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Day three at the Gabba

Stumps: England 19-0 and 260. Australia 481. The Full Toss today launches a fundraising campaign to purchase a can of petrol, a box of matches, and a flight to Brisbane. Burning down the Gabba is surely England’s only hope of ever again winning the Ashes in Australia. God, I hate the place; scene of unending, quadrennial torture. It’s little wonder Cricket Australia always schedule the first test here, to rub in the advantage. They know England fear the Gabba. By contrast, the ECB...

Quotes of the day

“A glare from Stuart Broad…seems roughly equivalent to be being sworn at by Aled Jones.” Gideon Haigh of The Times on England’s failed attempt to stare out Hussey.  “I’m starting with newcastle brown ale in respect of big harm, tetley-hoggy, cider-tres, butcher-london pride, collingwood-ginger ale, strauss-pimm’s”. Andrew Flintoff raises a glass to his former team-mates on Twitter “This is the one series we won’t miss, even if the pound falls to 1:1 against the Aussie dollar. It means...

England’s affair with laissez faire

When the players went off for bad light yesterday Sky interviewed Steven Finn, England’s Ashes debutant and prime candidate to snap in half at any time – when he took that low caught and bowled in the afternoon session, millions of viewers instinctively lunged for the sticky tape. It had been a good day for Finn. Despite a shaky start, he bowled with good purpose and picked up two wickets. However, his mood was one of frustration as England were keen to bowl with the new ball in fading...

Day two at the Gabba

Michael Hussey: what a pain in the arse. Two years of being crap, only to rediscover his form when least convenient for us. Funny how often that happens against England. You probably took a bleary-eyed first glance at the score this morning and thought 220-5 wasn’t too bad, especially after being 96-1 at lunch. But then you’ll have noticed that at one stage we’d reduced them to 143-5, and it could have been so different. Some people will today say we squandered a huge chance...

Reason to keep faith?

So for now we’re all wondering whether 260 is a workable first innings total.
And perhaps it’s better than we thought: TFT reader Allan got in touch to flag up an interesting Sheffield Shield match at the Gabba earlier this month. New South Wales made 262 first dig – and won by an innings, after bowling out Queensland twice in a row for 75 and 96.
You can see the full scorecard here.
Fingers crossed history can repeat itself.

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