Enjoyed this so far. Got up at 3 but taped it and skipped lunch so have missed nothing. Very even game at the mo.

Now is the time to take it to them, got to get them for less than around 220. Pitch gona be fast as fuck tomorrow so got to bat a run rate of 3.5+ to compete.

Get innnnnnnn 5 down!!!

Come on England

This won't make lunch on day 4

Everything we did wrong last week we have done well today whilst it's vice versa for the Aussies.

Even if they win this 5-0 this is still an average Aussie team and they're there for the taking. We've had no problems getting them in similar position at Brisbane and Adelaide before letting them off the hook, can't do it a third time

Haddin now averages 100 in this series.

Stop underestimating how shit england have Been. That stat is all you need to see.

As Well as making smith look like a batsman.

I bet johnson Cant wait to get the ball.

Bad session. Another 100 partnership after the top order goes. Brisbane all over again, upper hand has completely changed. 300 will be a very good score

Huge advantage to Australia as it stands, tomorrow gona be extremely quick and judging by the previous 2 games we could struggle.

Still got hope but this partnership is knocking me sick

Heads should roll for the selection of the squad for this tour, the fastest bounciest wicket in the World and they still haven't picked one of the trio of 6'8" bag carriers while people like Onions sit at home.

Mind I don't think the wicket is that quick it looks the flattest of the series , they were pulling Stokes and Bresnan way in front of mid wicket with regularity in that session but it might be different facing early nineties rather than mid eighties! We need to bowl them out before the close if not they'll be well on the way to 400 at the current rate. But as I say it's not seaming, spinning or swinging so we just need to bat properly.

That root décision Just proves how pathetic the drs is.

Its only There to back up the umpire. Not to get the décision Right.

I was closer to hitting that than root was.

And all you get from the commentators is them uphplding the rules.

Does no one in cricket ever have any backbone.

Root was robbed. Thats not bad luck.

He was given out to make the umpire look good.

Not because he was out as he wasnt.

And for them to claim There wasnt enough evidence to change the décision.......sackless not nice people.

The more I see the Root decision the more I think it was out, it's one of those decisions where the English will swear it can't be out whilst the Aussies will say it was.

The umpires were told that any 'snick' would appear slightly after it had past the bat and if it wasn't the bat hitting he ball then what was the noise? The lack of hot spot means nothing, the summer showed that the smallest nicks don't show up.

We let them get 30 runs too many by not being aggressive enough in the field but overall it's been a decent day. Cook, KP or Bell have to go big if we want to win his test. It's shaping up to be a very good test if we keep it sensible for the next couple of hours

50 for Cook. All the talk yesterday was that once you play yourself in you can go big on this pitch. Everything couldn't be better placed for him to get to a big 100 now.

Out for 55 it is then

The more you see what?

The ball clearly missing the bat?

The lack of hotspot?

The faintest noise on snicko Well after the ball past the bat.

That noise Could have Been root farting.

He didnt hit it. Please stop trying to see what isnt There.

Clearly missing the bat? Behave!

Other than that I don't think you actually read my post, did you?

Oh Aye I Did.

The aussies Got him out by appealling. Fair play to them.

They will never in a million years say he was out afterwards. Cos he wasnt.

Drs is a fraud.

Its not There to get the Right décision. Its There to cover the umpires arse.

No other sport uses technology for that reason.

Cook you utter twat.

Jesus wept. Am i alone in thinking cook is a bit thick.

If we don't lose anymore today it'll be a good day, if the top order delivers then our tail is good enough to put on runs- we've still got plenty of batting left

FFS. Fuck off Pietersen

I have Had enough of These fuckwits now.

Its time to rebuild.

Its like some of them Just Dont care anymore.

They Should be ashamed.

1. See these last fifteen minutes out
2. Get to 250 tomorrow not losing anymore wickets
3. Lower order get us towards 400
4. Bowl them out cheap
5. Win test

Easy.

I agree fully with adg regarding root. Was he fuck out. Pure joke and at a crucial moment.

We've never needed a century more than what we do now.

Ben stokes please stock this out and bell just be yourself

There's still hope albeit very small

Come on England

Bell and Stokes just need to dig in tomorrow and build a sizable partnership so that we can at least save this match.

Can't see it happening though. Aussies confidence is high and our heads just seem to have dropped from Day 1 in this series.

Our heads havent dropped They were firmly wedged up their own arses.

They clearly thought They only Had to turn up to win.

Preparation squad selection, team selection, shot selection all shocking.

But worst of all no fighting spirit at all. Infact our only fight was when we asked the aussies to stop sledging.

Bunch of pussies.

I think they fought hard today actually. The Aussies bowled well and we stood up to that, the massively frustrating thing is the soft nature of a couple of the wickets but dot balls build and increase pressure. Australia are outplaying us in every department but at least today our batters applied themselves.

We're one good partnership from challenging their score provided the rest don't crumble. They've got a good bowling unit but we've played far better and come through, there's nothing to be scared off in their attack; I don't care how quickly Johnson is flinging it

We score too slowly. Nobody takes them without giving their wickets away stupidly.

That's not fighting spirit its just des
And it doesn't look like they really believe they can do it.

Hopefully we get that big partnership otherwise its all over
Strange how 6 months ago we all thought. We had better players in every department.

We now look inferior in every one batting bowlingfielding wicket keeping and spin bowling.

The South Africa home series showed how we weren't invincible. Even without the help of KP and his mobile phone.

The openers did fight. They were going at 4 an over matching the Aussie start. When we did lose the 1st wicket though we then went into defensive mode.... AGAIN. Obviously root wasnt out but after 40 balls pieterson was on 4 and bell after 32 balls was on 2. I'm not saying start slogging but fuck me show some fight and get some runs on the board.

