OT - 5th Test 4th day thread [Archive]

R6 Wolf

11-09-2005, 01:09

The nerves are starting to jangle, we are definitely missing Simon Jones, the bowlers need to get a fire started.

Idont fancy us chasing 250 ish on day 5 to get a draw, we could do with Shane getting a bit of food poisoning

dr cool

11-09-2005, 08:47

theres rain about...the aussies may have to go slogging this afternoon....or draw level ish and put us in ???

drsmileys/smiley16.gif

Netherton Wolf

11-09-2005, 09:37

Ithink the Aussies will need to put us in around T time today to have a chance of bowling us out, so they may well come out this morning all guns firing to try to hit as many as poss, hopefully thats when they will make their mistakes!! if you go on yesterdays run rate and there are 80 overs bowled today thats another 320 they could score, I think its going to be very tight, I didn't want the weather to interfere I wanted us to go out there and beat them now I'm not so sure, I think a few odd showers will do us very nicely!!!!!

BlahBlah

11-09-2005, 09:46

Asking the Aussies to make another 300 by 4pm is a tall order,
especially if it's cloudy and we bowl the ball in the right
place. The pressure is all on them to score the runs fast, that
should give us more opportunity with the cloud cover and the
intermittent rain breaks.

Should set up tomorrow to be an absolute cracker though.

Visage Wolf

11-09-2005, 09:52

The aussies are still 100 behind. That will take the best part of a session to makeup.

So in effect we'll be at par with 5 sessions to go.

It will be a miracle if one of those isnt lost to rain, so they've got
4 sessions to make a score that they can then bowl england out to.

They can either bat for 2 sessions, then give Warne the ball and try
and bowl england out in 2 sessions, or they can have a slog for one
session, give england a bat, and then bat a second time, hopefullly
(for them) chasing a small total.

The first option has good and bad points. Warne on a lsat day pitch
will always be dangerous, but on the other hand they've set a precedent
for going off for light - can you imagine any england batsman opting to
stay on thepitch if offered the light wile 9 men down on monday
afternoon?

Jack Bauer

11-09-2005, 10:14

England are in a strong position and will have to bat very poorly in their 2nd innings to throw it away now.

R6 Wolf

11-09-2005, 11:36

England are in a strong position and will have to bat very poorly in their 2nd innings to throw it away now.

I'm sure we can manage to bat poorly in the second innings, we have before, the pressure is building it should be an interesting few hours now

R6 Wolf

11-09-2005, 11:41

YESSSSSSSSSS....COME ON

Colin Swedewolf

11-09-2005, 11:54

Katich gone.

COME ON ENGLAND

Jack Bauer

11-09-2005, 11:59

Our best tactic now would be to slow them down, not sure I want them out this early.

Colin Swedewolf

11-09-2005, 13:43

Aussies all out for 367.

$$$$$in' brilliant bowling by Flintoff and Hoggard.

Now watch our batsmen take the light and wrap it up for the day.

COME ON ENGLAND





Edited by: Colin Swedewolf

SOA Wolf

11-09-2005, 13:49

I was saying yesterday that I thought the Aussies should have declared last night, put England in and there was a chance that they could have bowled them out for a low score and given themselves a target to win....but I think the Aussies bottled it and the mindset was that they could always blame the weather if they did not win (i.e. a draw), so I think they came in this morning to play out for a draw....I think that is why they took the bad light so often.

They thought they could draw and blame the weather and say how unlucky they were, rather than go for a win. Backfired on them.

Realistically now there is too little time for them to bowl out England and then get the runs......................or at least I hope sosmileys/smiley5.gif

Space Wolf

11-09-2005, 14:14

Guests

11-09-2005, 14:15

I hate that willy $$$$er warne, he is everything everybody hates about those bragging big headed aussie kerhunts.

Guests

11-09-2005, 14:18

superb fans, england fans are taking the $$$$ by getting there umbrellas out even though there is no rain, so the aussie fans take there tops off to make em think its sunny.

Guests

11-09-2005, 14:20

off bad light hehehehehehe.

MobNet Wolf

11-09-2005, 14:36

Guests

11-09-2005, 14:37

I know taking the light is all part of the game etc.

But it just seems like we're really scared of losing and don't think we can beat the Aussies by playing normally? It just seems like we're taking the easy way out.

Winning by default so to speak.

poor decision by the umpires, but you cant blame the english for taking it.

So long we have been criticised for not having a killing edge and a ruthless team like the aussies, people said we were always jolly runners up, so now we are so close to winning, we should do everything we can to win. Just think, the aussies would do the exact same thing!

