Ashes - Second Test

Harry2001

Second Test Match Edgbaston

Glenn McGrath is out of the game after getting injured in the warm-up, Michael Kasprowicz replaces him :eek:

Australia won the toss and decided to field

Umpires: B F Bowden, R E Koertzen

England:
M E Trescothick , A J Strauss , M P Vaughan (capt) , I R Bell , K P Pietersen , A Flintoff , G O Jones (wkt) , A F Giles , M J Hoggard , S J Harmison , S P Jones
Australia:
J L Langer , M L Hayden , R T Ponting (capt) , D R Martyn , M J Clarke , S M Katich , A C Gilchrist (wkt) , S K Warne , B Lee , J N Gillespie , M S Kasprowicz

county

england 113 for 1

county

132 for 1,lunch,great start

RuggieBear

madness by ponting to put England into bat....madness. :eek: Let's just see how good the australian attack is without McGrath...

KevIRL

England collapse under way, 3 quick wickets

190-4

RuggieBear

dear oh dear :rolleyes:

KevIRL

Its one day cricket!

Englad 264-4 50 ovs

Harry2001

265/4

Freddie and Pietersen scoring a few, but Flintoff will be out shortly the way he is taking on the bowlers

arbeitsscheuer

It is kinda like the 2 sides can't seem to wrench themselves out of a ODI mindset, isn't it?

Certainly England played like that in the first test, I haven't been watchin today cos I'm in college.

Fair play to the 5th wicket partnership tho, 190-4 to 264-4; 70 partnership. V useful.

Harry2001

SebtheBum wrote:

It is kinda like the 2 sides can't seem to wrench themselves out of a ODI mindset, isn't it?

Yeah very fast scoring, England scoring 6 an over since lunch :eek:

100 partnership now

RuggieBear

very entertaining. Pietersen and Flintoff are really motoring. I can't remember many partnerships between the pair of them in ODI....

Test cricket is totally different now to what i remember growing up in the 80's and 90's...

RuggieBear

flintoff gone for 68

KevIRL

Jones gone

England 293-6

KevIRL

Pietersen gone 71 off 76 balls

KevIRL

Englad 348-8

Iago

5.3 runs an over, unreal in most 5 day games nevermind an Ashes game...wish I was home watching this!

Harmison just knocked lee for a 6 and then a 4 in three balls, did nobody tell him he's a tailender?

harmison gone for 17 England 375-9

KevIRL

Eng 407 all out

Washout

Hayden out first ball duck.

god i should have taken the odds of 5/1 for england to win.

Brian017

Lunch: Australia 118-3

county

a wicket just before lunch,badly needed

RuggieBear

county wrote:

a wicket just before lunch,badly needed

fantastic throw by vaughan. Think england are playing really well...especially considering the pitch.

Harry2001

RuggieBear wrote:

fantastic throw by vaughan. Think england are playing really well...especially considering the pitch.

Yep good performance so far, another good burst after lunch now will come in very handy

v-deniso

Aussies all out for 308

Lead of 99 runs for England.

They will need a lead of 350 or more to win I would say.

England will face 35 minutes batting today before the close.

mike65

Ha Aussies all out and almost 100 behind. Will England go back in for 30 mins? Or leave it....

Mike.

Brian017

Australia are 308 all out.
England lead by 99 runs after 1st innings.

Good performance by England, especially Jones and Flintoff.

Mothman

Flintoff on a hatrick after two cracking yorkers to finish the aussie innings.

andyman

Australia all out for 308. Three wickets apiece for Giles and Flintoff.

Giles answered his critics anyway.

30mins till close

Mothman

Trescothick hits first ball for four

Brian017

I think it's vital that England don't lose a wicket in these 30 minutes.

Brian017

England 25-1. Struass bowled by Warne.

Brian017

Close: England 25-1. Lead by 124 runs.

mike65

That was a hell of a ball from Warne but I think it was all the marshalling of fielders that actually did the trick as Strauss forgot to refocus on the incoming ball.

Mike.

Badabing

mike65 wrote:

That was a hell of a ball from Warne but I think it was all the marshalling of fielders that actually did the trick as Strauss forgot to refocus on the incoming ball.

Mike.

100% agree,Warne is a master of field placings, but what a ball at Strauss,Hoggard did well to hang in there.

Harry2001

Hell of a ball from Warne, if England can get up to 250 tomorrow it will make it very interesting the Aussies chasing 350 to win

Hopefully Hoggard will bore Warne into submission

RuggieBear

Harry2001 wrote:

Hopefully Hoggard will bore Warne into submission

lol....

but some ball by warne....strauss looked absolutely shellshocked

andyman

I hope Giles will be able to top that in the next 2 days

county

this ashes series is classic,england have come a long way in the last couple of years but it think there still behind the aussies some what,but you never know

arbeitsscheuer

My fingernails are bitten down to the quick (whatever that means). It's so nerve-wracking, and finely balanced goin into the 3rd day. England have the advantage, no question, but for the last 15 years I've watched them f**k up chances like this so... It's a frame of mind that's difficult to shake off. But...

England Expects

county

we can do it

Brian017

We? :eek:

arbeitsscheuer

Eh, he's from Manchester. And I was born in England.

Is the idea of us describing England as "We" too much for you to grasp, Brian?

mike65

Me too! (not from Manchester though. phew!)

Mike.

cgf

Trescothick & Vaughan out - 2 wickets to Lee in 4 balls. England 29-3.

Trescothick chasing a wide one and Vaughan playing across the line again. Could be an interesting days play....

KevIRL

England 63-4 with Hoggard gone for 1

Pietersen and Bell at crease on 15 and 16 respectively

mike65

Agh! :mad: Pietersen gone - bad call from the umpire, his glove not in contact.

Mike.

Mothman

Pieterson and Bell both out caught Gilchrist bowled Warne

Time for Jones to prove his selection ahead of Reid

Mothman

now 82-6
Wickets fell at 72-5 Pieterson (20)
75-6 Bell (21)

RuggieBear

mike65 wrote:

Agh! :mad: Pietersen gone - bad call from the umpire, his glove not in contact.

Mike.

shocker from the umpire but all the australians appealed in unison....they'd all obviously heard something...

England look like they don't want to win this alto gillespie put down one of the simplest caught and bowled chances i've ever seen

county

mike65 wrote:

Me too! (not from Manchester though. phew!)

Mike.

easy

well back to the ashes,another england middle order collapse,if they get a lead of 250 it will be by the skin of there teeth,but the aussies could get that in the sleep,not very optimistic

KevIRL

95-6 at lunch. Freddie will be the key wicket. Also can the tail wag as well as it did in first test?????

arbeitsscheuer

This is depressing/ I'm reminded of what my Aussie mate said to me at lunch yesterday - "I haven't seen the Poms this optimistic since Lords!"
Of course, I laughed it off and suggested that the team had learned a lot from the first test.

Clearly we haven't.

On the brightside, the pitch looks to be a f**king nightmare. Gilo could be the key man in the final innings.