Ashes 1st Test

[Mr Wooly]

England team.
   
AJ Strauss, AN Cook, IR Bell, PD Collingwood, KP Pietersen, A Flintoff, GO Jones, AF Giles, MJ Hoggard, SJ Harmison, JM Anderson

Australia team.
 
ML Hayden, JL Langer, RT Ponting, DR Martyn, MEK Hussey, MJ Clarke, AC Gilchrist, SK Warne, B Lee, SR Clark, GD McGrath  

Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

C'mon England!

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

He's gone for Giles & he's got Bell at three... typical Fletcher, and I'm not sure I agree with him. On top of that, the Gabba always turns by the 4th innings - we are going to have to be at our very best throughout this game.

 

[Mr Wooly]

Yep, gotta feel for a lot of sympathy for Monty - obviously opted for the safe option of the extra batsman. And as you say, come the 4th day, Monty's influence could be missed sorely. A lot of pressure on the King of Spain.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Shocking first over from Harmy, I'm listening on TMS...

 

[Mr Wooly]

The first ball was so wide, I almost caught it!

 

[Mr Wooly]

No messin' from Freddie - Harmison out of the attack after two wayward overs.

Anderson's first ball pulled for four.

Five boundaries for Langer already - 28-0

 

[blues_r_best]

Hayden out for 21, Freddy strikes, Collingwood caught,

Currently 98-1

 

[blues_r_best]

109-1 at lunch

 

[Alexis_SUFC]

Australia 217-3 at tea. Flintoff got Hayden (21) and Langer (82) while the King of Spain got Martyn for 29. Ponting no on 63.

Alexis

 

[Bluesmanager]

Ponting got 137 and the Aussies are 3hundred and something after day one! Get Freddie and Peanuts on there!

 

[TrueBlue]

mite aswell give up now

 

[Hong Kong Blue]

Exact same score on close of play as 2002.

On the plus side, we can blame the reason we are bowling on the toss rather than on our captain and we haven't lost a quick bowler to a career-threatening injury.

With runs on the board Australia will now be ruing not having their extra bowler. This will be an interesting series not least because each sides' best bowler (by head and shoulders their best bowler at that) will have to carefully manage their workload.

TB - no need for that pessimism just yet. Australia have to beat not just England, but the clock. The draw is England's friend.

 

[Bluesmanager]

Who's up for a rain dance then?

 

[stickyboy]

From the ground reports I read this ground was the most likely to be a draw out of any of the pitches so hopefully we can bat well (when we actually get in) and avoid the follow on and hopefully kill enough time out of the game at the same time...rain would be nice though but they reckon its going to get hotter.

 

[TrueBlue]

Quote[/b] ]TB - no need for that pessimism just yet. Australia have to beat not just England, but the clock. The draw is England's friend.

England ....

Football - Crap
Rugby - Crap
Cricket- Now Crap

lets face it we were not ment for international sports!

 

[Bluesmanager]

Badminton - Silver Olympic Medalists
Bowls - Several World Champions
Snooker - Several World Champions

Not so me thinks...  

 

[Shrimper2thecore]

I really dont like Ponting.

For the size of England, we really are very good at sport

 

[C C Csiders]

Quote[/b] (Shrimper2thecore @ Nov. 23 2006,12:31)]I really dont like Ponting.

Can't stick him either. Piggy-eyed, short ar$e **** (although he apparently speaks highly of me).

I like Langer, Lee and Warne. No great fan of any of the others.

 

[Hong Kong Blue]

I can't bring myself to like any of the Australian team. I can just about tolerate Damien Martyn and Michael Hussey but that's about as far as it goes.

When Ponting went out to bat at the MCG in 2002, the bloke in front of me stood up, picked up his newspaper and shook it angrily in the air and yelled:

"Oi Ponting, my newspaper was late again. And don't just chuck it on the floor, put it through the letterbox."

 

[Ailsa Road Shrimper]

They're gonna get at least 500. Australia score so quickly and the weather is good, don't see how we can get a draw out of this. Very disappointing...