Geoffrey's view


2nd Test, day five, Adelaide. England (620/5d) beat Australia (245 & 304) by an innings and 71 runs
It was a fantastic performance by England and fully deserved, as they have outplayed Australia in all departments.
They had a quiet belief that they were the better team, and they played better cricket. Our batsmen were patient, disciplined and ruthless when they got in, and most importantly did not give it away with bad shots.
James Anderson swung the new ball, which was a huge factor in getting early wickets in the Australian first innings and in the second innings with the second new ball. On a dry turning pitch Graeme Swann was always going to bowl them out. I have played in Adelaide many times and never seen it turn as much in a Test match as it did in this one.
The Australian batsmen only seem to know one way to play and that is to score runs. In trying to save the match, Mike Hussey’s shot was appalling and let England into the tail very early on. The tables have turned from four years ago when we were in disarray and our selections were poor. Now it is the Australians' turn to take some pain and grief, because they have got some big question marks about a few of their players and whether they should be picked for the third Test in Perth.
Remember, they gave us plenty of stick four years ago, so don’t shed any tears for them.
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Stat of the day: England were the first team to beat Australia by an innings on their own soil since the West Indies did it in 1993.
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Brilliant performace. Loved Pontings wicket great catch from Colly.

Micky Arthur says send for rlMarshrl - Rod?

Apparently Richie Benaud has commented that he's disappointed with the whole clamour to bring back Warne, primarily because he wasn't approached to make a comeback first

Aussie squad smacks of panic as they bring in yet another SLA bowler, this time with even less experience than Doherty: news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 274782.stm

Aussie squad smacks of panic as they bring in yet another SLA bowler, this time with even less experience than Doherty: news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 274782.stm

Well, nobody put their name up in lights to replace Broad in the Victoria game so I'm guessing they'll go like for like in terms of style and bring in Tremlett.

It's looking like that.
Let's hope for England's sake that he (a) lasts the 5 days & (b) does the business with the ball.
For this one it will be early mornings to watch the last session rather than late nights to catch the pre-lunch session.

what time starts will it be?

From 2am on Sky, times of play should be 2.30 - 4.30, 5.10 - 7.10, 7.30 - 9.30

cheers, might be doing the last hour before tea, then a bit of 5 live sports xtra at work

Swannys video blogs are good to watch on YouTube.

Seems odds on that Tremlett will replace Broad. Let's hope he lasts the 5 days. The weather certainly should, slight risk of rain. weather.thewest.yahoo.com.au/loc ... /wa/Perth/

Seems odds on that Tremlett will replace Broad. Let's hope he lasts the 5 days. The weather certainly should, slight risk of rain. weather.thewest.yahoo.com.au/loc ... /wa/Perth/

Good score to wake up to, looks like Tremlett has done well too.

yep - would have taken all of that before we started, sounds like we bowled some tosh at the tail though and maybe gave them 40/50 more than we might.