What a day!!!
Warne is simply adding to his legend. Who else could pull out as good a 5-fer as he in their last game on their Home Ground. McGrath was unlucky to only get 1, he bowled magnificently again, but as harsh as it may seem, he is really showing that he is starting lack penetration, all the same, it was a fine performance of medium fast bowling.
Clark & Lee both bowled well imo. Lee bowled 2 of his best spells this series, and provided us with the initial break-through, and then the collingwood wicket, which imo was the turning point of the innings.
Gilly's keeping was a tad ordinary today. How he missed that stumping i'll never know, the same with that catch. I noticed he also went the wrong way initially to a number of deliveries from the seamers. I was shocked to see Haydos drop such a sitter. He's usually got the safest pair of Hands in the team, and that was truly a sitter. Thankfully it didn't come back to bite us in the end.
On the subject of Rudi's umpiring... aside from 2 good calls to Symonds, and the Bell LBW, he was horrible. Colly was Plumb when he was still on 0, as was Hayden twice to Hoggard. He seems to be mixing some quite brilliant decision, to some extremely ordinary ones.
I'm expecting Ponting to score big tomorrow, and by big, i mean 160+. The weather will play a big part in tomorrows play though. If the sun shines for half the day, the english bowlers are in trouble, as the last thing they want is the pitch drying out. However, if the cloud cover stays around, it'll be interesting to see if they can make use of the bowler friendly conditions as well as the Australian attack did.
Another Amazing day of Australian Cricket it was
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