Appy Posted 21 December, 2010 Share Posted 21 December, 2010 Any changes? Strong rumours of Finn being rested, whether its worth replacing Collingwood for another bowler i'm not too sure. I fancy a draw for this 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintupnorth Posted 21 December, 2010 Share Posted 21 December, 2010 I think Collingwood should be dropped for an extra bowler. The Aussies are preparing a pitch that won't take spin so that takes Swann out of the game and leaves us with just three quick bowlers. Bring Bresnan in for Colly and we wouldn be strenthening the bowling without weakening the batting too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsacar saint Posted 21 December, 2010 Share Posted 21 December, 2010 Talking cricket,as I cannot start a thread,would it be right to assume that Hampshire have signed Myburgh the South African because Sean Ervine is going to play for Zimbabwe again. Any ideas Ron.[From a personal point of view,this would be very disappointing as SE is one of my favourite Hants players]. Regarding England if the reports are to be believed Tim Tremlett could be the main strike bowler in the next test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 21 December, 2010 Share Posted 21 December, 2010 Talking cricket,as I cannot start a thread,would it be right to assume that Hampshire have signed Myburgh the South African because Sean Ervine is going to play for Zimbabwe again. Any ideas Ron.[From a personal point of view,this would be very disappointing as SE is one of my favourite Hants players]. Regarding England if the reports are to be believed Tim Tremlett could be the main strike bowler in the next test. You can start threads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopkins Posted 21 December, 2010 Share Posted 21 December, 2010 You can start threads But if he's going to continue saying things like Tim Tremlett then lets hope he doesn't. Doubt there will be any changed by the way. They'll back Collingwood to prove all his doubters wrong and isn't Finn top wicket taker in the series or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appy Posted 22 December, 2010 Author Share Posted 22 December, 2010 But if he's going to continue saying things like Tim Tremlett then lets hope he doesn't. Doubt there will be any changed by the way. They'll back Collingwood to prove all his doubters wrong and isn't Finn top wicket taker in the series or something? It seems the pattern lately that the under fire batsman suddenly finds great form, for example Cook and Hussey. Lets hope Colly can do the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint 76er Posted 22 December, 2010 Share Posted 22 December, 2010 Rumours today that Jimmy Anderson pulled up with a sore hammy after Perth test and may be a doubt. Have to play him surely, unless it's really bad. Ponting is expected to play with his broken pinkie. KP says so anyway, he says they just inject pain blockers and away you go! Huge game this, of course, and first day crowd approaching 100,000 is expected. Not a good time for England to start reinventing their bowling line up though ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyNorthernSaints Posted 22 December, 2010 Share Posted 22 December, 2010 Think Bresnan for Finn will be the only change. England wont play 5 bowlers unless they are losing in the series. I'd play two spinners in the last test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesus Reigned Posted 22 December, 2010 Share Posted 22 December, 2010 What worries me about England and in particular our batting is that when one fails, they all do. The difference with the Aussies, as it always was with their great sides of the past, is that one or two, ie Hussey, Haddin and to a degree Watson, generally step up when they need to. I can see more pain for us in Sydney, but think we'll still take "home" the urn, just! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 22 December, 2010 Share Posted 22 December, 2010 Rumours today that Jimmy Anderson pulled up with a sore hammy after Perth test and may be a doubt. Have to play him surely, unless it's really bad. Ponting is expected to play with his broken pinkie. KP says so anyway, he says they just inject pain blockers and away you go! Huge game this, of course, and first day crowd approaching 100,000 is expected. Not a good time for England to start reinventing their bowling line up though ... Side strain for Anderson was the rumour on Cricinfo. Think the big question is when will Morgan for Colly become a question. Morgan doesn't have the perfect technique for Test cricket, but as we have seen in many ODI's, he has bottle. Colly was out of form all last summer and even during his 90 odd in the warm up he wasn't fluid. Switching Bell to 5 makes sense, but is Colly gonna wobble again? Would Morgan graft it out with bottle better? Doubt it for this test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 22 December, 2010 Share Posted 22 December, 2010 With thanks to Cricinfo Well, I liked it Monday, 20th December Ricky Ponting is a doubt for the Boxing Day Test after going down with a nasty bout of shock on the second day at Perth. Michael Clarke remembers what happened. “Yeah, well Mitch had just taken a wicket and I remember looking over at Ricky and the guy was like, open-mouthed, like he was in shock or something. He just froze in that position and we couldn’t shift him.” The spasm of surprise was so bad that for the rest of the game the Australian captain had to be carried out onto the field like a statue and moved around on Michael Beer’s skateboard. Cricket Australia remain concerned at his condition. “The biggest danger in a case like this,” explained Doctor Hilditch, “Is that with the mouth frozen in the open position, he is at risk of swallowing a fly and because he’s still in shock, he won’t know why he swallowed the fly. Perhaps he’ll die.” http://blogs.espncricinfo.com/thelonghandle/archives/2010/12/rickys_terrible_shock.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesus Reigned Posted 23 December, 2010 Share Posted 23 December, 2010 What worries me about England and in particular our batting is that when one fails, they all do. The difference with the Aussies, as it always was with their great sides of the past, is that one or two, ie Hussey, Haddin and to a degree Watson, generally step up when they need to. I can see more pain for us in Sydney, but think we'll still take "home" the urn, just! I'm meant Melbourne of course; getting ahead of myself.