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This has recently been given the Greek symbol zeta, ζ by top boffins.

It's value is a constant multiplied by (90 - minutes Porter appears on the pitch/Dodds age)

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Rush of blood from Collingwood going for glory, but good work from him until that point. Again Flintoff fails with the bat. Nice work from KP though I suppose :thumbup: I'd have to think though that we'll be all out before lunch tomorrow, even if they are supposed to have bad weather over there.

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o would piss myself if it rained all day tomorow.. what is the forecast??

According to BBC Weather:

Monday is the final day of the 1st Ashes Test, and England's cricketers will be hoping for rain. An evening thunderstorm is possible, but otherwise it will continue hot and sunny, rising to 33°C (91°F) at the Gabba.

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Collingwood and Pieterson give us some hope for the rest of the series anyway.

If Australia hadn't had such a storming first day it might have been a slightly different tie.

With any luck, now the first one is over the nerves will die down and the real mettle can be shown.

See, born optimist me! :D

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Collingwood and Pieterson give us some hope for the rest of the series anyway.

If Australia hadn't had such a storming first day it might have been a slightly different tie.

With any luck, now the first one is over the nerves will die down and the real mettle can be shown.

See, born optimist me! :D

I really felt for Collingwood. I'll be honest and hold my hands up and admit it.. I probably wouldn't have him in my Test XI. After a shaky start though, once he got his feet moving he played extraordinarily well. Fair play to him and KP. They take enough stick from myself and others when they bat irresponsibly and fail but in our second innings they both looked good.

Nice to see Cook spend some time out there too. Jury is still out on him but I think we saw enough to suggest he might have a decent tour.

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Just before I vacate FoxesTalk until some point tomorrow, I will inform people that England were 126-5.. However McGrath has just taken the wicket of WelshyJones as I type this, so we are 126-6, needing 277 to avoid the follow on :cry::mad:

You numpty.

Jones was born in Papa New Guinea :thumbup:

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Not sure if this has been mentioned, but did anyone spot the "last seasons Leicester kit" amongst the Barmy Army last night?

Anyone we know?

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Not sure if this has been mentioned, but did anyone spot the "last seasons Leicester kit" amongst the Barmy Army last night?

Anyone we know?

i spotted it.

they also did a close up of the derby county flag, but i suppose you can show almost anything on tv at that time.

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Panesar must start at Adelaide (instead of Anderson). Playing Giles for his batting is all well and good, but when you lose by 300-odd runs, it doesn't really matter, does it?

If Flintoff doesn't find some runs soon, they might have to think about getting someone else in at 6. As for Harmison, give him one more match - if there's no improvement, send him home.

Michael Vaughan can't come back soon enough....this team looks like our best bet for the last three tests, if Harmy pulls his finger out:

Strauss

Cook

Bell

Collingwood

Pietersen

Vaughan ©

Flintoff

Jones

Hoggard

Harmison

Panesar

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Panesar must start at Adelaide (instead of Anderson). Playing Giles for his batting is all well and good, but when you lose by 300-odd runs, it doesn't really matter, does it?

Marry me.

Erm, I mean, I thoroughly agree.

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We were awful and deserved the hammering. It doesn't look like getting much better either unless we can get Harmison functioning, Monty in and the batsmen to show some character instead of throwing their wickets away.

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the man i think we are desperatly missing is simon jones , just when u need a little bit of swing he is the man. i think mahmood shud be ahead of anderson in the queue but i aint convinced either will play in adelaide

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the man i think we are desperatly missing is simon jones , just when u need a little bit of swing he is the man. i think mahmood shud be ahead of anderson in the queue but i aint convinced either will play in adelaide

swing! :blink: in those conditions? Good luck with that, you've got no chance.

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On the upside, it can't possibly get any worse in Adelaide, right?

Or am I going to be horribly wrong? :blink:

the toss will be very important. If we can win that it shouldn't be as bad.

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the toss will be very important. If we can win that it shouldn't be as bad.

Indeed. The best chance of beating Australia does come from batting first, and posting a decent score. Twas how we won last summer. It also means Warne doesn't get to bowl when the pitch has broken down completely.

Which all means we're clearly going to lose the toss. Dammit!

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swing! :blink: in those conditions? Good luck with that, you've got no chance.

It will swing in Oz, but not for long as the kookabura ball is pretty she hite and lose its seam really quickly which doesn't help sideways movment.

Hoggard did get some swing with the older ball before they declared in the second innings.

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