1st Test: England v Australia

[TruSachFan]

Clarke drops Pieterson. Very tough chances but he should have taken it.

 

[Howsie]

Clarke drops Pieterson. Very tough chances but he should have taken it.

Woah. That's a little tough.

 

[King Pietersen]

Hopefully Prior'll get a few. Love watching him bat, most aesthetically pleasing batsman in the England side for me, now that Bell's gone anyway. Ravi's normally nice to watch, but today he was in horrible form.

 

[evertonfan]

He's been on the international scene for nearly 5 years now and still some people haven't grasped onto the fact that it's PietersEn.

 

[Mercules]

Colly you twat; I go out for a couple of hours and we do fine. Then I come back just to see the partnership broken :

 

[jazz]

And we have the first dodgy umpiring decision for the Ashes 09. Now that is a ball Hilfy should bowl more.

That’s why I said earlier on the ICC should really get rid of this neutral umpire policy. Decisions like that can affect games. Big series like this really should have the best umpires in the world

 

[Howsie]

Hopefully Prior'll get a few. Love watching him bat, most aesthetically pleasing batsman in the England side for me, now that Bell's gone anyway. Ravi's normally nice to watch, but today he was in horrible form.

That little poke at the ball was nice, it was very much like Bell

 

[King Pietersen]

Cover drive on the up and the flick through the leg-side were nice as well =] Can't see why Prior shouldn't succeed against the best, he's very good technically, and as I said earlier, I believe he's the best batsman-keeper since Stewart.

 

[aussie1st]

That’s why I said earlier on the ICC should really get rid of this neutral umpire policy. Decisions like that can affect games. Big series like this really should have the best umpires in the world

Agree probably is time. Although with the referral system coming in October we should see a drop in these errors allowing the ICC to kept their neutral policy.

If only Siddle was a bit faster, Prior might have missed that.

 

[evertonfan]

About that KP decision by the way; Umpires don't get to see all the replays we get and they only get the one live instance of it. And in this case it looked like KP hit the ball live so you can understand why he didn't give it.

But at the end of the day, you'll still win 5-0.

 

[Howsie]

He's been on the international scene for nearly 5 years now and still some people haven't grasped onto the fact that it's PietersEn.

I wonder how many guys in the Sky team could spell his name right

Siddle is starting to get some very nice swing.

 

[King Pietersen]

Yeh, I didn't think it was out on first glance because of the 2 noises.

 

[jazz]

Agree probably is time. Although with the referral system coming in October we should see a drop in these errors allowing the ICC to kept their neutral policy.

If only Siddle was a bit faster, Prior might have missed that.

Well lets hope the referral system doesn't waste too much time. Why aren?t they using it for this series?

 

[evertonfan]

I wonder how many guys in the Sky team could spell his name right

All of them.

 

[Howsie]

All of them.

Oh that's right he's English. Names like Hughes and Johnson they would have no idea about