Haddin gone early doors - cracking stuff

a bit of colly trundle

Yet again tho we let their tail off the hook.
I don't understand why they don't pepper Johnson with chin music.
Likewise a sucker punch saw KP's downfall.
Good knocks from Cook & Strauss & I suppose Trott was due a failure.
I hope we can get up to 400 tonight to build a decent lead.
We may need it.

Didn't hear him say it, but i'll paraphrase what i read elsewhere, old whispering death said to bowl tailenders out, bowl wicket taking deliveries, don't set traps, plans, tempters, bowl good balls at the wickets and corridor of uncertainty.

that man knows what he's talking about, so it'll do for me.

Sounded like Strauss was in great nick but got a good ball from Hilfenhaus, hopefully Cook will go on, not always great at picking up where he left off though

That's exactly what Mikey said, they also showed all the balls bowled at Hilfenhaus just before lunch & only 2 would have hit the wickets!!
I too don't understand why you'd bowl differently at tailenders to what you do at the so-called proper batsmen, unless you start to get clouted round the ground.
I've always thought that well directed Yorkers should be hard for them to deal with, it works in the one-day game vs the tail.

Completely agree Foxy/OF a bit of a let down after another impeccable bowling display i still think we'll have too much for them though if stay solid for the 1st hour or so toninght.

cheating aussie filth

What happened Foxy?

You've probably seen it now, but Hughes 'caught' Cook when on 99 but it clearly bounced. Looked terrible on review, warne has been trying to talk it down, saying they weren't appealing, but I am not buying it

Yeah i've seen it now mate and i agree it was blatant

Just to add Cook has been Englands player of the series imo in a great squad effort and Bell and prior look to be a completely different players.

Cook is in great nick, looked very confident all series. Just been on sky news he has scored the most runs by a England batter in one series since 1925 second all time. And is the English man who has spent the most time in the crease

Agree, Hughes "catch" was dreadful, just shows how desparate they are to get him out.
Bell got away with one too which didn't amuse the Aussies.
I'm really pleased he scored a ton against them at last since he's currently the English batsman that I most like to watch.
Cook has been truly great & Prior comes in late on to rub salt into their wounds.
Brlliant!!
Come on England finish the job over the next two days.

from beeb

"In Paul Collingwood's last Test match, England are on the verge of a unique feat in Test cricket. Each of the top six have scored in excess of 10,000 first class runs and, as I write, Matt Prior is just 9 runs short (58 n.o 9,994 runs). A Test top seven with 10,000 f-c runs under their belt - how special is that!?"