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Wanted to post this thread first. :)
Come on England!

COME ON ENGLAND!!  :beers:

come on england,
the key for me is flintoff

If the pitch is going to break up by Sunday as the papers say, the key could be the toss - win it and bat, please!

I don't care who the key man is, as long as somebody in each test has the game of his life, be it KP, Freddy, Strauss, Harmison....

Barmy Army
Barmy Army....

bloody aussies on tele saying how its going to be 5-0 and the first test will be over by saturday  :(  
COME ON ENGLAND!!!

they dont like it up um

Come on you whites!!!!!

Show the England rejects where to stick their cocky 5-0 predictions!

We'll have 'em, don't worry lads!

Aussie bastards win the toss and bat.  :x

surreal moment.. channel 4 commentator interviewing sky's cricket commentators

Fucking typical, I was looking at a recent series either 2001 or 97, when the Aussies won all 5 tosses.......bollox.

ouch!!! nice one harmison!  :D

I realise this may be an unpopular opinion, but I fucking love the Aussies.  I love their attitude, their spirit, I just think that when it comes down to it Australia must be the greatest country on the planet.   I need to revisit the golden land soon!!

That being said it'd still be nice to see a close test series going down to the wire.  And I wouldn't even mind if the England and Wales Cricket Board win it.  Let's just not get too anti Aussie, they've always backed us lot up in the past.

Yey, Hayden goes down!

KP just dropped Ponting on naught.  :(

ponting out for 9, Harmison.

57 for 2 they are at the moment - Ponting just gone for 9. c Strauss b Harmison.

Langer is out for 40.  c harmi b freddie f.  66/3

66-4!!!!!!!!!!! :mrgreen:  :beers:

This is begining to get interesting now.

Excellent start, but I won't be really happy until Gilchrist is out.

Agree Zurich,the thing with the aussies is that when you think you've got them,they always come back at you.But still great start by the lads.

87-5 Jones got clark out lbw.Here comes gilchrist.

Bloody hell Bruce 87-5 - Clarkey out now - LBW Jones.  Struth!!!

Fucking awesome first session. Lets be honest, the best Australia can hope for at tea is to be about 220/5 - I'd have been delighted with that at the start of play.

You been watching it Boeta?

Great to see the Aussie skipper with blood on his face on the first morning of the Ashes! More to come after lunch I hope.

After what happend to Alex Tudor years ago. I hope Brett Lee gets one in the chops!  :x

bloody hell! what happened???
i only popped out for an hour
HOWZAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GILCHRIST OUT CAUGHT JONES BOWLED FREDDY
126 FOR 6

Gilchrist out!!!! This is too easy. 8)

Why am I at work? :cry:

boycott's getting a little over excited  :soapy tit wank:

Warne has gone for 28 from 29 balls,bowled by harmy.
Katich just gone in the same over.178 for 8 :)

Come on lads, 2 wickets to go! :wink:

Harmy is on fire.Now 178 for 9.Lee out.

Wooo hooo happy days!. :)

Sodding Sky cricket score centre is playing up.  :evil:

Arent you watching it then?, oooooooh close lbw shout, yes Gillespies out!.

they think its all over........it is now  :beers:

190 all out.Harmison again,fiver.Fuck me we were amazing.
Had a bit of luck but its about fucking time we had luck against the bastards.Now the sun is coming out we just need to keep it going.I worry what mcgrath and lee are going to do.
Come on England!

Unbelievable!!  Who would have though that in less than four hours of cricket, the Aussies would be all out.  Superb effort.

Barmy Harmy :mrgreen:

Good effort guys - keep going though, plenty of time to bat - keep it tight today and build a good platform.

fucking hell I missed all of the Aussies innings.

But I bet you're now some sort of High Chiefton Supreme on WOW?

:beers: what a day so far, me and R4E are certaintly enjoying being off school today!  :D

Hoggards wicket off hayden was an awesome delievery and boycott has had me in laughter most of the day!

Work. :angry:

unlucky.... :)

nah I've been in Swindon all day

Ah, fair doos.  I'm gutted to have missed all this.

oh dear 2 wickets down already, does not bode well  :cry:

13 for 2. mcgrath is on fire  :(

The collapse has started :x

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The guys that do this are superb.

For 3  :?

