The Ashes(second test)Adelaide

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2nd test in a couple of hours and england need to seriously improve if there to get anything out of this game.


thoughts.....

mike65

Who's selected? Monty? Giles?

Mike.

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i cant find any info of selections atm

Royale with Cheese

It's an unchanged team from the last test, so no Monty.

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Royale with Cheese wrote:

It's an unchanged team from the last test, so no Monty.

where did you get that info?

mike65

sighs.

Mike.

Royale with Cheese

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where did you get that info?

Saw it on the skynews infobar, although the recpetion was dreadful so it may have said squad and not team.

Edit: Nope, definitely no Monty

mike65

England win toss

Mike.

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england win the toss and will bat

kensutz

No bloody Monty, he should be in there instead of Giles.

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england need a big score,400 plus to have any hope

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and it was going so well.

england 32-1,strauss out

Royale with Cheese

This is slow stuff. England 58/2 at lunch. Bell has 9 from 44 balls. Can't believe I've stayed up this long.

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first days play
Adelaide
England 266-3 (P D Collingwood 98 no, K P Pietersen 60 no, I R Bell 60.
not a bad first day:)

mike65

What wee the Ausies at? Shirley persisting with McGrath and Warne was pointless?

Mike.

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collingwood gets his ton:)

269-3 england

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300 up for england and they look in the mood aswell

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100 for pietersen

Royale with Cheese

Well done KP. Would love to see him let go when he's hopefully still at the crease later on today and just tear into the Aussie attack.

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347-3 at lunch

Mothman

431-3
Collingwood 184no
Pieterson 135no

Collingwood's highest test score is 186 and highest 1st class score is 190.

Mothman

Highest 4th wicket partnership
Eng vs Aus
currently 291
beating Thorpe & Hussain at Egbaston in 1997


Collingwood has got his highest 1st class score and its the highest test score by an Englishman in Aus for 60 or so years.
198no

Mothman

Double Ton

Brought it up with a lofted drive for four

Highest score at Adelaide by English player.

They're starting to up the pace.

England 458-3
Partnership now 300.

oh happy days

Mothman

At tea
Collingwood out for 206 At crease for 8 1/2hrs. Magnificant innings.

Pieterson 146no
England 468-4

Partnership 310 highest in Aus for any wicket since 1911

McGrath 28o 0-86
Warne 42o 0-129

Mothman

Pieterson run out for 158.
3rd time Pieterson got to that score.

Was most likely way that a wicket would fall. Was over a metre out of his ground.

490-5

Mothman

491-6

Jones out for one.
Warne gets his first wicket...

Mothman

551-6d

A bit of a flourish at end by Giles and Flintoff to quickly being up the 550.

Aus now have 10 overs to face before end of play.

Hoggard to bowl

Mothman

LANGER OUT

Flintoff's first over.

Mothman

At close 2nd day
Aus 28-1 (9 overs)

mike65

Mothman get some sleep!

Woke up at just before 7 to hear mention of Flintoff at the crease and I smiled! TMS is a great way to start the day.

I guess declaration was enevitable otherwise a draw would have been the only outcome its still the most likely. Langers wicket was important, the Aussies will be well teed off.

Mike.

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another great day for england,

i wish i had the staying power of Mothman

RuggieBear

mike65 wrote:

Woke up at just before 7 to hear mention of Flintoff at the crease and I smiled! TMS is a great way to start the day.

ditto:)

Mothman

mike65 wrote:

Mothman get some sleep!

Was in bed early enough, woke up (got woken up! little un promptly went back to sleep) at 0430, thinking it was probably a little later, tuned on TMS, and once I heard Collingwood and Pieterson, there was no going back

Brisbane seems such a distant memory......though I can't see this being anything but a draw.

I think putting Aus in today is the only way to try force a win. If Ponting goes soon I may change my opinion of draw.

mike65

Crazy dellusions?

The home side lost Justin Langer for 4 to slump to 1 for 28 at stumps on day two but coach John Buchanan said a victory was not out of the question with the Adelaide Oval pitch playing so slowly.

"Make 700 and bowl them out for under 150 on the last day," Buchanan told a news conference in Adelaide when asked about his team's strategy.

"There's still a win on offering, there's three days to go, but we're not in a position to dictate that right at the moment, but we first have to negotiate the new ball.

Mike.

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go on

35-2

hayden out

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65-3

brilliant start for england

Mothman

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65-3

brilliant start for england

What a great hour, though the weather here is diverting my attention somewhat.

Ponting still in though...

Royale with Cheese

Giles you tit.

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Royale with Cheese wrote:

Giles you tit.

touche

Mothman

S***
Giles drops Ponting.

Should have taken it :mad:

Hoggard in the groove.

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105-3 at lunch

Mothman

290-5

Alas Ponting got more than 100 runs after being dropped.

Hussey out in the 90s.

Hoggard brilliant, taken all 4 to fall today and was bowler when Ponting was dropped.

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312-5 close of play

Ponting 142

good fight back but the aussies need 40 more runs to avoid the follow on,it could have been so much better only for giles:(

mike65

Still pretty good, did'nt see Giles non-catch but it sounded like it was'nt a shoe-in. The remaining 5 wickets could be got for 100-120 more? Then England bats to a 400 total lead and gives the Aussies a day to beat it, they'll be tempted and if the bowlers/fielders do thier job England should win (ideal senario admittedly!).

Mike.

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it was an easy catch to take and they had a great chance for a run out aswell

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SECOND TEST, ADELAIDE, DAY FOUR (stumps):
England 551-6 dec & 59-1 v Australia 513



this as draw written all over it

mike65

Yup. They might as well have an extra day off.

Mike.

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england are a mess atm,75-4

Royale with Cheese

All that hard work for nothing? Collingwood or Flintoff would want to get a decent score or it could well be 2-0

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77-5,what a sham:mad:

jank

but arent england still ahead?

enlighten me as im not too clued up on cricket