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc_saint Posted 23 December, 2010 Share Posted 23 December, 2010 Talking cricket,as I cannot start a thread,would it be right to assume that Hampshire have signed Myburgh the South African because Sean Ervine is going to play for Zimbabwe again. Any ideas Ron.[From a personal point of view,this would be very disappointing as SE is one of my favourite Hants players. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/hampshire/9310285.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 25 December, 2010 Share Posted 25 December, 2010 Bresnan in for Finn. Strauss wins toss and put Australia in to bat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 25 December, 2010 Share Posted 25 December, 2010 Colly drops one off ANderson in the first over aaaarghhhhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 25 December, 2010 Share Posted 25 December, 2010 KP drops one now.. FFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffo Posted 26 December, 2010 Share Posted 26 December, 2010 58-4. Hussey was a key wicket. Rain stops play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparkySaint Posted 26 December, 2010 Share Posted 26 December, 2010 Come on England. I care more about this than the English football team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saints_is_the_south Posted 26 December, 2010 Share Posted 26 December, 2010 Come on England. I care more about this than the English football team +1. In a commanding position again now, can't afford to let their tail waggle like it did in Peth......WICKET!! Smith gone, super bowling from Anderson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saints_is_the_south Posted 26 December, 2010 Share Posted 26 December, 2010 Sensational bowling display or extremley poor batting? Who cares?! Australia all out for 98! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy_D Posted 26 December, 2010 Share Posted 26 December, 2010 Awesome... just awesome... Now we need to take advantage, we can't afford to let them back in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mack rill Posted 26 December, 2010 Share Posted 26 December, 2010 Johnson on if we can see him off there f*cked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 26 December, 2010 Share Posted 26 December, 2010 Bloody Hell. Now THAT was a way to wake up. Slump down to make a cup of tea, slump into the lounge, put the TV on and and bleary eyed stare at the TV set and not quite focusing think, oh seems a slow scoring rate, must have rained. Then slowly pick up the (we have) Aussie Taters moaning and what I thought were highlight from a warm up game of Tremleet and WTF they got 98. Woo hoo! 56-0 and they got 98. Oh come on lads heads down and grind grind grind them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 26 December, 2010 Share Posted 26 December, 2010 What else to say, except - Sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissyboy31 Posted 26 December, 2010 Share Posted 26 December, 2010 Couldn't have been a better 1st day. What we need to ensure now is that we don't let them back in the game. If and it is a big if, we can bat all day tomorrow, then we should win the test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DS Posted 26 December, 2010 Share Posted 26 December, 2010 That went rather well then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 26 December, 2010 Share Posted 26 December, 2010 blinding day, doesn't get much better than that. Lets hope we can bat for another day and a half, get 500+ plus on the board then skittle them out for an innings win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Who? Posted 26 December, 2010 Share Posted 26 December, 2010 Could not believe it when I saw that they were bowled out for 98, but at the time i did not know what our score was. Now when I saw our score I could not have asked for more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgiesaint Posted 26 December, 2010 Share Posted 26 December, 2010 Makes a mockery of some of the text commentary (on sky sports I think it was) that suggested both teams would choose to bat first!! Brilliant to bowl the aussies out having put them in at Perth, get in the position and to blow it. The key was surely getting Hussey just before the rain at lunch - but then to cap it with Cook & Strauss still being there at the close. Skintsaint really did choose the wrong test to go to!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy_D Posted 26 December, 2010 Share Posted 26 December, 2010 What an awesome day. Just simply awesome. I'm sure I saw at least two Saints sash shirts in the crowd as well So, in effect, we're 59-0 at the moment, and Australia don't get a first innings... Unbelievable... http://www.twitvid.com/8XFCN Really really wish I could have been there for today... Lol @ Boycott saying they'd be 100-0 at lunch if we kept bowling like that after the 2nd over... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mack rill Posted 26 December, 2010 Share Posted 26 December, 2010 You gotta love the home support, start of the day 84 thousand end of the day just the barmy army havin a fekin good old singsong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skintsaint Posted 26 December, 2010 Share Posted 26 December, 2010 hopefully we get a nice lead of 350+ tomorrow and put this game to bed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 26 December, 2010 Share Posted 26 December, 2010 You gotta love the home support, start of the day 84 thousand end of the day just the barmy army havin a fekin good old singsong. Aussies, the 'Bestest Fans In The World' TM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 26 December, 2010 Share Posted 26 December, 2010 Aussies, the 'Bestest Fans In The World' TM Well, logically not so daft, they were all convicts after all and that lot down the road are the only Town in England with 100% Asbo's (allegedly I once heard) C'mon boys get them nailed tonight, I'm off on hols tomorrow for NY & not sure the hotel will have coverage on Star Sports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saints_is_the_south Posted 27 December, 2010 Share Posted 27 December, 2010 Bit of a slow start today but KP & Trott building a decent partnership. Bat