The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by Clinton Huxley » Sun Dec 15, 2013 9:45 am

Broad having an x-ray, Swann been off the field. Think England have had enough and players are looking for excuses to come home.
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by Hermit » Sun Dec 15, 2013 11:00 am

Clinton Huxley wrote:Broad having an x-ray, Swann been off the field. Think England have had enough and players are looking for excuses to come home.
They could always plead depression. :ddpan:
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by Clinton Huxley » Sun Dec 15, 2013 2:13 pm

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Clinton Huxley wrote:Broad having an x-ray, Swann been off the field. Think England have had enough and players are looking for excuses to come home.
They could always plead depression. :ddpan:
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by klr » Sun Dec 15, 2013 6:28 pm

Well, this isn't exactly going to plan, is it? :tea:
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Sun Dec 15, 2013 6:56 pm

klr wrote:Well, this isn't exactly going to plan, is it? :tea:
Well, certainly not to the original plan....
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Post by klr » Sun Dec 15, 2013 9:01 pm

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klr wrote:Well, this isn't exactly going to plan, is it? :tea:
Well, certainly not to the original plan....
Or indeed just about any plan, not from this hemisphere anyway. :dance:
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by JimC » Mon Dec 16, 2013 4:02 am

A rather interesting morning of batting by the Australians - Watson got his ton, a bevy of sixes, and a declaration setting a target of 504 for victory...

Then Harris got Cook out first ball... :tea:
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by JimC » Mon Dec 16, 2013 9:36 am

England 5 for 228. Making a fair effort, the English, not a collapse, just steady attrition...
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon Dec 16, 2013 9:39 am

Pietersen has to go. Sure, he can invent shots on the fly, play strokes that no-one else can, but he can't bat for the team. You wouldn't put tuppence on him to hold one end up and grind out a draw. Spiky-haired prat.

Australia have all the time in the world. Just a question of whether they regain the Ashes today or tomorrow. Still, Bell has done OK and Stokes looks one for the future.
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by klr » Mon Dec 16, 2013 11:03 am

England are just working up to an honourable defeat, holding out the merest promise of an unlikely victory, before the inevitable ...
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon Dec 16, 2013 12:20 pm

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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by JimC » Mon Dec 16, 2013 7:25 pm

5 for 251 at stumps. Stokes is batting well, but it would require a miracle to survive the 5th day, methinks...
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Tue Dec 17, 2013 4:35 am

A maiden century for Ben Stokes in his second ever test. The first bright spark in this series since the very first morning back at the Gabba!

The question is, if he can bat sensibly and make a ton, why have the rest of Englandshire's eleven so obviously forrgotten? (Except Pietersen, he never knew how to play sensibly! :hehe: )
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by JimC » Tue Dec 17, 2013 4:52 am

Yes, England in with the chance of a draw, and a faint chance of a win. One more wicket early after lunch, though, and it might be the beginning of the end...
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Re: The Cricket Thread: Second Innings

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Tue Dec 17, 2013 4:59 am

JimC wrote:Yes, England in with the chance of a draw, and a faint chance of a win. One more wicket early after lunch, though, and it might be the beginning of the end...
If we can make it to tea and lose by less than a ton, I will consider it an achievement.

If we can manage 418, we will lose having matched the highest ever 4th innings run chase! We have already passed the total of the highest winning 4th innings total against you lot. :tea:

And if, just if,... records will tumble by the dozen. :biggrin:
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