Swanny's video diary www.ecbtv.co.uk/video/20101118/s ... 52_2224425

Swanny's video diary www.ecbtv.co.uk/video/20101118/s ... 52_2224425

aussie test 13
Watson
Katich
Ponting
Clarke
Hussey
North
Haddin
Johnson
Doherty
Siffle
Hilfenhaus
Bollinger
Smith


Doherty for Hauritz the big shout

I really don't see anything to fear in that line up Foxy and agree with Beefy in his Mirror column that if we play to our potential we batter them simple as that.

hope so - lots of decent players, but missing the beasts of old, Hayden, Langer, Gilly, Warney, McGrathy who were proper top class

tremlett bowling well at the moment, great leave by smith for a golden.

Yep and the "next big thing" Paine gone for 2!
The awe of an aussie line up has long gone mate imo and it shows with their own press turning on them.

Good knock from Bell & good to see Bresnan bowling well too.

He was unlucky not to get a couple of wickets 'early doors' last night.

if anyone would like to have a go at an ashes prediction game here is one from the excellent sport guru prediction site and it is free. Come join my pool in SportGuru, the ultimate Winter Cricket prediction game! It's easy - just go to the website and enter the pool code bileclub to join my pool, ashes 2010. Website: www.sportguru.co.uk/wintercricket Pool code: bileclub Pool name: ashes 2010 regards

if anyone would like to have a go at an ashes prediction game here is one from the excellent sport guru prediction site and it is free. Come join my pool in SportGuru, the ultimate Winter Cricket prediction game! It's easy - just go to the website and enter the pool code bileclub to join my pool, ashes 2010. Website: www.sportguru.co.uk/wintercricket Pool code: bileclub Pool name: ashes 2010 regards

Just over 37 hours to go now.
Bring it on!!!!

PS Any chance we can have this as a sticky?
I'm sure there are as many interested in this as in the NFL which does have its own sticky.

Yeah this should definitely be sticky wicky. Looking forward to it now.

Maybe if we talked more about cake it would have a better chance of being "stickified", after all it's the dominant area for discussion on TMS - especially chocolate cake.

mmmmmm cake


can't wait for tonight..

It's all on foxy........Bring it on.

The Aussies name their team: news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/9214703.stm Clarke & Siddle in, no place for Bollinger.

The Aussies name their team: news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/9214703.stm Clarke & Siddle in, no place for Bollinger.

45 minutes

Start.

great start

Oops, not really the big start Cap wanted. Even in Norway at 1:20am I can't stop reading TMS...

Good job we have streaky boundaries from Trotty through the slips.

Could be a long night...

track is a bit a green, doing a bit, just need to stick about for now

Track is a bit green, looks like some of the batsmen have been as well. Siddle Hat-Trick on the first day of an Ashes series, have they forgotten to take the bats out to the middle with them?????

Oh well, at least the British press will be kind

Not a good 1st day. Would be nice to keep the Aussies near the 300 mark in day 2.

Our burglar alarm went off about about 5 something , did a score check, 190-4, back to sleep quite content, imagine my surprise.....

I thought Collingwood,Pieterson,Trott and Prior gave their wickets cheaply but i'm sure Broad ,Anderson and Finn can replicate the damage Siddel did to us [plus we have Swann so it's far from over althouth there 's an element of disappointment.

I was actually quite shocked with Siddles hattrick when I woke up. Didn't expect that at all guess that's what the Ashes is for though the unexpected. I saw Strauss go last night and thought OMFG we better not just collapse. Went to bed soon after that and put TMS on in the bedroom. That went off air at 8 and I woke up at 9.30 though. I'll watch the ITV4 highlights tonight before the next days play.

We're just lulling the Aussies into a false state of security.