The Summer's Cricket - Ashes Thread
 

So - with just a few days until the main (sporting) event of the summer kicks off, what are folks predictions?

Anyone getting excited?

Anyone going to 'do a Botham" and predict 10-0 to England?

Personally Im sticking to my overpriced and under-used subscription to willow.tv which I will use in conjunction with TMS (thank god no geo-blocking) along with scorecards from cricinfo.

As long as KP returns to full health and we dont suffer any injuries to Anderson or Cook (our two best players) I think we should do well in England.

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Has anybody got any good suggestions about how to follow the ashes from over here?

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And it begins...

Pleasant day for the wasting with TMS on the trusty old long wave radio in the sunshine. :thumbup:

<opens first bottle of the day>

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After this "batting" display you might want to open a few more. :(

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Came back strong though. If Broady was fit,think we would of grabbed one or two more.

Strauss is a terrible commentator btw

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Anyone with a ticket for Saturday should probably make alternative plans for the day.

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Anyone know of a decent free live feed?

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Try the link Oink gave or

www.atdhenet.tv

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He's dreadful. Can't see him lasting beyond this series. :fingerscrossed:

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well, that was an interesting last couple of sessions, even on the text commentary at work. Seems to have been some controversy about Trott's dismissal - anybody with access to the TV coverage care to comment?

And where the hell did they find Ashton Agar?

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Exciting day's play.

Couldn't say who will be victorious at this stage although I think the Australian's still have their noses in front after that 10th wicket batting partnership.

If Cook and Pietersen can put in a good first hour at the crease in the morning then I think it will have swung back England's way.

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I think it's a bit suspicious that he's called Ashton.

And Trott wasn't out. There'll be repercussions about that.

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:frown:
Trott hit the ball with his bat first. The on field umpire gave it not out, the Aussies reviewed it and the third umpire over ruled the on field decision without any conclusive evidence that it was out. The side-on Hot Spot wasn't activated because Sky Sports was still looking at the Root dismissal earlier. How the third umpire could over rule it beggars belief. :thumbdown:

Plus, the third umpire was named Erasmus and given the fact my form had to spend many a summer's Friday afternoon studying The Praise of Folly amongst other dry works in our rhetoric class while the other lads were knocking cricket balls about or smoking does not lend me to be overly generous to someone named so. :frown:

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Quite.

But it won't matter. Cook and Pieterson will have a 200 stand before lunch.

Honest.

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Or Firstrow
Click Skysports near the top and select skysports 2

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That'll work too :) I'm lazy and have a 'sports' link on my appleTV and Raspberry Pi running XBMC that gets all the channels directly on the TV without having to watch from a laptop :thumbsup:

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I have watched the last 3 days of so called test cricket with increasing bewilderment....... no I have not followed it for a while but I thought that I fancy watching any sport in which we stand a chance of thrashing the Ozzies.

Test Match cricket oh dear what have you done to yourself ???......... the quality of batting is shocking and I think a true indicator of the influence of 20/20 cricket. But am truly shocked after having just watched Broad not walk having being obviously caught behind.

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They have umpires.

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Nice to see a meaningful contribution from Ian Bell when England are under pressure.

Another 50 runs and I'd expect England to have this game wrapped up.

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Its difficult to say if Clarke gets on a roll.

I can't believe how Holding is trying to justify and condone the Ramden cheating incident by equating it with the Broad non-dismial. I knew he was partisan but he's lost a lot of my respect.

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I think England had a dodgy dismissal in the first innings. This just levels out.

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Non walking is fine as long as you don't moan when decisions go against you.

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'Not Cricket' An English language phrase meaning unsporting or bad form

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but everyone moans............. it is genetic in Australians


agree in so much that non walkers are always found out by good umpires............ unfortunately, like good sportsmen there are none of those around either :)

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You just reminded me of this old gem

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Generally it all evens out in the wash. Broad will get similar decisions against him while bowling. In the past he has shrugged his shoulders and got on with it. No football style rants during, or after the match.

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It is only sport but I personally equate it with the various Suarez deliberate handballs that he has put into the net throughout the world Broad and Suarez are in the same barrow............ love to see both of them in action at golf....

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Not looking too promising at the moment. :(

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Hard to watch:(

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Nah, they never had a chance, did they Bruce?,

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Great to see anybody beat the Australians and especially England...... a very tense match ..... never mind the quality feel the width type of game....... we probably need to tighten up our bowling...batting..fielding etc given that a lot of critics suggest that this is possibly the worst ever Australian Test Team to tour England..

Thankfully we have Anderson who is the best bowler in either side by a country mile.... Roll on Lords on Thursday !! :)

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I think that's been put to rest already. Although minus the incredible first innings from Agar it would have been a pushover.

I think I'll pop out and storm the Bastille in celebration. Seems like a good day for it.

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You're right, we'd of pissed it.

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Talking of pissed, the whole town is that, myself included.

Just off to watch the feu d'artifice down the road.

A demain.

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One hopes that you were able to raise a glass or two on Bastille Day in honour of an Englishman (well, a Kenyan who grew up in South Africa, but ask KP what difference that makes...) leading the peloton to the top of Mont Ventoux. 300,000 spectators, they reckoned on the telly, lining the roads in the heat and sunshine in the forlorn hope that a Frenchman might win a stage in this year's Tour.

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Is he Kenyan? I didn't know. But anyway we had our own petit tour yesterday. A couple of hundred cyclists doing six laps around a 40 km circuit. This takes place every Bastille Day and passes our front door.

After the first several laps I found it increasingly difficult to figure out who was in the lead. And I never will know who actually won because the finish line was in La Cambe, about 12 km away.

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Not for much longer.

Bye Bye FirstRow

(though it'll likely carry on under a different guise :) )

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I heard something a couple of weeks ago about that attempt. It looks like blocked in the UK only - where, with a few exceptions, it's not "needed" as much as outside the UK.

However, having just clicked on the link in my bookmarks list I see the url has already changed. Presumably that gets around it.

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Here is a decent skysports 2 link for today (Ignore the pop-ups and don't upgrade lividplayer to make it faster :)

Linky