delboy Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 well its so good to see the aussies get a taste of their own medicine!!!! i really believe england can take the series now.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 well its so good to see the aussies get a taste of their own medicine!!!! i really believe england can take the series now....yesterday was as finer day as i can remember since botham/willis..........watch the aussie players faces today, i think they know they are strugglingdo you think they will avoid the follow on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted August 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 yesterday was as finer day as i can remember since botham/willis..........watch the aussie players faces today' date=' i think they know they are strugglingdo you think they will avoid the follow on?[/quote']if clarke hadnt gone last ball of the day then i think they might, they're now relying on katich, gilchrist and warne to get knocks and 179 to avoid the follow on is more than achievable, it'd be good to make them follow on, then the pressure is really on the aussies. the england bowlers seem so fired up at the mo though one of the lbw's was wrongly given out but hey they all even themselves out in the end. katich is vulnerable as he's been in poor form, a couple of early wickets and england should knock them out for under 200 but the tail can be resistant as we've seen.apart from the first test, england have completely outplayed them i feel..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 Katich and Warne gone in the space of 2 balls. That's got to be it over for Australia in this game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feeble! Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 I don't understand cricket, hence I can't get interested in it. However, everyone I know who knows about it has assured me that once you get what's going on it's really quite good. Frankly, I don't know if I'd have the time to watch like 4 days worth of television to see the outcome of a test. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 fucking hell. Australia are going for it. 14 runs to go and 3 wickets needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 fucking hell. Australia are going for it. 14 runs to go and 3 wickets needed.calm down............its over just nailbiting stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
framheim Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 that was nuts, what a great finish. this series has won a lot of new fans for cricket. absolutely fascinating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted August 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 phew! fantastic but those pesky aussies never make it easy!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh_Jazz Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 The last 3 tests have been totally nuts! Dont know if my fingernails will survive the end of the Oval test-match. This has to be the only time I've known Scots to be backing the Englanders all the way.I hated cricket a couple of months ago, and now I'm even watching the county games on Sky. It's driving the wife up the wall. DAMN YOU Flintoff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted August 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 test cricket never used to be like this, test matches would so often end in a draw and a lot of the players were much slower. although botham in his heydey never used to mess about!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 today was insanely good. few down points but generally england showing they are one of if not the best cricket side in the world. amazing. on downside though hope geriant jones gets dropped. minus his 85 in first innings he had a howler of a match. on whole though it was genuis stuff. flintoff rightly man of match but warne drove him hard for that accolade. his partnership with brett lee bowling today was still top stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntedbyafreak Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 Was anyone else scared by Brett Lee's face when he bowled Flintoff? I thought he looked like Satan. It was terrifying.Am actually really enjoying the Ashes... I'm quite surprised to be honest. I just thought it was a very boring game... Boy was I wrong by the looks of it!Quick question... What the fuck is the follow on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted August 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 Was anyone else scared by Brett Lee's face when he bowled Flintoff? I thought he looked like Satan. It was terrifying.Am actually really enjoying the Ashes... I'm quite surprised to be honest. I just thought it was a very boring game... Boy was I wrong by the looks of it!Quick question... What the fuck is the follow on?the follow on is when a team has to bat their second innings straight after their first innings because they didnt score enough runs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 the idea of the follow on goes like such. england made 477. so a score of around half of that is needed to command england to have to bat again. aussies only made 218 (less than half) so meant that aussies were made to bat again through choice by michael vaughan. now if aussies combined total through two innings hadnt matched that of englands, england would have one by an innings plus spare runs. aussies batted past englands total so then england had to come and bat and score the remaining runs made by aussies two innings totals. *god i feel like a bit of a geek* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh_Jazz Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 the idea of the follow on goes like such. england made 477. so a score of around half of that is needed to command england to have to bat again. aussies only made 218 (less than half) so meant that aussies were made to bat again through choice by michael vaughan. now if aussies combined total through two innings hadnt matched that of englands' date=' england would have one by an innings plus spare runs. aussies batted past englands total so then england had to come and bat and score the remaining runs made by aussies two innings totals. *god i feel like a bit of a geek*[/quote']It's not half the runs that they need to avoid the follow-on. They needed to get within 200 runs of England's first innings total. Therefore, 278 was the target. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 ah woops my bad :O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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