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You know, they've been out of administration a fair while now... their ownership seems to be fairly secure, they're doing okish on the pitch... maybe it's time I closed the thread? (Alright alright, don't give me that look, I'm only joking...) More seriously, I notice in their statement about the testimonial money that it doesn't actually say it's been paid yet... I'm not sure we can read anything into the Gaydamak article though, we've seen a LOT of posturing between him and Chanrai over the last few months, better to wait and see whether anything actually happens. WE already knew that the figures didn't add up on here, looks like it could be January before the newspapers catch up though, when they try to continue the firesale, could make for interesting watching...

What an amazing win... To beat the Aussies, in Australia, in an Ashes test, by an innings, 71 runs, and with 5 wickets spare in the first innings as well... I'm actually speechless, I don't think I'll see a more convincing victory in such a big test again in my lifetime... Now to get my sleeping pattern back to something near normal... (before I ruin it again in a week with the third test...)

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Oh KP you legend Vital wicket with the last ball of the day there... Depends on the weather now. If we get a decent amount of time on the last day we'll get them eventually.

Awesome day for us.

I know they did well in the first test, but they're the last pair before the tail, one mistake and now we'll probably get them out for less than 250... that's an awesome bowling performance on this wicket...

think if we get another wicket before they get up to 130 odd we'll skittle the rest relatively cheaply...

Still hasn't let up at all in Bitterne yet.

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Although that bloke 'Extras' seems to be speeding up his scoring rate now to take up the slack... Do we take an outside chance of a result either way by declaring sometime soon? heh, that's another TD for Charger's defence...

And that probably makes that four field goals... Back to the cricket, our scoring has slowed down since lunch, not that it really matters now, almost guaranteed draw now.

There's no way Chargers should only have a 2 point lead... they should be out of sight by now. The fact that the offence has scored three field goals while their only TD has come from the defence tells the whole story...

Hehe, fairly sure he was just being sardonic...

Good morning session for us, double ton for Cook, ton for Trott, records being broken left right and centre, decent run rate and Australia getting more and more demoralised

We might even have an outside chance of going for the win if we carry on scoring at this sort of rate... I didn't think I'd have any chance of writing anything like that two days ago, but here it is. I still think we should just make sure of the draw before even thinking about winning though.

So looks like that might be it for today... I can't remember a better day of cricket for England in recent memory... not in such a high profile game anyway. Now DO NOT go and throw this away in the last day after all that hard work England!

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And we're to tea with just that one wicket down and a small lead... Next job is to get through the first part of the evening session and get back in without losing a wicket...

So there goes Strauss... Still, that's a very nice chunk of the defecit taken out. Trott NEEDS to get himself in now... we can't afford anyone to miss here...

Is no-one else listening tonight? Oh ye of little faith... We've done well to get to lunch without losing a wicket... Still a long long ways to go...

Brighton losing to FCUM, could they get through and face Man Utd? Also LOL... http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?188735-Brighton-amp-Hove-Albion-vs-FC-United-of-Manchester-***-Official-Thread-***&p=3826028&viewfull=1#post3826028

Sound like we're doing what we need to do with a second string team... And do I see yet another dent in Brighton's confidence?

Hm, we took those last wickets for 31 runs... it really would have been a completely different game if that LBW had been called right in the morning session.

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Yeah, something about only having passed my test the month before seemed to make the insurance companies nervous...