The Ashes 2006/07: The Perth Test Thread - Day One

[Wanderer]

Originally Posted by greg

To sum up how well Monty has done.Warne has played 11 tests at Perth without getting 5 wickets in an innings and Monty has done it in his first innings on a day 1 track.

I bet Warne's poor record at Perth improves in this game.

Last year SA held the Aus to a draw here. (Even with Hodge's double century)...Jacques Rudolph batting out the final day. Warne's performance was average...

England can do better than draw here though...

[Mr Hutt]

and Harmy gets Clarke....

3 for Harmy 5 for Monty

244/9 Aus

[Mr Hutt]

Ahhhh Harmy takes 4 as well...

Revenge i think thats what Andrew Strauss shouted lol

[gibbs_fan]

Great bowling from England to dismiss Australia for 244. There were no demons in the pitch, so if England bat properly, they can get a substantiable lead. I think that England need to attack Warne here. I do not think that Lee will be a threat. As always England will need to play McGrath well. I think that if you can leave McGrath well, then you can limit the damage he can do. We saw the Kiwis do that a few years back. Clarke is also a big threat.

This is exciting cricket. Where are all you Poms. Why are none of you posting today. I think that there will be about 15 or so overs for England to see out. Lets hope they dont lose any wickets.

[greg]

I bet we blow it now and lose 2 or 3 wickets before the close.

Superb bowling performance by Harmison and Panesar but 244 after winning the toss is pathetic.

[gibbs_fan]

We are under way and already Lee has gone for 2 fours off his first 2 deliveries. I would have liked to have seen Johnson in for Lee as Lee rarely bowls match winning spells (except against Bangladesh).

[Rachael]

Originally Posted by greg

To sum up how well Monty has done.Warne has played 11 tests at Perth without getting 5 wickets in an innings and Monty has done it in his first innings on a day 1 track [...] Monty has made Fletcher look a complete idiot and if we lose the ashes he must fall on his sword for backing Giles.

This is pure romanticism: Panesar has just bowled his worst spells in Test cricket. Warne has almost certainly NEVER bowled as badly... and Panesar has NOT bowled as well as Giles did in the first two Tests.

Giles has sent down thousands of balls like the one that took Langer... and had Giles been the bowler we'd have heard lots of people expressing disgust that a straight ball which neither turned not bounced was allowed to hit the stumps.

The Symonds dismissal was off a very, very poor ball: Giles has bowled hundreds of better balls in the series to date.

The Gilchrist delivery was Monty's best dismissal of the day... but it was a classic "Giles" ball (good bounce, negligible turn).

Warne's dismissal was about as ridiculous as Symond's dismissal: a poor, nothing ball and a pathetic bit of batting from a batsman who was batting like a bear with a sore head.

Lee's dismissal was just another typical Giles delivery: as with the Gilchrist delivery... it was a typical of most Giles deliveries of the series to date.

In between these very ordinary deliveries... Panesar gifted runs at an alarming rate, serving up more bad balls in one day than he has done in entire Test matches in the past: the 92 runs he's conceded are not unrepresentative of his wayardness.

He's a lot better bowler than he's looked today and I'm sure that in futurehe'll bowl far better without taking a single wicket!

[greg]

Rachael you never cease to amaze me.Please take your head from the clouds and admit you were wrong for a change.

Giles would not have skittled out Australia for 244,maybe the Aussies got mesmorised playing the aura like England did with Warne in Adelaide?

[Collyisamackem]

Originally Posted by Rachael

Symond's

Ignoring the hopelessly inaccurate analysis of Panesar's bowling, which took wickets through variety in flight and turn (for the small amount there was on a day 1 pitch) and in the case of Lee held its line perfectly to a very competent batsman, that should be Symonds'.

[gibbs_fan]

Rachael, I wont even take the time to respond to your comments. Please give credit where it is due. You talk about the straight ball of Monty that got Langer. It was brilliant. You cannot compare it to Giles as Giles only has the straight ball. Montys straight ball was the surprise delivery. Rachael, do you post solely with the purpose of producing arguments.

I think that the Aussies got over confident again. Reminds me of the first ashes tes, where Australia were bowled out on the first day and we saw McGrath coming out to mark his runup. His arrogance made him think that there was no way that Australia would be bowling on the first day LOL.

Strauss is looking very determined out there.