Due to the heavy hit rate we have had over this Ashes period, the website collapsed.
The balls is a mighty institution, but the Ashes can destroy it.
When the Ashes were done destroying my site, they moved their way onto the Australian top, middle, and lower order.
My site will bounce back easily.
The Australians will not.
They might bounce back, but it won’t be easy.
And it has to be the Ashes pressure that got to them, because it wasn’t the bowling, it was just tight test match bowling.
It wasn’t the pitch, it wasn’t as pain inducing as yesterday, but you’d still love to bat on them.
That leaves us with Ashes pressure.
Leaving Straight balls, falling for short ball traps, playing hook shots in the dark, and soft dismissals.
It was shit poor batting.
It wasn’t just poor, and it wasn’t just shit, it was both.
The rain couldn’t save them, the light couldn’t save them, and not even the rare event of Michael Hussey finding form could save them.
If Australia goes on to lose this Ashes, this was the day.
They bowled shit yesterday, but on a pitch with little assistance, today they got a great pitch to bat on, and gave it all away.
Well done for England for sticking in there, something the Aussie bowlers didn’t do, but it is easy to stick in (as the Aussies found in Cardiff) when the batsmen are fucking up regularly.
The balls is now back to full operation.
A bit speechless. Certainly can’t think of anything funny to say and struggling to imagine what amusing way England are going fuck up this brilliant situation.
But they will. Don’t worry.
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When the day started I had them pegged as all out at 150, because I figured once the wickets started tumbling, they wouldn’t stand up to it.
But even so,I am pissed off. I couldn’t believe Katich’s shot. I think of him as one of the reliable ones.
Quite frankly, Stuart Broad doesn’t even deserve one wicket let along two. The tamest of bowlers who is in the team as they fancy he can bat! Haddin goes for a brainless hook, so Mitchell decides it’s a good idea? What the hell is going on inside his head? Actually seeing him bowl so badly I am not sure I want to know.
Never surprised by pup getting sucked in, I never believe in him in a real crisis situation.
Phil Hughes is very young and he looks frightened now, so I will forgive him the lameness of that dismissal.
But altogether, lame and tame. They aren’t even getting out to Freddy who is the one real class bowler out there.
One last thing, well played Hilfy. Lucky one of the Oz bowlers knows where the friggin’ stumps are.
It was strange batting from the Aussies, but this was as well as England have bowled in a while. Grey skies cheer England quicks up no end at all. Strangely, Anderson barely swung a ball but got wickets.
Do you think Hughes has been at all ‘found out’ by the middle/middle and leg line?
I think you’ll find that Australia are the new England: http://www.reversesweep.co.uk
This series is progressing the same way as the India-Australia one. Australia dominated in the first match with Ponting making a “fuckyou”. The Indians struggled but were bailed out by the tail with Zaheer Khan topscoring in the first inning. India held out for a draw though it lost just four wickets in the second inning(India’s batting is not as “entertaining” as England).
In the second match, India makes 400 odd runs on a flat pitch and the Australians make a meal of it through some really comical batting.
It really is freakish.
[...] Old Tom Watson Posted in Golf by harrisharrison on July 18, 2009 It’s somehow more difficult to write a post when England cricketers are actually doing well. There just isn’t much to be said. And being sour is way more funny. I could relate how I was disgusted by the Australian performance. But I would be lying. I was elated. And besides, potty-mouthed apoplexy is realised so much more succinctly here. [...]
Sahil, it was as well as Freddy has bowled in a while. He was brilliant.
I don’t see the others in the same league at all. The ball Anderson bowled to Punter to get him out was a well-deserved wicket but really the Aussies batting just about matched their bowling and that took some doing.
I don’t want to take anything away from Andrew Strauss though, that was a real captain’s knock and he took complete and thorough advantage of the attack. MJ will have next to no fight left in him now.