The Cricket Thread 2013

[PaulWinch again]

See we wasted our DRS and we would have had Smith there. That being said the umpire should have given him out straight away.

[PaulWinch again]

I've seen a replay of that decision and it is yet again shocking, shocking umpiring. Smith was absolutely stone dead.

[paul_e]

That's one of the worst decisions I've ever seen, it was clear as day it was going to hit middle, shocking from the umpire.  It's all the more upsetting because the first review from England was so close, bit unlucky to lose a review like that.

[taylorsworkrate]

See we wasted our DRS and we would have had Smith there. That being said the umpire should have given him out straight away.

I don't think we wasted our reviews. The lbw was as close as possible to being overturned, and Smith definitely edged it the second time. I'd like to get the umpires opinion on what the massive woody noise was if it wasn't bat. Very poor umpiring all day including the khawaja decision.

[taylorsworkrate]

This pitch is extremely flat

[olaftab]

Australia's day so far, we need a good last session with two or three wickets to pull it back.

It has to be Australia's day when Watson succeeds in avoiding an LBW!

[curiousorange]

Is Jim Maxwell on TMS getting on anyone else's tits?

[Villan For Life]

And the boundary count clicks along to 33

[taylorsworkrate]

This is a poor poor pitch

[curiousorange]

I think Lancashire have spent a lot of money and acheived very little. There are apparently problems with comfortable spectating in that Point thing, the TMS team have pointed out that you can only see half the scoreboard from the commentary box, they've had to move spectators from behind the bowler's arm and most importantly, all the bowlers have had problems on a badly-tended pitch.

To think Edgbaston has missed out for this shambles.

[Villafirst]

Old Trafford and the Riverside are both shite compared to Edgbaston. Can't understand why Trent Bridge got the nod either - capacity is only 16,000 compared to Edgbaston's 25,000. ECB missed out on a lot of extra revenue!

[PaulWinch again]

Well clearly Australia's day on a ve ry flat pitch. We're up against it now and our top order need to get runs. Also Broad should be under massive pressure from Tremlett if he continues to bowl like he has.

The umpiring was utterly dreadful, and simply not good enough at this level.

[Dave Cooper please]

We could be in a spot of bother here, this was the ideal day for batting, with cloud cover and rain expected it's going to get much harder to bat from tomorrow.
Well, we'll see what Australia are made of then won't we, if they can't win with just about everything going for them (except for one dodgy DRS) then they are never going to win.

[PGW]

Yes, i'm off up there in the morning....could be another difficult day methinks!!!!

Early start 07:31 train, forecast seems to have improved a little....not so many showers hopefully be OK, i aint going to pack my 'Packamac'.

i'm situated in that rather large temporary stand.....better be good access to the bar!!!

[richl]

Old Trafford and the Riverside are both shite compared to Edgbaston. Can't understand why Trent Bridge got the nod either - capacity is only 16,000 compared to Edgbaston's 25,000. ECB missed out on a lot of extra revenue!

Edgbaston didn't bid enough to get a Test Match.