2nd npower test Lords 16th-21st july

[Simster]

Can't understand how Australia have turned into a bunch of cricket mentals.

 

[Titanic]

Followed up by a shocking lazy misfield by Ponting... oh dear

167-0

 

[CHAPPERS]

15 byes so far.

 

[Titanic]

Now Siddle is taking some stick... 9 runs, including 2 fours, a no-ball and one that would have hit 1st slip if Haddin hadn't fumbled it

England 177-0 (44 overs)

 

[Titanic]

and now an overthrow from a fumble by Haddin to a return on the bounce

This is truly bizarre!

 

[Titanic]

Blimey Mitchell Johnson is returning... 8 overs for 53 so far...

 

[Titanic]

and the first ball is short and wide and Strauss cuts for 4

 

[Titanic]

and the second is also short and wide and cut for 2

 

[vegster]

lord help us.... we need rain or the Aussies will post 1000 + on this blamange skin of a wicket !

 

[Titanic]

with sweepers out on both sides, Johnson's over goes for 8...

Mitchell Johnson 9-0-61-0

 

[Mendoza]

we may break the 350 barrier by the end of the day the way we are batting. Maybe even go for the 400+ we achieved at Edgbaston in 2005

 

[CHAPPERS]

Bat for two days then innit.

 

[John Bumlick]

Johnson is, as the commentators are wont to say, bowling absolute filth.

edit: oh bollocks. sorry. i'll shut up.

 

[The Tassie Seagull]

Hmmmmm, wanting to give them all stick tomorrow, does give you worries about that they will do when they bat. Thinking Harmy may have been a good idea

 

[Titanic]

Cook gone for 95 - LBW.. Johnson surprises him with a straight one.

196-1

 

[Trigger]

95 and out for Cook, LBW, kept low.

196/1

 

[the viscount]

Out LBW cook goes for 95

 

[Titanic]

England 200-1 (49.2 overs) (with an airy lofted clip over square leg from Bopara)

 

[Titanic]

Ravi Bopara riding his luck with another airy drive to a wide one from Hilfenhaus.... moves on to 14*

 

[Titanic]

Strauss takes 2 fours off North's over - who is bowling wide on both sides of the wicket... 218-1 (53 overs) Strauss 90*