Aussies doing an England this afternoon

I think the IPL big bash etc have made the test format less appealing look at the w indies when they played us couple month back half their team was in India earning big bucks

I think it would be better to schedule Test Match cricket so that it avoids the period during which the IPL is played. Obviously players want to be in the IPL as that’s were the big bucks are. Mind you the IPL seems to drag on forever, I sometimes watch some of the early games but never retain enough interest to last until the final. It all gets very bland and repetitive.

Anyway what happened to the Aussies at Cardiff? A close game that England won by 169 runs. Jobs a good un!:rubhands:

We got flogged, Frankie. Life here with Captain Jack, Mirkwood, Hammer etc will be bad for a few days. Until the Lords Test anyway.

Hope they get rid of that Queenslander Watson who gets out lbw and wastes reviews all the time.

Starc injured, Johnson can't do it on English pitches so it needs one of the others to step up to the plate at Lords.

No surprise here I seen enough against West Indies and the kiwi's earlier to know we were good enough to beat Australia it's just if we can keep it up that concerns me but if we do can only see us winning the ashes back .. Scoring runs and quickly too plus the bowlers looking good with possibly the best seamer in the world in there

I might have a trip to lords next weekend :cheers:

Finally England seem to have learnt that nudging and blocking is obsolete now, attack is the way forward and when in front press home the advantage like they did in the second innings

Sky put some stats up showing Johnson's Test wickets haul. He performs far better in Oz and South Africa with his performances in England and India being comparitively poor.

For me the one day/20-20 teams have inspired the test team and the same as football it's always better to play to your strengths and express yourself I'm not getting carried away we could still get beat 4-1 in this series but the ozzies will be scratching their heads right now knowing they are staring defeat in the face already I think it's 15 of the last 17 teams to win the first test have gone on to win the series

They been reading my posts on here