We're back to ****ing sunshine tomorrow as well. Dropping into the convict's lap. It's OK Swann coming in and making a quick cameo 40 odd, but you always need at least one of the main batsmen to make a big ton. Bairstow could possibly have done it, but at best, he's going to run out of partners before he gets there. If he doesn't get out trying to accelerate the scoring.
The positive is both Cook and Pietersen are very good at second innings batting. Cook probably the best 2nd innings batter in the world, off the top of my head. (for the uninitiated, 2nd innings is far, far more difficult than first)
Don't think there'll be many 'uninitiated' on here, bar the usual suspect disruptors Gerrez and Zingy
Did you read the bit where I put "if we bat well"? It doesn't matter what the conditions are if you give 4 wickets away I reckon two (at most) were down to the conditions and even then you could discount the Root dismissal which was a yorker.
. (for the uninitiated, 2nd innings is far, far more difficult than first)[/QUOTE] so they get another go at it? who knew?
haha, that was a bit of a 'cover all bases' caveat that mate The fact is that the conditions favoured the bowlers today & I'm pretty sure we'd have had a similar result had we had the ball. Now we've handed the initiative to the convicts & they tend to press home an advantage when they get a sniff.
ok ok ok... prob the same as the new zealand ****e. don't judge an innings unitl both sides have completed it. england posted a similar type score to previosu ashes won by England at home where less runs but more bowling dominated. if aussies post 250 as well is it a missed opportunity for england seeing they threw wickets away? yes... but it aint a disaster!
It's true mate how many of those were down to conditions? 4 tops so if we'd batted properly we'd be 4 or 5 down at most. No team gets to 200 plus runs just after tea if conditions are really tough. We were scoring easily enough but we just had the mental toughness of lemmings
The fact is these are test match batsmen who can't bat at the moment (India and New Zealand will testify to that). Yes we probably would have got a similar result...but we'd still be batting last on a bone dry wicket.
So we might actually get a winner before the fifth day Does anyone believe it could be all over by tomorrow?
It's been ****ing exciting but probably the last kind of day you wanted really eh You could do with these two having a partnership of about 60 that takes a day and a half
