Cricket: Test Cricket

[Ou grote]

That might just keel over and die.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00820/Ricky_Ponting_280x3_820288a.jpg

Aussies may as well have kept Hughes in on this flat track so he can find form.
Can't believe they dropped him after 2 tests.

Aussie selectors are a bit meaner than the SA ones.

 

[Devill]

Aussies may as well have kept Hughes in on this flat track so he can find form.
Can't believe they dropped him after 2 tests.

Aussie selectors are a bit meaner than the SA ones.

Yeah. But they have almost worked him out 100%...

like Duminey he is not the best player of the shorter ball... Or maybe they figured they should just experiment while they can't really do a lot worse atm

 

[OzzieCapie]

Thought Luke Ronchi (spelling?)was #2.

Appears to have lost favour...well Manou was picked so I guess he is now #2

 

[Ou grote]

Yeah. But they have almost worked him out 100%...

like Duminey he is not the best player of the shorter ball... Or maybe they figured they should just experiment while they can't really do a lot worse atm

They pounded him with short balls when he was here - it was our strategy.

Appears to have lost favour...well Manou was picked so I guess he is now #2

Last few years he's been making headlines for a few "explosive" innings.

 

[Ou grote]

Watson out first ball of the day.
That's more like it.

Australia 126/2 (30.1 ov)

 

[R13...]

another wicket! hussey gone!
what's with the aussies and mornings..?

 

[killadoob]

Lack of talent maybe?

 

[Devill]

Can believe im actually hoping the english do well

Goooo you Aussie bashers!

 

[killadoob]

I want the english to win so SA can go number 1 again

 

[Ou grote]

Nog eenetjie

Onions to Ponting, OUT, got him! He's out! A quick bouncer, Ponting went for a hook and got a thin edge through to Prior. Onions has bowled so, so well this morning

RT Ponting c †Prior b Onions 38 (47b 5x4 0x6) SR: 80.85

 

[Devill]

Nog eenetjie

Onions to Ponting, OUT, got him! He's out! A quick bouncer, Ponting went for a hook and got a thin edge through to Prior. Onions has bowled so, so well this morning

RT Ponting c †Prior b Onions 38 (47b 5x4 0x6) SR: 80.85

And Field Marshal Grumpy is gone!

 

[Ou grote]

And Field Marshal Grumpy is gone!

And his sidekick
Australia 197/5 (50.2 ov)

Clarke got dropped by Freddie earlier.

 

[Ou grote]

Australia 203/7 (53.4 ov)


Mr Anderson in on the act.

Make that 8 down
Mr Anderson has 4

 

[chiskop]

Australia 203-8

Manou 8.

Anderson 4 wickets for 4 runs in 13 balls.

 

[Devill]

Hope the english keep doing well and the rain stays away

 

[Ou grote]

Hope the english keep doing well and the rain stays away

2.40pm And play has been abandoned for the day, and what a miserable scene this is for the poor old groundsmen. It's dark, gloomy, cold and chucking it down. And it's the end of our comms, too. So do join us tomorrow morning at 10.30am, when hopefully we'll have better news for you. Until then, t'ra

 

[Sting]

Result?

Draw due to rain delays...!!!

*bump*

 

[Kilgore_Trout_Redux]

Did anyone else hear Warnie whining when Koertzen didn't give that LBW and Hawkeye showed it clearly going over the top? Classic stuff.

 

[Ou grote]

Australia 263 & 88/2 (28.0 ov)

England 376

Australia trail by 25 runs with 8 wickets remaining

Small chance of a result tmrw.
Need another Aussie collapse though.

 

[Sting]

Still odds on for a draw.