Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

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Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Australia
Hayden
Langer
Ponting
Martyn
Hussey
Clarke
Gilchrist
Warne
Lee
Clark
McGrath


England
Strauss
Cook
Bell
Collingwood
Pietersen
Flintoff
Jones
Giles
Hoggard
Harmison
Anderson

King of Spain gets the nod over Monty. :(
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Staines won't be happy either. :wave:
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Edmundo said:
King of Spain gets the nod over Monty. :(
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Reeks of desperation to me - ie no batting after Jones,

Monty has done brilliantly this summer and this is a right kick in the slats for him.
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

I think it's a bit of a risk on a player that has hardly any cricket under his belt in 2006. Don't think this is a good call, Fletcher.
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Still, no reason to think this team can't beat the convicts! Up and at 'em boys!
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Whyever not? I can. Would rather we had Monty, especially fielding first, but hey ho, we've got a very good bowling attack, even without him.
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

I'm sure the announcer just introduced the Autralian National Anthem. lol
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Yes, I thought that too! lol Still at least the convicts voted for her!

Good numbers of English supporters visible in the crowd, including Jimmy Saville! :)
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Forgot to mention I saw Bob Willis in Putney High St today, surprised he's not there.
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

I think we've lost the first half an hour. :(

Are they trying to get 150 on the board by lunch or something?
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

It's hard not to feel a little crushed by the start.

The way we took the game to them early last summer has gone, they've flown out of the blocks, helped by winning an important toss, and we don't look on the same planet as them.

Inspiration urgently needed I think.
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Reckon Langer's had a lot of luck with where those edges went, mind you. But we need to find a spark somewhere. Those Harmison overs were horrible.
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Just picked up my first beer of the day. Looks like the convicts could reach 100 for 0 easily by lunch. Was going to go the the local club to watch it, but now I think I'll stay at home.
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Nice one - into the Aussie tail on the first morning already
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Great a couple more please.
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Brilliant. I'd just turned BBC radio off 5 minutes ago. :rolleyes:

I wont tune back in... promise. ;)
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

The convicts' session, no doubt. England need to pin them back this afternoon, or it will be looking grim. The decision to omit Panesar is looking to be a very poor one.
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

At last one of those shots in the air by Langer goes to a fielder! Freddie gets the second wicket! Come on England! :)
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Morning all!
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Tea time! 217-3, a more even session but England still need to nip out three or four convicts in the evening for it to be an even day. Hopefully Pietersen's knee is ok, that was a bit scary, bringing back memories of Simon Jones on this ground four years ago.

To be fair to Fletcher, the King of Spain has bowled well.
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Ed, have you been up all night watching this one? :eek:

I can't get any coverage at all over here with my Time Warner cable :sad:

Is it on the radio?
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Yep, up all night watching Ricky Ponting bat. :(

It's on Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and Radio 4 Long Wave.
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Tried that Ed, but something about being available to UK users only. :sad:

I'll keep looking :wave:
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Edmundo said:
This slow over rate is not making me happy!
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Very poor over rate (the more so with 15 overs from Giles) in for extra time tonight!

Go the aussie's
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Using Bell and Pieterson as bowlers on the first day of a test? :nono:
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

237bee said:
Nice one - into the Aussie tail on the first morning already
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The Aussie Tail seem to be going ok.

So how confident is everyone feeling now?

Ponting the Number One ranked test batsmen and Hussey Number One One dayer. They seem to be playing ok to me.
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

We'll come back....
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

A nightmare.

After one day England are facing up to a fight to save the match at best.

Bowling with the new ball was very poor, we didn't get much out of the pitch and Australia batted well.

Ponting is the best player on the planet at the moment and we couldn't attack him well enough. Harmison had a terrible day and as England's main man he let everyone down IMHO. Flintoff gave his all, Giles did ok and Pietersen got some turn. Anderson and Hoggard did ok with conditions against them.

We'll be batting after tea tomorrow I expect and if we can't bat into the fourth day at least we're finished.
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

Australian Bee said:
The Aussie Tail seem to be going ok.

So how confident is everyone feeling now?

Ponting the Number One ranked test batsmen and Hussey Number One One dayer. They seem to be playing ok to me.
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fairly confident thanks, we won't win this test, but a high scoring draw will do me nicely.
 

Australia v England First Test (Brisbane) 23 - 27 November 2006

I think this thread sums up the different psyches of the two countries. We have an Aussie crowing and thinking it's in the bag and England writing off the series already. Loads more cricket to be played. :rolleyes:
 
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