It's not all about hitting 4s or 6s we seem to have lost the ability to take quick singles and put some pressure on the fielders...

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They bowled well, what would you say if Bell had tossed his wicket away playing a rash shot?

Read again!!

I'm not saying slog!!!!!

However trying singles and playing like they do and rotate the strike instead of facing ball after ball and not attempting anything is getting us nowhere. We're gona be 3-0 down and we've Learnt nothing from the previous 2. We have to attack them with the bat.

Nobody wants to see rash shots but getting out for 100 ball 20s isn't what's required.

IMO they bowl well because we allow them 2. We show zero aggression and basically let them dictate. Wen we bowl they show aggression and again take control. As t stands they are on top with both bat and ball. You can argue all ya like but we must play more aggressively as the openers did today.

Shite again from England, If you had to pick a combined team right now would even one England play make it in ?
Call Sam Robson up ASAP before the Aussies take him

Depends if Bell puts a shift tomorrow. There`s Prior to come, but it all looks a bit thin to be honest.

I know, I know nowt and my brains are mince.

I don't know how you manage to get out of bed in the morning, and dress your self Kev!

Another day and another masterclass with bat and ball from the convicts. Getting up at half 2 to watch this shit is just painful

It was almost funny before, but now Its Just hilarious.

Amdeeson is turning inroepen a joke, Priori Looks rhe worsr wicket keeper in test cricket, no fooker can bar, and a few are feigning injury.

They make us so proud.

For the third game in a row we bat on a demon wicket whilst facing a hand granade.

But in the same game Its a flat track and we bowl with a tennis ball.

And to think one of our cricket experts on here called me a drama queen during one of These slaughters.

I am sure someone will post something positive though.

At least we can Just switch off now. The players have to play two more games. I Hope They suffer long and hard

They go at 4 an over, we just defend over and over (no pun) again. The difference is confidence levels is huge.

They trust there ability we just leave the ball

There 6 and 7 partnerships are averaging 160 between them, ours 23. Once we go 4 down its game over. Prior is finished. Bairstow to play 6 and move stokes down to 7. We needed some more batsmen on this tour and as said the squad selection was a complete farce with onions left at home. Flowers has alot to answer for, as do all the selectors

If i was an Icc official i think i would be investigating priors performance.

I Could Keep wicket now Better than he has done.

Never seen the ball go past the keeper so much since jan budtz was in goal.
If priors gets picked next match the selectors Should be shot.

I said after the 1st match we needed to drop both trott and prior before its too late. Saying that 1 player would hardly change things, we need a number 1 4 6 7 10 11 if we're being honest.

Carberry
Root
Broad
Bell

Can at least say they Havnt been overly shite, the rest can't.

We have been dominated with both bat and ball and aggression has been the key difference between the sides

Fuck it. I am turning over to watch mandelas fumeral.

Got to be more entertainimg than this shite.

Your competition to see who can talk the most shite is more competitive than the cricket!

Can we just all stop talking about this and watch something else?

Thanks.

I'd rather have Prior trying to lose than that useless tosser Bairstow trying to win !
People are telling the batsman to both be more aggressive and to value there wickets, so they are slated either way
Bottom line as i said in the summer we aren't as good as we think we are, we have been on a downward trend for years

Our rass does it all, and pours coffee down me neck. Luckily she gets the coffee inside me neck and not down me smock.

Going back to the tests, it`s just been capitulation. We laid down and died. No-one seems to want to be there. Any team from the Yorkshire league would have put up a better showing.

All of this laying down, being 'scared' and not wanting the be there doesn't really wash with me. It's a lazy throwaway thing to say. You've got to give the Aussies lots of credit as hard as that is to do they are playing superbly, they have bowled outstandingly well on flat wickets. We are trying our bollocks off but have fallen way short.

England have been poor, the series has been a massive let down but let's not ignore how well they are playing. England are not all of a sudden a bad team, far from it the likes of Prior isn't 'finished' or match fixing because he missed quite a hard stumping we are just being beaten by a better team right now.

Yeah, OK, but they weren`t better five months ago were they. OK home advantage and all that but that`s why I said it looks like England don`t want to be there.

If you look at the amount of cricket they`ve played this year they must be shagged.

Home advantage is massive we've won once in Australia in 25 years because we did it last time people are going on like it's an easy thing to do.

Well OK, but we aren`t even running them close. They put up a bit of a battle in England after all.

Oh give over man. England have been a joke. from 1 to 11. Even keeping wicket is now beyond them.

Cricketers always make excuses when they are shite. Batsmen blame the pitch, bowlers blame the pitch. Then the other team do better, so the bowlers blame their own batters and visa versa.

Its because its essentially an individual sport in the confines of a team game. Where else can a team win 5-0 in a series yet one player gets dropped? There is no other sport quite like it.

So cricketers find excuses all the time. They never admit to just being shite.

and I wish Sky would pull the bastad plug on it as well, as I cant stop watching and its vomit inducing.

Cook and peiterson owe us tons, and they need to deliver 2nd innings, or they should get 40 lashes.

I've not really seen any excuses from England's players to be honest, they are getting well beaten by a team playing well.

Prior did a brutally honest interview before this Test started, oh and the series is only half way through and England have dropped more than one player. People who've taken 200+ test wickets or scored 20+ test hundreds don't deserve binning the first time they have a few bad months.

Yes They bloody Well do.

This is supposed tp be the pinnacle of their careers. The ashes.

It will mean Fuck all to me if They do Well v sri lanka next year or whoever.

Thats like saying Its ok for the england football to Fuck up the world cup as long as the same players win a friendly against bosnia afterwards.

Too much credence is given to stats in cricket that Could go back years.

Anyway Why have They all Been so sbit at the same time?

Bit Weird that innit.