Story Englands attempts to become the best (ICC2006 Ashes Edition)

[Leicester Fox]

as Joe mcdonald isnt here ( Leicster_fox) i will say WHERE IS STUART BROAD just for him?

good question we need him looking at the runs Australia made in the first innings!

 

[plympilgrim]

nice work sureshot, like a proper story book story

 

[Simbazz]

SS nice to see a story from yourself

I'll add my advice, give KP atleast 10 overs over the 2 innings, he'll be a bit expensive but he'll pick up atleast 2 wickets!

 

[Sureshot]

Our 1st innings score was 574-5 declared btw. Warne 3-146 and McGrath 2-130 were the only wicket takers.

With the arduous task of taking 20 wickets without the injured Flintoff and thus only having a 4 man attack we began the innings searching for wickets. Hoggard took some early wickets as did Plunkett. Watson (107) and Gilchrist (70) put on over 100 runs to frustrate me. We ended bowling them out for 388 with Lee making 38 to avoid the follow on. Hoggard 4-76 was the pick of the bowlers, Plunkett 3-85 and Harmison with 2 and Monty with a solitary wickets. Jaques also chipped in with 88 for Australia.

We came out to bat wanting to set around 400 for Australia to win. Cook was the mainstay of the innings with 93, Plunkett 39, Tres and Strauss chipped in with 33 and 27 at the top of the order respectively to get us of to a good start. We declared on 254-7 with Warne taking 4-90.

We took an early wicket after about 50 runs, that wicket was of Hussey (chasing 430 for the win), Ponting came in and made 77 before getting caught off of the bowling of Plunkett, Liam's only wicket of the innings. Langer made 81 to frustrate me trying to get them all out before the end of the day. With the 2nd new ball we grabbed a wicket with Hoggard and Harmison grabbing one each. With both those bowlers low on energy I turned to Panesar with a hard, new ball. He took 3 wickets at the end of the innings to help us scrape home by 92 runs with only 13 minutes of the 5th day left!

Panesar 4-66, Harmison 3-80 and Hoggard 3-111 were the main wicket takers.

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g271/MightyRed/2ndTest.jpg

We have a friendly vs Victoria before the 3rd test. I shall hopefully chose on Flintoffs replacement in that game. I'll probably rest some of the bowlers and the batsman.

 

[PhilD123]

Nice win.

You really need to win at Perth to put the pressure on them for the Melbourne and Sydney tests.

 

[Jaztheman]

nice update SS loooing forward for more wins with england against Australia

 

[puddleduck]

Sureshot rest anyone in good form, as the friendly can only do them more harm than good

 

[plympilgrim]

great win, plunkett not doin much with the ball though

 

[puddleduck]

Just wondering mate how Panesar and Hoggy & Harmy took 10 wickets between them in the second innings if Plunkett got Ponting?

 

[Jaztheman]

Just wondering mate how Panesar and Hoggy & Harmy took 10 wickets between them in the second innings if Plunkett got Ponting?

:rtfl good point puddle?

 

[PhilD123]

It must have been Hoggy who only got 2 as Harmy's and Panesar's figures are in the screenshot.

 

[Sureshot]

Just wondering mate how Panesar and Hoggy & Harmy took 10 wickets between them in the second innings if Plunkett got Ponting?

Maybe he didn't...

No he definitely didn't. Plunkett has about 10 near misses per match so far.

great win, plunkett not doin much with the ball though

No he's not, but he is an important No.8.

I'll give his contenders (and himself) a game vs Victoria.

 

[puddleduck]

Yeah he seems to be doing a good job with the bat does Plunkers, one for the future and all that. If he's getting a load of near misses then a bit of form should see him start picking up wickets.

 

[Jaztheman]

looking forward to your experiment in the next game against Victoria

 

[Sureshot]

Me too.

Going to have great fun with the selection issues. I'm amazed I won the last game without Fred. He was in such good form with the bat. 250 runs in 3 innings!