Sir Why You Little

No egg on me mate. Poms drop catches they lose. If they had held them it could well have been line ball.

^^^ what?? Adjust your med dosage DL The cool change has hit. You can go outside.

The opposition fell apart. Kudos to the Aussie bowlers for that effort. And also the Haddin Lyon last wicket stand which started the rot. A top side still would have beaten us. I still would have batted first. The pitch was not green.

Rodgers has booked his spot to South Africa...

Long as the Batsmen do the job right through. Bowlers were superb. 10/114 Still a chase at the 'G.

Nathan Lyon 100 wickets. Well done...

That is what we do not have in Australia right now...A number 3 Test Batsman. Watson has hit runs in the 2nd innings of matches before though. The Batsmen owe the Bowlers a good innings but how often does that happen in a Test Match.

this last 3 hours of today will be the real test. The bowlers and fielders are getting tired..how tired???

4/87. Lyon is becoming a very handy cricketer. Johnson is just having an amazing series.

Sure. Todays weather will dry whatever moisture is left. Unless the ground floods tonight!!It can be the only answer if Harris's tweet was legit. The Aussies were psyched to bat and didn't. No wonder they were flat. Poms would have been stoked immediately

I can see some merit in this. Because it gives England a sniff. How mentally tough is the team?

your last point here Macca is poignant. Having won the Ashes Clarke and the coaches may have decided to throw the team in the deep end to see how they measure up before going to South Africa. That was my second thought after choking on my coffee at 10.15 Boxing day morning!!

I bat first unless the pitch is a nursery. Traditional cricket follower has nothing to do with it. Physics Mathematics and Psychology are what i base opinions on with Test Cricket. Of course 200 was not enough. Day 1 with a Home crowd if 91,000 i am thinking we would do better than that. And we would be batting right now resting the bowlers.

I still would have batted first. Pure and simple. You are not taking in to account the psychological advantage that Clarke surrendered.

i have not insisted we would have made more runs in the first innings. But i always believe it is harder to chase. The Australians will be knackered after today and then we will be chasing a big score. Why give your opponent a sniff. That's what Clarke did & i bet he is kicking himself now.

Why do you keep repeating that the scores would be merely mirrored if we had batted first Titan. Strange logic.

why did we thrash England in the first 3 Tests Titan. What was the common thread? Gonna be a long day in the field by the looks of the present score. Wish we were batting right now. Had the chance but Clarke was cocky.

For god sake manI would prefer to have Johnson Siddle & Lyon bowling on a fading pitch in the 4 innings. Stop throwing up these flimsy arguements. The pitch is playable. It is not green grass. We now have to field all day during a stinking hot day and bowl really well & then chase down a score to win. Clarke stuffed up.

Psychological. And avoiding the 4th innings bat. It's not rocket science.

38 Degrees today. Australia will be in the field most of the day. Great way to set up a 4th innings!!.....

the pitch is not that bad. It's getting quicker. Clarke won the toss and bowlled. I bet he regrets it now. Actually he would have regretted it after the first hour. Why choose to bat last on this pitch? I can see no reason for it.

Yes we have a batting weakness. Watson and Bailey have been sub par in the first innings in all 3 games. But putting a score on the board first up is important. Chasing is always harder. Harris is gone. And we have to bat last. We have given them the game!!

typical response is it?I actually agree with what you have stated. It's the reason WHY Clarke made the wrong call. It was cocky. He handed England the initiative. What's not mad about that? Haddin has just had a very lucky escape!!!

Great idea to bowl first. What total madness!!

Hahahaha Gold DC.....