Quote Originally Posted by miles View Post
We are looking pretty grand right now. If we can build up a lead of 600 we will have 2 and a half days to bowl them out and no way they will be able to reach that score in a second innings. Half their batsmen look shot tbh. Ricky Ponting as the captain has been exceptionally poor with the bat.
It seems like it really was another batting pitch as our boys haven't had much trouble with it, but it seems the Aussies are having a crisis of confidence, and once one or two things start going wrong, they all seem to lose heart.

I would just like to tempt fate by being the first on this thread to congratulate England on retaining the Ashes!