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<blockquote data-quote="An Tarbh" data-source="post: 96475">well it&#039;s certainly better than whatever it was they were wearing in the Twenty20, don&#039;t know whose idea that getup was. Anyway much improvement by England from Tuesday, winning the toss certainly helped as well. Vaughan looking in decent touch, went a bit pear shaped but keeping wickets intact allowed Pietersen and Collingwood to form a decent partnership and then with Flintoff. Worryingly for England, Pietersen has gone to hospital for a scan on his ribs. On a positive note though, Paul Nixon was out for a duck so no chance of a repeat of the borefest that was his constant sweeping on Tuesday, it&#039;s hard enough staying awake for some of these games without the players making it any tougher.The average first innings total at the MCG is 213, England have 242 but even bringing the lights into the equation, you&#039;d still fancy Australia to chase this down with the power in their batting lineup and only 2 decent bowlers in the English team.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="An Tarbh, post: 96475"] well it's certainly better than whatever it was they were wearing in the Twenty20, don't know whose idea that getup was. Anyway much improvement by England from Tuesday, winning the toss certainly helped as well. Vaughan looking in decent touch, went a bit pear shaped but keeping wickets intact allowed Pietersen and Collingwood to form a decent partnership and then with Flintoff. Worryingly for England, Pietersen has gone to hospital for a scan on his ribs. On a positive note though, Paul Nixon was out for a duck so no chance of a repeat of the borefest that was his constant sweeping on Tuesday, it's hard enough staying awake for some of these games without the players making it any tougher. The average first innings total at the MCG is 213, England have 242 but even bringing the lights into the equation, you'd still fancy Australia to chase this down with the power in their batting lineup and only 2 decent bowlers in the English team. [/QUOTE]

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