The Ashes and Cricket World Cup Discussion Thread

warne wont play since hes banging liz hurley.

tremlett is select ahead of bresnan. well done the selectors.

theres only one chris tremlett. 3wickets, aussies 157-6.

aussies 268 all out, andersin and tremlett 3, swann and finn 2. tail end out scores the top 4

In reply to Australia's 268, England close on 29 without loss. Stat note: after Ricky Ponting's innings of 12 today he averages just over 41 in test matches played in the last 2 years. In 73 matches before then (2002-2008) he averaged over 65. His career average (151 matches in all) is 59.55.

on the bbc text commentry someone said that courtney walsh is in line a quick oz citizenship, there is a team that beat us and its the lions team.

I thought England were excellent today and Chris Tremlett bowl very well as the Aussies didn't have a clue how to play him also England fielded brilliantly. Some of the Aussie batting was shambolic such as no footwork poor shot selection and this is a real concern if your an Aussie as your going through a period of poor form.

the daily telegraph after the last test called australia the new england

England were very good yesterday and hopefully today (Im on Aussie time of course in England) we can get some what of a big lead or at least have the solid foundation of one and then look to declare sometime on day 3 (that would be my plan anyway).

The selection of Tremlett was right, no question about it but the Aussies. If I was them I would of out of that 12 man squad played Beer instead of Hilfenhaus and you still would of had the three paceman with Watson as a fourth and then a debutant spinner with some backup from Smith. I wouldn't of played Hilfenhaus since when the track gets flat I haven't seen him do anything that special to get a wicket and would say the other three could possibly do something at a required point of time like that. Also why wasn't Haddin in at 6 and Smith at 7? not the way round they had it, was prefect logical to have Haddin come in at 6 given his recent form and the international inexperience of Steven Smith.

In concluding this post, I hope we have a good day with the bat today - let the runs flow guys, keep up the good work.

(02-12-2010 07:58 )colino Wrote:  Mitchell "wides" Johnson's just been dropped for the 2nd Test.

Shouldn't come as a great surprise to anybody

But now he's back and bowled superbly today taking 6-38 as England were skittled out for 187. Australia close on 119-3 in their second innings, a lead of 200 with 3 days still remaining.

What a batting collapse from England today 78/0 to 187 all out however Mitchell Johnson bowling was superb today plenty of bounce and late swing.