I meant to post this yesterday

Brett Lee had taken 5 for 50 odd off 20 overs.

He's taken another one this morning so 6/63 from 23 overs....

Is he back in form? I watched some of the match, he is getting the ball to reverse so that's a good sign!!

Can't wait till the first Ashes test (I'll be there !@!@!)

p.s. this current match is against the 'English Lions' i.e. second rate team, but wickets = confidence I guess.

Cricnfo live scorecard - http://www.cricinfo.com/engvaus2009/engine/current/match/350039.html

easy tiger, a roughed up ball can do mysterious things

clarke will come good

God damn, he's gonna get picked. Heaven help us.

I personally would go for Clark, but he hasn't done anything in this game. Nervous about North as well - he's gonna have to make some runs, otherwise Ronald McDonald will have to get a run :(

also it's his FIRST EVER 5 for in England (lols)

I am more nervous this time than I was in 2005. Of course back then, I thought we would smash them.

As am I, it'll be a close series!

I've got tickets to the first 4 tests, can't wait - should be awesome fun and good banter with the poms

I had tickets to the 5th, but had to sell to my mates.

Hes lost it but then again he didnt really ever have it.
When he bowls at 150 hes a good bowler but lately (before his injury) he really could only bowl well early in a test match and then hed get slower and get smacked around coz hes basically speed only.

having said that hes a great team player and does lift the team.
Id always pick him if hes fit.
He can bat a bit too. He played his guts out in the series four years ago but like most of the team hes just too old now.

FFS send Hauritz home on the boat.

Lee Clarke and Johnstone HAVE to play because thats the best bowlers we have.
The rest are crap. 7 batsmen let clarke katich bowl some overs.
Aussies will struggle to bowl out England especially on flattish wickets.

Man of the series will be Flintoff. Hes 100% fit.

FFS send Hauritz home on the boat.

f***en oath faceman, why do they keep picking him? put kreja in, at least he gets wickets.

this is just one of those fascinating and mysterious cricket questions.

14 wickets was the best the aussies could do against an England B side.
They are going to be getting a Lot of bowling practice in this series.

that was a flat wicket. very little to no seam movement. the only way to get wickets was to let the batsmen get themselves out.

Hauritz is basically useless, he hasn't developed as a spinner at all over the last 5 years, he's done nothing new, added nothing to an already small repetoire.

Krezja might not be economical all the time, but he gets wickets, and you can't win matches with out taking wickets.

pretty sure lee had been playing partially injured for quite a while before he finally bit the bullet last year and got it all fixed up

i'm a fanboy, i think he will go well

i really like stuart clark back aswell, he's the most under-rated bowler.

Lee is definately showing some kind of form at the moment, pace is getting back up there.

Is going to be a close contest this time around.

Biggest england factor is how many overs Freddy will stay fit for... and how many bad decisions Rudi Koetzen makes.

Hauritz is basically useless, he hasn't developed as a spinner at all over the last 5 years, he's done nothing new, added nothing to an already small repetoire.

Exactly, at least krezja takes wickets.

Lee might be injured...


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last edited by HeardY at 21:57:27 06/Jul/09

Lee sidelined for two weeks

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I feel sorry for Mitchel Johnson.
Ponting will bowl him till he breaks down.

I wish Ponting would bowl until he broke down...

nooooo

Well I Guess brett lee made the decision for them, no need to worry about putting stuart clarke in or not, he's in now, and hopefully he does well.

Im just thinking we are gonna get smashed in this series for some reason. We have alot of good players in the team, but nothing like the last series in australia.

Its at least gonna be a tight series, definatly no 5-0 this time.

I just think a team with Krezja and symmonds in it would have been better.

Well you've jinxed it now Heardy!!! Just heard a report that Lee has suffered a thigh strain and may not be playing in the first test! Grrrrrrrrrrrr