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Tinsel Snake Dec 2013 9:36am, 13 Dec 2013 5,559 posts	0 Tinsel Snake I was up with the lark at 4.45, very happy when the fifth wicket went and then we were just a touch loose, now 300+, I think it's all over, average first ining score at Perth, 313..... England have only beaten them once there.
Tinsel Snake Dec 2013 9:37am, 13 Dec 2013 5,560 posts	0 Tinsel Snake Mind you new ball, this is it, almost the last throw of the dice.
TRO Saracen Dec 2013 9:52am, 13 Dec 2013 8,271 posts	0 TRO Saracen With 300 passed, suprised they haven;t declared and given us a nasty 20 minutes tonight.... I think they'll make late 300's, poss 400 and take this by an innings +. We just cannot press home any slight advantage we get; the mental edge we had as a unit has gone.
Gobi Dec 2013 10:10am, 13 Dec 2013 53,074 posts	0 Gobi Over inside 4 days as I said
Tinsel Snake Dec 2013 10:19am, 13 Dec 2013 5,562 posts	0 Tinsel Snake Bresnan was a mistake, Finn, FFS!!!
Badger Dec 2013 10:20am, 13 Dec 2013 4,008 posts	0 Badger With the Gobi Optimism Correction Factor in place, that means: over inside 3 days, which probably means that we end up following on even though we only needed 173 to avoid that. Worryingly easy to believe. Yet again, we make a great start bowling which fades away into nothing as Oz do the reverse of a middle-order collapse. And Cook's form with the coin remains appalling.
Gobi Dec 2013 10:38am, 13 Dec 2013 53,075 posts	0 Gobi Bresnan is at best an indifferent holding bowler Johnson will rip us apart, possible sub 100 England score Tomorrow Johnson will get a 50 so he smashes our bowlers around and the Aussies will declare before lunch We are then out before tea, Clarke goes into bat again and they declare by lunch on Day 3 Badger - I can see this over inside 3 days Sad days when even I cannot see a draw
Ring Out, Frobstice Bells Dec 2013 11:07am, 13 Dec 2013 24,483 posts	0 Ring Out, Frobstice Bells Mike Selvey the other day said it was as if we were at the top of a bank of escalators coming down, and the Aussies were at the bottom of the escalators coming up. We're not really meeting in the middle though, are we.
Doctor K Dec 2013 11:07am, 13 Dec 2013 3,047 posts	0 Doctor K I won't be getting up early tomorrow. The series was finally lost today. Too safe selections -Aggers was saying that Rankin and Finn aren't bowling well enough to be included -well they've hardly bowled at all recently but at least one of them could have given the Aussies a bit of a working over. Stokes bowls quick enough to be more aggressive too -England can't get out of the default defensive setting.
Crash Hamster Dec 2013 11:12am, 13 Dec 2013 251 posts	0 Crash Hamster Yeah, it really grinds my gears that we pick a side to 'keep control of the run rate' but still go at 320+ per day. If we'd gone with the big quick guys, Australia may have been 350 all out by now, which I'd certainly take instead of what we're going to get. A rather infuriated good morning, my dear old things!