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Jul 2013
5:00pm, 19 Jul 2013
2,209 posts
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Musical Journey
Would like to see Root play a patient innings and get some runs.
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Jul 2013
5:10pm, 19 Jul 2013
2,920 posts
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Doctor K
Those are the days I have too Nelly at OT
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Jul 2013
5:22pm, 19 Jul 2013
16,476 posts
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FenlandRunner
I agree with TRO. Bat them out of sight. 
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Jul 2013
5:24pm, 19 Jul 2013
992 posts
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Goofee
I'm looking forward to watching them suffer in the sun all day tomorrow
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Jul 2013
6:08pm, 19 Jul 2013
2,344 posts
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Wobbling
Oh dear, oh dear. I wonder if Kev's place is in question now? Lets hope so.
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Jul 2013
6:38pm, 19 Jul 2013
3,883 posts
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Marts
We'll still win, but would have loved to see them 3 down and 200 adrift still.
The cynical part of me wonders if ,as an ECB employee, Cook has any pressure put on him to make the match last as long as possible.
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Jul 2013
6:42pm, 19 Jul 2013
16,478 posts
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FenlandRunner
Perhaps over confident but I think England could declare overnight and still win.
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Jul 2013
7:25pm, 19 Jul 2013
2,345 posts
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Wobbling
Yep, we'll still win but we're running the risk of only being seen as 'slightly better' than the Aussies rather than awesome.
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Jul 2013
10:33pm, 19 Jul 2013
993 posts
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Goofee
Interesting to read about other fetchies introduction to cricket a few pages back. My own interest/obsession began in the mid 1970s when the terrifying 'Lillian Thomson' burst into my consciousness. Within my family sport meant one of two things: either football or horse racing, everything else (cricket, rugby, tennis, golf) was completely peripheral and considered to be for posh folk. During the summer of 1975 I happened to catch the first Ashes test on TV and was absolutely hooked by a game which I barely understood (I remember desperately trying to work out what an earth the term 'maiden over' could possibly mean and coming to the conclusion that it was when the same bowler bowled consecutive overs!). That summer I was glued to the telly whenever cricket was on and I think I read every book on cricket that the local library carried.
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Jul 2013
10:41pm, 19 Jul 2013
6,183 posts
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Sombrero
Just popping in to say I got into cricket by watching my dad play when I was a kid (he was a bowler for the Civil Service where we lived) and then got into watching it on TV. My favourite cricket memories are how my dad used to bowl at me in the back garden with a tennis ball....every few weeks he would swap the tennis ball for an apple and I wouldn't know until I tried to smash it over the house
Anyway, I think the series has been fun - bit crazy but fun. And we surely can't lose...........
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