past 4 tournaments as well.

This is England's best chance to win it. Its bigger than the Rugby World Cup. So if you cant win the football World Cup, then this is a good alternative