England At the Rosebowl

[GenevaSaint]

Any other forum members going today? I can't fecking wait :-D

[lutz]

Yep

 

Travelling down from Worcestershire in a short while,should be a good day(At least weather wise)

[wessex saint]

I'm there - train in a couple of hrs and praying the rain passes through Southampton before 2pm!

Let the all dayer.. I mean one dayer... begin

[Langleysaint]

Getting picked up at 10.45 can`t wait.

[Iowsaintsfan]

Yep im going cant wait!

[Son of Bob]

I is going.

[manji]

Yep I'm going.Cant see where some are saying there is no interest in the series.21,000 crowd ? That bigger than some *ahem* Premier football clubs get.

[stmaxx]

yep waiting to be picked up ,weather looking good should be a good day

[stevegrant]

Yep, taxi is arriving at 1pm

[saint_stevo]

as i am a total cripple, i will watch on the box me thinks

 

 

(blames SG)

[bridge too far]

Yep - we're about to leave to travel down from sunny Oxfordshire.

 

See you there guys and gals

[manji]

Clouded over and a small rain shower in Southampton.Supposed to brighten up again later.I reckon its going to be nippy there this evening.

[OldNick]

as i am a total cripple, i will watch on the box me thinks

 

 

(blames SG)

you've never mentioned that before what happened?

[saint_stevo]

well it all started one dingy morning in Millbrook....

[chrisobee]

Well it is looking like another feeble batting effort after winning the toss and actually deciding to bat this time. Strauss made an excellent 63 but Bopara ( why on earth is he still in the team ? ) Prior and Shah all failed. 114/4 off 27 with Collingwood on 19 and Morgan on 10. Wright, Swann, Bresnan, Sidebottom and Anderson to come. No place for Rashid, he'd do better than Bopara never mind of course he can bowl too.

[chrisobee]

well it all started one dingy morning in Millbrook....

 

Ah, the Millbrook Estate. I remember it so well!

[Hatch]

poor , poor , poor, poor, so poor.

[chrisobee]

179/6 off 42, at least Morgan is making a decent fist of it.

[JustMike]

179/6 off 42, at least Morgan is making a decent fist of it.

 

oh....:-(

[JustMike]

we are ****e at this arent we, and what changes will be made for the next game? Probably none. Time for a new, specialist coach to take charge of the one day game and let flower etc concentrate on tests. And pleaseeee England, start selecting players who can actually hit it and dictate play

[JustMike]

and now Swann goes for 3. :-( Sooo bad

 

188/8 of 43.3 in danger of getting bowled out again

[saint_stevo]

latest?

[JustMike]

aussies are 220/3 off 47....9 to win from 3 overs

[JustMike]

220/4..white goes for 105.

 

more proof that we are ****e!!

[JustMike]

aussies need 8 from 12

 

now 7 from 11

 

now 3 from 10, they ran 4!!

 

aussies win :-(

 

****e england, now 3-0 down.

Edited 9 September, 2009 by JustMike

[bridge too far]

Just back - what a let down

 

A load of London Saints sitting behind us. Blimey, they say women talk non-stop

[saint_stevo]

Streaker? WTF! Glad i saved that £60+ then

[Iowsaintsfan]

Just got home, poor show from England though Aus wernt much better. And who of you lot started singing OWTSGMI LOL

[bridge too far]

Streaker? WTF! Glad i saved that £60+ then

 

He got bundled into the police wagon right by us - he was bleeding from the mouth.

 

His bits were covered by a steward's jacket by the time he got to our part of the ground.

[RedAndWhite91]

Just watching the highlights... Wow.

 

So many schoolboy errors by England... Something needs to change, and England need sorting out before the next ODI otherwise it could get humiliating.

[keithd]

great day, she hight cricket.

 

thought the roads access etc were good, but i only live 3 miles from the ground so was home 20 mins after i left, dunno what the park and rides were like, hopefully the rose bowl will get a good report....

[ecuk268]

Mrs ecuk268 dropped us off and picked us up from the Marks & Sparks car park. No problems at all.

 

From what I could see, there were loads of buses and it all seemed to be going quite smoothly after the game.

 

The only thing was the concourse was absolutely jammed during the break. It took me about 20 mins just to go for a leak.

[saint1977]

Well it is looking like another feeble batting effort after winning the toss and actually deciding to bat this time. Strauss made an excellent 63 but Bopara ( why on earth is he still in the team ? ) Prior and Shah all failed. 114/4 off 27 with Collingwood on 19 and Morgan on 10. Wright, Swann, Bresnan, Sidebottom and Anderson to come. No place for Rashid, he'd do better than Bopara never mind of course he can bowl too.

 

I went yesterday and I can only assume Rashid is not playing because either they don't want Aussies to see much of him before next year's Ashes. If that isn't the case, I can only assume Miller is playing County politics again. It is the reason why Collingwood and Bopara play. Why Shah plays, no-one knows.

 

I watched Napier troubling Tresco and Langer with 90mph short balls and yorkers the other night - and he can bat although not such a great season with the bat. Still, worth picking for the bowling. What has Trott done wrong - clearly not a brownoser, that's how you get on at the ECB. Joyce did well in Aus yet a couple of low scores in the WC and he's out yet great Sussex season and a million times better on his worst day than Shah or Ravi are on their best ones. Prior should be on probation in the ODIs with Keiswetter qualifying and Davies's move to Surrey. Saw Shazhad for Yorks tonight - very good young quick and accurate, destroyed Hants at Basingstoke in tandem with Rashid. Two good British Asians to represent Yorks and England for the next few years.

[Iowsaintsfan]

Just heard there was a picture of me in the echo last week at the game!