Ashes 2013/14

[eastie]

Rain forecast to stop around 8am with the chance of electrical storms throughout the day

Rain has stopped already and its 6:41am.........

Party pooper 

[eastie]

Smug wankers

@MichaelVaughan: Local Headlines ..... http://t.co/EWhHIuwM74

[Monty]

Smug wankers

@MichaelVaughan: Local Headlines ..... http://t.co/EWhHIuwM74

I still think this campaign of vilification of Broad is astonishingly hypocritical. Only Adam Gilchrist has the right to criticise anybody for not walking - I remember Steve Waugh absolutely refusing to walk despite a huge nick being caught straightforwardly at first slip, Are they going to ban mentions of him? It's infantile.

[eastie]

Smug wankers

@MichaelVaughan: Local Headlines ..... http://t.co/EWhHIuwM74

I still think this campaign of vilification of Broad is astonishingly hypocritical. Only Adam Gilchrist has the right to criticise anybody for not walking - I remember Steve Waugh absolutely refusing to walk despite a huge nick being caught straightforwardly at first slip, Are they going to ban mentions of him? It's infantile.

See the video of Clarke a couple of pages ago - far worse!

[eastie]

@MichaelVaughan: Plenty of cloud around today ... Surely the Rain dances back home haven't worked.....!!! http://t.co/XwiFn37aHO

@Aggerscricket: Cloudy start. Light showers around all day. Possible storm this afternoon… Hopefully not sane magnitude as yesterday’s… #6/9 #Ashes

[LionVilla]

Where is everyone?

[jcsutv]

Why declare? Is poor weather forecast?

[eastie]

Could be some rain on day 4 but I find the way trott batted quite incredible - he could have been caught 3 times in 5 minutes before finally getting out to a ridiculous shot - he played as of it was a one day game and we needed 10 an over - I think they will stick with him but he is on borrowed time .

Chasing over 550 the last thing we needed was to be 10-2 - carberry was unlucky to see the ball bounce back onto his stumps but trott was extremely poor.

[eastie]

@MichaelVaughan: As bad a innings that I have ever seen from a England No 3.... #Ashes

@Aggerscricket: Sorry Trotty. That's dreadful. 10/2

[aj2k77]

Pathetic. Taxi for Trott. He's lost his head and is currently a sitting duck for that twat Johnson.

[OzVilla]

Quite frankly, this has been an absolute shambles.

The mode of Trott's dismissal just summed it all up. We're in big trouble in this series now as they'll have massive momentum and support now.

 Just what we didn't want to happen. I always thought a draw would be a great result before the Test but the manner of the way we've gone about things has really given thevAussies a huge lift.

[spangley1812]

Rubbish..........I am a huge Trott fan but his head has gone, we are very short of options so he may well stay in the team for at least the next couple of Tests. The only option could be to move Bell up to 3 and bring Bairstow in at 6 and move Root to 5

What is Gooch doing and the rest of the 50+ backroom staff ?

[aj2k77]

Trott should be dropped whatever happens. A game situation like this and he approaches his innings with a mindset that everything he was gonna hit was either a 4, 6 or out. I've seen some Trott innings that are as exciting as a stagnant swamp and he chooses today with a handfull of overs left to come out gungho billy big bollocks and try and smash Johnson out of the park.

Is his head in the right frame of mind or should he be taken out of the firing line. Time for the batting coach to earn his keep.

[PaulWinch again]

Absolutely pathetic and this sort of performance will have a lasting effect on the series. Trott has to go for this display and his form of late. We desperately need to show fight tomorrow because if we're steamrollered the Ashes could be gone.

[PaulWinch again]

I think I'd almost be inclined put Bell at three and bring Ballance in at 6 below Root. I don't know if it'd work but there needs to be a shake up. We don't look to have prepared for fast short bowling which I find insane