The Ashes | 2nd Test | Adelaide | Day 1 | 3/12/10

[Noork85]

Lol there it goes

 

[Noork85]

Broad gets a wicket

 

[insaftak]

Haddin gone. Pathetic batting by Aussies today

 

[OZGOD]

Haddin gives Broad a gift OZ all out for 245, about 200 below par.

 

[Poison]

England should bat for 2 days here and aim for 600ish and win by an innings

 

[Random Aussie]

I will wait until England finish batting to assess the score. 245 is not enough but if we can get them for 345 the fact they have to bat last is a big factor. Against the ripping spin of....oh yeah...

 

[OZGOD]

83 overs left to survive

I called it EARLY!!! And 83 proved to be 4 overs too many to survive

 

[OZGOD]

I will wait until England finish batting to assess the score. 245 is not enough but if we can get them for 345 the fact they have to bat last is a big factor. Against the ripping spin of....oh yeah...

That's true. You never know how good a score is until the opposition have a bat. But definitely a missed opportunity and they would be kicking themselves.

 

[Random Aussie]

Why has everyone been talking about Swann as a spent force? He's bowled well today.

So far he has not been the bowler he was hyped up to be prior to the series. Even Flower commented that expectations of him were too high.

Do we get 2 overs at the Poms tonight?

 

[OZGOD]

Are England going to be made to bat today? We should get them in for a couple of overs at least.

 

[OZGOD]

So far he has not been the bowler he was hyped up to be prior to the series. Even Flower commented that expectations of him were too high.

Do we get 2 overs at the Poms tonight?

It appears we do.

 

[holldout]

Close of play Aus 304/4.Get your house on it.

Guess your house went down the drain!!!

 

[Poison]

Shouldn't have to bat...its a 2 over turnaround and there's only 2 overs left.

 

[Random Aussie]

Need 3 wickets by the close of play

 

[Wised up]

LOL why leave other 7 out?

 

[OZGOD]

Well we only got one over but at least they didn't score 20 off it

 

[malakian]

Ponting having a few words with Strauss.

 

[OZGOD]

Posted this in the review thread:

http://www.pakpassion.net/ppforum/showthread.php?t=112709

Definitely advantage England after Day 1. Let's review by session:

• Session 1 - Carnage as the Incredible Jimmy moves the ball all over the place to prise out Dubya and Clarke after hapless running/calling by Krapich and Twatto. OZ reeling at 3/2 after 10 mins. Hussey and Twatto have to start the heroic rearguard in the 4th over. Advantage England
• Session 2 - After a slow but steady recovery showing that the pitch is in fact playing true, OZ lose wickets at the start (Twatto) and end (South) of the session. H&H have to save the OZ again. Advantage England
• Session 3 - Solid from H&H as they slowly navigate the OZ to but then Hussey gone and with it OZ's hopes of a a 300ish score and then Harris out for a duck looking like a bunny. Shambolic running by Doherty, forgot first lesson on running between the wickets - listen to your partner. England end up bowling OZ out for 245, about 200 under par.Advantage England

It would be easy to blame the top order for giving their wickets away but in reality the Incredible Jimmy bowled a fiery spell moving the ball both ways in subtle fashion. One of the best new ball spells I've seen him deliver in any country. The balls that got Dubya and Pup were not quite jaffas but were excellent deliveries. It was bad luck for Dubya to get a perfect length swinger first ball while Pup was more to blame - first he decided he was playing T20 by trying to cowlash his first couple of deliveries and before finally edging one. Terrible shot under the circumstances and had no idea where his offstump was. I don't know what's wrong with him, but I'm sure it's all mental because he hasn't really been the same player since that fiasco with his ex fiancee Brainless Bingle and getting caught up with the Glamarama crowd and the social butterflies. Every time I watch him bat I lose more confidence in him but at least today his body language was more positive and he had a go.

But it all started with the comical runout when Twatto was trying to survive an LBW shout and started running. Either Krapich was deaf or Twatto didn't call but both were ball watching and one went and the other didn't.

