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

skully wrote:And there's me thinking it was a mandarine.

Simon Taufel?

So anyway, I'm settling in to watch us get slaughtered. What have I missed?

BROADY!!!!

Okay ... I take it back.

Well bowled cheeky chappie Broadley!

BIG wicket.

Never had any doubt he'd take a wicket..........

Stuart Broad is God.

Though more seriously, that's what I meant when I said I didn't mind him being driven. If he keeps it full then he has the chance of getting a nick. It's when he bowls short and you can't set a field to him it's a real problem.

vilkrang wrote:Have to say, the amount of woofing/reverse-woofing that has been going on in this series is disgraceful. We should all (myself included) be ashamed of ourselves. We aren't playing in the spirit of FB.

Bulltwang! FB was built on a foundation of woofing.

Aus 48-4

Nothing shot from Hussey. And he goes out to the pie chucker. :o

OK! So it was CB rather than second slip.

Stick Flintoff straight back on to North.

Henry wrote:Never had any doubt he'd take a wicket..........

Errrr ... yeah, I believe you!


Not.

C'mon, one more wicket before nosh time - and they're done for.

Invader Zim wrote:Enough with the woofing already...

Agreed.

I'm still not so sure.... no woofing intended. I can see them being a little less expansive now, they'll attempt to shut up shop. We know the tail like a biff, so if they take the next session out of the game adding another ton then we'll be faced with 150 in 30ish overs. It's quite possible we'll be 5 down for 70 and looking all at sea.

Shit, it sounds like a woof, but I know what I mean...

Any rain on the way?

Maybe very late in the day according to the last forecast I read. There's a link to the Pom Met Office forecast somewhere a few pages back, say about p 8.

Invader Zim wrote:Any rain on the way?

I farking hope so with North going hunting for yorkers ten yards outside off stump.

Bradman wrote:

Invader Zim wrote:Any rain on the way?

I farking hope so with North going hunting for yorkers ten yards outside off stump.

It's always possible in this country. Weather forecasts are somewhere to the left of your horoscope over here.

England's session, but I'll take 2 for 80-odd in the next session.

Test cricket - nail-biting stuff.

We are one wicket from Ashes oblivion.

Shoeshine wrote:

Bradman wrote:

Invader Zim wrote:Any rain on the way?

I farking hope so with North going hunting for yorkers ten yards outside off stump.

It's always possible in this country. Weather forecasts are somewhere to the left of your horoscope over here.

Yeah I keep forgetting the place is about as wide as a stock route.

We are one wicket from Ashes oblivion.

Idiot. We are already ******.

skully wrote:England's session, but I'll take 2 for 80-odd in the next session.

Test cricket - nail-biting stuff.

We are one wicket from Ashes oblivion.

No skulls. We need to win one test and they need to draw two. Gone are the days of whitewashing them.

Thanks for the bracing insight and in depth analysis, Zim and qmy.

If we survive this Test and pull a win out of our arse in the next 2, then we can retain the Ashes. QED.

Not hard to survive this Test. Aus have simply to survive a session.