Brisbane Day 3
Right this is what's happened! We won the Ashes and in the same way that the rugby team won the world cup, everybody sat back on their laurels and forgot to concentrate on the next chapter. The consequence is the Aussies regrouped, won 11 out of the next 12 and we stumbled badly through 2006.
It's clear that not only are the Aussies more determined to win, but they want to humiliate us in the process. They are more attacking than us, playing better cricket than us and showing more fire then us. In fact Chobham 2nd XI could give this England team a decent game the way that there going about it.
Apart from Belly and Jones the glove, the other members of the team have thoroughly let their country down. It is a considerable embarrassement and thoroughly unenjoyable to have to sit through this nonsense. On the plus side we did let the Aussies get the first test last time and Flintoff got a duck in the first innings, so who knows if history will repeat itself?
Anderson is totally out of his depth. Harmison looks like's he's missing his winter home in Ashington and Flintoff is really struggling to get the basics of captaincy right. Vaughan had clear plans to stop all the Aussie batsmen and employed them to great effect, Freddie is leaving massive gaps in key places in the field and not changing anything to counteract the attacking Aussie batting.
can somebody please pass the butter knife???
Anyhow not wanting to be too despondent, it is a 5 match series and there's plenty of chance for us to put things right in the next 4. We could bat for two days and save this one. We might get a minor miracle and get the first rain in this drought-ridden town for the first time in 18 months? Fletcher might realise that one of his best bowler's is sat on the sidelines tweeking his turban. It's a good job that we played Gilo for his extra runs isn't now!
As you can tell, you don't find me in very good spirits...so I'm off to the nearest English pub, to drink english beer and speak to english people who don't wear lifeguard caps or port ridiculous Merv Hughes moustaches.
Up the Monty
It's clear that not only are the Aussies more determined to win, but they want to humiliate us in the process. They are more attacking than us, playing better cricket than us and showing more fire then us. In fact Chobham 2nd XI could give this England team a decent game the way that there going about it.
Apart from Belly and Jones the glove, the other members of the team have thoroughly let their country down. It is a considerable embarrassement and thoroughly unenjoyable to have to sit through this nonsense. On the plus side we did let the Aussies get the first test last time and Flintoff got a duck in the first innings, so who knows if history will repeat itself?
Anderson is totally out of his depth. Harmison looks like's he's missing his winter home in Ashington and Flintoff is really struggling to get the basics of captaincy right. Vaughan had clear plans to stop all the Aussie batsmen and employed them to great effect, Freddie is leaving massive gaps in key places in the field and not changing anything to counteract the attacking Aussie batting.
can somebody please pass the butter knife???
Anyhow not wanting to be too despondent, it is a 5 match series and there's plenty of chance for us to put things right in the next 4. We could bat for two days and save this one. We might get a minor miracle and get the first rain in this drought-ridden town for the first time in 18 months? Fletcher might realise that one of his best bowler's is sat on the sidelines tweeking his turban. It's a good job that we played Gilo for his extra runs isn't now!
As you can tell, you don't find me in very good spirits...so I'm off to the nearest English pub, to drink english beer and speak to english people who don't wear lifeguard caps or port ridiculous Merv Hughes moustaches.
Up the Monty
posted by Ant | 8:26 am
1 Comments:
bally
i feel really sorry for you, stuck out there in the wonderful sunshine, watching cricket[however embarrasing it is]every day.it must be awful, where as im sitting hear at 4pm its dark and extreemly wet watching england losing to the springboks at rugby, i know where id rather be so if you dont like it lets swap, chin up we always lose the first test, they'll get too cocky warne and mcgrath will get injured and we'll be fine.
cheers
sir Richard
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