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The Ashes Thread
Topic Started: Nov 10 2006, 01:56 PM (4,475 Views)
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England are crap, It doesn't help they've lost My Fav. Player Trescothick, but thaey aint even playing Panesar!
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Second Test starts at midnight in the UK, 10am in Australia and 7pm in the US :)2
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2nd Test :: Day 1 :: Adelaide

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England: 266-3


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Paul Collingwood neared a century and Kevin Pietersen added a bright fifty as England ended day one of the second Ashes Test strongly in Adelaide.

By stumps England, who won the toss, were 266-3, with Collingwood unbeaten on 98 and Pietersen 60 not out.

Collingwood came in with the tourists 45-2 and joined Ian Bell (60) to put on 113 in 40 overs for the fourth wicket.

Pietersen pulled Lee for four second ball and lofted Shane Warne for six to lift the run-rate late in the day.

Collingwood fell for 96 in Brisbane last week but it was Pietersen who had the late scare, top-edging a hook in the final over which Glenn McGrath could not get to.

For the second successive innings in this series it was Collingwood who led the resistance against Australia, some typically obdurate batting taking him to the brink of a maiden Ashes ton.

It was never particularly pretty from the Durham man but he showed the kind of application many of his colleagues have been lacking on this tour.

It was crucial because at a venue where Australia have not been bowled out for less than 400 in their first innings in the previous seven Tests, England knew winning the toss and making a big score was vital.

The wicket turned out to be as good as expected and there was little on offer to the bowlers, but the batting left something to be desired as all three wickets fell to ill-advised shots.

Andrew Strauss played around his front pad and lobbed a catch to mid-on, Alastair Cook groped at a ball that moved slightly off the seam and Bell perished trying to hook Brett Lee. 

The run rate crawled for much of the day, with England making their way to 158-3 in the 62nd over, not helped by the idiosyncratic dimensions of the ground.

Shots steered behind square or driven in the V between cover and midwicket often brought just three rather than the usual boundary.

Pietersen pepped up proceedings in the evening session, though, and resumed his love-hate rivalry with Hampshire team-mate Warne.

Australia asked part-time spinner Michael Clarke to bowl 10 overs before taking the second new ball, a role Pietersen could be asked to fill for England.

The tourists surprised many when they opted for an unchanged side, keeping Ashley Giles in preference to Monty Panesar with James Anderson retained.

Captain Ricky Ponting also named the same XI that won the opening Test by 277 runs in Brisbane.

He pronounced McGrath 100% recovered from a problem heel but the veteran strike bowler lacked his usual bite as his pace dropped regularly below 80mph.

Clark was preferred to McGrath with the second new ball, with Australia clearly impressed by his early performance, when his first five overs brought figures of 2-7.

Strauss would have been disappointed not to have moved on after a watchful first hour but at least he showed he had worked on the pull shot that saw him dismissed twice in the opening Test.

Cook looked more assured, although he only just survived on one, when an edge off Lee fell just in front of keeper Adam Gilchrist.

As an equal partner with Collingwood, Bell survived 148 balls but looked far from comfortable against Warne, even though the spinner was below his usual high standards.

Bell reached his second fifty of the series from the ball after Collingwood in the final over before tea - taking 140 deliveries in all - but could not continue into the evening.

Looking for a third boundary in an over from Lee he pulled a ball that was not short enough, gaining a top edge high in the air for the bowler to collect.

After a more buoyant final stand, England will have been happy with their day's work but they went to stumps only halfway to the sort of score they need to dictate terms.


Umpires: S A Bucknor, R E Koertzen
Australia: J L Langer, M L Hayden, R T Ponting, D R Martyn, M E K Hussey, M J Clarke, A C Gilchrist, S K Warne, B Lee, S R Clark, G D McGrath
England: A J Strauss, A N Cook, I R Bell, P D Collingwood, K P Pietersen, A Flintoff, G O Jones, A F Giles, M J Hoggard, S J Harmison, J M Anderson
(Same teams from the 1st Test)

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Yeah but whatever we do to them, they'll do it 10 times worse to us.
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2nd Test :: Day 2 :: Adelaide

Australia: 28-1
England: 551-6d


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Paul Collingwood became just the third England batsman to score a double century in Australia as the tourists took charge of the second Ashes Test.

