Saturday, June 26, 2010

Live - England v Australia

LIVE TEXT COMMENTARY (all times BST)

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By Mark Mitchener

1044: Jimmy Anderson to take the new ball to Aussie openers Shane Watson and Tim Paine - please manually refresh the page to remove the "play due to start" malarkey above.

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From Gil, Dartmoor, via text: "Loving the unnecessarily nerdy Doctor Who reference. But if there are any 'spoilers' of last night's episode on here today I will lock whoever puts them on in the Pandorica"

1040: Shaun Tait will be interesting to watch today - it's his first ODI since February 2009, and as a few people of pointed out, he's pretty much a Twenty20 specialist these days so is used to only bowling four overs a day.

1034: Test Match Special is on air - Aussie captain Ricky Ponting jokes to Jonathan Agnew that England chose to bat second so they can watch the aforementioned England-Germany game. Here are the full teams:

England: Andrew Strauss (capt), Craig Kieswetter (wk), Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Eoin Morgan, Luke Wright, Tim Bresnan, Michael Yardy, Graeme Swann, Stuart Broad, James Anderson.

Australia: Shane Watson, Tim Paine (wk), Ricky Ponting (capt), Michael Clarke, Cameron White, Mike Hussey, James Hopes, Steve Smith, Ryan Harris, Shaun Tait, Doug Bollinger.

1028: I may have jested in my opening salvo about the other sport on today - of course, the build-up has already started for England's World Cup game with Germany, with Chris Bevan the opening runner in the live text relay race. There's Formula 1's European Grand Prix from Valencia later too. And I know how many of you like to follow one sport and watch the highlights of others later - so while I'll point you to where you can follow the other sports, you won't hear any "spoilers" (as River Song would have it) from me.

1022: News from the middle is that England have won the toss and elected to field. They're unchanged after slow left-armer Michael Yardy passed a fitness test. Australia make two changes, with seamer Clint McKay and injured spinner Nathan Hauritz replaced by pacemen Ryan Harris and Shaun Tait, who was called into the squad the other day.


The sun is out
1015: Morning, everyone. It's the hottest day of the year - and hopefully a day to remember in the world of sport. England, led by their foreign-born coach, are preparing to lock horns with one of their fiercest rivals as a nation waits in hushed expectation, hoping for a famous victory over the "old enemy". And apparently there's some football on too.


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