YES!!!!
Jimmy strikes early... outside edge to Prior from Warner.
11-1
Jimmy strikes early... outside edge to Prior from Warner.
11-1
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The 5th Investec Ashes Test, England v Australia, The Oval 21-25.08.13
- Thread starter Basil Fawlty
- Start date
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Warner playing a nothing shot at a wide one. Broad and Jimmy both appear to be getting a bit of movement through the air already.
Newton Faulkner? They must be desperate.
Big SHOUT... Broad to Watson... not given... no review... umpires call on clipping the wicket. Good decision.
pasty
A different kind of pasty
Another very close one. 2 good non-review decisions thus far from Cap'n Cook
An early bowl for Swann... turn and bounce??
Seagull over Canaryland
Well-known member
The Aussies really are poor losers. Lehmann's comments about Broad are cheap and a bit rich. OK I guess he's trying to deflect some of the headlines away from his teams performances, but he seems to have seriously overlooked their own record for not walking
Historically the Aussies made 'not walking' into an art form, as an Aussie batsman if you 'walked' you were considered mentally weak. They just can't stand it when someone plays them at their own game.
Look at how the Aussies lost their bottle over bodyline back in the 1930's. Jardine, Voce and Larwood took the game to them in an aggressive way and they didn't like it. OK it was a tough tactic at a time when cricket was still considered a gentlemans game. If we had grizzled about it like they did back then they would have been all over us as 'whinging Poms'. They certainly didn't hold back during the Lillee/Thomson/Pascoe era and our batsmen had the bruises the show for it.
I hope Lehmann's comments have the effect of firing Broad up and comes back to haunt him.
Historically the Aussies made 'not walking' into an art form, as an Aussie batsman if you 'walked' you were considered mentally weak. They just can't stand it when someone plays them at their own game.
Look at how the Aussies lost their bottle over bodyline back in the 1930's. Jardine, Voce and Larwood took the game to them in an aggressive way and they didn't like it. OK it was a tough tactic at a time when cricket was still considered a gentlemans game. If we had grizzled about it like they did back then they would have been all over us as 'whinging Poms'. They certainly didn't hold back during the Lillee/Thomson/Pascoe era and our batsmen had the bruises the show for it.
I hope Lehmann's comments have the effect of firing Broad up and comes back to haunt him.
Woakes on at the Vauxhall End.
First hour... 37-1 (14 overs)
England will be pretty happy... but all to play for in the next hour...
England will be pretty happy... but all to play for in the next hour...
Seagull over Canaryland
Well-known member
.........and of course Boycott is a perfect role model to give advice about how players should conduct their professional and personal lives.
alledgedly
Watson is attacking Woakes at every opportunity (pulling and driving)... 6 FOURs so far... 64-1 (21 overs)
It is what I feared, sadly. WOuld love to see him get the breakthrough, but am not optimistic about it