The Cricket Thread 2013

[Villan For Life]

I wasn't sure about that one but snicko sent him on his way.

I wonder if Hotspot is useless above a certain temperature?

[spangley1812]

I wasn't sure about that one but snicko sent him on his way.

I wonder if Hotspot is useless above a certain temperature?

Snicko isnt part of DRS........

[Villan For Life]

I wasn't sure about that one but snicko sent him on his way.

I wonder if Hotspot is useless above a certain temperature?

Snicko isnt part of DRS........

But he must have been given out on the strength of a noise as the ball went past the outside edge.

[claretandbeer]

Well, that was a wasted 20 minutes.

Given England's tactics, I'd almost like to see the Aussies bat thro' the next two days and save the match

Normally I would agree with a declaration at least last night but I think this is payback big time for when Border and Waugh practised 'mental disintegration ' on us in previous series.
Border ,first test Headingley 1989,didn't declare till the third day at 601-7 in the first knock.
A series of grind the bastards down that ended in 4-0.
We have the Ashes,1-0 up ,soon to be 2. Players as well as spectators want blood here. Don't forget we play them in the winter,so kick 'em hard,totally demoralise them and make them believe that not of them is good enough.Clarke is but let's get the Oz media baying for his blood as a thoroughly beaten captain of an unseaworthy ship.

[paul_e]

The sound was the key, there was a clear sound on the replay (without snicko) and none of the replays showed anything else to account for the noise.  I actually think it's a complicated one though because I can't understand how it wasn't given out on the field but i also find it difficult to justify the 3rd umpire overruling it.

[spangley1812]

I wasn't sure about that one but snicko sent him on his way.

I wonder if Hotspot is useless above a certain temperature?

Snicko isnt part of DRS........

But he must have been given out on the strength of a noise as the ball went past the outside edge.

There was a sound but I reckon that wasnt out

[Villan For Life]

I wasn't sure about that one but snicko sent him on his way.

I wonder if Hotspot is useless above a certain temperature?

Snicko isnt part of DRS........

But he must have been given out on the strength of a noise as the ball went past the outside edge.

There was a sound but I reckon that wasnt out

By a process of elimination, the sound wasn't bat on pad or bat on ground therefore it could only have come from a thin outside edge. Therefore in the balance of probability it was out.

[spangley1812]

I wasn't sure about that one but snicko sent him on his way.

I wonder if Hotspot is useless above a certain temperature?

Snicko isnt part of DRS........

But he must have been given out on the strength of a noise as the ball went past the outside edge.

There was a sound but I reckon that wasnt out

By a process of elimination, the sound wasn't bat on pad or bat on ground therefore it could only have come from a thin outside edge. Therefore in the balance of probability it was out.

It says out in the scorebook

[Villan For Life]

I wasn't sure about that one but snicko sent him on his way.

I wonder if Hotspot is useless above a certain temperature?

Snicko isnt part of DRS........

But he must have been given out on the strength of a noise as the ball went past the outside edge.

There was a sound but I reckon that wasnt out

By a process of elimination, the sound wasn't bat on pad or bat on ground therefore it could only have come from a thin outside edge. Therefore in the balance of probability it was out.

It says out in the scorebook

Which is all that counts.

[The Left Side]

I've never heard Holding so animated.

[robbyfvillain]

Bit selfish of Root to not give anyone else a chance at motm here.

I think this could be game over today now, they really needed one of Clarke and Khawaja to bat all day to make it to the 5th day which i'm sure they'd have been targeting.

Got to feel for Bell he's averaging nearly 80 in this series and can't get a sniff of man of the match.

[paul_e]

Lovely delivery to a tailender from Swann to end it.  Really good performance from England as a unit, fielded really well, bowled really well and had 3-4 very good batting performances.

A bit more consistency from the top 4 would be great but we're a long long way ahead of them right now and 4-0 or 5-0 is the safe money (depending on the weather).

Pretty nice to witness the death of australian competitive sport this summer as well.

[Chris Smith]

Decent of England to give the paying customers a full day before finishing it at the death.

[PaulWinch again]

Well that's an absolute battering, the Aussies just cannot bat. We still need to sort some of our batting at the top, but very good.

[taylorsworkrate]

I think the margin of victory is a much more accurate reflection of the gulf in class than the first test.

It's a perfect storm really. A weak batting line up facing a high class attack and there should only really be one outcome.

Just imagine if Cook, Prior, Trott and Pietersen played to potential!!!!!!