England v Australia, 1st Test, Cardiff, 8-12 July, 2015

Australia being 250 odd for 5... Where have I seen this before? 450 definitely still on.

264/5 at Stumps.

I'd say England edged the day after getting Voges.

I'd have taken this score at the start of the day. I thought we were going to get rolled, and not take 5 wickets by niw

Brass Monkey wrote:I'd have taken this score at the start of the day. I thought we were going to get rolled, and not take 5 wickets by niw

Agree, but getting them 5 down was never a problem. It's the tail and Haddin that punished us most severely previously.

vilkrang wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:I'd have taken this score at the start of the day. I thought we were going to get rolled, and not take 5 wickets by niw

Agree, but getting them 5 down was never a problem. It's the tail and Haddin that punished us most severely previously.

Ruddy true. I still didn't think we had it in us

Yup, I think we had lost every other test on the 2013-14 tour after day two so to still be in the match and doing well in the match seems miraculous.

Good two sessions to miss; needed sleep after watching day 1 til stumps.

England has edged both days and the result of this match depends on d3 session 1. Australa needs to be able to level the scores in order to stay in the game, given the pace it's been played at so far.

In my dreams NW Lyon plays his best innings ever for 80 and Watson, Haddin, and the tail make another 160 between them, to put us around level terms.

Sadly Watson has already made his 'pretty 30' and we are more likely to lose 5-40 to Anderson and Broad first up tonight.

Broad and Anderson...

They're most dangerous when being derided by their own.

The thing is, they didn't bowl badly overall... it's just that they're like novices with the new ball of recent times. I'd give the new ball to Stokes and Wood.

Well that's disappointing. Fell asleep like an old grandpa at around midnight when Rogers and Smith were cruising. Had hoped for a 2-280 scoreline. 5-264 is below the odds, particularly with all 6 of the top order making starts. Poor. At least we've avoided the follow-on.

I like the looks of Wood. Super economical run up, good pace, excellent swing.

30s and 40s don't cut the mustard. lousy batsmen

Wood looked the most threatening bowler. However he doesn't find a good length often enough. Nothing in the is pitch, and there was minimal reverse swing. Moeen didn't really bowl all that well. Aus just gifted him a couple of wickets.

Two sloppy days of test cricket by Oz. scary that we are now relying on Watto and Haddin to get us out of the mess.

Brass Monkey wrote:Cakewalk.

yeah. crank up that double decker bus cos its gonna be needed right after the third game

congratulations to england

vilkrang wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:I'd have taken this score at the start of the day. I thought we were going to get rolled, and not take 5 wickets by niw

Agree, but getting them 5 down was never a problem. It's the tail and Haddin that punished us most severely previously.

relying on haddin to win a match is like relying on a politician to tell the truth

Regardless it's been good to watch. Two days, 15 wickets and 700 runs. A pitch full of a lot of potential problems that hasn't yet been exploited properly and a will they/won't they tailorder battle to come. Apart from the weather would have been a lovely test to go to.

All set up for a big Watto ton to cement his Test place for another two years of submediocrity

Well maybe a Watto just ton or doing a Rogers. A near ton toiling with the tail should do him for another couple of years.

Bradman wrote:Well maybe a Watto just ton or doing a Rogers.  A near ton toiling with the tail should do him for another couple of years.

How shit having to hope for a Twat ton to avoid a shit start to the series. I would've much preferred a failure so we can piss the qunt off.

Just saw the dismissals. Ugh, talk about throwing wickets away.

Clearly the new ball will be the key otherwise the tail has some potential to approach parity.

I might be going out on a limb here by I reckon will be out trying a lofted cover drive or off drive.

He'll qunt it up like the qunty qunt that he is.

Ethics? The Gall! wrote:

vilkrang wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:I'd have taken this score at the start of the day. I thought we were going to get rolled, and not take 5 wickets by niw

Agree, but getting them 5 down was never a problem. It's the tail and Haddin that punished us most severely previously.

relying on haddin to win a match is like relying on a politician to tell the truth

You have a short memory. When did you start watching cricket?