The Ashes 2009

[Keef]

425 isn't a bad score.

[Sherwick]

1 down! :))

[Sherwick]

2 down!! :)):))

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

The lunch has been prepared by Butcher and Cook and will be served by Butler

Grace

French Moule or

Pollard

*

Legge of Hogg or

Swann stuffed with Woodcock or

Lamb

all served with Bean and Onions

*

Ambrose Duff

cheese Board

*

to drink

Bollinger

Mead

[Brendan]

Brendan Wrote:

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> I?m with MM (and rather envious of his ring side

> seat) on the score being about 425 all out

> sometime before lunch tomorrow. 425 is a decent

> first innings score at Lords.

Told you so.

[????]

Harmison 5-20 up at Durham......

[Brendan]

Told you so.

[Ted Max]

A bearded South African takes the crucial second wicket.

[Brendan]

Liar! I just checked that match and he?s only taken 1 for 45.

[Brendan]

Ted Max Wrote:

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> A bearded South African takes the crucial second

> wicket.

It was LBW wasn't it?

Bowled Anderson Caught Prior is just an unfortunate spelling mistake.

[Ted Max]

Rudi Koertzen.

[????]

Anyone who isn't listening to the radio properly's mistake - Sidebottm DID get 4 though

[Marmora Man]

We're here with the Queen today and despite losing Straus to the second ball England currently have the edge. Good day for bowling - slightly overcast, bit humid, bowles getting some swing and Aussie batsmen don't look at all comfortable.

Great atmosphere and better now I've located the Guinness Bar.

[Brendan]

Here is some more encouraging information. Every time England have made more than 500 in the first innings at Lords this century they have drawn the match.

Every time they have made between 390 and 490 in the first innings they have won.

So statistically they have a 100% chance of winning this game but they would have been a bit screwed if your man Collingwood hadn?t have thrown away his wicket.

Edit: Because upon reflection I can't spell.

[Brendan]

Ted Max Wrote:

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> Rudi Koertzen.

Yeah I know.

[Ted Max]

Sorry Brendan. I am a thick.

Harmison currently has 5-for in the second innings. You probably knew that too, right?

[????]

I did hear right - he has

[Brendan]

Oh, yes, yes of course I knew that. I know everything me.

Did you know that a wombat?s pouch faces backwards?

[Brendan]

Hey look it has stopped raining.

[DaveR]

Rob Key was born in East Dulwich, apparently

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Oh how I miss Umpire Shepherd!

[????]

He would have been hopping for ages

[bignumber5]

a new experience for me - not listening to tms, checked the scorecard on the bbc site then, on a seemingly pointless whim of timewasting, hit refresh... is jimmy anderson taking these wickets with precision bowling, or am I with my magic refresh button...?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Our hairy mascot

[Reg Smeeton]

Something rather samey about Anderson, Broad and Onions. And whenever Broad comes on to bowl, the scoring rate seems to pick up. It's about time he came to the party, as they say - a couple of wickets to lame pull shots isn't enough for me. The really bold move for Edgbaston would be Anderson, Harmison, and the unfairly sidelined Sidebottom. With Anderson batting at 9.