The Ashes 2006

What is England doing! Come on you guys this Australia your playing get your act together please.

Day 1 results

Australia v England

Brisbane: Australia Won Toss

Australia First Innings

J L Langer c Pietersen b Flintoff 82

M L Hayden c Collingwood b Flintoff 21

R T Ponting not out 137

D R Martyn c Collingwood b Giles 29

M E K Hussey not out 63

Extras (lb5 w3 nb6 pens 0) 14

Total 3 wkts (90 overs) 346

Fall: 1-79 2-141 3-198

To bat: M J Clarke, A C Gilchrist, S K Warne, S R Clark, G D McGrath.

Bowling: Harmison 12-2-52-0, Hoggard 16-2-62-0, Anderson 18-4-88-0, Flintoff 16-2-48-2, Giles 18-2-51-1, Bell 1-0-12-0, Pietersen 9-1-28-0

 

Reading your post is like reading a foreign language !

Are you talking about sticky wickets or Roller Derby ?

 

Hang on I shall put on my upper class accent.

"I'm talking about cricket old boy, fancy a cucumber sandwich?"

“It’s the age old battle with are arch nemeses the Australians.”

“Spot of tea any one?”

 

I will have to pass on the cucumber sandwich, thank you. How about a fried pickle and some onion rings with a Dr Pepper.
That will put some lead in your pencil !

 

Sounds like our cricket team needs some of that.

 

2-0!

 

Yep England is getting six of the best; serve them right for a poor showing.

 

3-0

Bit quiet back in the old dart!!!

 

Dark days for English cricket as we loose the Ashes, let’s hope it will not end in a white wash.

 

4-0

 

It's heading that way.

 

Crud 4-0

Stand by for the white wash next week, black armband on stand by.

 

7-0!!!! and still going.

English Cricket set back 100 years.

England team to selct Tendulkar, Lara & Murilideran, after all they come from the Colonies!!

 

Black armband is on.

But we are still second in the world.

 

Sorry - just woke up ! Do I take it that this is yet another sport which we're no bl**dy good at....?

 

Don´t worry, Martin!

More is on its way with Mclaren...





( Just envy because we never got to any big tournaments...)

 

My Solution to the woefull Pommy Cricket Team.

Treat this defeat as being the end of the world, not sit back and say we are still second, we had some injuries (and a breakdown) etc etc. Do you think Ponting came home from England saying "It was only 2-1"

Play 4 day County games, 3 days is crap, the players have to be hardened.

Pre-Tour, They must have 3 or 4 serious 1st Class Games, the lead up to this tour was amatuerish.

How many Pommy Cricketers would get a game in Shield Cricket here?? Flintoff, Pietersen, maybe Strass & Cook. How many Australians play County Cricket and aren't good enough to play for Australia, probably 10-15.

Get rid of the Barmy Army, it seems to be more important than the Test Team. When I go to Test cricket I dont want to hear that crap all day.

Take away the baubles handed out in 2005, IT IS A JOKE that players got the MBE for winning 1 series 2-1, isnt England so sad a Nation that such results a worth a gong??

 

I'd agree, and also suggest to the country as whole to stop over-rating stick-and-ball games and ... get a life !

 

We are still No.2 in the world and that means ahead of South Africa and the West Indies, Australia are in a league of there own as they really work hard at there game. One thing we should learn from them when Australia falls behind what do they do?

They go out attacking and fighting back unlike us who seem to take a, well you know. Well that's it still 2009 when the great Ashes battle with Australia starts all over again.