He and Kevin Pietersen shared 310 for the fourth wicket, an England record against Australia, before Collingwood fell for 206 on day two in Adelaide.

Pietersen was run out for 158 but Andrew Flintoff (38) helped England reach 551-6 before declaring.

Flintoff then had Justin Langer caught at slip and Australia closed on 28-1.

Langer was surprised by a short one and could only fend to Kevin Pietersen, giving England's bowlers an ideal start.

Although Matthew Hoggard was less successful sharing the new ball, England decided not to give Steve Harmison the final over.

Collingwood's marathon innings brought the first double century by an England batsman in Australia since Walter Hammond hit 231 not out in Sydney 70 years ago. 

He took two balls to move from an overnight 98 to his first Ashes Test century but maintained both his concentration and the attritional, shoving, turning style that has served him well.

The only low note in the first two sessions was his tired nudge at Stuart Clark that saw him caught behind off the final ball before tea, after more than eight hours at the crease.

The partnership between Collingwood and Pietersen eclipsed the 288 shared by Graham Thorpe and Nasser Hussain at Edgbaston in 1997 as the highest for the fourth wicket by England in Ashes contests.

England began a chilly, overcast day on 266-3, knowing they needed to double that score to be able to dictate terms for the rest of the game.

On a pitch even less responsive than the first day, though, they were unwilling to attack and although they achieved their aim it took longer than expected.

There were some flashes of inspiration from Clark and Brett Lee, who found reverse swing, but both McGrath and Warne were below par.

McGrath was clearly struggling with his heel problem as, for the first time in his career, he conceded more than 100 runs in an innings without taking a wicket.

Warne, rumoured to have a back problem and clearly restricted in movement early in the day, resorted to bowling around the wicket to Pietersen.

The late scalp of Geraint Jones - groping at a leg break - prevented the ignominy suffered by his veteran colleague McGrath as his 26 overs on day two took his aggregate for the innings to 53.

Lee was aggrieved not to have Pietersen caught behind before had moved on from his overnight 60, although replays showed umpire Steve Bucknor correct in ruling no edge.

Pietersen greeted McGrath's late arrival in the attack with three boundaries from his first over, and his century came from 149 deliveries.

But the batsman then went 67 balls before his next boundary, unwilling to take on the teasing deliveries from his Hampshire team-mate Warne.

Collingwood took boundaries off Lee to pass his previous Test best of 186 and his previous first-class mark of 190. He then lofted spinner Michael Clarke straight to reach 200 from 383 balls.


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Proof if proof were needed that Collingwood should not be dropped when Vaughan comes back. The 3rd day will be they day of judgement for Giles and maybe Jones. If they do badly they'll be almost certainly dropped. Although, they are two of Fletcher's favourites so are always almost guaranteed to play.
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And if England win, they'll probably keep the same team :P
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Yeah. I would like to see Monty Panesar play at least once in an Ashes Test...
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2nd Test :: Day 3 :: Adelaide

England: 551-6d
Australia: 312-5


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Matthew Hoggard took four wickets on day three of the second Ashes Test to keep England hopes high despite Ricky Ponting's Australian record 33rd ton.

England made a perfect start as Hoggard dismissed Matthew Hayden for 14 and Damien Martyn for 11.

And the seamer returned with the second new ball to dismiss Ponting (142) and Hussey (92) after a stand of 192.

Australia closed the day on 312-5, trailing by 239, with Michael Clarke (30) and Adam Gilchrist (13) unbeaten.

Their first target remains the mark of 352 needed to avoid the follow-on, a point which would make the draw favourite.

Ponting's century was his 10th in 13 games, his second of the series so far and the 33rd of his 107-Test career, moving him clear of Steve Waugh as Australia's top centurion.

He and Hussey came together at 65-3, their stand spanning the next 60 overs, causing England to despair until Hoggard had Ponting caught behind with the second new ball.

Ponting should have gone on 35 when he pulled Hoggard to deep square leg, only for Giles to shell a chance over his head.

His decision to take a quick single to square leg on 46 could have backfired but Paul Collingwood's throw just missed the stumps.

Either side of that chance, Ponting found his feet with two boundaries off Anderson to bring up his fifty just before lunch, and settled in for a long afternoon.

His century came up just before the tea break, off 183 deliveries.

Hussey's watchful knock was ended eight overs after Ponting as he failed to get his bat out of the way and toe-ended onto his stumps.

