Australia v England | 4th Ashes Test | Melbourne | Day 4 | 29/12/2013

[On_the_up]

Barring bad weather, the final day of the test.

Australia should win from here. First hour crucial.

 

[London_Lahori]

England need at least 2 wickets in the first hour. I'm heavily excited. Now imagine if the ashes was still on the line, I'd have been ready to explode.

 

[London_Lahori]

Dropped by Cook! But Bairstow bottled it!!!

 

[London_Lahori]

And to rub salt into the wound it went for four....

Followed by another four. England you absolute shambles!!

 

[On_the_up]

Oh dear.

Bairstow watches a catch go begging between him and Cook at 1st Slip.

 

[Saj]

Surprised they opted for Bairstow with the gloves over Prior in this match.

 

[London_Lahori]

If England don't take some wickets or at least stop the scoring rate this is going to be over quick.

 

[London_Lahori]

Cook drops Warner this time!

 

[London_Lahori]

Unbelievable both batsman should have been back in the hutch!

 

[On_the_up]

And now Cook drop a sitter.

 

[London_Lahori]

These players deserve to be flogged for this performance

 

[London_Lahori]

And now one falls short of cook at slip.

Just leave the field and go home now. Next plane please.

 

[On_the_up]

This has been the tour from hell for England.

 

[London_Lahori]

Root is on to bowl? Wth????

 

[Kwremb]

If England get whitewashed it would be at the hands of one of the weakest Aussie team in Ashes history

 

[Gangnam]

WOW!!! 90s Pakistani style catching by England. Could have had 2 easy wickets and made a game of this. Pathetic fielding by them, their brains really are scrambbled.

 

[On_the_up]

Finally the 1st wkt

 

[Kwremb]

Wicket at last for England, another easy Watson wicket up for grabs for England now

 

[On_the_up]

Stokes gets Warner, caught by Bairstow.

Funny whenever Stokes takes a wkt the no-ball is checked for as a matter of course before the commentators acknowledge the wkt.

 

[On_the_up]

Surprised they opted for Bairstow with the gloves over Prior in this match.

Change for change's sake.

 

[On_the_up]

Root bowling before Monty, offie against the leftys?

Isn't going to do Monty's confidence any favours.

 

[London_Lahori]

At this rate Monty won't get a bowl. If there waiting for reverse I can't see him getting many overs when the ball starts to reverse.

 

[London_Lahori]

No short leg for Watson, Cook?

 

[On_the_up]

At this rate Monty won't get a bowl. If there waiting for reverse I can't see him getting many overs when the ball starts to reverse.

They need a visit to Faf's tailor.

 

[London_Lahori]

They need a visit to Faf's tailor.

Lol, England have their own method I'm sure of it.

 

[London_Lahori]

I think I'd score a test match ton with the same amount of luck rogers has had today.

 

[Kwremb]

Looks like Cook doesn't have any confidence on Monty

 

[Gangnam]

Bresnan what a useless trundler he has turned into.

 

[On_the_up]

For the Sydney test I would:

Drop Root, move Bell to no 3 and bring Ballance in the middle order.

I would have stuck with Prior in this test but now that they have made the change, its a bit harsh on the lad to drop him again after one test.

 

[Buffet]

Looks like Cook doesn't have any confidence on Monty

It's actually ridiculous to not even try him here.

 

[Eagle_Eye]

It's actually ridiculous to not even try him here.

Game will be over before monty gets to have a say....

Cook has really shot to pieces......

 

[Gangnam]

How is Monty not getting a over. ridiculous captaincy by Cook.

 

[Kwremb]

Bresnan what a trundler now, surely Monty is the ideal foil to keep it tight on one end while Anderson works out the batsmen at the other end

 

[Kwremb]

All those footmarks should definitely keep Monty in yhe game, even Root managed to skid some low off the footmarks

 

[Kwremb]

No reverse on offer, jelly beans still isn't working for England eh

 

[London_Lahori]

Not bowling Monty is a joke. England and in particular cook are self imploding on this trip.

