The Ashes 2010

[Neil Young]

I watched it. Yeah you did, the last wicket. Plumb LBW. All my Aussie mates are moaning about it.

What you're all failing to take into consideration is the 9th wicket - Sharma - was never in a million years LBW and yet he was given out.

There's no referral system for this series, I don't get it.

[Fernandinho]

I see how it is.

Yeah I wasn't sure I just got told about it. Classic Aussie style, remember the bull**** against us forget the bull**** for us

[Shaggy]

[dww]

The second string bowlers looking pretty decent against Australia A. Monty seems to have learnt to field too.

[Neil Young]

The second string bowlers looking pretty decent against Australia A. Monty seems to have learnt to field too.

He seems pretty pleased about it too.

[Baracus]

ITV has announced a deal with Cricket Australia to broadcast highlights of England's 2010/11 Ashes series in Australia, safeguarding the coverage for free-to-air TV.

Under the agreement, ITV4 will broadcast a comprehensive one-hour highlights programme every evening at 10pm during the series, which begins on November 25 at The Gabba in Brisbane.

[Shaggy]

"A comprehensive one hour highlights programme"

Not only are they only showing an hour, it'll be on almost 24 hours after the day's play started

[Cormack74]

"A comprehensive one hour highlights programme"

Not only are they only showing an hour, it'll be on almost 24 hours after the day's play started

Yes but only because that's what those *******s from Sky insisted on.

You may scoff but for those of us who choose to longer pay those c*nts for stuff that used to be free I say well done ITV4.

Rant over.

[Shaggy]

Better than nothing, for sure.

Watch a stream online, surely?

[Cormack74]

Better than nothing, for sure.

Watch a stream online, surely?

Well apart from the timing issues t'internet out here in the sticks works about as fast as Carra runs, so streams are a bit of a waste of time. Well a big waste of time for that matter.

If things really hot I might have to swallow my pride and catch a bit of Sky on my neighbours settee.

[Fernandinho]

Getting back into the swing of things now, caught a bit of the Australia A game today. The bloody massive talk of the town NSW kid failed in both innings including a golden in the second gotta feel for the poor kid, it will take him time to shake it off because it was a huge opportunity for him with Hussey playing for his test spot.

[Shaggy]

Is that that Khawaja fella?

[Fernandinho]

Thats his name. I didn't feel like looking him up and I wasn't going to bother having a go at hime. Haven't watched any of the state comp so far this year but everybody is raving about him. Looks like we will be waiting a little longer

On a side note, I noticed Callum Ferguson's First Class average 36.34 and he is supposed to be the next Aussie batsman

Has a good ODI average of 46 from 26 games but that probably includes a heap of not outs at the end of innings.

We really are getting bad now. For the love of god I hope you guys don't beat us here.

[dww]

Thats his name. I didn't feel like looking him up and I wasn't going to bother having a go at hime. Haven't watched any of the state comp so far this year but everybody is raving about him. Looks like we will be waiting a little longer

On a side note, I noticed Callum Ferguson's First Class average 36.34 and he is supposed to be the next Aussie batsman

Has a good ODI average of 46 from 26 games but that probably includes a heap of not outs at the end of innings.

We really are getting bad now. For the love of god I hope you guys don't beat us here.

To be fair Trescothick and Vaughn didn't have great first class averages for their counties but turned out to be top test players.

[Fernandinho]

Didn't know that. Although, I really didn't know much about Vaughan because he missed a few Ashes series that I watched closer. He absolutely destroyed us in 2002, as I was just looking. 2 big centuries in one series. Then again that is 2 centuries in 10 innings. Which isn't anything incredible but still very good.

Also, his test average was only 42 which isn't all that high.