20/20 Eng-aus 6.13.05 [r]

[BhoysFC1995]

5 days away to the first 20/20 game for england, and australia's second. the first being a large win over new zealand.

bbc has a good head to head player comparision here-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4072390.stm

[BhoysFC1995]

the aussie just played the PCA Masters XI in an exhibition match.

http://content.cricinfo.com/inline/content/image/210793.jpg?alt=1
Brett Lee celebrates dismissing Stephen Fleming with the first ball of the match

the aussies won the toss, put PCA into bat first, and they got 167-6 in the 20 overs. the aussies won with just one ball to spare- 170-2 in 19.5. they only had 2 men out, creating the disapointment of not seeing Symonds get to bat. Gilchrist and Hayden's opening stand produced 131 runs.

australia play Leicestershire on Saturday in another tune up to the 20/20 game vs england on monday.

[ScouseCat]

Brett Lee will blast the Poms out with his pace.

[BhoysFC1995]

england romped hampshire and the aussies beat leicestershire in each of their warm-up matches today. Symonds had 92 not out, 10 4's, and 3 6's off of 59 balls, hayden 107, and martyn 85.

http://content.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/50900/50915.jpg

[michaec]

Probable teams:

England (probable) 1 Marcus Trescothick, 2 Geraint Jones (wk), 3 Michael Vaughan (capt), 4 Andrew Strauss, 5 Andrew Flintoff, 6 Kevin Pietersen, 7 Paul Collingwood, 8 Kabir Ali, 9 Simon Jones, 10 Darren Gough, 11 Steve Harmison.

Australia (probable) 1 Matthew Hayden, 2 Adam Gilchrist (wk), 3 Ricky Ponting, 4 Damien Martyn, 5 Andrew Symonds, 6 Michael Clarke, 7 Mike Hussey, 8 Brad Hogg, 9 Brett Lee, 10 Jason Gillespie, 11 Glenn McGrath.

Plenty of big hitters in there, should be fun!

[Bluto11]

england at 179-8 after the 20 overs

[Bluto11]

the Aussies at 24-4 after 4 overs. somebody got a duck, can't remember who

[Lanesra]

65-7 ...I'm loving it :D. Great to hear the England fans singing ..Easy, Easy :D :D

[Lanesra]

67-8, I cant type fast enough, Gillespie top scorer 28 :D

[Russian Scouser]

67-8, I cant type fast enough, Gillespie top scorer 28 :D

72-9 - this is quality! That w8nker Brett Lee just caught near the boundary. :)

[Russian Scouser]

Oh, great stuff from Freddie - almost a maiden - just the one run off the last ball.
Aus 79-9.

[Bluto11]

wow, didn't see this happening, but i don't know anything about cricket!!

[Russian Scouser]

Cricket is brilliant - incidentally the only sport I support England in.

Harmison just removed McGrath's middle stump, bales everywhere. Aus 79 all out with almost 6 overs to spare.

England win by 100 (ONE HUNDRED) runs!!! :) Get in!!!

[Lanesra]

79 all out, bring on Bangladesh :D :D :D

[Bluto11]

Cricket is brilliant - incidentally the only sport I support England in.

Harmison just removed McGrath's middle stump, bales everywhere. Aus 79 all out with almost 6 overs to spare.

England win by 100 (ONE HUNDRED) runs!!! :) Get in!!!
wow.

i've only seen one test match, Day 4 of the first England v NZ test last year on a crappy tv set in my hotel room as I recovered from a hangover. I also watched a replay of highlights from England's ODIs from the Windies last may during a weather delay for a Windies v Bangladesh (i think) ODI last May.

[BhoysFC1995]

unbelievable, all these newbies come out after australia gets crushed! ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40621000/jpg/_40621430_jones200.jpg

that pic basically sums up the whole match. i am shocked, can't type much more than this for now.

story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4089748.stm)

over by over (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4085718.stm)
take note of the aussie third over.

wow, i have to say it again, i am completely shocked. for those who saw it, was the crowd into it/going nuts?

i plan on watching skysports at 7pm tonite on FSC to hopefully see a bunch of highlights.

[Bluto11]

unbelievable, all these newbies come out after australia gets crushed! ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40621000/jpg/_40621430_jones200.jpg

that pic basically sums up the whole match. i am shocked, can't type much more than this for now.

story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4089748.stm)

over by over (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4085718.stm)
take note of the aussie third over.

wow, i have to say it again, i am completely shocked. for those who saw it, was the crowd into it/going nuts?

i plan on watching skysports at 7pm tonite on FSC to hopefully see a bunch of highlights.
while I am a newbie, i've been posting every once and a while.

I'm following the fortunes (and misfortunes) of Middlesex CC this year, we'll see how it ends up.

[Russian Scouser]

unbelievable, all these newbies come out after australia gets crushed! ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40621000/jpg/_40621430_jones200.jpg

that pic basically sums up the whole match. i am shocked, can't type much more than this for now.

story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4089748.stm)

over by over (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4085718.stm)
take note of the aussie third over.

wow, i have to say it again, i am completely shocked. for those who saw it, was the crowd into it/going nuts?

i plan on watching skysports at 7pm tonite on FSC to hopefully see a bunch of highlights.

Was watching it in work - couldn't effing believe. And to think that my Warwickshire are top of the county championship after spanking their last opponents by an innings this could turn out to be a decent old summer of cricket for me. :)

[Chewmylegoff]

unbelievable, all these newbies come out after australia gets crushed! ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40621000/jpg/_40621430_jones200.jpg

that pic basically sums up the whole match. i am shocked, can't type much more than this for now.

story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4089748.stm)

over by over (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4085718.stm)
take note of the aussie third over.

wow, i have to say it again, i am completely shocked. for those who saw it, was the crowd into it/going nuts?

i plan on watching skysports at 7pm tonite on FSC to hopefully see a bunch of highlights.

yep, england players were all really up for it, got the crowd going, the atmosphere must have been brilliant! australians were all over the shop in the field - couple of dreadful misfields got the crowd on a couple of players backs as well, which was nice to see. and some quality booing of ricky ponting at the presentations after the match, always love a bit of that.

still, it's probably all we'll get to cheer this summer.

they had darren lehmann commentating on sky sports - he was talking like england have already won the ashes!

basically all this will probably do is really piss the aussies off. we'll probably be on the receiving end of a ruthless display from them pretty soon.

[BhoysFC1995]

just watching skysports now, and they opened with highlights (or lowlights for aussie fans). through the show, they mention the top stories and they keep saying "in 20/20 england humiliated australia by 100 runs.."

some good pics here-
http://content.cricinfo.com/ci/content/gallery/211053.html

oh, and the 'newbies' comment was sarcasm- the more people the merrier here. hopefully we will have some good traffic here this summer with the ashes.

i can;t help but think the english players/fans are really enjoying this as chewmylegoff already mentioned "it's probably all we'll get to cheer this summer."

that being said, england did beat australia last year in the ICC Champions trophy.

"england thrashed australia.."- lol, thats how the show just came back from a commercial. Ha, and this- "they just handed out a lesson to australia.."