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Pleasing thing about the second innings is the amount of time England have spent at the crease. Too often in the recent past they have scored at 3.5/4 an over but been all out in 80 overs. Yesterday was far more disciplined. Hope they can maintain this tonight, make the game safe and maybe have 30/35 hostile overs to rattle a few of the Aussie top order.

Can't see anything but a draw unless England collapse or they get the long handles out. They're not scoring fast enough to make the games safe (about 250 lead) before tea, when they really need to declare in the hour after lunch to get enough time to bowl us out.


Interesting test though. Should be a corker of a series.

An excellent result after the first innings.


We really ground their noses in it in the second innings, it was a shame we let them off the hook a bit with some silly fielding errors in the last hour or so. It'll give them confidence they don't deserve.


Decent of Strauss to let Punter get his 50 though.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Oh wow - what great figures for Cook and Trott to

> wake up to.

>

> Looks like we're on for the draw which considering

> the first innings is not bad.



When I saw 1 run for 517 wickets I thought jeez, that is bad, but then I translated and thought it was quite good.

Drawn matches are ok Declan, but when its a 5 match drawn series, then it does seem a lot of effort for no winner.


But I guess a gentlemanly drawn series is quite nice. If you can't decide who is best after 5 matches then perhaps a draw is the appropriate outcome.



Tea anyone.

Narnia Wrote:

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> They play for 5 days and it's a draw and everyone

> knew it was going to be a draw after 4 days. What

> sort of a game is this?


If you just look at the results then, yes, it would seem that way. But if you've been up watching it then it's been a fascinating test, with advantage swinging one way then the other.


It's a bit like having an enjoyable 0-0 draw in football.

Narnia Wrote:

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> Mick,am I going to have to explain myself again?


Yes - I know you were trying to be funny Declan. And it was funny - oh how I laughed, but I thought I'd like to talk about drawn matches anyway.

not sure about any daughters but my son has been sleeping through quite disgracefully. So much so that his dad felt confident enough to go pub last night. He had a whole 3 pints, stumbled home and slept for 15 hours himself. All very disgraceful.


Why, is there some sort of cricket match going on?

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