Well the weather should suit us, couldn't have worked out too much better, now we've got to make use the conditions.

Katich gone, caught off Flintoff - 1 down, 9 to go.

that's not out
strauss may have thought it was

but it wasn't

I thought it was "less" out than the one Bopara got away with yesterday, but the umpires didn't, oh well what a shame....

2 down 8 to go

You mean less as in ' not '



Got lucky with the 1st one as well ' no ball

indeed, would like to see the back of dubya

The problem is the consistency, why refer Bopara but not Hughes? It makes no sense.

Personally I don't think they should be referring anything at all, especially for "catches" like those - a couple of years back SKY or C4 did a feature about these instances which showed that the camera would always make it look like the ball was grounded, even if it wasn't.

One thing that would be relatively easy to use technology for is overstepping for no balls, there was some analysis on footage a few years back that suggests umpires miss 20-25 no balls in a usual days play, I seem to recall Vaughan and Trescothick both being out to no balls in '05 as well.

nearly 100 runs so far

Get in there, Ponting goes to Broad.

78/3

yeah but you won't make it to 200

where is the rain when you need it