The Ashes

Originally posted by jimslyp69
Och aye the noo too 😛

Aussie gonna come back and whup you for dat!

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Aussie gonna come back and whup you for dat!

I think the aussies will be praying for rain...bushfires..anything to intervene. Perhaps Hilfenhaus is going to score a 100 and save the first innings, but at 9/90, I think we can safely say that the draw is the best bet for the aussies.

Having said that, the English could also get skittled for 100-150 and make a really good game of it.
Here's hoping🙂


(Anderson has been real unlucky in the past, seems he is getting his luck back. He should hit the casino tonight)

Day two is another day.
Day one was won by England so comprehensively, that it seemes they were playing a club side at times.... 🙁

The ashes are gone...dare I say it??
One more day like that, and they are definatively gone.
Shame. Ten more days of potentially great test cricket and the aussies screw it up in the first hour and a half.

Originally posted by karoly aczel
Day two is another day.
Day one was won by England so comprehensively, that it seemes they were playing a club side at times.... 🙁

The ashes are gone...dare I say it??
One more day like that, and they are definatively gone.
Shame. Ten more days of potentially great test cricket and the aussies screw it up in the first hour and a half.

There is something fishy about this series. In the first test, the Poms scrape through with an amazing amount of luck. In the second, the Convicts are absolutely nowhere. In the third, they hammer the Brits to pulp. In the fourth, at least the way it looks like now, the Convicts play as if they were bleedin' Dutch. I'm telling you, if either of the teams were the Pakis, they'd have been sent home with a four-year ban for match fixing. But this is the Ashes, and nothing is wrong at all, oh no.

Richard

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
There is something fishy about this series. In the first test, the Poms scrape through with an amazing amount of luck. In the second, the Convicts are absolutely nowhere. In the third, they hammer the Brits to pulp. In the fourth, at least the way it looks like now, the Convicts play as if they were bleedin' Dutch. I'm telling you, if either of the team ...[text shortened]... r ban for match fixing. But this is the Ashes, and nothing is wrong at all, oh no.

Richard

that's the Pakistanis if you please!

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
that's the Pakistanis if you please!

Didn't think you did PC!!!

Originally posted by jimslyp69
Didn't think you did PC!!!

i dont, but then again i know the difference between predisposition and cause, for influence is not the same as cause, just like you were not influenced to be an Angle, but were caused by your virtue of being born south of Gretna.

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
There is something fishy about this series. In the first test, the Poms scrape through with an amazing amount of luck. In the second, the Convicts are absolutely nowhere. In the third, they hammer the Brits to pulp. In the fourth, at least the way it looks like now, the Convicts play as if they were bleedin' Dutch. I'm telling you, if either of the team ...[text shortened]... r ban for match fixing. But this is the Ashes, and nothing is wrong at all, oh no.

Richard

Some are calling for Pontings head. The weather will not save the aussies, it seems.
3 days to go with England with an insurmountable lead in this test.

Maybe the aussies were betting against themselves for the Boxing Day test, but what a time to do it!! Record crowd at the MCG, record viewers acroos Oz, only to come up with 98 runs for the first innings.
No , I'm afraid that even if they were betting against themselves, they wouldn't have made it so obvious.

Really, they (aussies) had absolutely no luck. Neither batting nor bowling.

I still hold a slim hope that the aussies can pull a draw out of the fire from this one, but I'm afraid I cant see it happening without at least one day being rained out.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
that's the Pakistanis if you please!

No, that's sending both the Convicts and the Poms down for performance unbecoming a professional sports team, if you please.

Richard

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
No, that's sending both the Convicts and the Poms down for performance unbecoming a professional sports team, if you please.

Richard

Lol, ok, i agree, after Aussies first innings i was forced to abandon ship!

Ponting should be banned from international cricket for that little toy throwing stunt. although the Poms are probably wishing he would stay...

A win by an innings and 157 runs. England keep the Ashes, it'll be 3-1 series victory after the Sydney test/

Originally posted by Crowley
Ponting should be banned from international cricket for that little toy throwing stunt. although the Poms are probably wishing he would stay...

Every word he said in that little outburst probably cost him $100 buks a piece...
He knew what he was getting himself in for and made sure he used only the most polite words.
Although his body language would've been apparent to viewers everywhere...

Originally posted by Siskin
A win by an innings and 157 runs. England keep the Ashes, it'll be 3-1 series victory after the Sydney test/

No way....2-2🙂

24yrs ago since they retained the Ashes..what of Ponting now, great captain he's been but I really really hate his badgering of the umpires and another evident case should've been considered yesterday...not sure I know anyone that feels that 'habit' does him any favours !