The Ashes Tour 2013

[Crossy]

A couple of useful streaming sites in this thread http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/683174-the-ashes/

Of course, our antipodean friends may not wish to watch 139-6 off 48 overs

[eezergood]

A couple of useful streaming sites in this thread http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/683174-the-ashes/

Of course, our antipodean friends may not wish to watch 139-6 off 48 overs

Som nam nar

[Chicog]

Decent little stand from Haddin and Johnson, who'd have thought they'd be the top batsmen?

[noikrit]

Whats the score ???? Meat Pies or Fish and Chips ???

[Chicog]

Well Siddle did very liddle....

[Chicog]

Wow there's some really nice replay work from the TV team there.

[noikrit]

Well Siddle did very liddle....

and the score is ???

[Chicog]

It looks like a great wicket to me; I can't see the convicts getting to 300, and then for England it's all about not making silly mistakes.

[7by7]

273 for 8 at the close. Without a 114 stand from Haddin (78 n.o.) and Johnson (64) it would be a lot worse for the Aussies.

Broad, 5 for 65 from 20.

This is supposed to be a perfect batting pitch, so the Aussie score seems to be well below par.

Ashes 2013-14: Stuart Broad puts England in control in Brisbane

[noikrit]

Cheers !! thanks for the update ...

[Bangkokhatter]

Not quite the same excitement being at work and only having the live text from BBC Sport. Still a good day for England and i suppose we should thank the Australian media for the pep talk they gave to Stuart Broad before the start.

Haddin and Johnson"s stand ensured we will still have to bat better than we did in the last series.

[David48]

It looks like a great wicket to me; I can't see the convicts getting to 300, and then for England it's all about not making silly mistakes.

There was a time there yesterday that I thought we'd struggle to get to 200 and be asked to follow-on ... even though we batted first!

[BookMan]

Decent little stand from Haddin and Johnson, who'd have thought they'd be the top batsmen?

 

 

Failure by the top order again...Australia can't rely on the lower order all the time.

*sent from the zombie apocalypse survivors camp payphone

[Crossy]

The wheel appears to have come off for England somewhat 87-6

EDIT 89-7

[whybother]

The wheel appears to have come off for England somewhat 87-6

EDIT 89-7

94/8.

9 runs. 6 wickets. 10 overs.

[Old Croc]

I see the Nigels have gone quiet.

[Chicog]

Well that was well worth getting up at 4am for. And I thought the convict openers batted badly.

[tw25rw]

Wish I could have stayed up longer. Hope England aren't saved by the weather.

[whybother]

Wish I could have stayed up longer. Hope England aren't saved by the weather.

http://www.bom.gov.au/qld/forecasts/brisbane.shtml

Scattered showers tomorrow, and possibly Sunday. Not enough to save them.

[uptheos]

Never fear, they will learn from their mistakes.

[BookMan]

Just in case anyone missed it...

England all out for 136

[7by7]

Good performance by Carberry, obviously a star; despite his silly looking hat!

Broad ok, the rest were very poor. Pietersen again losing patience and holing out when not losing his wicket was more important than scoring runs.

Combination of excellent aggressive bowling and poor batting.

Can't see Australia losing this, and realistically only the weather can salvage a draw for England.

However, in recent years England have had a habit of performing poorly in their first innings of the first test and then going on to win the series; but I still expect a drawn series.

Edited November 22, 2013 by 7by7

[tw25rw]

The 2 best performers so far have been the boo boys favourites, Broad and Johnson..

[Chicog]

Fortunately I have won 1.150 million dollars in a Microsoft email draw so it's not all doom and gloom.

[BookMan]

Fortunately I have won 1.150 million dollars in a Microsoft email draw so it's not all doom and gloom.

And England did make a century!

[Bangkokhatter]

Only managed 2 updates all day 82-2 and thought not too bad and then 136 all out, what a shocking performance. Obvious credit should go to the Aussie bowling unit but, it seems our batsmen learnt nothing from our failures of the last series.

and there was me looking forward to a day off tomorrow getting to see some live action

[7by7]

Having arisen from my pit early to watch the English batsmen only to turn the TV on to see Broad bowling, I reckon you'll get to see plenty of action tomorrow.

Unfortunately I doubt much of it will be coming from the English!

[ozzydom]

Just in case anyone missed it...

England all out for 136

[David48]

My stat from yesterdays game ...

England 6 for 9 ...

[smokie36]

My stat from yesterdays game ...

England 6 for 9 ...

Ah shaddup!