18 for 3.......... fu*king hell!!!! oh well good luck pietersen.....you'll need it

COME ON ENGLAND! we cant let all the good work slip away.

If KP and Freddy can come in and put a good partnership together then we will still be in good shape.  As it is, it looks like the match will be over by Saturday lunchtime. :(

19 for 4.  :cry:  whats the lowest test score ever? we might get close

Oh for fucks sake! 4 down now.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

All down to the two big hitters then.

I reckon we will be all out for 50 at this rate.  I can't believe these are our best batsmen.  made to look stupid by the aussies yet again  :evil:

As I've said on here many a time I'm not a cricket fan in the slightest, but thats possibly the best commentary I've ever seen/ heard! :soapy tit wank:

Even though I don t really care, it would be good to beat the aussie criminals at something

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Bloody hell id settle for 50 at the moment.

bye bye Freddie

McGrath's on 5-7  :?

This takes the piss, it really does.

I think Mcgrath should be replaced by Gillespie!. :cry:

this will all be over by the end of the day

Lets hope you're wrong. :wink:

What do we need to avoid a follow on?

This is an unbelievable day's cricket, I wanna go home now!!!!

G. Jones into double figures - it's all starting now. :?

Sky Sports are doing highlights tonight.

the follow on for a 5 day is 200 and australia did not get 200

At least that's good news. :?

Jones just gone.

Flintoff is not good enough to bat at 6.

Fun while it lasted this morning, but this game has gone......

shite.... :(

I blame you Johno, ! :x

i don't...i blame grandad mcgrath!  :x

As long as KP can put 70-100 runs on the board with support from Jones and more likely Hoggard, then we are still perfectly capable of winning this game. I think that 150 should be a reasonable target, but we will have to bat well second time around.

very poor batting from both sides, apart from mcgrath no-one really bowled that well and yet the day score was 280-17  :?

Pieterson might aswell adopt his ODI strategy as weve got nothing to lose with so many wickets down.

Agree Spuddy.
Most of the batsmen were awful,but i think the pitch is fucked.There is no way all those wickets should go down on just one day.Mcgrath just showed us yet again, that he is one of the best bowlers ever.
The only plus point that i can think of is that we did bowl well,the first day at brisbane in the last ashes series was a lot worse than yesterday,on that day they batted us into submission.I feel we can get 20 wickets now, unlike the last ashes series,but they have two of the best bowlers ever,and our batsmen are going to struggle.The difference between the aussies and everone else is warne and mcgrath,to me they are the reason why the aussies dominate world cricket.

I agree, although the pitch does look very ropey, I thought some of the batting was dreadful.  Made for great entertainment though.

i think was wickets of vaughan and flinty were abit unlucky due to the ball dying on them off the pitch. otherwise england were too scared to get forward to the ball, as they all were abit nervous.

6 without loss so far this morning.  :mrgreen:

K.p just gone for 57,to a great catch.At least we've reached 3 figures.

50 for pietersen  :beers:

Gonna need the final two to add about 30 if possible, we'll be in touch if they can. :?

KP still can hold his head high, fair play to him!!  Not much in it now, in a funny kind of way, not a bad recovery.

In rougly the same amount of overs we gave away 21 extras, the Aussies have gifted us just 9.  Need to cut those nbs out Freddy.

146 for 9. 2nd innings harmison and s jones should open the batting  :wink:

yeah!We've made 150.

155 all out....... better than i thought it would be :|

At least we put a bit of late resistance.  Match is very open now. Come on England let's start again.

Fair play to the tail end, showed a little guts.  Gonna be an interesting afternoon.

35 behind then.  If we were only 35 behind them, and they were on 450 we'd be pleased, so on that basis we've not done too bad.

We must improve in the second innings though.

Good old fashioned tail end batting has redeemed us slightly.Its been like a odi so far.News flash on tms,Thorpe has retired from international cricket.I think he should have been in the team in place of bell,maybe no chance of it happening now.

18 for 1 langer run out

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 :D

quality...

England need to start pitching the ball more consistently.

YES! HAYDENS GONE! FREDDIE FLINTOFF BOWLED HIM FOR 34!

