Ashes 4th test Boxing Day - Melbourne Discussion

[Jim05]

Best part about an early Test Match day finish
Can now attend to a few odd jobs
Have Tea
Then settle in for the Sydney Sixers vrs the Melbourne Jimo5's Big Bash game

Hey what do I have to do with the mickey mouse stuff?
I refuse to watch a ball of that crap, ill be watching the real cricket tonight

[dedja]

wonder how piers is going

sitting in an ice bath trying to ease his bruised ego ...

[Brodlach]

wonder how piers is going

sitting in an ice bath trying to ease his bruised ego ...

Interesting that Richard Hadlee has had a crack at Brett Lee for bowling like that at Piers. Reckons Lee could have killed him.

[dedja]

and 2 billion people hoped that he would ...

[Jim05]

wonder how piers is going

sitting in an ice bath trying to ease his bruised ego ...

Interesting that Richard Hadlee has had a crack at Brett Lee for bowling like that at Piers. Reckons Lee could have killed him.

75,000 at the G weren't wrong the day they started the Hadlee's a wanker chant!

[mal]

Best part about an early Test Match day finish
Can now attend to a few odd jobs
Have Tea
Then settle in for the Sydney Sixers vrs the Melbourne Jimo5's Big Bash game

Hey what do I have to do with the mickey mouse stuff?
I refuse to watch a ball of that crap, ill be watching the real cricket tonight

Ooops , sorry Jimbo
Should be Melbourne Stars not Melbourne Jim05's

[whufc]

wonder how piers is going

sitting in an ice bath trying to ease his bruised ego ...

Interesting that Richard Hadlee has had a crack at Brett Lee for bowling like that at Piers. Reckons Lee could have killed him.

Before a ball was bowled lawyers were involved a consent forms signed.

In fairness Piers should some rather large balls (and stupidity) to do that!

Good on Brett

[Jim05]

wonder how piers is going

sitting in an ice bath trying to ease his bruised ego ...

Interesting that Richard Hadlee has had a crack at Brett Lee for bowling like that at Piers. Reckons Lee could have killed him.

Before a ball was bowled lawyers were involved a consent forms signed.

In fairness Piers should some rather large balls (and stupidity) to do that!

Good on Brett

Piers had some fair body armour on aswell. Looked to have a pillow or some rather large padding under his shirt. Good on him for having a go

[mal]

The best part about this series is the resERECTION of some of the players I've batted for in the past
At times a lone battle
They are
MJ
Sir Brad Haddin
Warner

And add Watto to the list the last 2 Tests

What has Boof done to get these guys dominating ?
MJ Handlebars Johnston and Mr Haddin in particular
I'm amazed at those 2 players consistency in this series
They have been hit or miss for sometime b4 this series

Inevitably those 4 players will slip up in the future
But for now, I'm going to enjoy watching them
Coz when they are firing they are great to watch

[locky801]

Just watched the highlights of the entire test, find it quite amusing that when England were losing wickets one WJM Lawrie was in the box commentating.

He certainly adds to the moment

[whufc]

I just can't wait to see if Johnson can have the Saffies running scared as well.

Will we see another unchanged lineup for Sydney.

Unless there is injuries I think Lehmann will go with the same eleven.

Personally I would like to see a young lad come in for Bailey at six but that won't happen

[helicopterking]

Don't think Harris will play last test.

[whufc]

Would love to see Nathan Coulter Nile get a gig if Harris doesn't play

[Brodlach]

To think had Pattinson been fit that Johnson wouldn't have played that first test. Things could have been so different

[Rik E Boy]

A big well done to Nathan Lyon. 100 wickets and some beautiful bowling yesterday as England self destructed. Chris Rogers was superb today as well. We won but still not keen on us bowling first when we won the toss.

regards,

REB

[helicopterking]

A big well done to Nathan Lyon. 100 wickets and some beautiful bowling yesterday as England self destructed. Chris Rogers was superb today as well. We won but still not keen on us bowling first when we won the toss.

regards,

REB

Why not?
I think the decision was that the pitch was going to speed up as the test went on. Looked a lot easier to bat on day 4 then it did on day 1-2. Day 3 was still pretty easy, just not for the poms. Drop in pitches with a greenish tinge probably mean 2 paced decks early, and as the test goes on the bounce doesn't vary, and doesn't really deteriorate.

[Rik E Boy]

A big well done to Nathan Lyon. 100 wickets and some beautiful bowling yesterday as England self destructed. Chris Rogers was superb today as well. We won but still not keen on us bowling first when we won the toss.

regards,

REB

Why not?
I think the decision was that the pitch was going to speed up as the test went on. Looked a lot easier to bat on day 4 then it did on day 1-2. Day 3 was still pretty easy, just not for the poms. Drop in pitches with a greenish tinge probably mean 2 paced decks early, and as the test goes on the bounce doesn't vary, and doesn't really deteriorate.

Not having a crack but speaking of pretty easy, it's easy to say so after the fact. I thought at the time Clarkey wouldn't have minded losing the toss. He wasn't sure he did the right thing or not. I don't think the conditions played much of a part really, England are really that bad. I'm old school and I reckon you bat first, have a think about it, then bat first again.

regards,

REB

[helicopterking]

A big well done to Nathan Lyon. 100 wickets and some beautiful bowling yesterday as England self destructed. Chris Rogers was superb today as well. We won but still not keen on us bowling first when we won the toss.

regards,

REB

Why not?
I think the decision was that the pitch was going to speed up as the test went on. Looked a lot easier to bat on day 4 then it did on day 1-2. Day 3 was still pretty easy, just not for the poms. Drop in pitches with a greenish tinge probably mean 2 paced decks early, and as the test goes on the bounce doesn't vary, and doesn't really deteriorate.

Not having a crack but speaking of pretty easy, it's easy to say so after the fact. I thought at the time Clarkey wouldn't have minded losing the toss. He wasn't sure he did the right thing or not. I don't think the conditions played much of a part really, England are really that bad. I'm old school and I reckon you bat first, have a think about it, then bat first again.

regards,

REB

Your right,I think he wanted to lose the toss, but the pitch was tacky, and I say he would have bowled if it wasnt overcast conditions. With that, we bowled pretty poor the first session. With England having barely scored over 300 in the last handful of tests, bowling first would be more tempting then usual.

[wristwatcher]

He will be batting first in Sydney, that much is sure.

[The Dark Knight]

I'm always in favor of batting first when winning the toss unless the pitch is a green top. I didn't like it when Clarke sent the Poms in but in the end it was very good test and then seeing us win after England were in a strong position was fantastic. We're finding ways to win again which we've lacked for a while and we're winning the big moments, I love it.

Our bowling attack has been outstanding, all four bowlers have complimented each other so well throughout this series. I love the variety in our attack.

I'm so relieved and happy we're 4-0 up, England though wow, they have been really poor, they have cracked under the immense pressure we're consistently put on them.