A Poms Ashes

What a day for England! We have totally dominated today’s play to get to 551-6 and declare at the end of day 2.  A record breaking partnership from Pieterson and Collingwood has put England in a great position and to top the day off we got an Australian wicket before the end of the play.

My day involved going down the local surf club which is great as it has several different screens all with with different sporting events.  In between having my lunch I kept checking out the play on one of two screens that were showing the action.  It was really strange as all the Australian guys watching the game were so quiet!  They were muttering between themselves and looked very down beat which is very strange for Aussies watching watching their national team.  I stood watching the game drinking a Tooheys New with a huge grin on my face!  This is the life – drinking Aussie beer, scorching hot, gorgeous sea views and England HAMMERING Australia!

The England players at the end of day looked as though they were buzzing.  Flintoff and the guys looked like kids who were going to win a school tournament – they couldn’t stop grinning.  Let’s hope they take this positive feeling into tommorows play and get an early wicket or two to start to get them under pressure.  The Adelaide wicket is going to be hard to dismiss a team in one day but let’s see how they get on.

Well the test started today and I was late into work so ‘Bruce’ and friends didn’t have much of a chance to start winding me up.  England won the toss, which was excellent and decided to bat so went off full of hope of a good start.  “Its not a race it’s a marathon” and so England began a slow innings of starting to build up a total that Australia could chase.  Within a few hours I was beginning to think “here we go again” as England had lost two wickets for less than fifty runs.  Bruce was out of the office so I went out for lunch and tried to forget the potential disaster that was looming.  This arvo however England started to slowly build up the total and with the final partnership of Collingwood and Pierterson have built up a great recovery total of 266-3.  If England can build up a better total tomorrow, put Australia in to bat and get an early wicket or two then I really fancy our chances.  There have been signs today that Lee and Warne for the Aussies have got wound-up by the English batsmen which is excellent!

The office this arvo was great.  Bruce and the guys went all quiet as I kept reading out the scores.  I heard moaning about how slowly England scored and that paint dries quicker but what the hell - we got some runs and they are worried! 

Let’s hope the weekend turns out to be a good one for England.