The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by JimC » Sun Dec 08, 2013 4:49 am

Dunno, but I'm seeing double...

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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by JimC » Sun Dec 08, 2013 4:55 am

Pieterson and Bell have now bitten the dust...
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Sun Dec 08, 2013 6:59 am

Best England batting performance of the series (which isn't saying much!)

Now, what chance rain all day tomorrow? :begging:
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by Clinton Huxley » Sun Dec 08, 2013 8:30 am

Heroic Rorkes Drift style defence tomorrow....
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by JimC » Sun Dec 08, 2013 8:53 am

Clinton Huxley wrote:Heroic Rorkes Drift style defence tomorrow....
So, they'll be singing Men of Harlech with the balls fizzing around their ears?
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by Clinton Huxley » Sun Dec 08, 2013 9:01 am

JimC wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:Heroic Rorkes Drift style defence tomorrow....
So, they'll be singing Men of Harlech with the balls fizzing around their ears?
You old pervert :hehe:
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by klr » Sun Dec 08, 2013 2:44 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:
JimC wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:Heroic Rorkes Drift style defence tomorrow....
So, they'll be singing Men of Harlech with the balls fizzing around their ears?
You old pervert :hehe:
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by Clinton Huxley » Sun Dec 08, 2013 3:31 pm

klr wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:
JimC wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:Heroic Rorkes Drift style defence tomorrow....
So, they'll be singing Men of Harlech with the balls fizzing around their ears?
You old pervert :hehe:
I can't imagine a bruised and battered Stuart Broad leaning on his bat between overs, saying "I only came here to build bridges".
:hehe:

I tell you, they'll dig up Richard Burton to narrate the commemorative DVD.
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by JimC » Mon Dec 09, 2013 12:53 am

Currently 8 for 294. Definitely a better batting performance by England for their second dig, but too little, too late...

Rain bands drifting west to east, but all to the north of Adelaide:

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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by JimC » Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:15 am

All over red rover...

Oz leads the series 2-0...

Off to Perth, where hopefully a fast, bouncy pitch will crank up Johnson's deliveries to the level beyond terrifying...
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon Dec 09, 2013 7:57 am

From the TMS facebook page...

Only 3 times in Test history has a team come back to draw a series after being 2/0 down and only once before has a side come back to win 3/2 - and that team had Don Bradman in it

Ah.........
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by JimC » Sat Dec 14, 2013 10:29 pm

After 2 days, the third test is fairly evenly poised. Australia all out for 385, England 4 for 180. Pieterson not doing much with the bat (out for 19), but then again, neither is Johnson with the ball - no wickets as yet, though he took a good catch...
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by JimC » Sun Dec 15, 2013 3:11 am

2 wickets early on the third day, England now 6 for 203...
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by JimC » Sun Dec 15, 2013 4:00 am

3 more quick wickets, 9 for 233...

Harris has been bowling really well, and Johnson produced the perfect yorker to dismiss Broad...
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by Faithfree » Sun Dec 15, 2013 5:14 am

England all out for 251.

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