5th and final ASHES TEST: England v Australia at the Oval, Aug 20-24

[hineyrulz]

Yep plenty of runs left in this wicket, Huss to finally get that double ton......

 

[TheParraboy]

0/80 stumpd day 3, still need another 465

go hard or go home aussies

someone needs to bat 2 days, will it be Hussey? Never knock a champion, watch him put scrammbled egg on our faces, I hope he also puts some crispy bacon and a grilled tomato too, gee im hungry

 

[ElectricEelMan]

0/80 at stumps
Watson and Katich looked very comfortable out there ... very slow pitch with plenty of time to play your shots, but the odd ball does funny things and all England need are ten 'funny balls'.

 

[aussies1st]

If we can avoid throwing our wickets away then we could well pull this off, neither side has really bowled many jaffers to get a batsmen out, its usually been there own doing.

 

[Twizzle]

with those temperatures the pitch will get drier and harder to make runs on, survival may not be so hard but I cant see the runs flowing too quickly

its not over till its over

 

[hineyrulz]

Still plenty of time left in this game, need Watto and the Kat to get doubles.

 

[beads6]

Anybody remember AMAZING ADELAIDE??? Now it is time for AMAZINGG OVAL

 

[Broncodr01d]

8-Aug-09, I wrote:

Ok, after speaking to my Uncle just now living in Manchester and hating English Test cricket at the moment, the name he threw at me:

Jonathan Trott - 877 runs @ 97.44 - H.S. 184* (09 County Season so far)

Others I looked at; James Hildreth - 841 runs@ 60.07 - H.S. 303*; Michael Carberry - 936 runs @ 58.50 - H.S. 204

I mean there are obviously talented players there to pick from, you don't hear too much about them. With KP and Flintoff out, now is the time to find that diamond in the rough from where I sit.

A very happy Pom is my uncle right now. Nice century on debut.

 

[aussies1st]

Hildrethhasn't done much since his 303

 

[Broncodr01d]

Hildrethhasn't done much since his 303

Yes, at the time of the post I was looking at options for England. Hildreth was a name I came across amongst others.

 

[TheParraboy]

Still plenty of time left in this game, need Watto and the Kat to get doubles.

If Sunshine gets a double test ton here, Ill put a avatar of sunshine (Locky can choose it) in my profile until the end of our summer, of course Australia have to win as well

 

[beads6]

We need at least 1 of the openers to get a big big hundred. I think Kat is the man he has been a tad disappointing IMO. He just needs to go on with more of his starts.

 

[munge]

We are no hope. If we win ill donate $1000 to this forum.

It wasnt a scratchy 80 but it was far from convincing.

 

[Didgi]

We are no hope. If we win ill donate $1000 to this forum.

It wasnt a scratchy 80 but it was far from convincing.

Coby has been notified

Watson has looked fairly reasonable, you never know, nether of them are exactly in bad form, so they could take the situation and both get big scores. Hopefully. Pray. Pleeease.

 

[TimmyB]

You never know, but you as good as do. The marginal difficulty of each run seems to increase in chases. Once one wicket falls, there'll be a clatter.

 

[Ridders]

Good start by opening batsmen, but you gotta feel that Watson can go at any time given his weakness on the ball into his pads. I have a bad feeling tonight could be the final day in this series if Ponting and especially Hussey again fail to give cover to our middle order.

People have critisized Ponting's captaincy alot (and at times justifiably) but imo Strauss is by far the worse of the two. Yesterday was just a conformation of it, he is way too defensive. If he ends up being the winning captain, it will be because of our mistakes, not his leadership.

I will never forget his masterstroke in the Third test, on our 2nd innings (the game where we were behind by alot and fighting to save the game), when he for some reason decided to play sweepers on either side of the wicket from the very beginning of our innings. In doing so he allowed our batsmen to rotate the strike and actually get ourselves into a pretty good position in the game. Hurts too much to think that he could soon be regarded as an Ashes winning English captain.

 

[TheParraboy]

so here we are

A - in under 8 hrs we wont hold the ashes anymore (sometime day 4)
B - in under 32 hours we wont hold the ashes anymore (sometime day 5)
C - We will retain the ashes for another 2 years


We have no lifelines, no phone a friends

lock in C Eddie

 

[hineyrulz]

Good start by opening batsmen, but you gotta feel that Watson can go at any time given his weakness on the ball into his pads. I have a bad feeling tonight could be the final day in this series if Ponting and especially Hussey again fail to give cover to our middle order.

People have critisized Ponting's captaincy alot (and at times justifiably) but imo Strauss is by far the worse of the two. Yesterday was just a conformation of it, he is way too defensive. If he ends up being the winning captain, it will be because of our mistakes, not his leadership.

I will never forget his masterstroke in the Third test, on our 2nd innings (the game where we were behind by alot and fighting to save the game), when he for some reason decided to play sweepers on either side of the wicket from the very beginning of our innings. In doing so he allowed our batsmen to rotate the strike and actually get ourselves into a pretty good position in the game. Hurts too much to think that he could soon be regarded as an Ashes winning English captain.

If Strauss is such a bad Captain was that does say for Ponting who has been out captained by him???? Him and our selectors are the main reason we are this situation.

 

[TheParraboy]

we are screwed Harry Potter is at the ground

 

[Iafeta]

Katich dead leg before, not playing a shot. 9 wickets to go.