Re: SUPER ENGLAND ASHES TOUR : Sun Nov 28, 2010 9:44 am  

Smiggs wrote:

Great day for England. Hope we now realise that there is nothing to fear form this Aussie bowling attack.

Yep a great day, just about ensures the draw providing there is no major collapse in the morning. I liked the fact that they just did not defend either, both of them looked to play shots and score runs as did Trott when he came in too.

Re: SUPER ENGLAND ASHES TOUR : Sun Nov 28, 2010 10:06 am  

Excellent day. Hopefully we'll continue in the same manner tomorrow. Just need to avoid a collaose in the morning session. Not enough time to set a serious target but if we can get a lead of say 260 with 35 overs left we might cause them a bit of embarrassment.

Just wonder how much longer the press will continue floggiong a dead horse with their ashes coverage. There are pages and pages of coverage of day 3 in todays press which seems as relevant as coverage of the Cardiff test.

Re: SUPER ENGLAND ASHES TOUR : Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:39 pm  

A fantastic fightback and England will go into the next test in great mentle shape if they get the draw from this game. I think we can consider ourselves unlucky not to be right in the box seat for this game after the way Anderson bowled in the first session on day 3. If he had got Hussey(as he should have done) early we'd have won this game imo.

If we collapse tomorrow we need shooting because this Aussie attack is useless.

Re: SUPER ENGLAND ASHES TOUR : Sun Nov 28, 2010 2:55 pm  

This is Alastair Cook's moment, he is 132 not out and now can bat as selfishly as he likes for a full day of Test cricket as it's not like we're going to win, so if we're playing for the draw we may as well just make them stay out in the field all day. He can just do risk free accumulation of runs to get a Test double hundred in Australia which will go down as a legendary match saving innings. Trott as well can just bed down and get a 150+ if he wants.

Re: SUPER ENGLAND ASHES TOUR : Sun Nov 28, 2010 4:50 pm  

Mike Oxlong wrote:

Face it, England were supposed to be the better team going into this match, but 3 days in they have proved little of that. Anyone watching this match can clearly see the Aussies are still better than England, in every department, and if England get crushed in this test, it just sets it up for the usual hammering England get when they go to Australia!!

.....and after 4 days I see you have yet to post How very Australian of you

Re: SUPER ENGLAND ASHES TOUR : Sun Nov 28, 2010 6:17 pm  

This is where the absence of Warne from the Aussie squad starts to show.

If Warne had still been in the team we would have lost easily from the position we were in at the start of the day's play. By now we would be 7 or 8 down at least and Warne would be looking forwards to wrapping us up early on the final day then giving the Aussies two and a half sessions to knock off a target of 120.

As Michael Vaughan was saying in the commentary last night, in the past four Ashes tours down under, things would have been a lot closer, because some of the Aussie wins would have been draws without Warne, and there were one or two close games which could have been England wins.

Re: SUPER ENGLAND ASHES TOUR : Mon Nov 29, 2010 1:00 am  

A few streaky edges through the slips today, nothing to hand until Trott offers Clarke a gimmie which he then drops.

365-1

Re: SUPER ENGLAND ASHES TOUR : Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:03 am  

Fantastic stuff from Cooky. Long overdue and by far his greatest England innings

439-1.
Cook 201 not out Trott 100 not out

Re: SUPER ENGLAND ASHES TOUR : Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:10 am  

fc baldy wrote:

Never have a better chance as our bowling attack is a lot better than the Aussies....only concern is the batting...we need KP to fire and then i think he will drag the other batsmen along with him.

Makes laugh all the concern about KP when Cook is looking dodgey and Collingwood and to a extent Trott as well.

Nowt dodgy looking today

Re: SUPER ENGLAND ASHES TOUR : Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:56 am  

Can someone PM me and let me know where I can watch this game online. As, after 6pm here in Sydney, it won't be on telly and will miss the end.

Ta in advance