Australia v England, 1st Test, Brisbane, Nov 25-29, 2010

You are too kind.

Yeah but don't tell everyone else. They'll expect similar treatment.

Deal.

skully wrote:

Rob I wrote:First ball of the series: Broad to TAYne POCson: short, wide, POCson square-cuts it handsomely for four!

FFS. If Watson is in the side as opener, I'll cut my throat.

And is Northeast really a name?

The new direction of English cricket.....

Why bother throwing about these new names, we all know it's going to be:

Strauss
Cook
Bell
Pietersen
Collingwood
Prior
Some useless all-rounder picked as "new Flintoff"
Broad
Anderson
Sidebottom/Onions
Panesar

Henry wrote:Could be a close series, with Australia looking to retain the urn, and England sending out a relatively inexperienced, but talented young team. I think England will be-

Strauss
Northeast
Cook
Pietersen(c) (The new diplomatic KP)
Hildreth
Prior+
Rashid
Woakes
Fletcher
Sidebottom
Finn


Thoughts?

Strauss
Cook
Bopara
Pietersen
Collingwood
Kieswetter
Rashid
Broad
Anderson
Finn
Onions

With Swann, Woakes, Moore and Hildreth in the party as well.

Henry wrote:Could be a close series, with Australia looking to retain the urn, and England sending out a relatively inexperienced, but talented young team. I think England will be-

Strauss
Northeast
Cook
Pietersen(c) (The new diplomatic KP)
Hildreth
Prior+
Rashid
Woakes
Fletcher
Sidebottom
Finn


Thoughts?

4 out of 11, I reckon

skully wrote:

Rob I wrote:First ball of the series: Broad to TAYne POCson: short, wide, POCson square-cuts it handsomely for four!

FFS. If Watson is in the side as opener, I'll cut my throat.

nah, don't do it ...

beamer wrote:Why bother throwing about these new names, we all know it's going to be:

Strauss
Cook
Bell
Pietersen
Collingwood
Prior
Some useless all-rounder picked as "new Flintoff"
Broad
Anderson
Sidebottom/Onions
Panesar

fairly sage ... Swann is the new Flintoff and you might have both Sidebottom AND Onions

skully wrote:

Rob I wrote:First ball of the series: Broad to TAYne POCson: short, wide, POCson square-cuts it handsomely for four!

FFS. If Watson is in the side as opener, I'll cut my throat.

Not long to get your post count up then.

I believe I started this thread seething at England's performance on day 1 of the Headingley test last year. Call it my 'Invader Zim Lord's 2005, lunch break day 1' moment.....

lardbucket wrote:

skully wrote:

Rob I wrote:First ball of the series: Broad to TAYne POCson: short, wide, POCson square-cuts it handsomely for four!

FFS. If Watson is in the side as opener, I'll cut my throat.

nah, don't do it ...

Hehehe. My, how things change.

Some things change ... but Mudge is always the first to jump on thre bandwagon of a young English hopeful ('he made a gutsy 58 on debut, he'll be in the test team in two years) yet also the first to jump off the team bandwagon when things start to go slightly awry.

Zat wrote:

skully wrote:Northeast really a name?

An adjective I would have thought. Found about 45 degree below and to the right of North.

If you could combine Marcus North and Ray East.....

actually, you'd still have a fairly sh!t cricketer.

toss in ray bright and you have really carp cricket on a sunny day with a gentle nor easter

lardbucket wrote:

skully wrote:

Rob I wrote:First ball of the series: Broad to TAYne POCson: short, wide, POCson square-cuts it handsomely for four!

FFS. If Watson is in the side as opener, I'll cut my throat.

nah, don't do it ...

If we post the video it would probably increase the post count

woody in I'm into snuff movies shocker . . .

G.Wood wrote:

lardbucket wrote:

skully wrote:

Rob I wrote:First ball of the series: Broad to TAYne POCson: short, wide, POCson square-cuts it handsomely for four!

FFS. If Watson is in the side as opener, I'll cut my throat.

nah, don't do it ...

If we post the video it would probably increase the post count

[yet again looks over shoulder for the cameras]

re the thread title ... the game starts a week later than currently indicated, running from 25-29 November.

predictions? So many questions ...

Will Strauss win the toss and put Australia in to bat?

Will the first ball that travels from the bowler's hand to second slip kiss an outside edge on the way this time?

Can England reverse the 2006-7 scoreline?

Will Zat show mercy to ANY English cricketer in Melbourne this time around?

I think the scoreline at Melbourne might have a lot to do with that last one, lardy . .

nice to see tac coming out of the basement (tho not in the sense of mudge and RD) to declare his interest in matters cricket

Forgive the little ad at the start. Here's something to turn the stomaches of a few English comrades.

It's not working!!!

Meh, works just fine for me.