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[Aussie In England]

Rubbish!

12 digs without a Test 50 for Pup...get more Victorians in the side!

[idontlikecricket]

  Boo, rain rain go away! Also, how many ground staff do they have? a veritable army just appeared running those covers on.

[uknsaunders]

Not surprised it's doing a bit. Last 3 days in the warwickshire area there has been a fair amount of rain and not much sun to dry it off. Looking out the window it looks a nice day to bowl - not very warm, plenty of cloud cover etc. At club level you would be bowling first 9 times out of 10!

[ch1p]

Fantastic start to the day for England, nice to see Finn back

[L21]

end is in sight for Michael Clarke's career. His batting doesn't have it anymore.

Couldn't agree more, has been struggling for a while now.

I expected him to call it a day when his back last played up.

Just a swan song series for him. Can't see the Aussies sticking with him much longer, they never liked him in the first place.

[L21]

I can't understand why we are going to have lunch at 1:00pm.

We have just been off the pitch for half an hour, I am sure the players probably grabbed a banana and a drink.

What is the point in this 25 minute session before lunch?

We will now get nowhere near the 90 overs for the day. Why not take lunch at 1:30 just to get a few overs back and then delay tea slightly.

Yes they can extend the day but not enough to catch up with what we have lost.

Does not making good viewing.   

[ppccopener]

Couldn't agree more, has been struggling for a while now.

I expected him to call it a day when his back last played up.

Just a swan song series for him. Can't see the Aussies sticking with him much longer, they never liked him in the first place.

if the rumours are true, he is the most unpopular captain out there, whether they are or not who knows but he is hiding a chronic back condition-it must be worse than he says and time is nearly up.
But as an English cricket fan I can appreciate class and he has been an excellent batsmen and a successful Captain.
If he does call it a day recalls for mike hussey and he other left hander ive forgotten his name!!

[ppccopener]

Katich!

[joeljonno]

I can't understand why we are going to have lunch at 1:00pm.

We have just been off the pitch for half an hour, I am sure the players probably grabbed a banana and a drink.

What is the point in this 25 minute session before lunch?

We will now get nowhere near the 90 overs for the day. Why not take lunch at 1:30 just to get a few overs back and then delay tea slightly.

Yes they can extend the day but not enough to catch up with what we have lost.

Does not making good viewing.

Whether you take lunch now or later, you'll still be off the pitch for 40 minutes.  Therefore you can either bowl them now or later but you will catch up over the 5 days by extending a number of days.

[L21]

Yes, but the time they have lost by going in and out twice in 20 minutes is greater than the time lost if you extended the sessions.

[skip1973]

Good toss to lose so far.

[csnew]

Keeps getting better, 5 down!

[ppccopener]

Birmingham is rocking.

we are on fire.So pleased for Steve Finn-when he gets it right it's awesome

Great morning for bowling first

[Akewstick]

Can I shamelessly quote myself from a post I made a week ago for "I told you so" purposes?

I'm not saying it's not worth looking at the line up this closely, but in my mind there's a much bigger culprit in this series - the pitches!

Give us something with some life in it and perhaps our world class seamers can do their job properly, and we might see how well our batsmen do without 500+ on the board and having spent two days looking at Steve Smith's boring face.

Added to that: that the reason we supposedly want to play on dead pitches is no one in the country believes any of our batsmen have the nouce to stand up to Johnson? It's a pathetic approach to competetive sport and I'm sure the english top order are insulted by having to go along with it.

Edit: Post will be redacted should Johnson skittle us for under 50 before 6 o'clock.

[calcurtis98]

I go and have my haircut at 53/3 and come back and it's 99/7!