England v Australia, 3rd Test, Edgbaston, Jul 30 - Aug 3

He's not a Cat either Chiv, jeez, get with the programme 'dude'.

Well looking at the forecast, it looks like rain,rain and more rain...

Huzzah, 1-0 up with 2 to play.

DJ_Smerk wrote:He's not a Cat either Chiv, jeez, get with the programme 'dude'.

Shur'rup Welshie and stop engaging in coitus with creatures of the ovine variety.

Chivalry Augustus wrote:

DJ_Smerk wrote:He's not a Cat either Chiv, jeez, get with the programme 'dude'.

Shur'rup Welshie and stop engaging in coitus with creatures of the ovine variety.

Stop being a Notts fanboy.

Reports here in Aus indicate that the curator says the Edgbaston wicket with be a seamer.

Or is this just a ploy to make us play Midge?

skully wrote:Reports here in Aus indicate that the curator says the Edgbaston wicket with be a seamer.

Or is this just a ploy to make us play Midge?

Dosn't matter what the pitch is if you can't hit it

It'll be as dead as death.

Pretty much all the matches at Edgy this season have been bore draws on their pudding pitches.

Groundsman's already started making his excuses for what is sure to be a slow, low, lifeless piece of crap pitch.

Throw in all the rain that's forecast, and you've got all the ingredients for a "no result".

Good for England, but shit for cricket fans.

skully wrote:What the fark's Troy Cooley's story? I seem to recall this time 4 years ago he was being bigged up as a farkin genius. All he's done now is turn a quick and moderately successful bowler into complete sh!t.

What is going on???

Possibly Cooley was lucky in that he was coaching England's bowlers at a time of high mint availability.

What's the weather like in Old Trafford this week?

JKLever wrote:

Merlin wrote:

JKLever wrote:Merls want Anderson batting 8 with a rickety 3-5, heh

Yaeay heaay .... .
Why not Leve's ?
Don't 2 pressure knocks count anymore?
Or are you taking Broad's "all rounder" status to a new level?
Why not bat Broad at 10 ??
Strengthens the tail !!

Get in there Jimmy boy!

Yeah, go Jimmy with your highest FC score in a whole career of 37. Whoop them Aussies good.

JK, given the way Australia's bowlers have fared recently against tail enders, Jimmy may well have his maiden Test century within the week.

Zat wrote:

JKLever wrote:

Merlin wrote:

JKLever wrote:Merls want Anderson batting 8 with a rickety 3-5, heh

Yaeay heaay .... .
Why not Leve's ?
Don't 2 pressure knocks count anymore?
Or are you taking Broad's "all rounder" status to a new level?
Why not bat Broad at 10 ??
Strengthens the tail !!

Get in there Jimmy boy!

Yeah, go Jimmy with your highest FC score in a whole career of 37. Whoop them Aussies good.

JK, given the way Australia's bowlers have fared recently against tail enders, Jimmy may well have his maiden Test century within the week.

Nah, you just need a good first innings score. That's where you went wrong at Lords.

Zat wrote:

JKLever wrote:

Merlin wrote:

JKLever wrote:Merls want Anderson batting 8 with a rickety 3-5, heh

Yaeay heaay .... .
Why not Leve's ?
Don't 2 pressure knocks count anymore?
Or are you taking Broad's "all rounder" status to a new level?
Why not bat Broad at 10 ??
Strengthens the tail !!

Get in there Jimmy boy!

Yeah, go Jimmy with your highest FC score in a whole career of 37. Whoop them Aussies good.

JK, given the way Australia's bowlers have fared recently against tail enders, Jimmy may well have his maiden Test century within the week.

meh, you are assuming he gets a bat. HTF are we going to get through Bell and Colly?

DJ_Smerk wrote:What's the weather like in Old Trafford this week?

Dunno, but here's the 10 day forecast for Birmingham

Chivalry Augustus wrote:Graeme Swann is a better bat than Stuart Broad. Broad's extra batting is useless when he can't bowl for toffee. Though what toffee's got to do with it? I don't know.

Does toffee work as well as mint to keep one side of the ball shiny?

Zat wrote:

DJ_Smerk wrote:What's the weather like in Old Trafford this week?

Dunno, but here's the 10 day forecast for Birmingham

5 days of on and off cricket then.

Zat wrote:

skully wrote:What the fark's Troy Cooley's story? I seem to recall this time 4 years ago he was being bigged up as a farkin genius. All he's done now is turn a quick and moderately successful bowler into complete sh!t.

What is going on???

Possibly Cooley was lucky in that he was coaching England's bowlers at a time of high mint availability.

Can't win them all. Cooley helped Harmison, Jones and Flintoff to hone their games (Hoggard didn't really need any help), but completely destroyed Jimmy Anderson's action into the bargain.

Also remodelled Liam Plunkett's action - and left before he'd finished the job. The poor kid is like a little lost lamb now.

DJ_Smerk wrote:

Zat wrote:

DJ_Smerk wrote:What's the weather like in Old Trafford this week?

Dunno, but here's the 10 day forecast for Birmingham

5 days of on and off cricket then.

You'll be lucky. The water table at Edgy is said to be really high after taking a drowning in the past couple of weeks (and due some more wet stuff in the build up to day one).

Showers could well wipe out entire days. Which, going by that forecast, would leave precious little playing time.

Dello wrote:

DJ_Smerk wrote:

Zat wrote:

DJ_Smerk wrote:What's the weather like in Old Trafford this week?

Dunno, but here's the 10 day forecast for Birmingham

5 days of on and off cricket then.

You'll be lucky. The water table at Edgy is said to be really high after taking a drowning in the past couple of weeks (and due some more wet stuff in the build up to day one).

Showers could well wipe out entire days. Which, going by that forecast, would leave precious little playing time.

Still hoping for Jimmy to hoop it round corners when given a chance?

No-one else has hooped it at Edgbaston this season.

It's been draw-central.

Dello wrote:No-one else has hooped it at Edgbaston this season.

It's been draw-central.

Shame.

Dello wrote:No-one else has hooped it at Edgbaston this season.

It's been draw-central.

Well, 3 bore draws from here wouldn't go amiss...

JKLever wrote:

Dello wrote:No-one else has hooped it at Edgbaston this season.

It's been draw-central.

Well, 3 bore draws from here wouldn't go amiss...

Are we the West Indies now? Test cricket's in bad enough shape without one of the nations who actually still like it trying to kill it off.

I'd rather mash them into the dust, i'd still take the draws though. It's the Ashes FFS.

We can play the good test cricket samaritans in SA

Touche Dello. There was bugger all to discuss when this happened last time.

Dello wrote:

JKLever wrote:

Dello wrote:No-one else has hooped it at Edgbaston this season.

It's been draw-central.

Well, 3 bore draws from here wouldn't go amiss...

Are we the West Indies now? Test cricket's in bad enough shape without one of the nations who actually still like it trying to kill it off.

A drawn series would be a great result all-round. Especially for anyone who took juicy odds on one before it started.