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[Number4]

I think England is playing great just how I want them to perform

[joeljonno]

I think England is playing great just how I want them to perform

TBH, they are not doing too bad, apart from their batting, bowling and fielding, they are doing alright.

[ProCricketer1982]

England played bloody brilliantly... Except for the batting, catching and the bowling. Apart from that, top day

[FattusCattus]

We're going to win tomorrow. Broad's going to have one of 'those' spells, and we're going to squeak it.

However, if heads don't roll after this pathetic shambles then my name's not Gloria Pombasher!

[procricket]

Some of them players are surely playing for there futures at this level

[Number4]

I think it will be a very interesting chase tomorrow... Could go either way

[Alvaro]

We're going to win tomorrow. Broad's going to have one of 'those' spells, and we're going to squeak it.

However, if heads don't roll after this pathetic shambles then my name's not Gloria Pombasher!

I thought it was Plumbasher?

[ProCricketer1982]

Some of them players are surely playing for there futures at this level

You'd hope so. As someone said earlier, if we performed this badly for a prolonged period at work we'd be fired .


Aus don't seem to want this game quite as much so England could still win but they shouldn't really if aus perform like the first three tests.

[joeljonno]

We're going to win tomorrow. Broad's going to have one of 'those' spells, and we're going to squeak it.

However, if heads don't roll after this pathetic shambles then my name's not Gloria Pombasher!

Who exactly?

Flower? Cook? Backroom staff?

How about, if there are no major changes after this series, you change your name on here to that (for a period of time)?

[cleanbowled]

Anything could happen tomorrow of course, but Australia should win - the pitch looked pretty flat today. If they were chasing 350 or 400 it could have been very different. England just don't have enough runs in the bank in my opinion.

Alot of the batting was very poor, but if I was an England fan I would have been particularly upset with the likes of Bell (being arguably the best/in form batsman at the moment in the team). Not sure what Carberry was doing, but 12 of 85 balls on that wicket was crap. I thought KP played pretty well, just ran out of support. Bairstow looks to have a few technical issues. Broad's batting is a complete mess at the moment, he used to be fairly solid in the lower order, same can be said about Tim Bresnan. Stokes played a reckless shot, but you can maybe put that down to inexperience. Broad almost seemed that he'd rather be out than face Johnson again.

[FattusCattus]

I thought it was Plumbasher?

Not since I fashioned my own box from an old Fray Bentos tin!

[FattusCattus]

Who exactly?

Flower? Cook? Backroom staff?

How about, if there are no major changes after this series, you change your name on here to that (for a period of time)?

Flower yes. Cook as captain possibly. Root and Bell to swap. Gooch as batting coach, Anderson and KP to tests only,

And yes, you get a mod to agree it and I would happily change my name on here if there were no major changes - that would be a disgrace and a farragio!

[procricket]

Chopra might get a chance with Robson.

I have watched and watched i love my cricket side by this is a joke our batting is very poor

[beaver5]

Vaughan says you can't blame Gooch for the poor batting. Despite being one of my all time hero's I totally disagree and can't see how he can stay. Our lower order batting has been appalling for sometime and that has to be down to him as they don't play their cricket anywhere else other than with England. The Aussie's last wicket put on 40+ and yet our entire lower order get skittled time and time again. As soon as Bairstow went you knew we wouldn't get to 200 but even I didn't think it would be that quick and lame. 

More than likely we will now lose this game. If Balance, Rankin, Finn and Borthwick don't get a game in the 5th test then they should sack the lot of them.

[smilley792]

What has happened to broad? His ton against Pakistan made him look like a player with huge potential to be an allrounder.

Now he looks like a bunny, lucky to get into double figures?


Anderson was night watchman not long ago, but there's no way you'd send him in on current form?

And swann(although retired now anyway) used to slap his way to 30plus for fun at the ne of most innings.


How can 3 players abilities drop so dramatically (less so for Anderson) in such a short period of time?

Are the being coached correctly?