The Ashes. 2013/14

[doctordb]

So it starts all over again tonight.

Can Cook and the boys keep hold of the little urn? Confident or not? What are your predictions?

[ChillDoubt]

KP leads England out for his 100th Test Match and it'll be Anderson to get things underway.
Here we go......

[ChillDoubt]

After a maiden to start, Broad is booed like the pantomime villain as he is announced over the loudspeaker. Shocking no ball, sign that the nerves are there regardless of his experience.

[ChillDoubt]

Edge drops short of Bell, Aus move to 12-0, or 0-12 if you're Australian.

[ChillDoubt]

And the panto villain strikes! Rodgers caught in the gully.
Wonder if they'll boo Broad a bit more and gee him up further?

[ChillDoubt]

Another edge just beats Carberry for height.
England probing the Oz batsmen as Watson gets a leading edge.
They're living dangerously.....

[joggerjayne]

I suppose this goes on all night?

[Wharton]

No' up here it disnae

[joggerjayne]

Something up here at Disney?

[Wharton]

The Paris Disney has been closed on Health & Safety grounds. Huge mice found running about everywhere. This is better than the cricket, eh?

[ChillDoubt]

It certainly does JJ.
I'll be awake till about 2.30, would stay up all night but have work tomorrow.

[Wharton]

What's the difference between Bing Crosby & Walt Disney?
Bing sings but Walt disnae.

[joggerjayne]

It's not cricket ...
.

[Wharton]

For those of you listening in black & white, it's 38 for 1.

[ChillDoubt]

That's the first hour gone and after a frenetic start it's honours fairly even as the Aussies move to 42-1.
Warner moving along steadily, Watson more circumspect.
Drinks break.

[Wharton]

42 for 1

[ChillDoubt]

Tremlett proves decidedly ineffectual on what is a very flat track.
England go to Swann, never a dull moment. He's gone for a 4 second ball, he tends to come back with a bit of bite after being despatched in that manner.
It'll be interesting, that's for sure.

[Wharton]

54 for 1

[Cloverjo]

What were the Aussies chanting about Stuart Broad?

[ChillDoubt]

They've got him labelled as a cheat for not walking in the summer.
Bit rich coming from a country infamous for never walking, bar the great Adam Gilchrist.

It is for the umpire to decide whether or not the batsman is out, he is not obliged to give his wicket away.
The 'holier than thou' attitude is galling TBH, given the antics of Ponting during a couple of Ashes series.

[jno]

slight advantage to the Aussies at the moment, which is why the spinner's on before lunch on Day 1. Tremlett is as unthreatening as anyone looking like Boris Karloff can be.