Its Summer! - the Fever Cricket Thread. (Part 2)

Yeah its hard to say that the game has swung back towards the Aussies with a score of 273/8, there have been some big runs scored in the recent past by far lesser lineups than the England batting lineup, the Aussies will have to bowl extremely well.

Yep I'd call that England's day. 

Most excellent. 

Will be a draw.

5 wickets for 7 runs, wow

This sucks.

Still not at the follow on mark yet ...

England 109/8  What a shame. (:

Very unlikely England can win from here. (:

109/8, so swung back to the English. 

Think the Poms will be gutted as there was a storm across Brisbane with hailstones. Probably thought it might save them. Only stopped play for a short time. Due to restart in 5 mins.

What a dicking. (:

The odds will probably go up a bit on England winning the series now so i would lump on that.

It is not a question of if you are pro the Poms, more of a thing that you are anti Aussie.

Aussies will win the Ashes hopefully.

Been driving drunk lately?

I'm torn with this series. On the one hand I'm more than happy to see England taken down a peg or two because since they became a force again in world cricket they've regained that horrible smug we-invented-this-game arrogance. But then give the Aussies a whiff of success and they're back sledging, jeering, calling players cowards in the press, and generally displaying all those traits which have made me loathe them for 30 years.

Michael Clarke. What a fudgeing classless prick.

Yeah. Its funny how all the stories come out about Clark but 'none of them are true'

If England's batting wasn't as abysmal as it turned out to be it would've been... there were always going to be overs lost to rain/storms.

Just nowhere near enough to make up for England's piss poor batting.

It's on!

I always hate watching Peter Fulton bat.  It's just such poor technique. 

Presumably thinking about picking up a T20 contract. 

Why is Redmond playing?

finally a day of test cricket we can all be proud of, heres hoping we are in for a local summer of dominance.

Just saw the following headline on Stuff "Reason: McCullum has no business leading NZ"

Refuse to click on anything written by that troll, so haven't read it, and won't. But is this guy the biggest troll ever marginally pretending to be a journalist or what?

I'm getting quite sick of the McCullum haters. Yep, he's not perfect... but he is doing his best with a very dodgy back, and I actually think that his field settings etc have been miles ahead of Taylor. Just don't get all the hate for him.

Here comes the traditional NZ batting collapse.