A decent display by England's bowler's, though I'm perplexed by our desire to get Hussey back into form??

The guy plays like he has only 1 shot (the pull), so what do our bowlers continually do to him??...Yes, bowl some lovely, juicy half trackers, giving him ample chance to build up his frail confidence with cheap runs.

We need him out quickly as he is the type of player who will easily nurse the Aussie tail up to 400+.

Really big session this one, in fact I'll go as far as saying it will make or break the test.

Break this partnership early and get stuck into the tail and we'll be in a great position, if these two stay in and start piling on some runs then it could quickly run away from us, got a plane to catch at 10am so I probably shouldn't pull another all-nighter.....

Hussey survives review...... Could be vital.

Hate the review system.

I don't think i've ever seen England work the system well or come out on the right end of the decisions.

That Hussey not out then is the right call but when your having to use computer graphics to determine if a balls pitched inline it goes too far for me. In rugby league the video ref works because your see real life pictures that are just slowed down from different angles where with hawk eye it's a make belief image.

Scrap it I say and let good umpires like Alam Dar do his stuff.

Probably a bit of English bias here, but I tend to agree.....That Hussey call was extremely marginal and easy to see why the umpire would give it. I'm all for technology ridding the game of truly shocking decisions, but that one was not a shocker.

This has been the most frustrating 30 mins of cricket i've seen in a long while.

England have bowled superbly well with no reward.

Hussey out for all money but we had no reviews left.

I personally think that if you have the review system it should be the umpire who decides to go to it if he thinks a call is marginal. Having to pick and choose which calls you want to review isn't the point of the system in my eyes. The system should be there to get the correct decision at all times, like it is in our game. Not just on the whim of a captain.

Agreed.....and the review system definitely needs looking at. A definite lbw turned down, no reviews left.....It's stupid, if its out then its out, none of this silly limit to the amount of appeals.....It should be up to the on-field umpire to call for the review as happens in RL....I'm sure with decisions as close as Hussey has survived this morning, the umpire would appreciate some help from upstairs anyway.

Got there before me....

Great minds and all that

Can't believe we haven't got one. Unbelievable.

I could see our bowlers losing their patience here and it being the big moment of the match unless we get a breakthrough soon.

Hats off to the Aussies batters though because unlike some of our lads they're riding out a very tough period. Our lads tend to just through their wickets away in situations like these.

How is Hussey surviving?....Anderson is making him look awful, yet somehow he manages to stay in.

The predicted frustration is creeping in now especially with Broad who's bowling too short now.

This partnership will be a game winner for Australia imo. They're going to get a minimum 80-100 lead and thats too many.

Swann not looking right either(as he bowls another shocking short ball to Hussey).

Simply can't believe we haven't picked up a wicket in that session. We deserved more in all honesty.

If things were going better i'd be tempted to sit up through till tea but as it is i'm too deflated



Hopefully i'll wake up to news that we wripped them apart after lunch with them adding only another 10 runs and we're 180-0 at the end of the days play...................yes I doubt it aswell.

Erm, we've, erm, got them exactly where we want them.

Still not good enough, even though England are supposedly playing a team ranked lower in the world than them!! 3 days of poor cricket from England, batting, bowling and fielding!!

England bowled as well as they could this morning with the new ball but were really unlucky and once Hussey and Haddin got through that they grew in confidence.

England need a min 370 to set at least 150 on the last day, over to the batsment now but that 300 partnership looks to be a match winning one.

I'm sorry, I can't agree....apart from a freakish, once-in-a-lifetime partnership from Hussey & Haddin, there is nothing between these 2 sides....In fact, I'd go as far as to say that our bowlers are better than theirs.

Even if we get beat in this test (as looks likely), I wouldn't be too down-heartened.....One thing I'd definitely love to see though is this review system getting binned.

Yeah, cos our bowlers took a hat trick didn't they, our batsmen scored 100's didn't they, the Aussie fielders dropped catches and miss-fielded as many as Englands didn't they.

Face it, England were supposed to be the better team going into this match, but 3 days in they have proved little of that. Anyone watching this match can clearly see the Aussies are still better than England, in every department, and if England get crushed in this test, it just sets it up for the usual hammering England get when they go to Australia!!

I see little point in discussing this with you as you obviously know little about the game....Yes, Siddle took 6 wickets, but I'd actually suggest that Anderson has bowled twice as well as him in this test.

I'm not saying that the Aussies won't deserve to win this test, but to suggest it sets them on course to batter us again is being extremely pessimistic....As I said, take away the freakish 300+ partnership (which happen very seldom) and this game would be on a knife-edge.

Post of the year.

In fact...forget that.. post of the century

I dont care if you think Anderson bowled the best spell of bowling the game has ever seen, fact of the matter is he only took 2 wickets and went for nigh on 100 runs. Looking like taking wickets and actually taking them in test match cricket is a totally different thing. The highlights might look good for Anderson, but the scorebook doesn't lie. Fact is England folded under the pressure with the bat, as usual, and their bowlers hardly looked like getting a wicket. Swann is supposed to be the number 2 bowler in the world - has he shown anything like that in this game so far? No!

Agree to disagree, Mike???......I'm guessing you are going for a 5-0 again then??....I'll stick to my 2-2....

Is Swan one of the many South Africans in the England side?