England vs Australia | 3rd Ashes Test | Old Trafford | 04/8/13 | Day 4

[Ims1]

England 294 for 7 (Pietersen 113, Cook, 62, Bell 60) trail Australia 527 for 7 dec by 233 runs.

WEATHER REPORT [tms]
A look out of the window here in Salford Quays (across the Manchester Ship Canal from Old Trafford) shows plenty of cloud cover with the sun trying to poke through when it can. The BBC weather forecast for Stretford shows it may rain from about 1300 BST though. See what I mean about the first session being important, if you will.

Draw in my opinion . England will score around 400 .

 

[Ims1]

more from tms : WEATHER FORECAST
BBC Weather's Darren Bett: "The weather's going to spoil things. We may get an hour's play before lunch but the rain is coming from Wales and, once it starts, we could be off for the whole of the afternoon session. The rain should move to the north and we should get some play after tea. But on Monday the rain may not clear until after tea."

 

[malakian]

Decent battle this, Prior vs Rhino.

 

[Ims1]

302 for 7 & a dull draw .

 

[malakian]

StuBro with a classy boundary there. England can win this game.

 

[Ims1]

Huge bounce & turn from Lyon . 308 for 7 .

 

[Wattoo]

If Eng has been forced follow on, then Aus will win doesn't matter how many times rain intrupts

 

[Ims1]

F/O avoided . Match drawn . England retain Ashes & i am bored .

 

[malakian]

Broad smashing Rhino!!!

 

[Gunther]

The Aussies just can't seem to get enough of young Stuart.

 

[Gunther]

Lol Ryan-o looks like he'll cry

 

[malakian]

Broad out, an Australian spinner actually gets a wicket.

 

[Wattoo]

 

[Nuekboi]

He walks? OR so I heard

 

[OZGOD]

We want the deficit to be no less than 150 or it will be really hard to force a result.

 

[OZGOD]

Steve Smith drops a sitter

 

[Ims1]

60 for 1 in 11 overs today .

 

[OZGOD]

Swanny

 

[Nuekboi]

Sportsmanship from Swannie

 

[Robert]

We want the deficit to be no less than 150 or it will be really hard to force a result.

I'm going to call this as a draw. Tomorrow will be rained off.

 

[Nuekboi]

England will do well to extended their trail to 150 with Jimmy on the crease

 

[Ims1]

I'm going to call this as a draw. Tomorrow will be rained off.

yup,minimum of 2 sessions will be lost on day 5 . looking pretty cloudy now & rain probably in a hour or so .

 

[Wattoo]

good chance for Aus, out eng team and then some quick runs and game is ur

 

[OZGOD]

Prior really doesn't rate Anderson as a batsman eh.

 

[Ims1]

Not opening with Siddle today was poor tactics .

 

[OZGOD]

England clearly playing for a draw

 

[James]

Broad and Swann both walked...

 

[Ims1]

England clearly playing for a draw

well,they cannot win it .

 

[RexRex]

It looks like this is heading for a draw , can't see Eng getting bowled out again.

 

[OZGOD]

They are getting too caught up in this game of getting Anderson on strike. They just need to get whoever it is on strike out.

 

[Ims1]

Starc on . 367 for 9 .

 

[Ashraful_Rox]

Prior hasn't played to his potential this Ashes, he needs to get his mojo back, costing me points in Ashes Fantasy

 

[asifp]

Get Lyon off. Staarc should be bowling to Jummy

 

[asifp]

Australia will have to super aggressive to get a result out of this game now

 

[Ashraful_Rox]

Starc should open the batting with Rogers, Aussies needs quick runs and Starc is in good form

 

[jattafridi]

Finally out.

Warner and rogers should open

 

[Ashraful_Rox]

Warner is mentally down and out man, he will be greeted with boos and even after getting bowled he will ask for a review

 

[Wattoo]

 

[Wattoo]

now Aus should score some quick runs, warner & watson shud open and start hitting big.

 

[Ashraful_Rox]

Score 200 in 40 overs and declare

 

[lilFlip]

Play 50 overs score 200, a target of 359 in 100* overs should be enough (weather permitting)

 

[waqar goraya]

So, Australia acquire a very good 159 runs lead.

Now, they need to negotiate new ball carefully and then bat for 50 overs at around 4 runs per over.

Declare today and give England a target of 380 in 100 overs

 

[James]

Decent reply but not out of the woods yet.

 

[lilFlip]

Tricky 1/2 hour ahead

 

[Vitaly]

Will be an interesting session before lunch. Quick runs are needed and Warner is the man to do it

 

[waqar goraya]

Decent reply but not out of the woods yet.

BBC weather forecasting rain tonight and tomorrow .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2643123?day=1

The Weather channel showing 100 per cent chance of rain tonight, and 80 per cent chance of rain tomorrow.

http://www.weather.com/weather/today/Manchester+City+Centre+UKEN5487:1:UK

http://www.weather.com/weather/5-day/Manchester+City+Centre+UKEN5487:1:UK

So, congratulations on winning the Ashes third consecutive time .

 

[Nuekboi]

They are playing the rocky theme for warner :

 

[Nuekboi]

Gary Neville commentating

 

[Justcrazy]

Australia lead by 174 runs with 10 wickets remaining

 

[Justcrazy]

:4

 

[Justcrazy]

Aussies need to get going here, quick runs required

 

[Justcrazy]

A cameo from warner is essential here for Aussies. Smith also needs to be promoted.

 

[Justcrazy]

Rogers gone.

 

[lilFlip]

Rogers falls.

 

[Wattoo]

 

[Aman]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>If Warner and Watson open, Australia will somehow have no reviews left after one ball. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Ashe&src=hash">#Ashe</a></p>— Dan Liebke (@LiebCricket) <a href="https://twitter.com/LiebCricket/statuses/363984569147461633">August 4, 2013</a></blockquote>
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[Justcrazy]

Last over before lunch.

 

[Aman]

LOL did Prior just say "c'mon Root" to Warner?

 

[Nuekboi]

Come on root!

 

[Vitaly]

Really hoping to see Joe Root Bowling to Warner

 

[Justcrazy]

Aussies need to play this over safely

 

[Justcrazy]

Australia lead by 183 runs with 9 wickets remaining

Lunch

 

[Haroon786]

Is it raining OP

 

[Nuekboi]

LOL who is this guy

 

[Nuekboi]

Not out to me

 

[mosh101]

Boos all around

 

[mosh101]

For once third umpire is sane

 

[Boi]

Broad had a cheeky scratch on the ball before that delivery.

 

[mosh101]

England not happy with the decision

 

[mosh101]

Warner should fire some sense into this english team

 

[mosh101]

Brilliant four for warner

 

[Amjid Javed]

why are england still crying over the decision? ffs there was no edge! wasted review!

 

[Amjid Javed]

Aussies need to score quickly and get a lead of 350 and then some how try and win the game.

 

[Ims1]

Do not like Barbie's attitude & behavior, never really did . Can Swann take a few quick wickets ? Pitch certainly has something for him . 199 for 1 .

 

[Amjid Javed]

Aus 40/1- Lead 199

 

[Amjid Javed]

Looks like Barbie is looking to send as many short balls as possible at warner...

 

[Haroon786]

250 more needed

 

[Executioner]

I have 1 word for watson, perform like you do in T2Os

 

[Ashraful_Rox]

Usman is playing for his place not for the win, he'll be dropped. He'll blame Dharmesena for the rest of his life

 

[Haroon786]

Warner looking impressive, need watson in odi style