Ashes - Second Test

Harry2001 · 04-08-2005 09:11AM #1

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 · 04-08-2005 11:22AM

england 113 for 1

county · 04-08-2005 11:28AM

132 for 1,lunch,great start

RuggieBear · 04-08-2005 11:36AM

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

KevIRL · 04-08-2005 12:58PM

England collapse under way, 3 quick wickets

190-4

RuggieBear · 04-08-2005 01:03PM

dear oh dear :rolleyes:

KevIRL · 04-08-2005 01:53PM

Its one day cricket!

Englad 264-4 50 ovs

Harry2001 · 04-08-2005 01:54PM

265/4

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

arbeitsscheuer · 04-08-2005 01:56PM

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 · 04-08-2005 02:03PM

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 · 04-08-2005 02:19PM

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 · 04-08-2005 02:33PM

flintoff gone for 68

KevIRL · 04-08-2005 02:45PM

Jones gone

England 293-6

KevIRL · 04-08-2005 03:27PM

Pietersen gone 71 off 76 balls

KevIRL · 04-08-2005 03:29PM

Englad 348-8

Iago · 04-08-2005 03:44PM

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 · 04-08-2005 04:30PM

Eng 407 all out

Washout · 05-08-2005 09:42AM

Hayden out first ball duck.

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

Brian017 · 05-08-2005 11:34AM

Lunch: Australia 118-3

county · 05-08-2005 11:37AM

a wicket just before lunch,badly needed

RuggieBear · 05-08-2005 11:46AM

county wrote:

a wicket just before lunch,badly needed

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

Harry2001 · 05-08-2005 12:01PM

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 · 05-08-2005 04:16PM

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 · 05-08-2005 04:16PM

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

Mike.

Brian017 · 05-08-2005 04:18PM

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

Good performance by England, especially Jones and Flintoff.

Mothman · 05-08-2005 04:21PM

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

andyman · 05-08-2005 04:24PM

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

Giles answered his critics anyway.

30mins till close

Mothman · 05-08-2005 04:25PM

Trescothick hits first ball for four

Brian017 · 05-08-2005 04:25PM

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

Brian017 · 05-08-2005 04:53PM

England 25-1. Struass bowled by Warne.

Brian017 · 05-08-2005 04:58PM

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

Ashes - Second Test

Comments