The Ashes

booboo

Righto.

Well done Ali.

Declare now Joe.

MN5

412/8 and Cook has 200! Only the third foreign batsman to score two double centuries in Australia (the others are Hammond and Lara).

Those two were fairly decent players

Virgil

@booboo said in The Ashes:

Righto.

Well done Ali.

Declare now Joe.

Nah keep going, lead is over 130 now
Keep them in the field , still 2 days left and the poms don’t want to be chasing too much on the 5th day

NTA

Poms will want to get closer to a 200 lead and then punish a tired Aussie team. Last two days have been fairly warm, and a couple of Aussies now reporting stomach bug.

Can take it to 3-1 with Sydney to play

Godder

50 up for Broad as well.

antipodean

I'm happy with the decision for Broad - it looked like a catch and on replay you can't see it touch the ground. Still a very valuable contribution to England. Imagine what they could have got if Cook was better at judging whether his batting partner should use a referral!

Siam

Khawaja cheated.

Plain and simple.

Greg Dyer all over

His reaction was all bluff.

Typical cheating Australians !!

Peanut gallery: your turn.....

NTA

@siam Nearly arced up until I saw it was you

Can't see the ball touch the ground, therefore catch. The incompetence of the umpiring isn't Australia's fault, any more than Malan's inside edge or being struck outside off or whatever.

Siam

Actually I defer to Bill Lawry. I think he used the grass to aid his grip ( not intentionally)

I can understand how present procedures arrive at the decision though, and that's how it is.

Cook's straight bat shots were a feature today.

Amazing how the lack of pressure for this match has affected each team's performance.

booboo

Personally I have no great issue with Khawaja's catch.

And this is coming from an avowed anti-Strayan.

MN5

Staying in Taupo with the mrs and her family. Needless to say we fucked off to the pub at the earliest opportunity. I watched a cool doco on mute. Great seeing Ian Chappelle, Doug Walters, Jeff Thomson, Bob Willis, Graham Gooch, Alan Border and various others being interviewed.

It woulda been even better if I could hear them.

mariner4life

haha Anderson doesn't even survive the first ball of the morning! all out for the overnight score, and a lead of 164.

NTA

Fuck that's kind of funny. Cummins must be looking forward to a good lie down, but given our collapse in the first innings I reckon we'll need to really fucking apply ourselves.

Anderson and Broad will be fresh, and I predict The Angry Lesbian will be out there in the first hour, given how uncomfortable Bancroft and The Waj looked on Day 1.

NTA

Particularly as its overcast - England with a new ball and conditions favouring their approach.

NTA

LOL @ Cricinfo comments:

Moose: "You would have to say, Australia's Day by far today. Dominating"

MN5

Hats off to Cook. Always a terrific effort to carry your bat.

NTA

Bancroft got what they're calling a good ball.

The Waj was just fucking lazy. Time to boot him. Can't bat on the subcontinent. Hasn't recaptured the form he had a couple of years back where everything was gold.

If Renshaw was dropped for poor form, The Waj doesn't need to bat in Sydney. Give someone else a go, because we've won the series and can't tolerate laziness.

Godder

@mn5 said in The Ashes:

Hats off to Cook. Always a terrific effort to carry your bat.

Agree, well done that man. Cricinfo says it was the first time in the Ashes since 1979, so quite a few milestones fell in his innings.

MN5

@godder said in The Ashes:

@mn5 said in The Ashes:

Hats off to Cook. Always a terrific effort to carry your bat.

Agree, well done that man. Cricinfo says it was the first time in the Ashes since 1979, so quite a few milestones fell in his innings.

Highest score ever for someone doing it too. Beat Glen Turner.

Virgil

Has Davy dumb dumb ever batted so slowly before?
32 off 122 balls

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