Had to check whether this was written after the end of the second day! Feeble Aussi bowling? We produced nothing as good as Siddle's ball to Prior and bowled generally poorly."SmileyMan" wrote:Given the pitch and the feeble Aussie bowling, it's either ours or a draw. Depends if we can get rid of these two with the new ball tomorrow and then try and skittle the rest of them during the day.
As for KP, it's clear that his new strategy is to play the first 50 balls gently to get himself in, then turn on the taps. Fair enough - he's not an innings builder, he's more a shock troop to turn around an innings. There's no point criticising it, because a) he's always played like that, it's won us plenty of games, and he's not going to change, and b) he doesn't listen anyway.
Looking back, KP must be really p***** off now. His shot looks worse now looking at the way Ponting and Katich batted. A big century was there for the taking and we should have got in excess of 500.
We will have to bowl very well tomorrow or we will be under a lot of pressure.