Well Done to Pieterson, Collingwood & Flintoff. :cheer:

 

But I would still like to know, how on earth Geraint Jones is a better wicket-keeper/batsman than Chris Read?

He's not.

:cheer: my prediction of an Oz whitewash looks doomed now :D

:cheer: my prediction of an Oz whitewash looks doomed now :D

 

 

or not :manson:

or not :manson:

 

Yes, I got up early (06:30 Hours) to go shopping & turned on the TV to Sky Sports 1 and promptly swore, when I saw the predicament that England had got themselves into. :arrr: :cry:

 

For the Third Test (December 14th) England have got to:

 

Drop opener Cook & bring back Vaughan

Drop wicketkeeper Jones & bring back Read

Drop spinner Giles & bring back Panesar

(& possibly) drop Anderson & bring in Mahmood

& replace Flintoff as captain with the "Yoda" like Vaughan.

 

 

 

 

Drop opener Cook & bring back Vaughan

Drop wicketkeeper Jones & bring back Read

Drop spinner Giles & bring back Panesar

(& possibly) drop Anderson & bring in Mahmood

& replace Flintoff as captain with the "Yoda" like Vaughan.

 

I agree with all those points apart from dropping Anderson. :D Mahmood is far too inconcistant for my liking.

 

Its Englands own fault they lost this test though. We got a good start and had the Aussies on the back foot, just a shame our batting collapsed in the second innings. :(

we just can't string two innings together at the moment.

 

England need to find a way of getting Ponting out far quicker. Agree with the changes, but I haven't seen Mahmood yet so I can't comment on that one

we just can't string two innings together at the moment.

 

England need to find a way of getting Ponting out far quicker. Agree with the changes, but I haven't seen Mahmood yet so I can't comment on that one

 

 

Yes England need to star getting point or we will lose the ashes.

 

i think we will lose the Ashes but i hope we don't :D

 

Why the **** did we declare on such a low score ? :rolleyes: we should have pressed on and got 600-700 to put the match out of reach, declaring at 551-6 was a bloody joke :manson:

Monty needs to win Sports Personality now, to show Duncan Fletcher he knows **** all!

Yes i think he should do as well. :D

 

but hopefully England can do better in the third test match. :D

so does the third match when Australia take back that tiny urn start next week?

the Ashes are going to Australia the Ashes are going to Australia, and we all fall down -_-

 

3-0 looking very likely now

tune in at 3am tomorrow morning to hear Australia wrap up the Ashes in time for Xmas

To quote Phil Tufnell on the Jonathan Ross show on Radio 2 this morning "England's plan of lulling the Aussies into a false sense of security and declaring towards the end of the 3rd day, to give us a gettable total (551 runs) in the time remaining (2 days) has worked."

 

However, I suspect he was being very sarcastic at the time!

 

 

England have lost the ashes then... :(

and my 5-0 whitewash is still on :cheer:

and my 5-0 whitewash is still on :cheer:

 

Yup I think it will end up like that as well. :(

Shayne Warne is set to retire from cricket then after the ashes.

 

Why couldn't he have retired before the ashes though. :(

Very embarassing times in general for English cricket at the moment.

i guess we can forget the World Cup -_-

 

at this rate we would be beaten by the Netherlands