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*Official* Second Test at Lords

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Jakester1288

International Regular
Good onya Strauss, finally realized that a third man might be handy. Genius!

England gunna have a bat. Need to bowl well so we aren't having a massive chase.
 
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Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Looks like we're going to not enforce, excellent. Now just have to hope we can do the job, show that follow-ons are mostly unneccessary and watch as the follow-on's advocates take sod-all notice same way they do every time the follow-on is waived successfully.
 
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duffer

duffer

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Richard said:
Oh yeah, Strauss has somehow been praised for his captaincy this match.

Essentially, though, most commentators refuse to acknowledge anything other than good position for team = good captaincy, poor position = not-so-good captaincy. There are exceptions, but bad punditship does indeed help cause bad teams, because poor performance is not held accountable.

Anyway, gooooooonnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeee. Onions, thank ****.
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Absolutely.
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
GeraintIsMyHero said:
Hope we don't collapse here, want Australia chasing a world record at the very least
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Yeah, real chance to atone for the poor first-innings performance. Really hope we grab it.

(Just have to hope now that Johnson doesn't do his pulling a rabbit out of the hat and bowling sensationally :unsure: Which, given England are the opposition, you can just see happening)
 
stumpski

stumpski

International Captain
I don't think England are in serious danger of losing this, but it's all looking set for a repeat of Old Trafford '05. At least there's almost three days remaining, and a pretty good forecast.
 
Pizzorno

Pizzorno

State Vice-Captain
I just know we'll still be batting up until Tea on day 5 or something daft like that.

Ideally we'd want to add 250 today and try to stick the crims in for a tough 5 overs or so at the end of the day. Bit of tall order given that it's England though. Probably bottle it on a monumental scale.
 
pasag

pasag

RTDAS
England really just have to see off the frontline pacemen and then can make merry. Also, the more overs they get Clarke and North to bowl, the better for them.
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
GeraintIsMyHero said:
Botham predictably raging
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And predictably going on about declaring too late in West Indies, failing yet again to realise that the fault there was not declaring too late but being unable to dismiss a tailender.

And also saying Australia have been given a chance by England batting again - no, Australia would've been given a chance had England enforced the follow-on. :wacko:
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
part of me actually thinks it wouldn't be a bad thing if the crims bowled us out for 250...but realistically I think we should look to set 500 or so
 
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