There is rain now anyway so the light means nothing.

Papa

11-09-2005, 14:47

I hate that willy $$$$er warne, he is everything everybody hates about those bragging big headed aussie kerhunts.

I like watching him bowl he's the best there is. He's arrogant but one hell of cricketer. Vaughan knows he is capable of taking us apart at this very point in time.

Sparky

11-09-2005, 14:49

I know taking the light is all part of the game etc.

But it just seems like we're really scared of losing and don't think we
can beat the Aussies by playing normally? It just seems like we're
taking the easy way out.

Winning by default so to speak.

poor decision by the umpires, but you cant blame the english for taking it.

So long we have been criticised for not having a killing edge and a
ruthless team like the aussies, people said we were always jolly
runners up, so now we are so close to winning, we should do everything
we can to win. Just think, the aussies would do the exact same thing!

The umpires had no choice but to offer them the light. Whatever the light reading was when the Aussies decided to go off on friday would be used for the rest of the match, so when it got below that point they had no option but to offer the batsman the light.

gornal wolf

11-09-2005, 16:25

But it just seems like we're really scared of losing and don't think we can beat the Aussies by playing normally? It just seems like we're taking the easy way out.

Winning by default so to speak.
How can you say we can't beat the aussies normally when we have won 2 test matches and would of won a 3rd ifwe never lost a days play through the weather.

R6 Wolf

11-09-2005, 17:06

The two that we won were very close, its been a great series.

Technically we have the right to go off for bad light but at the time we did there were two spinners on, not much danger of the batsmen getting hurt.

Rules is rules i supposeEdited by: R6 Wolf

BlahBlah

11-09-2005, 18:12

The two that we wond were very close, its been a great series.

Technically we have the right to go off for bad light but at the
time we did there were two spinners on, not much danger of the batsmen
getting hurt.

Rules is rules i suppose

Exactly. The Aussies were playing "professionally" when still amateurs,
they've squeezed every last bit of juice out of the rules of cricket
and pushed the game into a new era. We ought to thank them
really....although it's taken us 15 years to catch up smileys/smiley2.gif

It's been fun actually, seeing 30 people in the pub all afternoon ringing home..."just waiting for them to come back on luv..."

Guests

11-09-2005, 19:35

Lets not forget that yesterday evening the aussies were offered the light and came off, now the tables are turned they are all moaning.

Kenny-11

11-09-2005, 19:43

Lets not forget that yesterday evening the aussies were offered the light and came off, now the tables are turned they are all moaning.

Australia set the standard for bad light being offered on Friday. They went off when it was still possible to bat. The moment they excepted the offer they set the level of bad light to which the umpires would use.

Now England.......get to tea with wickets in hand. Sod the win, just stop Australia.

SOA Wolf

11-09-2005, 19:44

Stuff 'em, this is a nation who when theChappell brothers were playing, once bowled under arm off a last ball to stop New Zealnd any chance of hitting a winning 4.

They took bad light yesterday and held on due to weather in another of the tests, which we would have won....part of the game. Whinging Aussies.

I have noticed that, unlike every other summer in recent years, there have been very few Aussie tops floating around....notice it a lot here in Stratford, and also in London and whilst up in Edinburgh. They've all gone into hiding since England have taken the upper hand....as I have said...bottle merchants.smileys/smiley4.gif

Kenny-11

11-09-2005, 19:49

I did laugh at the Aussie's when they came out wearing sunglasses after the first stoppage and when Flintoff was bowling he walked past the umpire and asked for lights on the stumps as he couldn't see where he was bowling smileys/smiley36.gif

derbyrameater

11-09-2005, 19:56

having played at keeper at a very very low level. even if you have spinners bowling when the batters hit the ball its going damn fast, I don`t know if its moving as fast as a Mcgrath ( why do they call him mcgraw?) ball so therefore its a danger to the fielders and also the supporters as you do not pick up the ball untill its to late, a ball in the kisser or elswhere bloody hurts, and the Aussies would have done exactly the same "whatever it takes to win".

Very Wolf

11-09-2005, 21:58

Cricket?
One of the craziest sports ever invented by mankind.
As exciting as tea and biscuits.
I was at the Oval once-had a terrible hangover and thought I was gonna check it out and see what all the fuzz was about.Started to watch it...nothing seemed to happen so I fell a sleep.Woke up a fair while later...it was still the same guys out there.I don´t think anything had happened.
Cricket is the sport that never stops.It just goes on and on and on...not to mention on.
A very strange thing.