2015 Ashes

[bennymacca]

To try and nullify Johnson. And because Anderson is better at swinging an old ball than the Aussies it can work, as it did in 2013. The difference then is that they also had a world class spinner

[FlyingHigh]

Agree, guess I was thinking of the game, not England.

[tigerpie]

The ECB want/need to have every test sold out every day of the tour.
So its in their best interest to have dead tracks. Or at least on the drier side so our quicks don't run through em.

[Gozu]

Well done to Rogers and 'The Blonde Don'. That was great to see some fight from our batsman this time.

Good to see the Ashes is going gang busters in the ratings for Channel 9/Gem too.

Last night it was all about GEM.

The Ashes drew 782,000 / 440,000 on GEM with 505,000 for The Cricket Show. That sent GEM skyrocketing to a massive 14.2% share, just 0.4% short of Seven’s primary channel. It was the channel’s second-highest share of all time. It was also the third highest-rating multichannel programme of all time.

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2015/07/ash ... o-gem.html

[helicopterking]

So what do we do from here.
Rogers just bat the way he is and the rest bat around him, Look to put 550/600 on the board.
Have the last hour at them today.
Have them 2 down at the close of play.

[whufc]

Fascinating stuff to watch last night. This series is really just a series of coin tosses or so it appears. It is going to take some bloody good cricket for any team that loses the toss to win the test with the worst of the conditions.

So what happened last night? ENGLAND WENT DEFENSIVE! In the first test they played attacking Cricket but once things turned pear shaped for them they revealed their true colours. Cook was talking up more aggressive Cricket but bowling wide of off stump to Steve Smith with four in front of the bat with only two slips is all about reducing his scoring rather than getting him out. If you are going to bowl that line you have to risk the odd boundary and put at least three slips in. One catchable ball flew through third slip area just before Bell grassed Smith's edge to second.

Another sign of a defensive mindset (which might not have anything to do with the team) is the wickets that are being served up. By all accounts the Lords strip for the Kiwi test had a lot of pace. This one was as dead as a Dodo. Yeah the groundsman reckons he got robbed by rain of preparation time but if you dry that one out you could fertilise the outfield. With Harris out and some very green backup bowlers in the squad the Poms don't dare risk another Mitchell Johnson assault even though two of their top five leading test wicket takers are in this lineup. Deep down this mob still don't believe in themselves.

England's 'wrong un' so far this series has been to bring on Ali to buy a wicket. It has worked a treat so far in the series but this tactic passed it's use by date once Davey Warner gave himself an uppercut for throwing his wicket away. Rogers and Smith proved you can sit on him all day and score four runs an over. Hopefully the lesson wasn't lost on those wearing the baggy green because it was bloody obvious to the fans and even the Pommy commentators who don't rate Ali as anything more than a part time bowler.

Hopefully we will score another two hundred tonight and nip one or two out in the last hour. With Lyth and Balance in the top three they are ripe for the picking with the wicket expected to pick up pace over the next couple of days.

regards,

REB

Yeah the groundsman reckons he got robbed by rain of preparation time but if you dry that one out you could fertilise the outfield.
Not sure what you meant by this?
Its pretty hard to dry a wicket when its under covers for an extended period of time.
The first test wicket just wasn't flat, hence variable bounce, which was pretty ordinary.

Don't understand why they didn't leave a little more grass on it to help the bowlers rather than a hard batsmen's pitch that it may have been or the dull one this seems to be?

because they have won the last two Ashes and the last test on their soil with pitches similar to this.

[whufc]

So what do we do from here.
Rogers just bat the way he is and the rest bat around him, Look to put 550/600 on the board.
Have the last hour at them today.
Have them 2 down at the close of play.

agree, Rogers bats, Smith gets his eye back in and then looks to be more agressive then hopefully Clarke, Voges, Marsh, follow suit.

Would be interesting to see if we got to say 1/400 if they would consider bringing Marsh or Johnson in earlier to take advantage of a worn out attack and move the game along quicker.

I wouldnt do it personally but with the attacking mind fram Clarke captains with wouldnt surprise me if it was on his mind.

[tigerpie]

Just heard it called an administrators pitch.
Result in the last session on the last day as the master says.

[Gozu]

Rod Stewart's finally got a woman his own age

[stan]

Finally a bit of movement and Rodgers departs.

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[stan]

As for Anderson. At 2/362 id let him keep running on the danger area all day.

Dumb prick. No wonder nobody wants to have a beer with him


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[The Dark Knight]

Australia 2/362

[The Dark Knight]

Can't find anything on Google, Is the floor in the Lord's Long Room where the players walk in and out wooden floor boards or some kind of rubber surface?

It couldn't be Wooden floor boards considering it would take heaps of damage from the players spikes?

If it is Wooden floor boards how does it not get damaged?

[bennymacca]

Looked like carpet

Also cricinfo mentioned that the last Australian to score a double ton overseas was...

Jason Gillespie!!!

[Keefy]

3 down now

That was torture watching Clarke try and bat

[gadj1976]

Can't find anything on Google, Is the floor in the Lord's Long Room where the players walk in and out wooden floor boards or some kind of rubber surface?

It couldn't be Wooden floor boards considering it would take heaps of damage from the players spikes?

If it is Wooden floor boards how does it not get damaged?

I've actually been in there DK.

It's a hard rubber from memory. I remember looking at all the spike marks and thinking about all of the legends of the game that have wandered through there and left their imprint etched on cricket history.

[stan]

3/424 at lunch.
English bowled better today.

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[Jim05]

3 down now

That was torture watching Clarke try and bat

Clarke terrible ATM, looks a shadow of himself

[whufc]

Said it last test and think it stands true, I reckon Clarke is cooked the injuries and the amount of time he has to put into rehab has burnt him and reckon Voges is slightly out of his depth here

[whufc]

Good luck Neville!!!

Really need to get 550 here still!!!