The Ashes(third test)perth

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the third test is upon us,can england get anything from this test,personally i feel its a up hill battle to say the least,as long as collingwood is the highest first innings scorer i`ll be happy.

thoughts!








*collingwood 11-2, highest english 1st innings total*

mike65

2 am start!

Mike.

Royale with Cheese

Damn those Ozzies and their all over the place time zones. Ah it doesn't really matter to me, I'll be up all night studying for my shítty finals anyway.

Royale with Cheese

Monty in, Giles out. Mahmood in, Anderson out...

and I'm not getting much study done here

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Royale with Cheese wrote:

Monty in, Giles out. Mahmood in, Anderson out...

and I'm not getting much study done here

good news,and about time too

kyp_durron

Great day for England and Monty Panesar.

Aus 235-8

Great to see Monty take his chance, 5-90 so far.

djimi

*Runs around office with shirt over head*

kensutz

Good bowling from England and Monty taking 5 wickets was the best highlight so far. England stepping in now to bat and hitting a few boundaries in the first 3/4 overs. I need sleep

manonthemoon

Sounds like a great days cricket. Damn those Aussie time zones

& damn those Sky TV bastards


Monty Panesar is new England legend, but looks like England batsmen could self destruct again. Warnie hasnt even got bowling yet




THIRD TEST, PERTH, DAY ONE (STUMPS):
AUSTRALIA 244 V ENGLAND 51-2

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great first day bowling for england,shame about the batting.
monty does the business but i feel it`s two tests to late

JacksonHeightsOwn

im just wondering wheter Monty bowling superbly(as everyone knew he would bar 1) will cost fletcher his job?

even if, and remembering its only the end of day 1 they manage to win this test, i personally cant see the aussies losing the rest, so its safe to say the ashes are going down under, will the decision to persist with Giles cost Fletcher his job, hmmm,

mike65

That thought struck me too when I heard the close of play figures. The selectors have been to look like chumps to some degree.

Mike.

Mothman

chrisbonnie wrote:

im just wondering wheter Monty bowling superbly(as everyone knew he would bar 1) will cost fletcher his job?

[sarcasm]but Giles would have got a century had he been picked...[/sarcasm]

delighted Monty did the business.....he was already legend

DMC

mike65 wrote:

The selectors have been to look like chumps to some degree.

Indeed. David Lloyd was alluding to something about the selection of Giles in Adelaide. Something happened to change the minds of someone to select Giles ahead of Panesar, or both together. We've not heard the last of that.

You cant help but feel the enthusiasm that Monty has. The Aussies love him already.

chrisbonnie wrote:

im just wondering wheter Monty bowling superbly(as everyone knew he would bar 1) will cost fletcher his job?

Not this side of the World Cup.

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ziggy67 wrote:

Great 1st day for the English, if they can rack up 450 in the first innings they should* win from here.

*cue the inevitable collapse!

humbug

ziggy

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Mad Dog

2nd day as expected :eek:

DMC

Australia 244 & 119/1 (36.0 ov)
England 215
Australia lead by 148 runs with 9 wickets remaining

Ponting 57* and Hayden 57*

There is a rather large lady gargling her throat at the moment....

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ziggy67 wrote:

And so it begins! England 122-6 at lunch on day 2. You can blame me for that!

dam you:)

any way from what i seen of it last night it was on the cards

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144-2

ponting out

Royale with Cheese

Things going splendid so far today... if you're an ozzie.

Hayden looks set to make a century and Hussey's got a start now so they'll never get rid of him. Averages 81 in test cricket and since he's played over 20 innings that average counts in the all time records. Puts him second, a long way behind Don Bradman and a long way ahead of Graham Pollock. Damn

Royale with Cheese

Woohoo, Hayden gone. Monty does the trick. I should post about how there's no chance of England getting a wicket more often.

ziggy

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DMC

Hussey is OUT *for a hundred just before tea....

Panesar to Hussey, OUT, the change has worked for England. Pitches way outside off, hardly spins in at all and that's a very thin outside edge snapped up by Jones. A wicket at last, but too late
MEK Hussey c Jones b Panesar 103 (156b 12x4 0x6) SR: 66.02

Symonds failed again,
A Symonds c Collingwood b Panesar 2

Monty doing better than most, tbh, but not enough.

373/5,
Gilchrist 0* Clarke 87*

















*Yes, it happened!

DMC

Gilly has just hit Monty for 24.... the over went...

.26646

468/5

DMC

Clarke and Gilchrist are as much on fire as northern Victoria....

95 off the last 60 balls....

Gilchrist can get the fastest 100 in balls faced. 81 scored from 47 balls... needs to score 19 in 9 balls to beat Viv Richards record of 100 in 56 balls.

496/5

DMC

89 from 49.....

504/5

DMC

93 from 51

508/5

DMC

95 from 52

3 balls to score 5.

510/5

DMC

96 from 53

2 balls to score 4

511/5

DMC

97 from 54

1 ball to score 3

512/5

DMC

Ooooh... he missed it...

A wideish ball was bowled by Hoggard, so its target missed for Gilchrist.

DMC

He got the 100, still the 2nd fastest test hundred, and in that over, the declaration came.

so...

Australia 244 & 527/5d (112.0 ov)
England 215
Australia lead by 556 runs with 5 wickets remaining

mike65

Stunning turn by Gillchrist there, can England save the match? (don't answer that!).

Mike.

RuggieBear

Wonder if everyone will still be championing monty after THAT over!?

mike65

The fivelive boys said he bowled perfectly well during that over, Gilchrist was just 'in the zone', sometimes a batsman can be unstoppable.

Mike.

mike65

Christalmighty!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike.

RuggieBear

0-1

oh dear

DMC

Well, he wanted to bowl the following over, but Flintoff put Hoggard on. The crowd booed that decision. But with Gilchrist and Clarke in that form, they massacred Hoggard too.

Strauss out fourth ball.

0/1

RuggieBear

is it just me or does bell always have the look of a rabbit in the headlights...?

DMC

Kerry O'Keeffe commentary gold on ABC radio....

"England have gotten the raw end of the prawn from the umpires a few times this match..."

DMC

Just a query, how much was Australia to win 5-0 at the start of the series?

mike65

ooops!

Mike.

mike65

Ashley Giles is retuning home (family illness)

Mike.

DMC

Wife is ill.

DMC

Commentary gold from Geoffrey Boycott, no less, from the TMS podcast today...

"The Ashes have gone. Unless a miracle happens. If they can pad up Jesus Christ then we've got a chance, but other than that, they have no chance!"

mike65

I hope Jones has'nt got a thin skin either listening to him this morning. Bring back Read.

Mike.

DMC

A good day so far for England.

Into the post tea session,

England 184/2

AN Cook 84*
Collingwood 4*

Bell c Langer b Warne 87

The pitch is playing very well, Warne is turning it sideways, but they are coping.

DMC

185/3

Collingwood c Gilchrist b Clark 5

..... batting collapse ahoy? After Pietersen, who's at the crease now.... Flintoff, Jones, and the bowlers.... not promising!

DMC

227/3

AN Cook 100*