400 up, Swann is creaming them

Hauritz is getting massive turn, Swann is beaming everytime he sees the ball spin

in the last 10 overs England are 75/1

412/8

Anderson gone, great effort by him this morning

423/9

Boycs is laughing his head off on TMS



Great play from the tail this morning, not only scoring runs but not hanging around whilst doing it. Swann's even managed a switch hit by all accounts!

435 all out, brilliant total in the end. Shame Swann didn't quite make his 50, but I'm sure he won't mind a 47 not out too much!

Fantastic effort, only Monty never made double figures.

Hauritz ended with three wickets, if Swann and Monty bowl well they could clean up on this pitch. The ball was starting to keep low from the seamers aswell.

That not out for Swann pushes his Test average over 50

FFS short and at his head not short and outside the off stump

Short and wide will just get thumped by Hughes, stem the runs and let him get frustrated. Also if we keep bowling short then we are not allowing the ball to swing.

Great work from the tail, but WTF are the bowlers playing at, some awful stuff there.

Hopefully they'll sort themselves out over lunch.

Haven't seen it, but could it be a case of being too pumped up after their batting exploits? As you say, hopefully a rest and a few words from the management team over lunch will help things out.

Some great batting from the tail to give England a score which at one point seemed a distant dream. Hopefully, we can get a few early wickets after lunch to put them under some decent pressure.

Think Matty Hoggard should be in the team myself, proven against the Aussies.

Anyone know the last time An England Asshes team had no Yorkshire players in????

Hoaggard??

was proven 4 year ago when he was good he hasnt been consistently good for yorkshire all year will never be anywere near international level now. BTW we can always rely on Flintoff with the ball got Hughes for 36

he's not done badly for Yorkshire, still was always likely to get the likes of Langer, Hayden and Potning out, especially to the lefty's.

Don't see what Broad offers except plenty of runs.

Hoggard got dropped after 1 bad game in NZ and hasn't been near the side since, even when Pattinson got picked at Headingley. That to me says there's more to his non-selection than meets the eye. Also, performances in County Cricket can sometimes be taken with a pinch of salt, I'd rather pick players on quality, perceived or otherwise, than pure statistics.

Not saying I'd have had him in my side, but I do think he should be talked about, even now.

The Aussie bowlers seemed to get more from the pitch than we are currently. They were getting swing and movement and were beating the outside edge a fair bit whereas the aussies seem to be scoring at will.

Genius that was!

I make it only 3 Aussies Ponting, Clarke and Hussey that have survived the 2005 series.

Katich????

So was Vaughan. And Harmison. And Jones. And Jones. And Banger.

I'm sure they we're all available to play.

S Jones is injured, Vaughn really has been poor since (and is retired) Harmison same boat as Hoggard IMO unlucky to miss out.

Yep, Katich played too.