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

Trott, Strauss, Prior and Pietersen. What is it with the England national team picking South African born players ;)

Don't think the Aussies will survive this, they are gonna need the mother of all innings by someone like Ponting tomorrow to even draw this match.
 
To be fair Symonds left the country 3 months after being born, though he has been dropped for being a bit of a **** head so maybe he did pick some English habits up :p
 
manic111 said:
As they would if we drew having declared a little later. Strauss was in a no win situation in terms of the media, but from the cricketing point of view made the right call.
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Why ?? If they batted out the rest of the day which could have been doubtful then you still would have had two full days to bowl them out. Personally I didnt see the point.

Yes it would have been nice if we got a wicket before the end of the days play but we didnt.
 
Strauss definitely did the right thing, waiting until Trott had his 100 before declaring. If Trott had been out earlier, I think Strauss would have declared earlier. The lead England had was massive and the chances of Australia getting the target looked remote on paper. It still is very unlikely although history is made to be broken so you never know.

Thank god for Trott that Mike Atherton wasn't the captain or he might have done to him what he did to Graeme Hick that time!
 
Rotty said:
so if they win with 8 or 9 down the media won't go mad, you give over
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If Australia manage to successfully make the biggest run chase in history, then they deserve to win this test, and us posting another 10 or so runs won't make much difference.

Strauss took a gamble on putting the Aussies in late and getting a quick evening wicket. It didn't pay off, but it was still worth more of a try than hoping Steve Harmison does something exciting with the bat.
 
Fair play to the Trottster, that was a damn fine Ashes debut.

How many Saffers do you have in the team now? "So we're back to the fourth day in this Test series... Australia vs South Africa; the South Africans playing here under their alternative title of 'the English cricket team'..."

Actually I think you only have three Saffers, so it's not that bad. :p
 
Evangelion said:
Fair play to the Trottster, that was a damn fine Ashes debut.

How many Saffers do you have in the team now? "So we're back to the fourth day in this Test series... Australia vs South Africa; the South Africans playing here under their alternative title of 'the English cricket team'..."

Actually I think you only have three Saffers, so it's not that bad. :p
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Four if Pietersen was playing. It is a bit embarrassing I must admit, that English cricket has been a bit of a foreign legion of players for a long time. Some of whom have a greater link to the country of England than others.

There's a scathing article on the situation here: http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/cr...ion-for-england/2009/08/06/1249350638418.html
 
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MarcLister said:
But then drop them when they think the players are getting too old. Didn't they do that with Steve Waugh himself? Just dropped him, appointed Ponting and moved on?
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Not as far as I know, but even so, 38 is a good age to play until, and the fact that he did, proves you were mistaken that there is no chance Ponting could be playing Test cricket in four years ;)

A few more random names for you:

Mark Waugh, played Tests till 37
Shane Warne, 37
Allan Border, 39
Glen McGrath, 36 (one month before 37)
Matthew Hayden, 37
 
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what happens regards the ashes if this test turns out to be a draw ???? because we both have a test each and this is the deciding(sp) one :confused:

There's a scathing article on the situation here: http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/cri...350638418.html
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just wow at that link lol the island full of ancestors of convicts and ladies of the night having a dig at the brits what a shocker lol
 
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