2009 Ashes Series - England vs. Australia **Spoilers**

CGrieves said:
Exactly, and Pietersen hasn't exactly shone with the willow, has he?!

Bell, on form, is an awesome batsman, and a joy to watch, not to mention an excellent fielder. I think he deserves another chance.
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Agreed.

wohoo said:
KP, despite his crap form, still is averaging around 50? we need players of his calibre in and around the team.I'd have Bell in place of Bopara, who has looked a bit lost imo.
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Scored 153 @ 38 in 4 innnings on flat batting tracks. Hardly great is it? Bell, for all his problems, never had issues scoring runs on good batting tracks like we have nowadays. He got dropped after the first test against the West Indies and I'd bet any money he'd have scored as many as Bopara did on the wickets they played in on the remaining games.

CGrieves said:
Tell you what, I watched "Hidden Ashes" last night, I'd recorded it on playTV from ch5 a few weeks ago. One person I really miss, and I say this as an England supporter, is Brett Lee- every match he plays in seems to end up being special. And aside from that, like Flintoff, he's a top bloke on and off the pitch. It'll be great when he comes back.

Having said that, I also really miss Warnie, Langer, Hayden, McGrath and Gilchrist for the same reasons. It's been a good series so far in Cricket terms, but it's not quite the same without the old Aussie luminaries.
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I miss Lee - bar the odd spell he'd usually go for 5 an over :D
 
Spawn said:
Oh dear KP out...not good for England...big big blow for them as he can be pretty destructive with the bat but then hes been injured for some time so hasnt really played all that well tbqh.
So i guess that means Bell will make his way into the squad now??..who knows he might just turn up with the bat and make some decent scores but wouldnt put any money on his doing so:p.
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Aye, he does only make runs against poor bowling attacks:
v Pakistan:
M I Runs HS Ave 100 50
7 13 688 119 68.80 4 2
 
I wouldn't want to be winning this toss. Could be pretty overcast come 5pm and be a nightmare to bat on and fine all day tomorrow. Either way, I think we'll struggle to get a result here.
 
Well I guess I picked a good day to go

:D

Only thing was - I was 10mins late to the ground because my friend was running late! I was going to meet her at the ground but thought it wouldn't be a problem. The taxi driver told us we'd got 2 wickets but we thought he was taking the pee!
 
Gilly said:
Poor shot choice from Strauss. Good to hear Warney whining and getting it wrong for non-dismissals :D
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I still can't understand where the term "whinging poms" comes from. When it's not going their way, the Aussies are the worst whingers on the planet*. But I really don't think his comments help much, Koetzen made two very good decisions today that were spot on when he could easily have gone the other way after yesterdays mistake - he should be praised.


*if one were to make such sweeping generalisations.
 
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