If anyone who said test cricket is boring, watch the Ashes now !!

[bbbandit]

That's the worrying thing, this match is so winnable and they haven't done much. If we can't chase down 311, in two days, on the most docile pitch in test history, we'll have thrown it away and the series will be gone ..... no way we will be in a position to win another two tests as comfortably, and any confidence we had will take a battering. Simply have to win this one tonight.

Not sure the pitch is as docile as you say. Its definitely slow, but looks to be a bit up and down. Might crumble some more today and help Swann. The top came off a few deliveries yesterday around the footmarks.

I think Australia will struggle... even with some more Agar heroics, at 174/6, 311 is a long, long way away!

[pepefirstlove]

206/6 now. Need 105 runs to win. Great start hope I don't jinx ^_^

[pepefirstlove]

@#&* Damn the pom got a wicket :-[

[AHLUNGOR]

29 to win !!

[Punter Poontang]

This is excruciating, can hardly watch.

C'mon boys!!!

[AHLUNGOR]

22 more boys !

[AHLUNGOR]

Broad is a pig, first he won't walk, now he is time wasting !!

[pepefirstlove]

How long is lunch? I'm not a cricket fan.. But this is one epic test match.

[asiafever]

40 mins for lunch.

[AHLUNGOR]

What a morning session for Brad Haddin, 69 and going strong!

20 more runs to win!!

If we only have one more wicket in hand, we will be odds on to take this.

Now I think it's even money!

Can we hang on for another 4 to 5 good overs with runs before England can bowl that one good ball !

Nobody is leaving !!

Go boys ! Make your country proud !!

[AHLUNGOR]

This is it!

Here we go !

[AHLUNGOR]

15 to win !

Haddin keeps the strike !

[AHLUNGOR]

Bloody DRS !!

Just 14 runs short!

Great effort boys, you have done what you can and fight bravely to the end!

Lets do better at Lords !

James Anderson 10 wickets simply too good!

Cheers

[Punter Poontang]

Ugh. We needed to knock those runs off before lunch, was always gonna be hard to go again after the break.

Genuinely fear that's as close as we'll get to them throughout the series. :-(

[AHLUNGOR]

Just one more point, we are competitive in both innings and it will do our young boys no harm to their confidence !

How good is our 10th wicket partnership in both innings !!

If only that lunch break was another half an hour later !!

[Oneonone]

Two innings and both times the so called tail a non batsman top scored. We need a decent batsman the ones we got are useless.

Clarke Hopeless, Watson playing across the line first ball after a break they just have no idea no dedication or commitment and the less said about the others the better.

[Irene638]

Two innings and both times the so called tail a non batsman top scored. We need a decent batsman the ones we got are useless.

Clarke Hopeless, Watson playing across the line first ball after a break they just have no idea no dedication or commitment and the less said about the others the better.

I Must agreed with you there Bro. Our batmans should go back and learn how to bat with our bowlers. Look at Agar, he knew exactly what he wanted to do every ball and play with full of confident for both innings.

In MHO, they must drop Ed Cowan, keep the same bowlers and put Warner at number 5 or 6 push Michael Clarke in number 3 and move Agar to number 8 or 9.

We need a game changer such as Adam Gilchrist and David Warner is capable of doing that.

[Travelmate]

I Must agreed with you there Bro. Our batmans should go back and learn how to bat with our bowlers. Look at Agar, he knew exactly what he wanted to do every ball and play with full of confident for both innings.

In MHO, they must drop Ed Cowan, keep the same bowlers and put Warner at number 5 or 6 push Michael Clarke in number 3 and move Agar to number 8 or 9.

We need a game changer such as Adam Gilchrist and David Warner is capable of doing that.

I am a devil. paying $1.75 for Australia to lose is a good outcome for me.
They need 20 runs to win and blow it last night

[AHLUNGOR]

I am a devil. paying $1.75 for Australia to lose is a good outcome for me.
They need 20 runs to win and blow it last night

No, you are not a devil, you are a traitor !! But nevertheless a very smart gambler, may be that's why you always win and I always lost ! (just look at where the Brisbane Broncos is at the ladder !!)

But then again, my bet @$3.65 for an Aussie win was only 14 runs away !! It was so close, I thought my rocket to the Moon could finally cum off !!

I hope Queensland will put me back in front on Wednesday night !!

Cheers

[AHLUNGOR]

Two innings and both times the so called tail a non batsman top scored. We need a decent batsman the ones we got are useless.

Clarke Hopeless, Watson playing across the line first ball after a break they just have no idea no dedication or commitment and the less said about the others the better.

Well, I have been a long time Clarkey fans, so I am not ready to give up on the Captain yet, but he needs a big century very quickly to restort some respects back into the batting line up.

I think we had lost the first test in the first innings:

Even when our bowlers had restricted England to only 215, our batsmen let us down!

A team who batted like this really don't deserved to win any test:

Cowan 0
Clarke 0
Haddin 1
Siddle 1
Starc 0
Pattison 2 !!!!!!

We were 9 for bloody hell 117 - what were they thinking !!

From there, the feel good story started to happen, the Agar and Hughes show was fairytale stuff, which put us right back on top.

From then on, we have plenty of chances to street away and win the test comfortably but we only have some individual fighting spirits in some of us, as a team, we are way behind England. Clarke had made some terrible decision with the review - in comparison to Cook's match winning review !!

Then we have the Broad - not walking (with no review left !!), dropping of Bell, and ............... well, too many to recall anyway.

Yeap, I agree, drop Cowan, bring Warner back into the side, he can provide some X factor in the middle order, and DON'T GIVE UP !!

Cheers