The Ashes 2

Starts tonight.

Buzzing.

Looking forward to this.

Ditto. Gonna stay up till Lunch, then try and catch the last hour of play. Hopefully I'll go to bed with a Cook cut and wake up with a Carberry drive....

That's similar to what I'm planning on doing I think. I've got to bang out an essay tomorrow but am gonna try and catch every ball for the rest of the week.

Good days cricket after a yawn fest of a first session.

Australia doing all the talking and then failing to deliver on the pitch, again.

2 of my mates are over in Oz for this, jealous.

Seriously hope the crowd continues to boo Broad

We should just put 10 bowlers and Haddin in the side FFS. Top order can't score runs and it's always one or two of the tailenders who make big 50's, Mitch Johnson has the ability to get a ton too.

Over getting home from work to see us at 6 for 100 to be then bowled out for near 300 cause the blokes who are in the side to bowl outbat the specialist batsmen.

Batting hasn't started well.

Mitchell Johnson has bowled some rubbish today, but my god, Trott is a spastic.

Aye, looked like the crowd was getting to him and he just attempted to bowl it faster to prove them wrong, with no real accuracy.

Over beforehand should have been slowed right down though.

Shame, Trott's my favourite batsman as well. Had an awful Ashes last time round too.

Carberry has been pure deer in headlights all day so far. He's doing alright but I can't see him lasting longer than about 150 balls.

Jesus Christ.

Tickets for day 5 rapidly decreasing in value.

Hah bunch of spastics.

Pitch is about as threatening as a blancmange

Some collapse by England today.

Broad \o/

Can anyone on either side actually bat?

Two more horrible wickets.

Australia looking pretty handy with the bat tbf, although Swann has been terrible.

Yeah Swann was pretty poor, Root managed to get some dip and turn, trouble a few times, Anderson bowled some unplayable balls but they were few and far between.

Must say I've fallen back in love with Haddin, I didn't want him anywhere near the side earlier in the year but he just keeps proving me wrong.

England are in trouble.

England are awful.

Mitchell Johnson is demolishing England.

Still probably going to lose but got two wickets out in 2.4 overs Bit odd that they didn't enforce the follow on

I wouldn't have enforced it either, give the bowlers a rest. Especially with Perth being played straight away. Bat for the rest of today and hour or two tomorrow then have a day and a half at them.

Wish I'd put money on the 5-0 whitewash before lunch yesterday.

Insipid cricket from England whoo are making Mitchell Johnson look like some kind of Thomson/McGrath/Akram hybrid.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/dec/07/ashes-2013-14-boycott-accuses-england-batsmen

Boycott pretty much spot on.

Clarke has declared first thing this morning. Apparently some concerns about the weather.

No ton for Davey Warner

Johnson strikes again. Cook gone for 1 in the second over, top edged a short ball to Ryan Harris. Good catch.