5th Ashes Test. Sydney Starts TODAY

[Gad]

Any interest left :evil: or..... are we all pommed out :dry:

England are set to throw three debutants to the wolves in the fifth Ashes Test.

[crazywalrus]

Any interest left :evil: or..... are we all pommed out :dry:

England are set to throw three debutants to the wolves in the fifth Ashes Test.

Can not hurt as the regulars have not stood up. Also give them some good experience. Look how Agar performed in his first test.

[Damien2Rad]

Waiting for the sun to hit the line, so I know I can go to the beer shop.

Then I'm gonna line up about 54 fans in an arc, to act in unison to keep me cool.... ish.

[pancakes_and_haggis]

I'm peeping through a small gap between the edge of my couch and a pillowcase-less pillow.

Hoping to avoid a rather embarrassing white wash

[ellicat]

Go, The Maroons !!!

[ellicat]

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Then I'm gonna line up about 54 fans in an arc, to act in unison to keep me cool.... ish.

"fans" or "cans" ??

[Gad]

Any interest left :evil: or..... are we all pommed out :dry:

England are set to throw three debutants to the wolves in the fifth Ashes Test.

Can not hurt as the regulars have not stood up. Also give them some good experience. Look how Agar performed in his first test.

where is he now?

[ellicat]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-03/how-does-silks-catch-rate-alongside-the-classics/5183910

Cricket followers might enjoy that link. Adam Dale was my personal pick for the best.

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Adam Dales catch would be level with the best all time catch, if there was one to equal.

My favourite was the look on Alan Langers face after Vautin took the catch. Langer must still be trying to figure out where the 2nd ball came from that ended up in Vautins` hand

[ellicat]

I was lucky enough to be about 3 rows back from the fence when Vautin caught that ball right in front of us. I swear it was real.

[Gad]

I knew Vautin when he was playing 'A' grade lock with Brisbane Wests panthers, I did not know he had an unknown talented (cricket) twin play that game for him

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Aus 326... Poms 5/32. as Effie said 'how embarrassment'

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Well, at lunch time 5th Test Aus 7/248 lead 419...

is Australia that good with a 5-0 series win or are the Poms that bad. Will South Africa show up the Aussies top order batting problems

[crazywalrus]

Poms are that bad. I think a better side would have found the Australia wanting.

[Gad]

Poms need 448 to win this test :dry:

at 1/11 I think I will switch over to watch the Federer vs Hewitt Brisbane International final at 3.30, at least with the warmth and humidity Hewitt (compared to the Poms), may have a chance without Divine intervention

[Gad]

Player of the series?? Haddin for me

[Old Scaley]

Cook? Pietersen? Bell? Hard to pick who has contributed most to the Australian victories. I reckon they will give man of the series to Johnston but Haddington must be in with a shot.

[Gad]

:woohoo: 5-zip... the last time I saw collapsing like the poms batting efforts, Steve Bradbury WON Gold

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If Haddin had not played his natural game through out the series,not letting the bowlers dominate him at any time and coming in often when the top order batting failed, along with his defining partnerships, Australia might not be leaping with joy now.

Johnson bowled great through out the series, but look at the failing opposition. Australias` waited along time for him to finally mature as a bowler

[Gad]

Cook? Pietersen? Bell? Hard to pick who has contributed most to the Australian victories.....

the only credit the poms can take out of this series is having pre-booked return flight tickets back home! :evil:

[Old Scaley]

Cook? Pietersen? Bell? Hard to pick who has contributed most to the Australian victories.....

the only credit the poms can take out of this series is having pre-booked return flight tickets back home! :evil:

And you can bet they are really looking forward to stepping off that plane...............

[Gad]

They still have the ODI series to shake through yet

[Gad]

Good to see former pommy players take it so well…

Remember Botham, after the English Ashes series he was the guy spruiking a 2 Ashes series 10 – 0 English whitewash of Australia, long before the poms got on the plane to come over here.........

Ian Botham, the man who predicted England would enjoy a 5-0 series victory (in Australia), lashed the team's "spineless" display.

"Watching England throughout this series has been little short of torture," he wrote in The Daily Mirror.

Remember Boycott, he was the guy who as a player suffered chronic strangulation syndrome rendering him unable to ever utter a small word of praise to a winning opposition, well he still suffers from the affliction……

Geoffrey Boycott called it "one of the most depressing and humiliating days for English cricket".

"This has been the worst defeat, because it's happened in three days. We just collapsed. We almost gave up," wrote Boycott in his Daily Telegraph column.

Boycott said the fact Australia had a good, not great, team made it even more humiliating.

"But we should be ashamed and embarrassed to lose so abjectly to this lot."

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Taken from Monday 13th Ipswich QT online

Pommy Cricketers Never Had a Chance

THOSE nutrition experts who recently voted for the three worst fad diets have made a startling omission.

The English cricket team had a ridiculously long list of foods that was sent around to match venues prior to the Ashes series - a series they lost 5-0, attracting the typical calls for public floggings from the Brit tabloids.

Just like the players who were supposed to have been nourished by it, the menu included things that sounded great but delivered little - including piri-piri breaded tofu with tomato salsa, quinoa and cranberry breakfast bars and vegetable and haloumi kebabs with capsicum dip.

It's no wonder the Poms didn't have a lot of fight in them - you can't face Mitchell Johnson at the WACA with a belly full of that airy-fairy gourmet garbage.

The English menu should be nailed to the wall of every classroom in Australia so kids know what not to eat, unless they want to grow up to be a national disappointment.

The 82-page menu was the idea of a "performance nutritionist", employed under the belief that a team on tofu will bat, bowl and field better than one on steak and potatoes.

I now sympathise with Swanny for retiring - the poor guy just wanted a decent meal. Alastair Cook's clouded state of mind could also be explained by his thirst for a pie with chips and ale.

Pies and beer worked for Boonie and Merv, and I certainly don't remember any talk of Bradman needing a mung bean curry between sessions.

Talk of whether to sack Cook, Flower or Pietersen misses the point.

They should get rid of the nutritionist and go back to being normal cricketers, who don't give a rat's about being slightly overweight.