 

[Kwremb]

Lol Root again, I dunno what Cook's thinking

 

[London_Lahori]

Root coming into the attack instead of panesar again!

 

[London_Lahori]

And lol at Monty practicing his batting, maybe sending a message to cook, if I'm not here to bowl May as well try to bat.

 

[London_Lahori]

All your bowlers are bowling utter tripe, why not give monty a go?

 

[Kwremb]

Easy runs for Aussies from Root, unexplainable Captaincy really

 

[Kwremb]

Monty at last lol

 

[London_Lahori]

Waahey! Monty time

 

[saj786]

If England get whitewashed it would be at the hands of one of the weakest Aussie team in Ashes history

Couldnt agree more, Theis aus team is average

 

[saj786]

England bowling lacks The x factor ala Johnson,all to samey, plus cooks captaincy
Really is poor, i guess warne was right

 

[London_Lahori]

This game is over with, I'm off to bed.

 

[Kwremb]

Monty taken to the cleaners, match over for England, bring on the whitewash

 

[fastyy]

Monty came on way too late, batsmen were set. He should've came on as soon as Warner got out... c'mon now Cook!

 

[fastyy]

If Australia get another 30 without any wickets...Game Over!

 

[Buffet]

Cook has one slip. Trying to save some runs here.

 

[Shaheerthe2nd]

i say Cook should do something outrageous, like bring Ian Bell on

 

[Mo_Ahmed84]

Well played rogers!

24 hours ago England had a 100+ lead and 10 wickets in hand

 

[Kwremb]

Cook and Watson advancing and smashing trundling Bresnan to the boundary

 

[EarthBoltX]

Cook, time to bowl yourself and Carberry in tandem.
As if there aren't enough mere formalities out there right now.

 

[Kwremb]

Proper hiding this, smacking at more than 4 an over

 

[Kwremb]

Monty gets Rogers, only 32 needed

 

[Justcrazy]

30 required

 

[Justcrazy]

Swan not playing has helped Rogers a lot

 

[dravid the wall]

another defeat on cards for england...well played aussies...great response to 0-3 dubbing..

 

[Justcrazy]

:4

 

[Justcrazy]

16 away now

 

[Justcrazy]

Good batting by Watson here.

Poms have no answer to this.

 

[Justcrazy]

8000


runs for Clarke

 

[Justcrazy]

Poms simply do not have any fight left , they are mentally down.

 

[Justcrazy]

Panesar continues , Aussies need 11 only now

 

[Justcrazy]

2 more , now 9 required

 

[Justcrazy]

226 / 2

 

[Justcrazy]

Aussies one shot away now.

 

[Justcrazy]

:4

 

[Justcrazy]

Australia won by 8 wickets

 

[fastyy]

Lol Cook sucks as captain. You know Michael Vaughan was not happy.

 

[jattafridi]

Cook almost crying

 

[Nikhil_cric]

This was the best chance for England to win as Australia might have been a bit complacent after winning the Ashes. Now that there's a chance for whitewash, Australia will go at them full throttle and England will crumble without a fight.

 

[Ims1]

Emphatic win for hosts . Can England draw at Sydney ?

 

[OZGOD]

If England get whitewashed it would be at the hands of one of the weakest Aussie team in Ashes history

Clearly you never saw our team in the mid 80s. Our batting is very ordinary, the bowling attack is decent though.

 

[OZGOD]

Of all the Tests this is the one that will hurt England the most, and the one that the OZ will probably find most satisfying. They were put under the pump a number of times in this match and responded well. After Day 2 nobody would have given us a chance to win this but they were able to turn it around.

Not sure what's happened to England. Look a total shambles. Body language is poor, morale is low, look like they can't wait to get on the next plane home.

 

[battler]

You'd have to say now that a 5-0 outcome is very much on the cards.

 

[Mr Consistent]

cook should step down as captain

 

[Mr Consistent]

5-0 on cards

 

[trogger]

Stunning innings from rogers, just didn't think he had that sort of innings in him and he does it on the most difficult pitch of the series.