Once you lose early wickets it really puts a dampener on the run rate but it was the loss of Twatto that really shafted us, why you would try another streaky edge through the slips after previous lucky edges I don't know, but just goes to show how this OZ batting lineup really struggles with concentration. Twatto's conversion rate of 50s to 100s is terrible, he has 12 50s and 2 tons I think, which is a conversion rate of like 16%. He did well when wickets were falling all around him but when he needed to just dig in and keep his wicket he played a loose shot - more proof that his ultimate home is in the middle order. But if not for him and Hussey and to a lesser extent South (who also suffered a lapse of concentration which you can't afford to do in Test cricket), the Poms could've wrapped us up for 150. Their problem is that the Incredible Jimmy is basically a one-man show with some support from Swann bowling to the bunnies - unfortunately Jimmy can't bowl from both ends otherwise he probably would've bowled us. But too many soft dismissals and shambolic runouts, which are a strong indication of the body language of a side.

At the start of the match I was looking for the OZ to finish at about 400 or so as an absolute minimum. After the carnage at the start I revised that to about 350ish. We end up on 245. England will be licking their lips on this pitch and will look to put up a lead of about 300 and try and bat us out of the match, unless (as RA said) Bollywood, Siddle and Harris somehow collectively do what the Incredible Jimmy did. Then we'll have to do what England did at the Gabba - bat for two days to save the game.

This is new territory for the OZ - being put under the pump bigtime by England at home, and as painful as it to watch as a punter, I'm also curious to see how they will respond. This is part of what competitive sport is about - it's not just about watching your team pound seven shades of shyte out of the opposition, it's about seeing how they respond under adversity. We saw England respond at the Gabba - now we have four days to see if the OZ can do the same. Tomorrow is another day. They need to regroup, get over it, and figure out how they're going to take 10 wickets tomorrow without giving England too big a lead.

 

[James]

So far he has not been the bowler he was hyped up to be prior to the series. Even Flower commented that expectations of him were too high.

He had a poor game at Brisbane, but I'm always keen to respond to half of PakPassion who have been going on like Swann has been found out, Pakistan made him look good, his career is over etc. What I saw today was nothing less than a good first-day performance by a spinner in a test match - bowled economically, allowed the seamers to attack at the other end, and got two crucial breakthroughs of his own.

 

[malakian]

Hussey has been playing him incredibly well, but we all know he's a quality player of spin, and has played with Swann previously at Nottinghamshire. I echo what Whippy said, good first day performance. More concerning is Finn, i still think Tremlett should be there instead. Great team performance though.

 

[Robert]

So far he has not been the bowler he was hyped up to be prior to the series. Even Flower commented that expectations of him were too high.

Well, a rating of ICC #2 in the world is not hype really - it's based on results.

But he usually gets big drift and that was not in evidence today. Something wrong with his spinning finger maybe? - not getting enough revs?

 

[James]

Cricinfo summed Finn up pretty well today - he is a bit lanky and weird, but he has the knack of picking up a wicket, or creating something out of nothing, which makes him an undeniable asset in test cricket. I think Tremlett is still a possible change in December, but we can give Finn this one after his six-wicket haul. Ian Botham is a fine example of a bowler that often made his name on the scorecard with jammy dismissals, and everyone knows what a valuable player he was.

 

[Paradox]

Whoever bat first will collapse.

zharmajeed

 

[Random Aussie]

Well about the only positive from me was Harris' pace.

England bowlers who hit 90mph in England were bowling low 130s today. Harris hit 148kph.

It is a false dawn for us though because Harris will probably only play one more season if that with his knee. But hell, at least he is quick.

 

[Zaheer Abbas's Fan]

He had a poor game at Brisbane, but I'm always keen to respond to half of PakPassion who have been going on like Swann has been found out, Pakistan made him look good, his career is over etc. What I saw today was nothing less than a good first-day performance by a spinner in a test match - bowled economically, allowed the seamers to attack at the other end, and got two crucial breakthroughs of his own.

I have to agree. Day 1 at Adelaide 2/70 at econ rate of 2 point-what is a handy days work, picked up a vital top order wicket right before the new ball, on cue and wrapped up a tailender to boot. That's a 7.5/10.

He doesn't drift it as much in oz because the Kookaburra has a smaller seam but the one that got Hussey drifted just enough.


Broad is the worst performed English bowler. His length is too short.