Cricket in the Playground

[Kiwi Flyer]

cracking start 4s off the first 2 balls

 

[serfty]

51/2 at Stumps, wickets to Lee and McGrath, Interesting to see what happens tomorrow.

 

[serfty]

OH, and S. K. Warne dropped one from first slip in the third last over.:-|

 

[JohnK]

Monty the hero! Harmison is back!

Good to see some fight shown by the Englishmen today.

Evenly poised match. England post a good score tomorrow and they are well on the way to winning. Get out cheaply and they will be put under tremendous pressure to chase a total or try and survive.

 

[Kiwi Flyer]

I still think pressure is on England - they have to win, Australia doesn't.

 

[simongr]

Not going as well as it could so far...

 

[SF&]

Predictions please
c'mon put up or shut up!!

English comeback Pietersen hits out get them to 240

Ponting makes another century with langer helping

english try hard but collapse

australia win!!

 

[simongr]

This is not a lot of fun Why can't we field 1 complete team? One day its bowlers, next its batsmen or neither

 

[JohnK]

Predictions please
c'mon put up or shut up!!

Australia will go 3-0 up in under 4 days, possibly 3 if they really wanted it.

Even with all the crocks in the Australian team the English team have no answers.

 

[Kiwi Flyer]

simongr - looks like NZ copying the England textbook. Did a decent job bowling Sri Lanka out quickly on the first day. Undone the hard work by losing 4 early wickets also on the first day. 1st test only lasted 3 days, looks like the second might be the same These are the only 2 tests NZ playing this summer (+ lots of ODIs and some 2020)

 

[Kiwi Flyer]

4th session of the test not yet completed and already on to the 2nd Sri Lankan innings.

 

[JohnK]

Hmm.... Can England bowl Australia out and then scorethe runs to win match? Task is looking harder with each passing over....

 

[Kiwi Flyer]

They have plenty of time, but wouldn't want Australia to bat through to say lunch tomorrow.

 

[Kiwi Flyer]

Made it to a third day, but perhaps will not make it to four. Sri Lanka in command.

 

[JohnK]

England 295 behind with 7 wickets still to go!

They have managed to undo the great effort of bowling Australia out on the first day.

 

[JohnK]

Australia scores 408 runs in less than a day! England will find it almost impossible to hang on unless it rains for 2 days.

 

[oz_mark]

Australia scores 408 runs in less than a day! England will find it almost impossible to hang on unless it rains for 2 days.

Some thundery showers are forecast but I doubt there will be 2 days of it!

 

[Kiwi Flyer]

Most likely all over today

 

[simongr]

SHould be over today? Sadly it will all be over today, the innings, the test and the series

 

[Kiwi Flyer]

Vettori very nearly got a hat-trick, 3 wickets off 4 balls.