Danallica wrote:This is boring as fuck cricket, at least Collingwood is going to town a bit, Warne's just bowling outside leg to stop Pieterson from scoring, in about 2 hrs the crowd will be booing him, then he'll take a wicket, then they'll chant his name again.
LOL Dan. This whole thread has you owned like the mind-fucked kid you are. Your big hit for six on me is you want to have sex my 50 year old mum?
Clark breaks the record breaking partnership by getting Collingwood on 206.
How's your cap' doing today, Dan? Is this part of the props you heap on this lump of a captain? The go slow is an obviously awesome game-plan? It's almost like these Pommy batsmen were let off the hook recently and given a decent nights sleep to think it over when they could've been under the hammer.
Sounds like someone pointed out the obvious to you while it was happening earlier in the week. You were paying attention, weren't you?
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YESTERDAYS cricket was f*cking boring, taking an entire day for two blokes to each get their 50's - Bill Lawry eat your heart out it was Corpse with Pads on in the worst possible way.
Todays been a fair bit better, with the Poms actually trying to hit the ball every now and again, and Collingwood did great to get to his double ton.
England will declare this at around 600 like the Aussies in Test 1 I bet. Then the Aussies will bat for the remaining days. This one's looking like a draw, and a pretty piss poor one too, on a pretty piss poor wicket.
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Danallica wrote: This is boring as fuck cricket, at least Collingwood is going to town a bit, Warne's just bowling outside leg to stop Pieterson from scoring, in about 2 hrs the crowd will be booing him, then he'll take a wicket, then they'll chant his name again.
LOL Dan. This whole thread has you owned like the mind-fucked kid you are. Your big hit for six on me is you want to have sex my 50 year old mum?
Clark breaks the record breaking partnership by getting Collingwood on 206.
How's your cap' doing today, Dan? Is this part of the props you heap on this lump of a captain? The go slow is an obviously awesome game-plan? It's almost like these Pommy batsmen were let off the hook recently and given a decent nights sleep to think it over when they could've been under the hammer.
Sounds like someone pointed out the obvious to you while it was happening earlier in the week. You were paying attention, weren't you?
Unless the AUssies collapse pretty spectacularly this one is definately heading for a draw, and I pretty much doubt that. Te crowds will be lucky if they see more than 1 inning by both teams.
And on another note I'll 2nd FTB's statement, this trading of insults is really boring and half the time doesn't even seem to make sense. Come on guys, just let the argument die, or at least do it civily.
1/28 at stumps, hey. Looks like the tide has more than turned in this series.
I've painfully pointed out that Ponting fucked up majorly on day 3 of the first test and it's led directly to this just 4 days of play later. The way I see it, we've only played 2 days of smart cricket out of the 7, and that's all England have managed too. It's just the stupid mistake of our captain that's been the difference. Even if the Poms don't win this one (which is not out of realm of possibility at all) they'll have their tails up for a similar performance on the spinless batting wicket of the WACA and then they'll unleash Dean Jones' terrorist on the MCG and the SCG to try and steal it.
Hey Dan, do you reckon Flintoff will enforce the follow on if we don't make 352?
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-England winning the toss
-The useless bowling pitch
-England batting WAY better than test 1 (or batting f*cking boring like yesterday! )
-Langer going out to good bowling this evening
Also I don't understand how a single decision in the first test affected any of those above points either.
It sounds to me you just don't like the guy.
And if you claim to be the bigger man, stop egging on Dan perhaps? (please!)
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Ponting's given them the confidence, FTB. When we had the chance to snuff them out, Ponting only saw a chance to up his average. You can't let a team have a sniff these days. That shit might fly when you're playing more series against Zimbabwe and Bangladesh to inflate your win/loss ratio, but it won't work here.
Ponting's now let the English side score their first 500+ run innings in 20 years. Believe me, England would've won a toss or two between then, they just didn't have a softcock of a captain to play against.
The only question that remains is if their bowling will feed off the batting like it did in 2005 and from what we saw this evening the answer is 'yes'.
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I thought Pontings decision to enforce the follow on last game was a good one. He wanted to give his bowlers a rest and if he was trying to boost his average he would have batted on. Brisbane was a good batting wicket and had he sent the Poms back in and they made 500,we would have been batting last. I would have thought England didn't get anything out of last game. They collapsed in both innings, their bowling was rubbish only tacking 10 wickets. And when Australia decided to bat again they did it very easily.
I just think this stinks of last year. McGrath and co skylarking after the game when exactly the same thing happened last year. I think they get ahead of themselves and the selectors don't change anything. McGill, even though he's a tosser, should have come in and Mick Clarke out. There seems to be only 3 batsman that have the mental toughness to get the side out of situations. Langer, Ponting and Hussey. Hayden is on his last rites, he's been a great player but he's always been a flat track bully. Martyn much the same and Gilly hasn't done too much of late.
This Adelaide pitch is very much in favour of batting. Australia bowled ok, but well below their best. Pieterson is a world class batsman and was great and that coupled with Collingwood batting above his talent, it was of no suprise that they scored this many runs. Langer was out to a brut of a ball last night and Hayden and Martyn, well I've already talked how soft their dismisals can be.
Ponting and Hussey are showing them how to bat now. They are going slow, but they have no hope of winning this. Unless something out of the ordinary happens, this will be a draw. I think Australia could take something out of this and re-group. The way England batted and had us 3 down, they should have been pressing for a victory.
My major problem with not enforcing the follow on is that McGrath would've got that clear day off on day 5. There was no need for Ponting to go in _at all_ let alone just to get his not out. We all know he can bat already, I'm still not sold on his captaincy one bit. I don't see the point in winning by 450 instead of an innings and 250 instead.
Interesting day of cricket today. Did Giles drop the Ashes? Maybe, maybe not, but I love the drama of it all. It's still 60/40 England, but that middle session from Ponting and Hussey brought it back a long, long way for us. Pity they're both gone. Good chance for Gilly to pull his finger out at least.
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