The Ashes(second test)Adelaide

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2nd test in a couple of hours and england need to seriously improve if there to get anything out of this game.


thoughts.....

mike65

Who's selected? Monty? Giles?

Mike.

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i cant find any info of selections atm

Royale with Cheese

It's an unchanged team from the last test, so no Monty.

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Royale with Cheese wrote:

It's an unchanged team from the last test, so no Monty.

where did you get that info?

mike65

sighs.

Mike.

Royale with Cheese

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where did you get that info?

Saw it on the skynews infobar, although the recpetion was dreadful so it may have said squad and not team.

Edit: Nope, definitely no Monty

mike65

England win toss

Mike.

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england win the toss and will bat

kensutz

No bloody Monty, he should be in there instead of Giles.

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england need a big score,400 plus to have any hope

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and it was going so well.

england 32-1,strauss out

Royale with Cheese

This is slow stuff. England 58/2 at lunch. Bell has 9 from 44 balls. Can't believe I've stayed up this long.

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first days play
Adelaide
England 266-3 (P D Collingwood 98 no, K P Pietersen 60 no, I R Bell 60.
not a bad first day:)

mike65

What wee the Ausies at? Shirley persisting with McGrath and Warne was pointless?

Mike.

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collingwood gets his ton:)

269-3 england

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300 up for england and they look in the mood aswell

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100 for pietersen

Royale with Cheese

Well done KP. Would love to see him let go when he's hopefully still at the crease later on today and just tear into the Aussie attack.

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347-3 at lunch

Mothman

431-3
Collingwood 184no
Pieterson 135no

Collingwood's highest test score is 186 and highest 1st class score is 190.

Mothman

Highest 4th wicket partnership
Eng vs Aus
currently 291
beating Thorpe & Hussain at Egbaston in 1997


Collingwood has got his highest 1st class score and its the highest test score by an Englishman in Aus for 60 or so years.
198no

Mothman

Double Ton

Brought it up with a lofted drive for four

Highest score at Adelaide by English player.

They're starting to up the pace.

England 458-3
Partnership now 300.

oh happy days

Mothman

At tea
Collingwood out for 206 At crease for 8 1/2hrs. Magnificant innings.

Pieterson 146no
England 468-4

Partnership 310 highest in Aus for any wicket since 1911

McGrath 28o 0-86
Warne 42o 0-129

Mothman

Pieterson run out for 158.
3rd time Pieterson got to that score.

Was most likely way that a wicket would fall. Was over a metre out of his ground.

490-5

Mothman

491-6

Jones out for one.
Warne gets his first wicket...

Mothman

551-6d

A bit of a flourish at end by Giles and Flintoff to quickly being up the 550.

Aus now have 10 overs to face before end of play.

Hoggard to bowl

Mothman

LANGER OUT

Flintoff's first over.

Mothman

At close 2nd day
Aus 28-1 (9 overs)

mike65

Mothman get some sleep!

Woke up at just before 7 to hear mention of Flintoff at the crease and I smiled! TMS is a great way to start the day.

I guess declaration was enevitable otherwise a draw would have been the only outcome its still the most likely. Langers wicket was important, the Aussies will be well teed off.

Mike.

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another great day for england,

i wish i had the staying power of Mothman