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*Official* First Test at Trent Bridge
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Adders
Cricketer Of The Year
Pumped for it Harry. Man I swear I've even got the last night nerves going on!!
6 weeks of too much beer and not enough sleep..........my boss is gonna just love me.
Spark
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Handsome Harry
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
I'm on holidays and the wife and billy lids are away for the next week
I'm very excited. I reckon the results will go the way of your blokes, but this'll be interesting from an Oz perspective to see if Patto, and Starc can step up and establish themselves as world class bowlers. Hughes has some demons to exorcise and Smith and Uzzie have a chance to cement a spot. I also reckon the next ten Tests will decide how Watto's career will be remembered.
Handsome Harry
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
Cheers Spark. I promise not to cause too much trouble!
More importantly, what's on everyone's menu?Allrighty....now that we all know each other, theres a test match starting tomorrow.
Big toss to win I reckon, certainly will be bat first. Can the Aussie top 4 stand up if they get first go??
Contemplated firing up the barbie and cooking a rib-eye on the bone in celebration but the good wife has offered a chicken parmi with sweet potato chips
flibbertyjibber
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Supposed to be cloudy and humid tomorrow morning, might be a bowling day. Might be a decent toss to lose.
uvelocity
International Coach
hazza! yep should be good
Adders
Cricketer Of The Year
I'm off work all this week so first test taken care of without having to worry about early starts, after that it will have to be a couple of Red Bulls for breakfast each morning and suck it up.I'm on holidays and the wife and billy lids are away for the next week
I'm very excited. I reckon the results will go the way of your blokes, but this'll be interesting from an Oz perspective to see if Patto, and Starc can step up and establish themselves as world class bowlers. Hughes has some demons to exorcise and Smith and Uzzie have a chance to cement a spot. I also reckon the next ten Tests will decide how Watto's career will be remembered.
I'm quietly confident for this home series, I think the difference in the two batting line-ups will be too great in our own conditions, but I do have major concerns for the return leg in Oz......I think the Aussies have every chance of taken us down in their own backyard. So in 6 months after a marathon of 10 tests you grubby bastards could well have your hands back on the urn.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
More arrogant crap.
Howe_zat
Audio File
Bat bat bat. Teams have struggled at TB in the 1st innings from time to time but the track just keeps on seaming. The 4th innings average there in recent years is something like 17
Adders
Cricketer Of The Year
Right, haven't checked the forecast in a few days.....that will make it interesting. If there is cloud cover you're right could be a good one to lose.
Spikey
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Merv Hughes | Australia Can Shock England | All Out Cricket | Ashes
couple of interesting things in merv's team
couple of interesting things in merv's team
Handsome Harry
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but interesting fact... both Captains play their 92nd Test match tomorrow. That means they'll face each other in Test match 100 in the Oz summer (barring injury to Clarke or surprise sacking if Cook loses this series!).
Tangles
International Vice-Captain
He is right in that our top 4 need to score more runs but putting Ed at 3 with an average of 32 at 3 isnt how you do it.Calling Siddle and Patto to similar to play together was interesting. He's a fan of Bird though.
TBH I reckon it's better for world cricket as a whole if Australia is strong.
But that's because I reckon it's better for world cricket as a whole if all teams are strong.
Nobody wants to watch absolute mismatches series after series; bunched-up world rankings (preferably with Australia on top because I can't be completely objective
) is the best thing for the game of cricket as a whole. And to be fair, that is where cricket is right now. All of the top 8 nations are capable of beating each other on their respective days and have produced some great cricket in recent times. England deservingly go into this series as favourites, but we're definitely not looking at the complete mismatches that were 2001 and 2010/11.This 'without 'Straya dominating Test cricket will die' rubbish is absolute bull**** though; add nationalistic on top of the 'arrogant crap' label.
Cooky Monster
U19 12th Man
That is interesting though you can't help but think Clarkes back will mess that possibility up, KP is on 94 so he will bring up his ton in Oz aswell.