The highlight was an audacious hook off a bouncer from Steve Harmison but there were just seven other boundaries on a slow outfield.

England had looked tired as the first ball grew older but their morning display was unrecognisable from the side that lost the first Test by 277 runs.

Harmison, who conceded 177 runs for a single wicket in Brisbane, appeared to be back in form, bristling with pace and, crucially, accuracy.

His afternoon spell of 0-14 off six overs included Hussey's six.

Left-arm spinner Ashley Giles, though, struggled to make an impression, and had to resort to bowling over the wicket on Ponting's leg stump.

Hoggard had looked innocuous bowling five overs on the second evening as the hosts reached the close 28-1.

But on Saturday morning he began to find some movement off the pitch by scrambling the seam and cutting his pace a little.

Left-hander Hayden was tempted into pushing at a delivery angled across him and leaving him a little, with Geraint Jones pouching the edge.

Martyn groped in ugly fashion at a ball well pitched up and edged to a diving Ian Bell at gully.


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Decent enough day. We need 5 quick wickets, and we need Gilchrist and/or Clarke out in the first hour.
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2nd Test :: Day 4 :: Adelaide

England: 551-6d and 59-1
Australia: 513


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Matthew Hoggard took seven wickets as England bowled Australia out for 513 in the second Ashes Test in Adelaide.

Alastair Cook fell for nine in the second innings and England went to stumps on day four 97 ahead at 59-1.

Hoggard struck three times in four overs either side of tea to move eighth in the list of England wicket-takers.

But Australia had already avoided the follow-on and a seventh-wicket stand of 118 between Michael Clarke (124) and Shane Warne (43) frustrated England.

England's chances of forcing a result did not look good at the start of the day, as Australia resumed on 312-5.

After an hour of testing pace bowling in the morning, Clarke and Adam Gilchrist took the hosts past the follow-on target of 352, making the draw favourite.

England went without captain Andrew Flintoff's bowling for much of the day, with rumours his left ankle is troubling him again, although he stayed on the field until the ninth wicket fell.

Hoggard's haul of 7-109 took him past Darren Gough's career wicket total of 229 - gained in 58 matches to Hoggard's 60 - and just three behind Andy Caddick's 234.

Although Gilchrist was caught in the deep off Ashley Giles for 64, Australia went on to take their first innings total past 400 in an Adelaide Test for the eighth match in succession.

And Clarke - an injury replacement for Shane Watson - posed a challenge to the selectors ahead of the third Test with his first century in two years and 19 Test matches.

England's bowlers did little to deserve the three crisp, cover-driven boundaries he displayed during the afternoon, having already secured his second half century of the series.

Gilchrist was just beginning to cut loose when he was caught at deep midwicket as he aimed to slog-sweep the second boundary of the over.

As during the 2005 Ashes series, with Flintoff bowling around the wicket to a packed off-side field, Gilchrist always looked likely to edge a drive or cut to the slip cordon.

But Flintoff only allowed himself four overs and while Harmison did nothing wrong when he replaced his skipper, the threat slowly diminished.

The introduction of spinner Giles into the attack looked foolish as Gilchrist smashed him through the covers to reach his best Ashes score since the Sydney Test of 2003.

It looked inspired when Gilchrist was implicit in his own downfall but part-time off-spinner Kevin Pietersen's arrival looked more of an attacking option.

It was surprising that Pietersen was not used during the afternoon, with Giles bowling unchanged for 21 overs, generally over the wicket on leg stump to both Warne and Clarke.

The pitch offered Hoggard little when he returned just before tea but he created a couple of chances before trapping Warne lbw.

And he found some reverse swing with a ball more than 70 overs old to run through the tail.

England started their second innings 38 runs ahead of Australia but Warne - ineffective in the first innings - found enough turn out of the rough to keep alive the possibility of getting through England cheaply and setting up a run chase.

However it was Stuart Clark who made the breakthrough when he had Cook pushing at a delivery angling across him to be caught behind to leave England on 31-1.

Strauss and Bell then saw out the remaining overs to give England a 97 run lead at the close.


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Giles is probably the most negative bowler England have got. Unfortunately for Giles, it would seem the time is now to move on from the aging left arm spinner and bring in some young talent. Monty.
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Yeah.

Come on England, be brave, pick Monty :P
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