England tower over the not so mighty Australians, as they force a draw
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However, I have repeated time and again that the world is coming to an end and the most imminent sign of that disaster that I foresee in the near future lies in how well the Poms have performed in the first test of the Ashes. When someone like Alastair Cook scores an unbeaten double century at Gabba to break a Don Bradman record, it is a warning bell for the miserable Aussies and most importantly for Ricky Ponting. It is then that the Australian cricket board need to dig deeper and try to find out if it is E.T functioning under the mask of what appears to be the Australian captain.
Not that there was anything wrong with the Australian innings; the result as it seems is a respectable draw and nothing more. However, for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 this is perhaps an ominous sign, as I mentioned earlier, for the Englishmen have won this battle of nerves by rattling the Kangaroos.
Perhaps if there were another man as captain, he would not have been able to cope with the pressure as well as Ponting did, but this performance must be reviewed seriously by the Australian cricket board, for the current bowling department needs some much needed reinforcements.
The reason I insist that this is a sign of the coming of the apocalypse, is because previously in cricketing history soon after the 1930’s there were five triple centuries in just 89 tests. Of late, however, beginning from 2002, the rate of triple centuries and high scores being scored has increased to one in every 42 test matches. This means that if Alastair Cook, god forbid, had gone on to make a triple hundred it would have been the 10th in only 380 test matches.
On a lighter note though, better sense prevailed in the English camp as they declared the innings at a mind baffling 517/1, with a 296-run lead against the Aussies and just 41 overs remaining in the match. This was not realistically possible in the match and hence it went for an anticipated draw. For Trott, this has been the second, second innings hundred against Australia. In the second innings, Ricky Ponting managed to score a half century himself which would have helped raise the dampen mood slightly in the Australian camp.
Mitchell Johnson was simply out of touch, to say the least, as he got a battering at the hands of the English batsmen who hit swashbuckling shots to stand on the crease like an impregnable wall. He ended wicket-less in a test match as his future now hangs by a thread.
In the end, following the quick half century by the Punter captain, the men leading their armies from both the teams shook hands accepting the fate of a well-fought contest. However, it must be said that the events of the first test match strongly weigh in favour of the Englishmen who now stand towering over the former philistine giants of the cricketing world.
If centuries continue to pour in at this rate, the world must brace itself for an imminent war, as was the case soon after the 1930’s when the world witnessed the Second World War. As for Ricky Ponting, he needs to work on making his face look a little less displeasing as he chews at his gum while Stuart Broad needs to grow some much needed facial hair to give us a hint of some masculinity. On this note, we leave our readers to anticipate the second Test match of the Ashes, which will start very soon and hope that it is a more exciting contest than the first test. However, it would be wise not to expect the pitch at the next venue to do much wonders for the bowlers from both teams.
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