It's The Ashes (again)

[Ted Maul]

Another 70 for England this morning could be enough whilst still keeping enough time in the game.

It puts the Australians in an awkward position too, given the delays coming up over the weekend do they bat time and try and take the sting out of England knowing that if they lose a couple of quick ones when they're on and off for bad weather they're well and truly in the shit. Or do they come out aggressive and try and make 300+ themselves to give England a target to chase.

I think it would have to be the latter, if we can get 150 ahead then we're in a really strong position - Australia would need at least 300 to concern us come Sunday and I can't see them getting 300 second dig on a pitch that looked like it had just started misbehaving a little towards the end of yesterday.