toonotl 2400 Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Great day of play for England. Aussies need to skittle your lot in the morning to have any chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitman 2188 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 How much of a lead is a minimum target here for England? 200? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19714 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Time to wheel out the old cliche but the first session is crucial. If root and bairstow can build a partnership we have destructive batters down the order capable of taking the game away from them. Any score above 300 to 350 and it's a long way back for the Aussies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 2400 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 How much of a lead is a minimum target here for England? 200? I think that's exactly what England will be thinking. Aiming for a score of 350+. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 2400 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Time to wheel out the old cliche but the first session is crucial. If root and bairstow can build a partnership we have destructive batters down the order capable of taking the game away from them. Any score above 300 to 350 and it's a long way back for the Aussies. Definitely. Aussies need quick wickets. Got to be aiming to give away as small a lead as possible. I think the aim will be to take 7/100 or thereabouts this morning. Problem is the pitch will be at its best for batting today, so taking quick wickets will be a challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 2400 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 England's scoring rate is a worry at the moment too. Australia could take 7 for not many before lunch or give away 140 runs without taking a wicket. If the latter happens the game is gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19714 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 if england get around 200-250, the game will be perfectly poised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 2400 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Must get Root quickly if that's going to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30205 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Need a couple of good partnerships at the very least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19714 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Must get Root quickly if that's going to happen. aye, root is the big wicket now. he can be the glue for the others to play off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19714 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 that's a beaut from johnson tbf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 2400 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 (edited) Bairstow obviously hasn't faced much decent short bowling at county level because he didn't play that well at all. Haven't seen a replay yet but it looked like he had his gloves up above his head. Edit: Almost. It was a perfect short ball in Bairstow's defence. Stokes hasn't much better. This had the look of a pitch Johnson could make good use of yesterday. Not sure what took him so long to start trying to knock heads off. Edited July 30, 2015 by toonotl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 What a delivery that was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19714 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 and another! good luck playing that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19714 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 and what an over. scintillating stuff tbf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30205 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 300 test wickets for Johnson. Some achievement and a great comeback story whatever happens in the remainder of his career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 2400 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Fuck sake. Hazlewood is in the side to bowl line and length so Johnson and Starc can go at batsmen from the other end. Bowling pies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19714 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 totally agree about johnson. he's such a different player to the one who was hammered on his last tour here. he's the one that all of our batsmen fear when he gets it right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19714 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 and he could be the difference between the sides. we have no one like him . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 2400 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 (edited) I don't know if you lads have to endure Ian Healy's commentary on the English coverage, but god is he unbearable. I'm going for Australia and I can barely handle his constant cheerleading brainless twaddle. Edited July 30, 2015 by toonotl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30205 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 totally agree about johnson. he's such a different player to the one who was hammered on his last tour here. he's the one that all of our batsmen fear when he gets it right. Supposed to be a really nice bloke as well which makes it an even better story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19714 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 warnie and nasser on sky right now. they're all fairly balanced, except beefy botham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19714 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 oh joe, he was playing so well. that's a gift, reaching for a wide one like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 2400 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 Big wicket. Now we need to run through the tail like Gem through a hot plate of Deep Fried Vagetarian Rolls on a lonely Friday night, and we're in business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19714 Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 i reckon par on this pitch is about 300. both sides guilty of gifting too many wickets away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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