for the rest of today and maybe til lunch tomorrow, put 500 on the board and then try and bowl them out for another innings win. 500 runs = a 400 lead so they'd need to put 500 on the board just to get a 100 run lead, unlikely I'd say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy_D Posted 27 December, 2010 Share Posted 27 December, 2010 Haha, is that a 'He's got more runs than you' chant? Great ton, and this partnership is making them regret that no-ball more and more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 27 December, 2010 Share Posted 27 December, 2010 Well played England, and especially Trott & Prior with that record breaking Stand (at the MCG). You could see the life draining out of the Aussie bowlers. Keep it going tomorrow 346 ahead is good but it is still a good pitch, the longer we bat on it the more it will wear and bring Swanny into the game. Lol at the Aussie tater's talking about getting double tons and big contributions from Hughes & Smith setting England a tough target. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy_D Posted 27 December, 2010 Share Posted 27 December, 2010 Well played England, and especially Trott & Prior with that record breaking Stand (at the MCG). You could see the life draining out of the Aussie bowlers. Keep it going tomorrow 346 ahead is good but it is still a good pitch, the longer we bat on it the more it will wear and bring Swanny into the game. Lol at the Aussie tater's talking about getting double tons and big contributions from Hughes & Smith setting England a tough target. Haha, we haven't even finished setting THEM a target yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 27 December, 2010 Share Posted 27 December, 2010 Haha, we haven't even finished setting THEM a target yet... Yep, total desperation by Bill Lawrie, Slater et al. And the other funny bit is they seem to have forgotten we actually have a decent spinner in our team! Aussies must be sick of the sight of Trotty by now, let's hope he can keep going and do what he did in the summer and get the remaining 59 runs for a double. They showed his batting average against the Aussies - at the moment it's around 90 something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Who? Posted 27 December, 2010 Share Posted 27 December, 2010 Ended up another great day after a cagey start. Looking forward to posting a 500 + lead then making them bat again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 27 December, 2010 Share Posted 27 December, 2010 a few hiccups, but I will take being only 5 down and that lead. Could be difficult one to try and know when to declare. It looks like the last session is the best time to bat, so might not want to put them in for that period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 27 December, 2010 Share Posted 27 December, 2010 hopefully we get a nice lead of 350+ tomorrow and put this game to bed. Only 346 lead, Strauss Out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mack rill Posted 27 December, 2010 Share Posted 27 December, 2010 hope we treat the 1st session today like a 20,20 get some quick runs then spend the rest of the match screwing down that coffin lid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Um Bongo Posted 27 December, 2010 Share Posted 27 December, 2010 Slip inside Ricky Ponting’s mind He’s trying to find Some new players to play He wants to play his older team But that’s just a dream They’re too old to play He said he’d start a revolution in his head But he’s been through all the players A to Z Now there’s just a summertime of doom If he loses the Ashes race He is going to lose his place Losing three would simply tear his heart out So Ricky can wait Shane Warne is too late And there’s no Glenn McGrath Gilchrist’s had his day And don’t look back to Langer He cannot play Bat to a lead of 500 or so, declare and toy with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 27 December, 2010 Share Posted 27 December, 2010 I think the Aussies have got a little too clever over the past two years with their Batting lineup. 1) Hussey throughout his career has been an opener, when he gets in - he stays in 2) Watson, Opener WTF? Exceeded expectations but a number 6 IMHO 3) Katich, was a middle order batsman, why move to open? Anyway. This lineup looks far more frightening to me as a Pommie than the current lot. Hussey Katich / Hughes Ponting Clarke North Watson Haddin As for the bowlers, Hillfenhaus? Can't believe there is not a spinner in 11m population that cannot edge out his contribution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy_D Posted 27 December, 2010 Share Posted 27 December, 2010 Looking forward to this... we could win The Ashes in Australia TONIGHT! Getting sleep between the end of day's play and then getting up in time to get to the Saints game will be tricky but worth it if we've already won... And I have to admit it still feels weird being on the same side as mack rill... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SO16_Saint Posted 27 December, 2010 Share Posted 27 December, 2010 Looking forward to this... we could win The Ashes in Australia TONIGHT! Getting sleep between the end of day's play and then getting up in time to get to the Saints game will be tricky but worth it if we've already won... And I have to admit it still feels weird being on the same side as mack rill... Dont think there's a chance in hell we will win this tonight. Win it yes, but not tonight. By tea tomorrow yes. Feels great though. Much more pride in the England Cricket team right now than Football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StDunko Posted 28 December, 2010 Share Posted 28 December, 2010 Anyone know of any links to watch the action online. I assume Iraqgoals don't cover the cricket too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StDunko Posted 28 December, 2010 Share Posted 28 December, 2010 http://www.crictime.com/live-cricket-streaming.htm Found it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint in Paradise Posted 28 December, 2010 Share Posted 28 December, 2010 Anyone else have a sneaky feeling that England are playing for a draw? I mean the field placings seem very defensive to try and save runs rather than attacking to get batsmen out. A bit disappointed with Strauss to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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