Australia v England | 4th Ashes Test | Melbourne | Day 3 | 28/12/2013

[On_the_up]

England collapsed yet again in their 1st inns, but for a change didn't let Australia recover in theirs.

So game on.

Shame the series is over already.

 

[saj786]

Yep, most of the Australien dismisills were absolute gifts

 

[ali bubba]

Still got a feeling England will collapse all out for 120 or something like that in their 2nd innings. Give Aus about 170 to win.

Hope I'm wrong off course, but have little faith in this England team with the bat.

 

[On_the_up]

Haddin gets yet another 50.

375 runs so far this series.

Been a key player in Aust being 3-0 up.

 

[On_the_up]

Warne saying Haddin is right up there with Ian Healy and will go down as one of the best wkt keeper batsmen for Australia.

 

[On_the_up]

That was a cracking shot by Haddin for a couple.

New ball taken, Jimmy to bowl to Lyon.

 

[Gangnam]

Pathetic bowling by England, very defensive tactics by Cook no third slips. One of the reason why England have suck so much is because there bowlers and captain is very clueless when it comes to strategy and thinking on their feet.

 

[On_the_up]

200 up.

Poor effort from England so far, offering singles to Haddin, and bowling poorly to Lyon when he does get on strike.

Where is the yorker??

 

[On_the_up]

OUT!

Jimmy gets Haddin with a bouncer

 

[rohityadav]

go mitch destroy england execpt ben stokes.

 

[On_the_up]

Haddin (390) now has the highest no of runs by a wkt keeper in an ashes series, ahead of Stewart (378) and Knott (364).

 

[Gangnam]

Carberry's tuk tuk at the top of the order is really hurting England. He kills any momentum Cook builds.

 

[Shaheerthe2nd]

Cook in T20 Mode

 

[London_Lahori]

Cook looks like a man possessed. Come on captain cooky, need a ton big time.

 

[On_the_up]

Cook timing the ball very nicely, finally looks to have found some form.

Ball also coming on to the bat much better than the first 2 days.

Cook reaches 8000 runs

 

[Shaheerthe2nd]

Carberry really not helping himself here

 

[On_the_up]

Carberry on 1 off 25 balls.

Cook 29 off 28.

From what I have seen in this series, Carbs is a decent backup opener, but not a proper test class batsman.

Sort of a holding player until England find the permanent solution.

 

[James]

Lovely innings from Cook. Can't get enough of it.

 

[Strike Rate]

Cook playing with a tailender?

Carberry at the other end as opener with Cook is looking like a tailender

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[Strike Rate]

54 runs partnership and only 5 runs are contributed from Carberry in this partnership

 

[Savak]

This Misbah like approach has been very dissapointing and is the reason why England are 3-0 in the series

 

[London_Lahori]

That "tail-ender" has been one of England's better players on this tour.

 

[Strike Rate]

That "tail-ender" has been one of England's better players on this tour.

one fifty in last 7 innings of thsi ashes and now even in 8th innings not looking comfortable for scoring another fifty.

 

[London_Lahori]

I'm going to bed, when I wake up in the morning I expect England to be 230-4.

 

[Random Aussie]

This one is slipping away from us

 

[On_the_up]

Excellent 50 by Cook, a captain's inns in the making.

64-0, lead of 115

 

[shaz619]

Carberry is a bit bored out there he has been the better batsman on this tour for england but has not switched gears yet

 

[shaz619]

Engaaluund engaaluund engaalund come on lets smash these jibroni ausies! i hope KP hits a triple ton. The press conference after would be more entertaining then his innings

 

[Artless Dodges]

England might actually win this one...

 

[On_the_up]

Cook
MJ does it again

 

[Random Aussie]

Root out! But reviews....

 

[Shaheerthe2nd]

Now that Cook's out, the run rate will probably plummet

 

[On_the_up]

Root in at 3 again.

Given out and reviewed. Doesnt look out. No hot spot.

 

[Anuj25]

Drs is crap

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[Random Aussie]

Root will survive, but once again he is not a Test number 3.

