The Ashes; First Test, Cardiff. Match Thread..

[Paxton Dazo]

First Ashes Test, Cardiff: England v Australia.

Date: 8-12 July.

BBC SPORT | Cricket | International Teams | Australia | Injured Lee to miss Ashes opener
BBC SPORT | Cricket | England | Pietersen wary of Aussie threat

There bowling attack is POOR without Brett Lee.

Who remembers the first ball of the last Ashes Series in England?

C'mon England.

 

[User removed 4]

First Ashes Test, Cardiff: England v Australia.

Date: 8-12 July.

BBC SPORT | Cricket | International Teams | Australia | Injured Lee to miss Ashes opener
BBC SPORT | Cricket | England | Pietersen wary of Aussie threat

There bowling attack is POOR without Brett Lee.

Who remembers the first ball of the last Ashes Series in England?

C'mon England.

i hope those words dont come back to haunt us .

 

[Da Man Clay]

There bowling attack is fairly poor with Brett Lee! Glad as it means Hauritz has to play and he is WANK. 150+ runs for 1 wicket at Hove is awful for a spinner.

 

[8ace]

Weather not looking too clever...
Met Office: Cardiff: forecast weather

 

[Seagull over NZ]

Now have Sky Player at work which is tremendous. Think I am going to have to have my door shut and make several confidential calls tomorrow. The quality of the Sky player is excellent, just wait and see what its like when loads of people are on it !!

 

[Billy the Fish]

There bowling attack is POOR without Brett Lee.

At least he's got his day job to fall back on

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[Mendoza]

This would be a wicked time to "research" for this job

England Team Performance Analyst

 

[The Tassie Seagull]

I think I might be quite tired at work for the next few weeks now - not that I wasn't already with the tennis.

I will have a great time if it all falls our way. Bastard music teacher got all the kids to call out 51 to me after the test in the Windies

 

[CHAPPERS]

Jonathan Agnew just tweeted that it's a 2 spinners pitch.

 

[Easy 10]

Katherine Jenkins will be singing the WELSH national anthem before the match.

 

[Brovion]

Katherine Jenkins will be singing the WELSH national anthem before the match.

Yeah, aren't they doing FOUR anthems? The English (Jerusalem), the British (God Save The Queen), the Australian (Fair dinkum bonzer diggers) and the Welsh (Glwynn clwydd llynfn)

NOTE: I may have got the names of the Australian and the Welsh anthems wrong.

 

[Easy 10]

Not as far as I know. They were saying on the radio this morning it'll be the Welsh and Aussie anthems.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

There bowling attack is fairly poor with Brett Lee! Glad as it means Hauritz has to play and he is WANK. 150+ runs for 1 wicket at Hove is awful for a spinner.

Stuart Clark & Mitchell Johnson are better than Stuart Broad & Jimmy Anderson. I really hope Onions plays

 

[Lush]

This may be a stupid question, but why are they playing an ENGLAND cricket match in Wales?

 

[simmo]

There bowling attack is fairly poor with Brett Lee! Glad as it means Hauritz has to play and he is WANK. 150+ runs for 1 wicket at Hove is awful for a spinner.

Don't speak too soon. On his day Mitchell Johnson can be a very good bowler (he didn't play against Sussex as he was guaranteed a place). Still I hope to be proved wrong.

 

[8ace]

England usually run out to Jerusalem at home games.

 

[itszamora]

This may be a stupid question, but why are they playing an ENGLAND cricket match in Wales?

Cos it's technically the England & Wales cricket board, and Welsh players play for England cos Wales is too shit to have it's own team

 

[Billy the Fish]

Stuart Clark & Mitchell Johnson are better than Stuart Broad & Jimmy Anderson. I really hope Onions plays

Whilst I'd agree that Clark and Johnson are all round better bowlers (only just though) they're not better in english conditions.

In 2 or 3 years Broad will be better than all of them.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

This may be a stupid question, but why are they playing an ENGLAND cricket match in Wales?

england=england & wales

 

[Easy 10]

The worlds gone mad.
An England Ashes series kicking off in Wales. And last year you had France hosting the Rugby World Cup and playing one of their games in....Cardiff.

Bonkers.