It's going to be a great Ashes series!
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200 not out for Cook!
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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100 not out for Trott 
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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218 in front, I hope Strauss isn't mad enough to declare at lunch!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Strauss declares at 1-517..
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Katich (the boring bugger) has gone for 4...
Could England pull off the impossible and win this?
Doubt it, draw on the cards.
Could England pull off the impossible and win this?
Doubt it, draw on the cards.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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...and a draw it is!
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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Yep that's what we love about this great game.
Five days of tactics and we still get a draw.
Five days of tactics and we still get a draw.
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LOL!!!!...and a draw it is!
You mean to tell me that this duller than whale shit ordeal that droned on for day after tedious day wound up in a tie????
Geez Louise, you'd think that a game that dragged on for five days would at least produce a winner....
So, since it was a tie, who gets the ashes? Do both team's keep half of them is separate urns?
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There's five games of five days each in the series Jim, so we've another five episodes to enjoy yet*.
If the series ends in a draw, then the current holders (England) retain the trophy.
* Then we have 7 one day matches, plus some 20:20 matches, plus the Prime Minister's XI to enjoy.
5-7 Nov 2010 England v Western Australia Perth
11-13 Nov England v South Australia Adelaide
25-29 Nov 2010 1st Ashes test Brisbane
3-7 Dec 2010 2nd Ashes test Adelaide
10-12 Dec 2010 England v Victoria
16-20 Dec 2010 3rd Ashes test Perth
26-30 Dec 2010 4th Ashes test Melbourne
3-7 Jan 2011 5th Ashes test Sydney
10 Jan 2011 England v PM's XI Manuka Oval
12 Jan 2011 1st Twenty20 Adelaide
14 Jan 2011 2nd Twenty20 Melbourne
16 Jan 2011 1st one day (D/N) Melbourne
21 Jan 2011 2nd one day (D/N) Hobart
23 Jan 2011 3rd one day (D/N) Sydney
26 Jan 2011 4th one day (D/N) Adelaide
30 Jan 2011 5th one day (D/N) Brisbane
2 Feb 2011 6th one day (D/N) Sydney
6 Feb 2011 7th one day (D/N) Perth
If the series ends in a draw, then the current holders (England) retain the trophy.
* Then we have 7 one day matches, plus some 20:20 matches, plus the Prime Minister's XI to enjoy.
5-7 Nov 2010 England v Western Australia Perth
11-13 Nov England v South Australia Adelaide
25-29 Nov 2010 1st Ashes test Brisbane
3-7 Dec 2010 2nd Ashes test Adelaide
10-12 Dec 2010 England v Victoria
16-20 Dec 2010 3rd Ashes test Perth
26-30 Dec 2010 4th Ashes test Melbourne
3-7 Jan 2011 5th Ashes test Sydney
10 Jan 2011 England v PM's XI Manuka Oval
12 Jan 2011 1st Twenty20 Adelaide
14 Jan 2011 2nd Twenty20 Melbourne
16 Jan 2011 1st one day (D/N) Melbourne
21 Jan 2011 2nd one day (D/N) Hobart
23 Jan 2011 3rd one day (D/N) Sydney
26 Jan 2011 4th one day (D/N) Adelaide
30 Jan 2011 5th one day (D/N) Brisbane
2 Feb 2011 6th one day (D/N) Sydney
6 Feb 2011 7th one day (D/N) Perth
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Johnson's gone, had to be done, his form of late has been atrocious. Let see if old baldy bollox can do better..
MITCHELL JOHNSON'S Ashes misery has finally been put to bed after he was axed from the Australian Test team in favour of Doug Bollinger, while Ben Hilfenhaus could be replaced by Ryan Harris when the team is named today.
Chairman of selectors Andrew Hilditch is understood to have told Johnson he would be dropped for the second Test at training in Adelaide yesterday.
The out of form paceman must now work his way back into the side through state cricket with Western Australia if he hopes to play in the third Test in Perth.
Johnson's past five Tests have been below par, and England seem to have worked out quickly how to nullify the 29-year-old. But with figures of 0-170 in the Ashes opener in Brisbane, and having gone wicketless in four of his past six Test innings, Johnson's case for retention wasn't strong.
It is a dramatic fall from grace for the 39-Test player, who won the ICC's world cricketer of the year last year.
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/joh ... 18gpf.html
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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Well the battle for the Ashes resumes tomorrow. The weather isn't looking promising, and a rain affected match is forecast.
I know some here will be so dissapointed if rain gets in the way of play!
I know some here will be so dissapointed if rain gets in the way of play!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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lol - I would say I'll let you know in 24 hours if I want rain but then again I was wishing for rain last Friday and look what happened...
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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Canberra floated off into the sea last night, we're now located just east of New Zealand.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Aus 3 for 2 in the 3rd over!!!!!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Settled in a bit now, 3 for 76, with Watson and Hussey at the crease.
North yet to come in, so they may yet get a respectable score, but the opening hour was a catastophy for the Aussies.
Katich went for a diamond duck...
North yet to come in, so they may yet get a respectable score, but the opening hour was a catastophy for the Aussies.
Katich went for a diamond duck...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Watson gone for 51, now Marcus North has his chance to shine.
Aus on a pitiful 4-96.
Aus in all sorts of trouble, need another Siddle bowling spell early on in the England innings...
Aus on a pitiful 4-96.
Aus in all sorts of trouble, need another Siddle bowling spell early on in the England innings...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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159-5 now.
Hussey's wicket early and the rest will collapse!
Hussey's wicket early and the rest will collapse!
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?