 

[On_the_up]

Despite Cook's inns the run rate is now below 3.
With these 2 in this might get really boring.

 

[Buffet]

Carberry is trying to save a test here or what?

70 balls and only 6 runs. He probably had a long chat with Boycott.

 

[Savak]

Oh great root. Mishah ul Haq part two

 

[Gangnam]

Carberry doing Misbah real proud here. He definitly played a part in Cook's dismissal

 

[Gangnam]

Carberry and Root awful combination even worse than Trott and Cook. Misbah times two, not good viewing. These two really put a lot of pressure on the rest of the batsman.

 

[Gilly]

I thought Root was going to start crying when Dar gave him out.

 

[On_the_up]

Carberry out lbw to siddle.

Slightly unlucky, clipping outside of leg stump according to hawk eye.

 

[jattafridi]

Carberry very bad innings

 

[mmkextreme_1]

Carberry gone, lbw Siddle, this is the problem with batting to slow

England 86/2

England lead by 137/2

 

[jattafridi]

Come on Kevin we need century from u

 

[jattafridi]

Root gone

 

[ali bubba]

Here comes the collapse.

 

[mmkextreme_1]

Root gone, ridiculous running..run out courtesy Mitchell Johnson

 

[On_the_up]

And now Root is run out.

86-3

 

[jattafridi]

England need a big partnership

 

[On_the_up]

Bell and KP, come on guys let's have some sensible aggression

 

[On_the_up]

Bell

 

[Shaheerthe2nd]

this is actually hilarious

 

[ali bubba]

This is awesome batting.

 

[mmkextreme_1]

Bell gone, England being torn apart 87-4

Lyonn takes a wicket

 

[jattafridi]

England deserve to lose 5-0

 

[Convict]

Yes, yes ,yes

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Bell What is happening out there?

 

[On_the_up]

Guess who caught it?

I am sure Bell has been out first ball a few times

 

[Buffet]

Ridiculous from Eng here. First time in series they got a chance to take the game away and now it is even for both team. Eng just needed to score 300+ but now they have allowed Aus to come back in this game big time.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

MJ can't do anything wrong atm. He should open the batting as well. Might score a ton.

 

[mmkextreme_1]

The problem of batting slow as Carberry did. He should have ideally got around 40-50 runs of the 81 balls he played. England really staring down the barrel now.

3 wickets have gone down for 1 run.

 

[s.h.a.k]

This is what happens when you go all out defending and blocking and not scoring. A couple of quick wickets and your in trouble because the scores got no where. England's batting this series especially has been a utter trash and a joke. It's like they playing for time from the first test.

 

[On_the_up]

England must have had some Horlicks at lunch

 

[Justcrazy]

England lead by 138 runs with 6 wickets remaining

 

[Justcrazy]

Poms need to get the lead up to 220 - 250 here

 

[Justcrazy]

:4

92 / 4

 

[Justcrazy]

:4

100 up

 

[Savak]

Yeah yeah continue to bat like Misbah ul Haq, most welcome

 

[Justcrazy]

lead 153 here

 

[rooster]

Actually Compton did way better than this and he's 3 years younger than Carberry as well. Experts said Carberry is an attacking option aka Trescothick but his batting is the main reason (along with poor form) for our collapses from 80 - 130 in almost every inns.

 

[On_the_up]

Ben Stokes batting style reminds me of Graham Thorpe

 

[Justcrazy]

The match is really boring so far .

 

[Justcrazy]

lead 158 runs .....

 

[ali bubba]

Anything below 300 should be chased down on this pitch.

Carberry was awful and not a test opener.

 

[Justcrazy]

10 mins for Tea , can Aussies get one more here ?

 

[Convict]

Anything below 300 should be chased down on this pitch.

Carberry was awful and not a test opener.

I've said that about Carberry for some time. Root to open because he's a burden at 3, Bell to 3 and Ballance to 5.

 

[Justcrazy]

England lead by 162 runs with 6 wickets remaining

 

[Savak]

Apparently carbury had a reputation for being an aggressive dasher.

 

[Justcrazy]

Tea :

England lead by 166 runs with 6 wickets remaining