encalmo wrote:
And for god's sake England, get Panesar and Mahmood in the team - do you think you could do much worse with them?

The selectors obviously didn't heed your advice.

Mama Clortho wrote:*coughs*

Hmmmm, I've been waiting for this.

Humiliating. Battered by an incredible side, but jesus boys, look like you want to be there. I was shocked by the lack of stomach and fight on display. Harmison admitted he just wanted to go home about three weeks ago. Disgraceful. And then he retires from one day, just before the World Cup in conditions that suit him perfectly. Somebody needs a summer of county cricket to remind him where the stumps are.

Hopefully we'll learn not to rely on unfit players who haven't played for six months to carry the side in future.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 236559.stm

Oh.

Fair play to the Aussies. Warne, McGrath, Ponting and Hussey (oh shit) in particular.

hip priest wrote:Hopefully we'll learn not to rely on unfit players who haven't played for six months to carry the side in future.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 236559.stm

Oh.

Talk about waiting for the other shoe to drop. You can just see it, can't you. An unnecessary hurried single, an innocuous pick up in the field, even leaving the now-desperate-looking huddle a bit too pumped up, and the knee will go and Vaughn'll be there on his arse, looking miserable as the physio grimaces, and we'll be even deeper in the shit.

hip priest wrote:Fair play to the Aussies. Warne, McGrath, Ponting and Hussey (oh shit) in particular.

Also to Stuart Clark. Nothing fancy, but a damn sight better than any of the England seamers (OK, Hoggard gets an exemption). Still, we had Mahmood. Oh. It all flashes back all too easily.

I was also impressed by the Aussie repsonse to Panesar after a dodgy start. They certainly gave him the much vaunted Aussie "fair go".

Gallingly, Symonds comes across as a totally decent pleasant and rather shy bloke (obsessed with fishing) rather than the belligerent thug his batting and fielding suggest. Born in Brum - can't think why he's wasting his time with Australia. Oh. Again. Oh. Oh. Oh.