I'm going to start The Save Jason Gillespie Campaign

he's the best thing for english batsman since the advant of the willow

england cricket shirts out selling football ones 3-1-amazing

intreasting article

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/front_page/4153306.stm

I agree with the setiments comparing behaviour of england/aussies and overpaid footballers.

I don't think I can take much more of this!

another amazing test, just a pitty england could just not finish it off.

this series is the best I have ever seen.

at it's best (and this series is) no other sport comes close to test cricket

Have you ever tried to catch a ball(tennis or otherwise) while looking into the sun, i'll tell you for free(put your money away) it is damn hard. I have had one in a match but many in practice and you don't catch many, normally if in the deep you play for the bounce!

I have to say jones did well to get in position for the catch and you could tell by his reaction he could hardly see it! probally more the umpires and designer of teh grounds fault!

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Gilchrist didn't look to hot either today. 2 missed stumpings and a dropped catch-it's becoming infectous

whats this about a bust up between Warne and Ponting in the 2nd test?

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......bad day all round

I agree on the stumping chance, but the sun did seem to blind him on the catch

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sorry my late granny (bless her) could have caught that-it was a doddle. And what are those sunglasses for?

all in all a very depressing day. It would have been better for England not to have bothered coming out

F**king hell Geraint Jones-butter fingers

it would have been better not playng at all today

saw Gary Neville and Roy Keane at OT today

They could be useful if Freddie gets going....why you may ask?

because if Freddie starts hitting 6's and breaking windows than Neville and Keane can get in touch with the Glaziers!

by my own calculations I make it that aussies have dropped more chances so far in this series than england. They dropped about 4 sitters today

great!!!!

england get about 450 and then apply the pressure

Bloody hell, how bad was that batting line up then

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England 2nd innings R M B 4 6

GA Gooch b Warne 48 178 150 6 0

*MA Atherton c Border b Warne 28 89 66 3 0

RA Smith lbw b Warne 19 69 70 2 0

MP Maynard c Healy b May 10 13 15 2 0

+AJ Stewart lbw b Warne 5 21 26 1 0

GP Thorpe st Healy b Warne 60 235 192 3 0

N Hussain c SR Waugh b May 0 4 7 0 0

JE Emburey c Healy b May 37 200 191 3 0

MP Bicknell c SR Waugh b May 0 1 2 0 0

PM Such not out 7 50 42 1 0

MC Ilott b May 15 44 41 3 0

Extras (b 11, lb 9, nb 2) 22

Total (all out, 133.2 overs, 461 min) 251

FoW: 1-60 (Atherton), 2-104 (Smith), 3-115 (Maynard),

4-115 (Gooch), 5-124 (Stewart), 6-125 (Hussain),

7-229 (Emburey), 8-229 (Bicknell), 9-229 (Thorpe),

10-251 (Ilott).

Bowling O M R W

Hughes 18 7 24 0

Reiffel 11 2 30 0 (2nb)

May 48.2 15 89 5

Warne 49 23 82 5

Border 2 1 1 0

ME Waugh 5 2 5 0

aussie spin machine been working overtime last couple of days (and I'm not talking about warne!)

dress up in fancy dress and watch out for those n-power girls. I was at the test match last year and I saw all sorts.

you can't beat a day at the test, it be a cracking atmosphere (as long as england are doing OK) and real good value for money. You get 6 hours + of world class sport with some of the best players on the planet for less than it cost to fill up the average car with fuel.

I've got 6 tickets in the "Twaites stand".

last time I went to an ashes test was at OT in '97 when Steve Waugh made a century and before that at in '93 when Shane Warne and Tim May ripped through the english batsman

hipe for better luck this year

Sky sports are reporting that Brett Lee has been sent to hospital with a knee infection

He's got to be a doubt for Old Trafford

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reported on bbc website as well.

don't mean ill on the chap, who played well yesterday but it would be another bit of luck for england.

that be one impressive bowling attack-who would be the new ball attack?

lee & harmy?

Well played Brett Lee, he handled Harmy and Flintoff's short stuff well. I thought we had thrown it away but we managed to nick it.

I think Warne will spin them to a win at Old Trafford but hopefully we can take it all the way to the Oval.

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apart from the jaffa that Warne bowled to Struass I think the batsman played Warne OK. He did take 6 wickets in the 2nd innings but two of those (Bell and Pietersen) were highly suspect, a couple were tail enders.

saying that Vaughan wins the toss on thursday and bats, so as not to (hopefully) face Warne on a sharply turning 4/5th day OT wicket.

I can only assume that the absence of comment on yesterdays match attendance  is because no one from this board was piggin well there!  Adjectives to describe our disappearing support have now gone from 'concerning' or 'disappointing' to downright bloody 'EMBARRASSING'!  Sod the fact that it was just a friendly this was the first chance to see this seasons BRFC (new players and all).  We should be looking forward to new begginings under Mark Hughes but it appears no-one gives a flyingfcuk! 

 

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I think it's somthing to do with the fact that the attraction of a pre season "non-match" on a warm summers afternoon is less than appealing

and if everybodies saving their coppers for the season ahead and we get 25K+ average what is the problem?

saying that the Sunday Times quoted our gate as of "Championship size"

I know it's difficult to compare sports, but for sheer sporting drama todays dramatic test win by england compares with sunday 14th may 1995 and rovers dramatic final minute defeat to clinch the title.

just got up from thumping the floor in delight.................

I feel like I've run the mathathon

just quite amazing match-the best I have ever seen in my 20 years of watching cricket

having seen the replay loads of times I would love to know how the umpire could have possibly given Pietersen out sweeping from 22 yards, when it hit about 5 parts of his body expect the bit the matters.

saying that I think he could have been out gloving 1st ball to Gilchrist.

so as so often in sport these things even them selves out.

oh yesssssssssssssssssss!!!!

throught we threw it away there of a minute

great final slower ball by harmy

is Ricky Ponting the missing link in evolution?

have you seen how much arm hair he's got?

I reakon the ball the did strauss turned further than the gatting ball in 1993. Strauss didn't do a lot wrong..just trying to pad it away.

if england score 300 I think we will win...

Birmingham Weather report

Its currently Overcast - we've had a bit of rain overnight (which is a right pain in the arse as we have just noticed we've a couple of roof tiles gone awol) - and theres a bit of dampness in the air.

Is that good or bad for England?

Also I thought England were good yesterday, I managed to get freddie up to 50+ by betting a tenner that he wouldnt hit a half century and won £50 betting that England wouldnt get 450 beers sorted for tommorrow now (or getting the effing roof fixed)

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It be good for england if their is dampness around, and the wicket being covered overnight, as it will help th eball to swing