Sometimes it's hard to be an ... Aussie

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  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Yeah, going to be staying up to watch the first session again.
  • ratsbeyfus
    ratsbeyfus Posts: 2,841
    Just got the news that my work is closed tomorrow so I'll be able to listen to my first bit of this year's Ashes. Snow is cool!

    I had one of them red bikes but I don't any more. Sad face.

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  • JohnnyAllez
    JohnnyAllez Posts: 785
    I`ll give our boys a cheer when I cycle past the Waca in a couple of weeks time :D
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  • gregster10217
    gregster10217 Posts: 469
    Just remember what happened at Adelaide last time? Hope that happens again, although would rather a straight forward stuffing!!! Lets hope for a good match whatever, always enjoy seeing good cricket.
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  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Lovely ground the Adelaide Oval. Punter wins the toss and the Ausbos will have a bat.
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Stewie Griffin wrote:
    Lovely ground the Adelaide Oval. Punter wins the toss and the Ausbos will have a bat.

    Ah, I was wondering what time the toss took place. So, a reasonable to average England performance and it's a draw. They'll have to fail monstrously to lose this one. Always possible, of course. But a draw = 70%, Australia victory = 10%, England victory = 20%.

    That's my probabilities, others will probably have others...
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  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Saw the draw at evens and both teams at 5/2 a couple of hours ago. That was before Katich peed his wicket away. Good start. :lol:
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Nice.
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Jaysus, even nicer!
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Punter has gone too.0/2 8)
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Incredible, been waiting years for a moment like this!!!
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Did I just predict a draw? :oops: :wink:
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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    So have the Aussies concocted a bowling pitch, knowing that their bowling attack is weak?
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  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Don't think so, first wicket a run out due to poor decision and two nicks to slip which were down to some very good bowling. Plenty of time to go yet though.
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    verylonglegs wrote:
    Don't think so, first wicket a run out due to poor decision and two nicks to slip which were down to some very good bowling. Plenty of time to go yet though.

    Sure, we've just had a hat-trick and the team at the receiving end ended up marginally ahead. Cricket and counting chickens don't go well together.
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  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    at the end there Ponting was definitely ruffled, we have already got under his skin - he now knows he has the second best team here. All good news for us
  • gregster10217
    gregster10217 Posts: 469
    Remaining very quiet at the moment!!! :shock:
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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    What an astonishing day's play! Is that really England playing at the top of their game in Australia?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    At the end of it all the game is in exactly the same position as the first test at the end of day 1 so as I said then, you can't tell anything until both sides have batted (and even then you never know!). Looked like some very good bowling though.
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Hmmn, similiar start to yesterday...early wicket. :(
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    I missed the first 10 minutes of play yesterday and the first 5 minutes tonight. That's 4 wickets that have escaped me.
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  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Shocking leave, can't believe he shouldered arms to that ball. Whatever happens for the rest of the day he will rue that.
  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    and fortunately the rest of the day was glorious with Ponting at the end of it not knowing what to do or who to turn to .... England rock solid in control of this series at the moment
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    The aborigines had a better go at getting rid of Cook back in 1770.
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  • plowmar
    plowmar Posts: 1,032
    edited December 2010
    Wasn't that Hawaii way?
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    RichN95 wrote:
    The aborigines had a better go at getting rid of Cook back in 1770.

    Ha ha, he's been cooking for a thousand minutes now and he's still not done!
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  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    deptfordmarmoset wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    The aborigines had a better go at getting rid of Cook back in 1770.

    Ha ha, he's been cooking for a thousand minutes now and he's still not done!

    genius !!

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  • gregster10217
    gregster10217 Posts: 469
    The only positive I can see for us is that Strauss is having a mare opening the batting. Out for very very little in both tets so far. I know that will be playing on his mind, but other than that, I have to concede - upper hand England at close of play today.
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  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    gregster10217 wrote:
    The only positive I can see for us is that Strauss is having a mare opening the batting. Out for very very little in both tets so far. I know that will be playing on his mind, but other than that, I have to concede - upper hand England at close of play today.

    Apart from his ton at the Gabba? Bat nearly all day tomorrow, another 300 on, another double for Cook, stick them in with a few overs left and have a pop at their vulnerable top order again. No genuine opening batsman, Punter under pressure, Clarke out of sorts and a long tail too.

    If it wasn't against the Ausbos, Cook beating so many of Wally Hammond's records could be considered quite rude :lol:
  • gregster10217
    gregster10217 Posts: 469
    Yeah, he got a ton at the Gabba, second innings, but has twice gotten out within 'balls' being bowled, not overs.
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