CH, you do have a basic grasp of the game and its ...

2005-08-17T10:19:00.000+01:00

CH, you do have a basic grasp of the game and its terminology. Harmison did have about seven slips in the last over (it's called an 'umbrella field'), and had no business firing it down the leg side. I presume he was looking too hard for the yorker.

No, Flintoff wouldn't have been allowed to bowl from the other end immediately. Otherwise he would have been ordered to do so (in fact, he wouldn't have needed any prompting).

It's a bit rich for Glenn McGrath to goad the English by saying how they could only manage a draw. He knows damn well we'd have won that game if it hadn't been for the weather. This is not to take away the brilliance of Ponting's resistance, just to correct McGrath's implication that we were lucky to manage a draw. Typical tedious Aussie posturing.

I did think it was something of an irony that Aust...

2005-08-17T03:01:00.000+01:00

I did think it was something of an irony that Australia, for all the bottle shown by Ponting, were only saved by the English weather.

I also thought Harmiston was trying too hard in that last over. It looked like he had about 7 slips. No way he should be letting them drift down the leg side (I think I've got that right but us Scots do get a bit confused by all the jargon). They should have had Flintoff run down the other end and bowl again. No idea if that's allowed actually.

Fantastic entertainment though. England can certainly be proud of their performances so far.

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