2nd Test: Australia v England at Adelaide Dec 5-9, 2013

[JW]

Bunniesmong, the rains are comin!

 

[madunit]

Pretty risky deceleration from Clarke but we pulled it out the fire in a close one.

It was a smart declaration, not a risky one.

He gave England a shitload of time to make the total but put them in two minds, as they had to decide whether to go for the win or the draw and you could tell after Pietersen got out, they stopped trying to win and started going for the draw. Once that happened, Clarke knew he had them.

 

[TheParraboy]

pretty much an extra days rest, so same side for Perth?

 

[Pete Cash]

It's a joke madunit I'm poking fun at bm.

Clarke has frankly been spot on with his captaincy.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Pretty risky deceleration from Clarke but we pulled it out the fire in a close one.

Agreed. Picture this. Monty Panesar 150 not out at 7pm tonight. Remember Dravid and Laxman?

 

[Armageddon.]

“@piersmorgan: Let's replace England's absurd 82-page diet manifesto with a simple plate of old-fashioned British courage. Or let's just go home. #Ashes”

Typical whinging Poms

 

[madunit]

It's a joke madunit I'm poking fun at bm.

Clarke has frankly been spot on with his captaincy.

lol, I hadn't seen any of his posts today. You caught me off guard :lol:

 

[Armageddon.]

Agreed. Picture this. Monty Panesar 150 not out at 7pm tonight. Remember Dravid and Laxman?

Remember Border and Thomson?

 

[Twizzle]

f**king umpires just had to check the last wicket for a no ball and it was not even close

sometimes you just gotta wonder if they were even looking

2 zip, bring on Perth

 

[madunit]

first back to back test wins against England since the 2006/07 series

 

[hineyrulz]

Agreed. Picture this. Monty Panesar 150 not out at 7pm tonight. Remember Dravid and Laxman?

:lol: BM what a tard.

Lol @ Leedswanker MIA probsbly at home under his bed in the fetal position.

Poms have been dreadful, besides broad and Root they are all out of form, past it or not good enough. It's scary to think what the great Aussie sides of the recent past would have done to these Niff Nuffs.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

f**king umpires just had to check the last wicket for a no ball and it was not even close

sometimes you just gotta wonder if they were even looking

2 zip, bring on Perth

They stand too close and aren't in a position to check the no ball IMO

 

[madunit]

f**king umpires just had to check the last wicket for a no ball and it was not even close

sometimes you just gotta wonder if they were even looking

2 zip, bring on Perth

they aren't looking anywhere near as often as in the past. Umpires today have nothing on those from 15-20 years ago

 

[age.s]

sometimes you just gotta wonder if they were even looking

Nah you don't have to wonder at all. It's obvious they're not even trying anymore.

 

[El Diablo]

Clarkey needs to borrow a line from Pulp Fiction to tell the boys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu1JMbSLPvc

still 3 tests to go and a lot can happen

 

[DC_fan]

Great win. We just need to finish them off now.

 

[Red Bear]

laughed alot at this description from the Guardian commentary

This new policy on Sky of putting Botham and Warne in the commentary box at the same time is like listening to freeform jazz. Beefy doesn't so much offer analysis as talk in random non-sequiturs – often partial sentences bereft of wider context, like an Alzheimer's patient – split by colons. ("Good ball; should've caught it; close; very close; hate that; can't stand it; half a chance; gone now; too late; oop, look there."). He's the rhythm section. Meanwhile Warnie's the sol...oist, finding a recurring leitmotif and just circling around it in varied syntactical configurations without beginning or end. ("Wish they'd just be a bit more aggressive here. I'd like to see just a bit more aggression. With a bit more aggression, they might create a chance. It just requires them to think a bit more aggressively.") And then Beefy comes back in with his riffling snare drum of ski-daddling bollocks. It's also like freeform jazz in that nobody other than the performers wants to listen to it, of course.

Pretty solid win, didnt think we bowled all that well yesterday but we got the job done. If we played a more competent side we would've struggled, that pitch was flat as anything.

 

[lockyno1]

England thought we bowled quick in the first two tests....Perth could be a massacre! I hope Broad gets the Alex Tudor treatment!

 

[Jason Maher]

How on earth is someone able to propel a ball faster in Perth than in Adelaide or Brisbane? Is the air somehow thinner?

 

[Twizzle]

no but the pitch is harder and faster and it comes of the pitch faster than Adelaide