202 for 3  :(  i miss sky's commentary, bumble is a legend

Starting to look a little bleak, need a break through, only getting updates from the net but looks like these two are ticking over nicely.

both batsmen have 50 and mistakes in the field not looking good at all

Pieterson dropping Clarke was awful!. :|

3 drops in one match, that's not the best is it.

And now Bell is bowling, we must be desperate.

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Took two wickets in quick succession, just before the end of the day - not bad.

Could be a tricky score to chase unless we improve tenfold, Gilchrist is on now  :(

Still a fair few runs to come I should imagine though.  Looks like a decent run chase for England when they eventually get to bat.  This test has been quality so far!!!

well i have been watching all day with not much to cheer about, then i go for a haircut come back and 2 wickets have fallen!  :x angry in one way but  :D  in another!

Wooo hooo another wicket with the last ball of the day. :wink:

At least Warne gets out early to see his bitches.

we have as good as lost the test now. yes we have 3 days to get 300-400 but we really dont have a hope in hell if our batsmen cant even get into double figures

Yea but neither could the Aussies in the 1st innings. Rain predicted for tomorrow.

The pitch seems to have settled well now and if we get the Aussies out by lunch tomorrow it looks like it could be a good batting track.

yes but only if we play sensibly and tresco and struass actually use their feet against mcgrath otherwise he we bowl us out again. it is clear  that if you dont play to balls outside the off stump and wait for the bad ball onto the legs then runs will come

mcgrath wont bowl any bad balls though so that's a totally useless policy

these guys know how to bat, just let them do it rather than telling them how to play two of the greatest ever bowlers

It's going to be a bugger tomorrow (sorry - today now :-). One of the blokes at work was tellling me about the TV analysis and they reviewed the pitch where McGrath had been pitching. It looked like he had hit the yarking great crack on a length nearly every ball. Hope he has too many beers tonight or we're shagged.

Come on then lads - good luck!

What price G. Jones is dropped?

At last we take the final wicket and somebody can actually catch!. :?

Only 420 to get, we should be able to win this one by the end of today.

Catching's been poor this test, which is something we've been good at for the past year or so.

Going to be really hard, rain may save us. I want to see the opening batsman show what they can do.

If we get over 300 it will be a good effort. Only hope now is to avoid total humilitaion.

Like the commentators are saying, we should just bat and if we get near to the total then thats a bonus.

Warne is bowling very well, the fat twat.  :cry:
67-0

This is the only bit I've watched and we've got 71 runs for no wickets, I bring us luck.

Warne should be told off for ova appealing. The toss munger.

B Lee Catch hit the floor the bastard  :x

Didnt see it but surely Strauss should have stood his ground and made the umpires go to the 3rd umpire for confirmation. Cheating Aussie bastards!. :evil:

I don't think Vaughan was out, poor umpire decision.

Damn you Thailand Vs Bolton!  :evil: i keep missing the wickets.

Does anybody think we'll ever each 200 against the Aussies this summer?.

I think we'll get 200 this innings.

I will have to don my red indian head dress and do a rain dance,rain is our only hope.  :-))(

Its looking good for tomorrow, hopefully it will also piss down all day Monday.

its worked!!! start delayed due to rain  :beers:

Good old English weather  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Looks like they are going to start at 3.45pm.  :cry:

Then we lose 2 wickets in about 3 overs I thought we'd made some progress in recent seasons, but we''re sadly back to incompetence.

Rain ain't gonna save us now, 164-8.

167-9, I thought we were going to do better than this, a lot of work to do before the 2nd test starts.

Thank goodness for Pieterson.

Oh well, 1-0 to the Aussies. :cry:

Piss poor batting and catching gave those Aussie bastards the game. :evil:

This attitude really bugs me.We lose one test against the best team in the world and yet again we are the worst team ever to play international cricket.Its not true ,we have improved big time,of course we were fucking useless[apart from the first morning]but its not all over yet,there are still 4 tests to go.Admittedly we need warne and mcgrath to get injured but you never know.
Plus watching warne did anyone notice that his trousers seem to have more of a flare than anyone elses,i think he is trying to balance his lard arse figure up,the vain wanker. :)

Funny you should say that cos i was thinking to myself "Is Warne wearing Flares?". :mrgreen:

If we can't even beat Australia how are we going to beat the top teams like Bangladesh. :evil:

Good point  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: