Friday, September 09, 2005

Oval Day 1 Review: Advantage Australia

Well its a long time since I have said that, in fact since the first test at Lords there has not been one whole day where the Aussies have taken the honours. They comfortable one two of the sessions with some much better bowling and some shoddy batting from England.

If this match is not affected by weather this is a good position for the Aussies as they could build a big lead and make England bat on Monday which is not ideal. If England's batters performace was nervous we have to hope that the bowlers are in better shape mentally as they now have a real challenge on their hands.

Whatever the Aussies say they are under pressure here and one or two are playing for their places in the team, and Ricky Ponting must be included in that, some of his decision making under pressure has been poor. If a number of batters dont get runs they will be under severe pressure back home.

Talking of which, huge question marks have appeared over Bell in the England batting line up, a few of our younger players should be getting prepared for the call.

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