: Sun Jul 12, 2009 6:00 pm  

Celebrating a darw about sums England up though.

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 6:28 pm  

Superb effort from Anderson, Panesar, Swann and especially Collingwood.

I think everyone failed in this match, so massive improvement needed for Thursday.

[JTB]

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 6:53 pm  

All hail to the tail.

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 6:53 pm  

What no Fredie yet? pfft

[Kosh]

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:25 pm  

gulfcoast_highwayman wrote:

No 5-0 then!

And the last two survived something like 11 overs! Fantastic effort.

Is that the longest Panesar has spent at the crease for England? Must be, surely.

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:31 pm  

Kosh wrote:

Is that the longest Panesar has spent at the crease for England? Must be, surely.

I was pleased for Monty. Takes alot of stick for his batting (and rightly so ) but it was a really disciplined batting display and he looked pretty confident out there too.

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:33 pm  

Devon Malcolm Mkii.

In fact, despite people lampooning him i also remember him hanging around at the crease for longer than he had any right to, given his batting skills.

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:35 pm  

Do we look at it like, Englands bowling was bad in the Aussie innings or do we look at it Aussies frail attempt at knocking over an English they should have done considering the position they found themselves in at the start of the day?

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:38 pm  

Lawrie L wrote:

Do we look at it like, Englands bowling was bad in the Aussie innings or do we look at it Aussies frail attempt at knocking over an English they should have done considering the position they found themselves in at the start of the day?

We played like a Sunday League side but yet the Aussies couldn't take the win. I see that as a positive but only if England pull their socks up - starting on Thursday at Lords.

: Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:45 pm  

Well that was nailbiting.I kept turning the tv over in the last hour as I couldn't bear watching Monty bat Looks like Collingwood has been teaching him well in the nets.