Noooooooooooooooooo

[freddie flintoff 142]

Originally Posted by Mike_Hock

No, my degree actually - Hence time off work!

bugger, who looks a numtie now! think i'll have a liquid lunch in the pub today, dont need to go to law, it only a mock exam,

ahh the first day of an english international season!

time to leave education me thinks

[Mike_Hock]

Originally Posted by freddie flintoff 142

bugger, who looks a numtie now! think i'll have a liquid lunch in the pub today, dont need to go to law, it only a mock exam,

ahh the first day of an english international season!

time to leave education me thinks

Always a good idea

[freddie flintoff 142]

wot the liqiud lunch or the leaving education part?
lets face it the last one aint guna happen, i trainin to be a pe teacher next year! doh!

[Mike_Hock]

lol go and hae a few jars then.


Pitch looks a belter

[Victor Frankenstein]

hoggy and harmison chucking up some short and wide dross for new zealand to settle in to, we're always so kind to visiting teams when they come to Lords

[Scott-Wozniak]

Originally Posted by Victor Frankenstein

hoggy and harmison chucking up some short and wide dross for new zealand to settle in to, we're always so kind to visiting teams when they come to Lords

Yeah, they've both been a bit wayward so far and the Kiwi's have helped themselves to a few boundaries. The most alarming thing for me is that ball is doing diddly squat - no swing, no seam movement, no nothing.

Hoggy and Harmy need to settle into a good line and length now and start exerting some pressure, and give them nothing to hit otherwise these two will settle in nicely and I'm rather concerned they could both make big scores. They're leaving everything they don't have to play - including balls going over the stumps. Harmy needs to bowl a slightly fuller length and start forcing the batsman to have to play - at the moment, they're just sitting back and letting the ball go over the stumps.

Not good, Not good !

Scott

[Victor Frankenstein]

yeah, doesn't look good, the only thing that's keeping me happy at the moment is in the windies every time i thought "uh oh, we're bowling poor again" they'd come back 2 overs later and take 4 wickets I know NZ are a better side but it's just the way harmy seems to bowl, a few overs of dross then an over of unplayable balls and a couple of wickets.

I guess in fairness it does look like a dead wicket as you say, but other sides get wickets on these type of pitches and we really need to teach our bowlers how to get wickets when there is no assistance. Can't help feeling a bit pessimistic and seeing it as another wicket where we bowl expecting something to happen rather than making it happen, they get 500+ and bowl us out for less than 200 on the same good batting track.

[freddie flintoff 142]

ah well im off from my computing lesson, now going to the pub for a diet of-

beer, pub luch and a freddie fivefor!

another thing i donot wish to be quoted on!(me teacher prob catch me wit a pint of blackburns best carlsberg!)

laters people and may the force be with harmi! (whao has jus been taken off as i speak!)

[Richie Benauds Love Child]

Harmo was bowling a great line but too short. And they've gone and picked giles. But I had a look at C4 and the pitch was pretty dry and already some fair sized cracks in it. I never realises how far down NZ bat until they showed the 2 teams side by side.

[Scott-Wozniak]

Originally Posted by Victor Frankenstein

I guess in fairness it does look like a dead wicket as you say, but other sides get wickets on these type of pitches and we really need to teach our bowlers how to get wickets when there is no assistance. Can't help feeling a bit pessimistic and seeing it as another wicket where we bowl expecting something to happen rather than making it happen, they get 500+ and bowl us out for less than 200 on the same good batting track.

VF

Yep, that has a familiar ring to it. England simply are not putting the Kiwi's under any pressure at all, they're not bowling the right line or length and are simply being picked off for easy 4's. This is the whole reason I advocated playing the extra seamer, which everyone didn't agree with.

Unless England get their sh*t together and start bowling tighter line and length and start exerting some pressure on these two batsmen - they will be staring down a huge total.

Scott