The Cricket Thread 2013

[PaulWinch again]

Rogers edges and it drops short.

[PaulWinch again]

Then he's lucky with an LBW, good start from Broad.

[PaulWinch again]

Jimmy's line is off at the moment.

[PaulWinch again]

Warner gone, Jimmy finds his length and line.

[PaulWinch again]

I do think England need to address how they manage Bairstow, he needs to get a lot more cricket.

[taylorsworkrate]

Bowling well without luck here

[taylorsworkrate]

This looks a 450 pitch minimum

[eastie]

Bresnan's out for the rest of the Summer. Onions, Finn or someone else to replace him? Maybe Tremlett if they go with an extra spinner... expect Panesar has blotted his copybook for a while.

Indeed he has, Sussex are releasing him too.

Tremlett is a pace bowler not a spinner .
Tremlett Anderson and broad will destroy the Aussies with swann cleaning up in the 2nd innings.

Right you are, I'm mixing up Tremlett with Tredwell.

Welcome back, by the way!

Thanks , i mixed them up too in the one dayers .

[PaulWinch again]

Right come on Woakes, turn up lad.

[PaulWinch again]

I do like the idea of blooding youngsters from a position of strength. I would have included Taylor in this game as well for that reason.

[PaulWinch again]

Woakes is bowling at mid 80s which is good enough if he's accurate.

[taylorsworkrate]

This looks a 450 pitch minimum

Cant see that , I'd say anything over 300 is a good score - Botham said we should be looking to get the Aussies out for 250ish - no pace in the wicket and lots of spin , no way the Aussies will get anywhere near to 450.

In fact i wouldn't be too surprised to see them bowled out for less than 200.

I think you should be able to get a big score first innings. There's only a touch of spin at the moment and as soon as the ball gets a bit softer there will be little in it for the seamers.

I think its a huge toss to win

[PaulWinch again]

Finn tweets very supportively of the new lads, good team player.

[eastie]

It is a big toss to win but i expect both spinners to take wickets on day one - swann is already on , really think the Aussies will struggle with swann , lets hope Kerrigan delivers - this is a perfect pitch for monty - how pissed off he must be ( pardon the pun)

[taylorsworkrate]

Well we've bowled well in that first hour and Australia have rode their luck quite a lot.

It should get pretty easy to bat on as the day goes on