Those Aussie Newspaper Headlines In Full: 'A Sad, Sorry Sign of Things To Come'; 'Battered Australia No Match For English Fightback'; 'Lame Attack Gives England The Psychological Edge'; 'Pace Duo On Notice'; 'England Deliver A Future Shock'; 'Mitched It By Miles'; 'Johnson Now A Liability'; 'Realities Stare Selectors In The Face'; 'Ponting In The Eye Of The Storm'; 'Ineffective Johnson Faces Sack'; 'Horror Flashback To '80s Nadir' and finally... 'English Press Goes To Town On Aussies'
A man who spent his career facing Wasim, Waqar, Walsh, Ambrose, Donald, McGrath and Warne assesses Mitch: 'Can't bat, can't bowl, can't field' - Mike Atherton
Boycs' family arrive: 'Johnson couldn't bowl my grandmother out'
Last word on Mitch: 'I feel sorry for him' - Steve Harmison, in the Sky studio
Feet still on ground: 'It's all very well strutting about the hotel lobby feeling good about yourself, we have to transfer that to the pitch' - Andrew Strauss
Talking point: 'Forget the Ashes. There's only one thing the cricket world's talking about: Shane Warne's face' - Courier Mail
And why? 'He's not a masterpiece but he's got a nice face. His teeth are too shiny - they're overdone. You put some black bits in there and he'd look like a piano' - Plastic surgeon Howard Torres
Par Watch: 'There will be all this momentum chat again. I don't know who takes the momentum' - Andrew Strauss; 'The skipper appeared intent on landing a few psychological blows of his own... as he streaked to 50 off 43 balls' - The Australian; 'Both teams only took 11 wickets and dropped catches, pretty even' - Shane Warne
Stat of the match: 28 - number of hours Alistair Cook spent on the field
It's not hard to work out why Steve Harmison feels so sorry for his Aussie clone, is it!!
ReplyDeleteI've never seen Mitch bowl a ball at 2nd slip though, although I'm sure he has at sometime.
Sky Sports made me laugh just after he dropped that catch from Strauss. Straight away they put up a caption showing, 0 catches, 0 runs and 0 wickets.
It was like they were trying to compare him to Mike Gatting's 86 team of 'can't bat, can't bowl and can't catch.
Have to be honest, unlike Harmy, I don't feel sorry for him.