3rd ASHES TEST: England v Australia at Birmingham, July 30 - Aug 3, 2009

[aussies1st]

Great bowling Siddle, keep it up

 

[eddiesmith]

Finally he gives Siddle the new ball, wouldnt be down 1-0 if he had been opening instead of Johnson

 

[HevyDevy]

Siddle gets Cook in the second over and is bowling well.

If Johnson had opened the bowling they were be 0-20 by now

 

[Big_Bad_Shark_Fan]

no real swing yet at all

 

[TheParraboy]

Boparas gonna get a big score here, wicket doing bugger all now

 

[aussies1st]

The runs will start flowing soon, Notch is coming

 

[Spike]

Haurie on

 

[aussies1st]

Not enough manlub shown by Notch? Quite the fall from grace for him.

 

[Spike]

Notch on, time to watch a career fall to pieces

 

[aussies1st]

Here we go

 

[Tommy Smith]

LOL @ the lbw shout turned down by Rudi against Bell. That was as plumb as it gets.

The perfect lbw...poor old Johnson having zero luck there.

 

[African Monkey]

LOL @ the lbw shout turned down by Rudi against Bell. That was as plumb as it gets.

The perfect lbw...poor old Johnson having zero luck there.

LOL just saw it. How could you not give that out.

 

[Twizzle]

LOL @ the lbw shout turned down by Rudi against Bell. That was as plumb as it gets.

The perfect lbw...poor old Johnson having zero luck there.

and yet he gave Clarke and Notch out

its just amazing how bad and one sided he has become and yet if we say anything we get accused of whinging

time to put Rudi out to pasture along with Huss.

Notch should be bowling in the nets or in county cricket. The test match arena is not the place to try and regain you technique

 

[beads6]

Looks like the Aussies are gone. Johnson didn't take any wickets but at least he showed improvement and didn't get spanked.. His best is only around the corner. Obviously the batsmen didn't show up with the right attitude yesterday nor did the umpires.

 

[HevyDevy]

I know that there are plenty of times where umpires make howlers but I've never seen so many go against one side and from the same umpire.

Koertzen is starting to have a major say in this series.

I can cop umpires making the occasional bad decision but the magnitude of these is telling.

 

[El Diablo]

I know that there are plenty of times where umpires make howlers but I've never seen so many go against one side and from the same umpire.

Koertzen is starting to have a major say in this series.

I can cop umpires making the occasional bad decision but the magnitude of these is telling.

will South Africa go to number 1 if we lose?

the worst thing is we have the clown for the next two tests

 

[TheParraboy]

Whats the bet Rudi will retire when the referral system is up and running fulltime?

 

[JJ]

and yet he gave Clarke and Notch out

its just amazing how bad and one sided he has become and yet if we say anything we get accused of whinging

time to put Rudi out to pasture along with Huss.

Notch should be bowling in the nets or in county cricket. The test match arena is not the place to try and regain you technique

Yep, you get accused of whinging, just like those of us that have complained when decisions have frequently gone Aust's way...

When teams are going well, decisions tend to go their way, and when teams aren't going well we focus on reasons for that, and rough umpiring decisions feature high on that list... but, it just looks that Aust are merely a decent side, and Ponting and Clarke are the only truly world-class players there - the rest just aren't that good, or horribly out of form... and Rudi's making that worse...

Rudi's been rubbish for a long time though!

 

[Mr Angry]

Boparas gonna get a big score here, wicket doing bugger all now

You could stop a train.

 

[lockyno1]

I swear if someone shot Rudi the world would be better. Useless nuffie. David Shephard at 90 years old would be better than this useless f..k!