What fun

Yeh same deal here

Warny once tweeted something about getting a free $5 at 888 if they sign up through his thing and it was in the news and **** about him advertising online poker, pretty ******ed, especially cause its warny, he should be able to get away with whateva he wants!

One thing i must commend the Aussies for, is for producing Shane Warne, the guy is just box office. He's easily my fav cricket commentator along with Atherton. After the ashes i hope he makes a comeback as captain of a new oz for a couple of years, he should try to get to muralis record, he can do it, no doubt.

I heard he was voted greatest living Australian, can any Aussie on here name a better in their history?

I dont think this is the right call. Hypothetically if England were out of referrals at that stage, can the umpire refer for them? Its quite sketchy that hey, we can check the camera's anyway even if you dont refer, which IMO is the point.

UDRS isnt right as it is. If they want to use technology, and the umpires are going to have the chance to check things like no balls just have the 3rd umpire look at it, and radio the central umpire if its a freaking no ball. Let the main umpire watch the play, and maybe we will see better LBW decisions from 140kph bowlers.

Yes.

Its weird, because they can advertise sports betting websites such as centrebet and sportsbet for betting for money, but they cant advertise PokerStars.com or anything like that, only the .net

Its funny because when we get coverage of the darts/championship football etc... we sometimes get the first and last advertisements for bet365 and those kind of sites lol...

Interestingly, Pokerstars.net sponsor some of the ****y league junior teams around here and I think Full Tilt do as well...

ashley

UDRS: I reckon I've made my thoughts on the whole UDRS quite clear itt. It's a good idea, but like everything the ICC does, the implementation has been bodged. As far as I'm concerned, what happened there is exactly what should happen if tv is going to be used; the umpires use it as they see fit, without ANY interventions/appeals from the players whatsoever.

iPoker: IIRC, some guy from your government wanted to put a bill through with his own personal blacklist of a whole bunch of internet stuff that he disapproved of for moral reasons, and that it was going to include the poker sites. Didn't realise you had advertising restrictions too. Hope they don't introduce such restrictions over here; between them, the thought police and the fun police already have enough influence here iyam, we certainly don't need to give them more ammunition.

Well played Trott, guy is a Zen master.

Barmy Army chanting 'He's got more runs than you!' Epic Epic Win!

Gotta love this off the text commentary feed

that blacklist was pretty lol, iirc there was a dentist on that list...

Also, we had a terrorist detained about about 4 years ago. They gave a list of ppl he was banned from contacting including osama bin laden... U know, they guy no-one can find...

Another pretty awesome day Trott is turning out to be a very impressive test player.

About the Prior "wicket", I'm fairly sure umpires have been allowed to ask the 3rd umpire about no balls on wicket taking deliveries for a couple of years now and it's been available in some series when UDRS has not.

India doing better this test so far..

The hawkeeye thing on cricinfo is pretty awesome to play around with..

Ya, this. There are certain elements the umpires are encouraged to seek tv confirmation on and this is one of them.


Concerning Trott, I've probably mentioned my mancrush on him a few too many times.

lol i just read shane warne's wiki, what is up with the dude and texting?

Not sure I've gone that far yet, but he has grown on me. I used to think he was a poor man's Kallis - ie totally focused on his own game like it's a net session, without ever adapting to what the team need. I actually liked how he was the first one to get stuck in against Pakistan, he just seemed like more of a team man. Now he looks like a superb player.

Re Ponting, he should have got a one match ban. He must be the biggest little bi.tch of a captain out there. Previously, I gave Smith the mantle after he moaned like a schoolgirl when Strauss wouldn't give him a runner for being tired.

Re: Ponting - ICC fail

Bunch of pussies imo. Fining him A$5400 is like fining me a tenner. Basically he won't notice it. The guy is worth millions. And he's got such a long record of previous infractions too; they really should have given him a one match ban. Missing the Sydney Test (if he isn't dropped anyway) would hurt him far more.

Was that Nasser calling Murali a chucker?

"Jonathan Trott is like that guy at a party who stays in the kitchen all night and no one really knows who he is. First to arrive, last to leave and has a great time."

Awesome.

And they still couldn't get trott out. GG aussies

This Aus innings is gonna be interesting

Ponting/Clarke better step the f up to the plate here, somehow I don't like our chances though...

Australia could get 600 and still lose the match.

Australia could get 800 and still lose the match.

fyp

Run out - unbelievable

lol was just falling asleep and now we get a wicket. might have another half hour

Perhaps we should let Trott bowl a few overs as well

Edit: 7/39 in first class cricket.