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Man Erg 
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 Posted: July 17 2009 at 12:30 |
2 wickets on the dreaded half-nelson (111).Cricket superstitions. Who belives in those eh? 
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akamaisondufromage
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Posted: July 17 2009 at 12:42 |
What a face!!! 
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Matthew T
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Posted: July 17 2009 at 16:34 |
Looks like we have hit a bloody big pothole on the road to glory or you could also say we are up sh*t creek without a paddle Ponting face above says it all.
I really can't see us avoiding the Follow on and the question now is whether Strauss will make us and take the risk that we could make a big score. Also with rain predicted it would rob you of a win as it could fizzle out to a draw. If he takes the other option and gets England to bat again and try and get another 300 runs he would have a strangle hold on the match and then make us chase it.
Anyway we have our backs to the wall and the indignity of losing at Lords. Even my wife said Oh no and she is not a cricket fan 
I like games like this  . One other comment Ponting was out anyway LBW so you won't hear me moaniin" and also dodgy calls are part of cricket. Imagine how boring and sterile it will become if we use cameras for all decisions. All in all the umpires a do a good job and normally these things seem to balance out at the end of the series with contentious umpiring decisions.
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Posted: July 18 2009 at 05:03 |
Nuff said!!
(long way to go in this test yet though)
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Posted: July 18 2009 at 05:15 |
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Haha, brilliance
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Man Erg
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Posted: July 18 2009 at 12:39 |
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Interesting chat during the radio commentry today.
Angus Frazer was at a meeting somewhere recently when someone offered the proposition that leg-byes should no longer count as runs against the bowling side and should be taken out of the game all together.
My thought on this is to keep leg-byes in test cricket but in the shorter form of the game,take them away....
Edited by Man Erg - July 18 2009 at 12:41
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Matthew T
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Posted: July 18 2009 at 15:43 |
Man Erg wrote:
Interesting chat during the radio commentry today.
Angus Frazer was at a meeting somewhere recently when someone offered the proposition that leg-byes should no longer count as runs against the bowling side and should be taken out of the game all together.
My thought on this is to keep leg-byes in test cricket but in the shorter form of the game,take them away....
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That is interesting,my feelings are the same. I really do not want rule changes........there are not many things in this world where I have a conservative opinion but with Test cricket it should be left as is. As you may notice I am not really keen on the 3rd umpire. Who would want to umpire any major sport these days. Would Dickie Bird have made every one of his decisions correctly if we could slow them up and look at them for 5 minutes while he was lucky to have 0.1 of a second.
Anyway the game, Strauss has done the right approach to this and if we even draw it now it will be a miracle. Has Prior been getting coaching of Gilchrist  . My fav batsman on your side Mr Paul Collingwood has made a another good contribution. You have us on Toast.
Well the boot is on the other foot for this series now and the team is not the same. The knives are begining to appear with the press here concerning Ponting's Captaincy already. The comment is normally..." if we lose this series it will be 3 out of the last 4" etc. It is a shame I know that you all would like nothing better to see him given the bums rush but credit where credit is due he is an amazing batsman and a wonderful cricketer but any captain could have won test series with Glen McGrath and Shane Warne in your attack.
I am still optimistic though for the series. After this hiding we will need to regroup and knuckledown to some tough Test cricket 
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Matthew T
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Posted: July 18 2009 at 15:55 |
Oh I nearly forgot, it is the Lords Test we are about to lose  
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: July 18 2009 at 16:17 |
By "we" do you mean England? England haven't won a test match at Lord's since 1934.  I predict a draw (due mostly to rain delays and an Aussie fightback).
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Matthew T
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Posted: July 18 2009 at 16:26 |
I know, that is why it hurts for us Aussies
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Posted: July 18 2009 at 16:30 |
It hurts to be successful? I expect Strauss to declare first thing... perhaps even before the game restarts. He could in theory let them come back on for 30 minutes (so Flintoff can get a 50!) but I doubt it. Then we have what... two days to bowl you guys out?
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Matthew T
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Posted: July 18 2009 at 16:55 |
James wrote:
It hurts to be successful?
I expect Strauss to declare first thing... perhaps even before the game restarts. He could in theory let them come back on for 30 minutes (so Flintoff can get a 50!) but I doubt it.
Then we have what... two days to bowl you guys out?
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Do you think we can still win from that position, we are already over 500 hundred in the arrears. I suspect the other way Strauss will try and get another hundred up,he has the time and then it will be up to to us to chase a score of well over 600 on a pitch that is starting to break up.Rain will be the only issue for England( for once ) Our bowlers really need to try and get some swing like Anderson has been getting which would make a difference. It was the swing bowling that seemed to rattle the batting in the team in 2005 as well.
Anyway I am pessimistic and good on England for making this interesting. As you might suspect for me this is the Holy Grail of cricket when you play the Ashes
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Posted: July 18 2009 at 17:39 |
Well no, hence why I said it could be a draw. I still think we will win if the rain holds up.
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Posted: July 19 2009 at 07:47 |
Ponting's GONE!!!!!  
Edited by akamaisondufromage - July 19 2009 at 07:50
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Matthew T
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Posted: July 19 2009 at 16:47 |
A glimmer of hope, could it rain, maybe bad light or Freddy could breakdown with that dicky knee and last but not least maybe the batsman can do it. Clarke and Haddin but it will be a real Harry Houdini if we still get out of this. . Anyway good job so far by those 2.
I will be away for the next few days. My wife and I are having our yearly holiday together with NO KIDS even though the youngest is 19 and where we are off too there ain't no internet.
So I am not runnin' if or more likely when we lose. I am just on holiday down the coast which I love in Winter. Nobody hardly there and the sound of the ocean and the birds.
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Posted: July 19 2009 at 20:28 |
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There's still a glimmer of hope.
I'm not going to say much about the umpiring because all teams have to put up with poor decisions - it's a part of the game, despite the advancements in technology which are designed to help. This innings the Aussies have copped their fair share of bad luck with these decisions . The failure to call the Flintoff ' no ball' to Katich, the failure of the umps to refer the Hughes edge despite the on-field conjecture about it and Hussey missing the Swann ball into the footmarks, not by the width of a cigarette paper but more like the width of a packet of Rizzlas or Tally Hos.
Even just one of those unfortunate batsmen up our sleave would have made it very interesting . Just one breakthrough now on the 5th day is all England will need .
I knew they'd make us pay ! !
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Looking still the same after all these years...
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Man Erg
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Posted: July 20 2009 at 07:32 |
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Huzzah!!!
A Freddie Five for...
England 1-0 up in the series.
Bad luck Australia. You put up a very good show but it just wasn't to be.
Here's looking forward to the third test.
Edited by Man Erg - July 20 2009 at 07:34
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Posted: July 20 2009 at 08:53 |
I would look forward to the third test but I don't have Sky and Radio 5 is just bad... 
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Man Erg
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Posted: July 20 2009 at 10:53 |
James wrote:
I would look forward to the third test but I don't have Sky and Radio 5 is just bad...
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I'll make sure to let you know how England get on,James.
I was listening to Blowers et al this weekend.Much hilarity.Especially when Michael Atherton came into the commentary box and stole Blowers and 'Gus Frazer's pork pie.Some of Tuffers' anecdotes were quite humerous too.
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Posted: July 20 2009 at 10:56 |
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I'd like to know what Glenn McGrath has changed his prediction of 5-0 to the Aussies to now!!! 3-1?
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