SA Footy

It starts tonight from 6:15pm on Fox Sports and from 6:30pm on SBS. Michael Clarke's captaincy wasn't too flash on Friday night so hopefully that's rectified tonight.

England won the toss and elected to field.

Aust. team in batting order
SR Watson, TD Paine†, CL White, MJ Clarke*, CJ Ferguson, MEK Hussey, JR Hopes, MG Johnson, B Lee, NM Hauritz, NW Bracken

Eng. team
RS Bopara, AJ Strauss*, MJ Prior†, OA Shah, PD Collingwood, LJ Wright, EJG Morgan, GP Swann, JM Anderson, RJ Sidebottom, TT Bresnan

Currently after 5 overs Aust. 0/20
Watson 6 (13)
Paine 13 (17)

1/62 [15]
Watson out for 34
another start
Its elimentary my dear Watson, getta start, gotta getta big score

Paine bats too slow
Would be a good Test keepr though

Read in the Sunday Mail that Manou is the preferred 'keeper of the Australian public...

Paine didn't get a look in...

England are wearing red and black???

MarblePark wrote:
England are wearing red and black???

should be wearing Rainbow colours to represent all the different nationalities of players they have playing for them these days.

3/73 Paine and Clarke out.

Luke Wright 2/10

5/155 [37]
Mr Cricket Missda ball b Swann 8
Ferguson 34*[38]

EG look the winners

Aust 6/183 after 43

Ferguson 49*

White 42
Watson 34
Paine 24

MarblePark wrote:
England are wearing red and black???

yeah, i just got home from the show, turned the tv on & thought they were playing the redbacks

Aust 8/249 after 50

Johnson 43* (23)
Hauritz 10* (13)
Ferguson 55 (58)
White 42 (66)
Watson 34 (39)
Paine 24 (44)

I think it's a very very very dark navy blue

A competitive score in the end after struggling a bit throughout the innings.

Trouble with our line up is we have too many carpet burning orthodox good batters
No big hitters
White is the only batsman who will smash sixes when he jump starts his innings
That leaves 1 genuine big big hitter, Johnson who bats 8

8/249 is competitive
MJ 43 off 23 balls
Cant rely on the number 8 to bail the team out all the time

MJ 3/24 last game, runs tonight, whatta player

Just when you think Ravi Bopara couldn't sink any lower he gets out to Watto

Poms 1/74 15 overs

Bopara LBW Watto 27 off 44 balls.

How does such a USELESS batsman keep getting a game at this level??????????????????/

In the Tests and ODI this tour, hasn't made a 50 in about 9 - 10 inngs ? and keeps getting a game.

Watto!

1.2 overs 2 wickets for 0 runs The most staggering thing about this is that he's managed 8 balls without doing his hamstring

3/84
WATTO 2/2

NFC wont be able to sleep

EG 4/97
SHAH run out
Both Collingwood + Shah trying to get of strike to avoid facing Watson next over ...

Watto nice comeback over son, just the 3 from it.

Australia 8/249

Ferguson 55 (58)
Johnson 43* (23)
White 42 (66)

Swann 2/31 (8)
Wright 2/52

England 210

Collingwood 56 (84)
Strauss 47 (53)

Lee 2/22 (8.1)
Watson 2/26 (7)
Bracken 2/37
Johnson 2/50 (9)

Australia won by 39 runs and lead the series 2-0

mal wrote:Trouble with our line up is we have too many carpet burning orthodox good batters
No big hitters
White is the only batsman who will smash sixes when he jump starts his innings
That leaves 1 genuine big big hitter, Johnson who bats 8

Exactly right! The bloke we miss most is Andrew Symonds to up the run rate, not push it around. who's the man to take this role?? I know some people like Birt. Voges?- I don't think so