*Official* Second Test at the Adelaide Oval

[GIMH]

No one has comprehensively destroyed an Aussie Middle order like that.

Except multiple bowlers for the last six years

 

[GuyFromLancs]

I loved it. It's all spot on anyway, but maybe it's worth mentioning that this is a guy who, aged 40, was willing to get his arse into line against Roberts, Holding, Garner, croft and Marshall. He's more entitled than most to have a glorious rant about this lot's lack of any sort of spine.

Damn straight.

I'd have Geoff in the team now, aged 71

 

[Agent Nationaux]

I am talking about the greatest cricket side to ever play the game not any Aussie side in the last 6 years.

 

[Furball]

I am talking about the greatest cricket side to ever play the game not any Aussie side in the last 6 years.

You should have been clearer.

 

[grecian]

Damn straight.

I'd have Geoff in the team now, aged 71

so would Geoff.....

 

[Burgey]

I loved it. It's all spot on anyway, but maybe it's worth mentioning that this is a guy who, aged 40, was willing to get his arse into line against Roberts, Holding, Garner, croft and Marshall. He's more entitled than most to have a glorious rant about this lot's lack of any sort of spine.

He was also a bloke who dodged Australia in 74-75 though.

 

[Burgey]

Akhtar destroyed the Aussie middle order of Ponting, Waugh brothers, Martyn and Gilchrist in Colombo 2002. That was one of the greatest middle order to ever play cricket.

True.

Except, with Johnson, even when he's been crap, you always knew he was having a dig. When Shoaib was crap you often couldn't say that.

He just didn't always have a go. And if there's a a greater indictment on a sportsperson than that, I don't know what it is.

 

[Shri]

No no no no no. It's just we're waiting for our batting line up to inevitably fall in a heap, and can't quite believe they've conjured enough runs so far to put us in this position.

Speaking of conjure, twins made me watch The Conjuring this evening. **** I hate horror movies.

Yeah the movie wouldn't do much for a guy who was alive during the Salem Witch Trials and learned about it first hand.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Mate, when we're embarrassing the English to this ridiculous degree, there's no need to say anything. #Johnsonstare

If it really is bothering you though, I'm happy to spend the night posting about all the ways England have been so incredibly abysmal. And there are so many.

If you do that you'll end up with repetitive strain injury.

 

[Jono]

Johnson's bowling this morning was better than Akhtar's best

Nah Shoaib making your batsmen look **** scared on the flat Pakistani tracks was better.

Either way, both Mitch and Shoaib more than capable of making English batsmen poo their pants.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

True.

Except, with Johnson, even when he's been crap, you always knew he was having a dig. When Shoaib was crap you often couldn't say that.

He just didn't always have a go. And if there's a a greater indictment on a sportsperson than that, I don't know what it is.

Don't know about Johnson in this regard, but I will agree with you that Akhtar was like this.

 

[GIMH]

With Johnson at his worst it was almost like he was trying too hard.

 

[wpdavid]

He was also a bloke who dodged Australia in 74-75 though.

Yeah, but we had no clue what we were about to face. We thought that DKL's back was knackered and we'd never heard of Tommo.

 

[King Pietersen]

Don't worry lads. Just lulling them into a false sense of security. When we start playing Johnson properly, and make him look like the pie chucker we all know he really is, the Aussie's will soon go back to their old selves, and forget how to win a game. We'll smash them in the 3rd, and end up taking the Ashes back to England 3-2.

 

[hendrix]

Johnson's bowling this morning was better than Akhtar's best

strongly disagree.

 

[Shri]

Johnson in this mode is as frightening as anything I have ever seen, Shoaib included. I don't think that's too controversial an opinion tbh.

Shoaib rarely looked non-threatening as a bowler. MJ's inconsistencies, or flaws if you will, make him seem like he is so much more when he isn't. Granted he is one of the best pure pace bowlers of the last 10-15 years but there were better bowlers than him. Everyone waiting for MJ to come crashing down from this high also influences a few opinions no doubt. He is ****ing scary atm.

 

[Viscount Tom]

so would Geoff.....

Bring back Closey.

 

[grecian]

Bring back Closey.

Indeed "catch it", smashing a young Botham against a wall, many other great anecdotes, bruises on body, shame he wasn't actually that good at cricket.

 

[Burgey]

Yeah, but we had no clue what we were about to face. We thought that DKL's back was knackered and we'd never heard of Tommo.

True dat

 

[adub]

Was away from the computer yesterday and will be again most of today. I have been one of Johnson's biggest critic. But sometimes you just love to be proven wrong. Boi is bowling some fair jaffas. Threw in a couple of wides just to let us know this isn't some fast bowling android in a Mitchell Johnson skin, but even in his previous 'Good Mitch' incarnations he's never bowled with such control for such a long period.

Had a laugh when Warney was hinting that a knighthood wouldn't be sniffed at. If anyone should be at the top of the Queens honours list (assuming Abbott goes the full monarchist) then Sir Craig McDermott should be for services to turning hacks into deadly fast bowling weaponry.

If the poms don't mind meld with Bell soon they are going to Perth shattered.