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ASHES 2013: THIRD TEST - OLD TRAFFORD
- ASHES 2013: THIRD TEST - OLD TRAFFORD
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RE: ASHES 2013: THIRD TEST - OLD TRAFFORD
StrumSolo > 02/08/2013, 14:29
And that's the big one! Michael Clarke falls just short of his double century after being bowled out by Stuart Broad on 187. That's Broad's 200th test wicket too!
Australia now 430-6. Will they reach 500? -
RE: ASHES 2013: THIRD TEST - OLD TRAFFORD
RussyRover > 02/08/2013, 14:39
Luvly jubbly - at long fuckin last is what Broad must be thinking to himself, and Siddle goes quickly too giving Swann another 5 wicket haul... at 437 for 7 now and 500 may just be too far away for them.
I can't see England failing to reach the runs required to avoid the follow-on, so they will want to rack up a huge first innings total as well to try to get the Aussies out cheaply and then have a bash at the win, or if I was them, bat, bat, and bat some more and go for the draw and get those Ashes retained... -
RE: ASHES 2013: THIRD TEST - OLD TRAFFORD
RussyRover > 02/08/2013, 15:48
TEA - AUS 507-7
The Aussies have got to 500 after all with Mitchell Starc yet again proving a handful making 54 from 54 balls and the keeper Haddin on 57.
Will Clarke declare? I should think not yet, he needs as many runs as possible if he is thinking of getting England to bat twice, and with the way Starc is playing, then let him bat on till end of play or at least for 90 minutes if they can last that long, and then have a quick bash at the England openers before the end of play...
Looks like the Aussies have finally brought their batting game - can England do the same? -
RE: ASHES 2013: THIRD TEST - OLD TRAFFORD
StrumSolo > 02/08/2013, 16:20
Austraiia declare, sarcastically in my opinion, on 527-7.
Time to see if our bowling was off, or is just that kind of pitch? -
RE: ASHES 2013: THIRD TEST - OLD TRAFFORD
RussyRover > 02/08/2013, 16:26
Yeah, I don't get that, why just come out and bat for a quarter of an hour and add 20 runs??? It's not going to affect the follow-on target significantly and it wouldn't have phased England with this minor disruption? Very odd indeed... But a nice batting display from Mitchell Starc, he'll be one to watch out for in the future...
I'm not going to say anything about England as I have been known to jinx things in the past lol... or should I say I hope Cook and Root both get first ball ducks??? a bit of reverse jinxing... -
RE: ASHES 2013: THIRD TEST - OLD TRAFFORD
StrumSolo > 02/08/2013, 16:28
Top use of the reverse jinx there, Russ.
The mind-games on this forum are getting pretty sophisticated. -
RE: ASHES 2013: THIRD TEST - OLD TRAFFORD
RussyRover > 02/08/2013, 18:36
so far it's only been 50% effective...
DAY 2 CLOSE OF PLAY - AUS 527-7 Dec & ENG 52-2
A pretty nervous start by Cook and Root to see off the new ball, and Cook has managed to get a start but poor Joe Root only manages 8 from 57 deliveries.
Bresnan gets sent in as the night watchman but he too doesn't last as he is out for 1, they think about using a review, but decide against it, and subsequent replays show it was not, unlucky Tim...
So Cook finishes the day on 36 and Trott's who's only just come in is on 2. England trail by 475.
Nicely set up for tomorrow morning, time to banish the demons and start cracking that willow... -
RE: ASHES 2013: THIRD TEST - OLD TRAFFORD
Hilary Briss > 02/08/2013, 23:16
Well fuck me - 2 bastard days sitting in the Manchester heat wave.
The Briss has a tan that Lenny Henry would be proud of.
England pull your finger out you have been shit so far.
The aussies have remembered that you can actually leave the ball, you dont have to play at every one. They also seemed to have realised that 120 is not enough in test cricket.
Briss had the misfortune of sitting next to an aussie slut all bastard day today, as she drank enough cheap white wine to quench an entire colony. What a fuckin gobshite.
Fuck that black toothed mongrel was ugly. She looked as though she had had a fire on her face and they had put it out with a pickaxe.
Anyway I digress. Tomorrow Cook will bat all day and the chaps will rally - HUZZAH !!!
( I wonder if old clitterslut can furnish the rampant massive with a pictorial montage that uses the juxtapostion of the Cook moniker to rip the piss out of our colonial cast offs ? ) -
RE: ASHES 2013: THIRD TEST - OLD TRAFFORD
Hilary Briss > 03/08/2013, 09:37
So your erstwhile hero has woken to find himself in the Old Trafford Lodge. Now this is a seriously enjoyable way to proceed. No pesky train journey, no queuing to getin. Just A fine breakfast and then all one has to do is find ones seat.. Bliss for Briss.
Its 9:30 and already they are forming a queue at the turnstiles beneath Briss's bedroom window, buggers woke me up. A quick look around the room suggests that a small nip was taken last night, and one hears that the shower is running ? Briss is not alone ?......??.....??
Fuck it better not be that haggard old aussie slut - you remember the one, face like a bag of spanners. She's got a figure like the Sydney Harbour bridge, teeth like the Sydney Opera house, and a persuasion like a Salt water croc with toothache. ( sounds like your kinda girl Bickers ! )
Oh well with morning wood to attend to one simply has to think of the Empire.....the things I do for the rampant massive ! -
RE: ASHES 2013: THIRD TEST - OLD TRAFFORD
RussyRover > 03/08/2013, 10:30
Briss has one too many bottles of bubbly and goes to liven things up on the field...
But I now propose a new version of the game... T20 Bikini Cricket...
Very easy plan today for both sides - Australia have to bowl England out for less than 328, and England just have to pull their fingers out their bums and play cricket, don't play silly shots and grind the Aussies down... SIMPLES... squeak...