Ryan knows his football and that's for sure. However when it comes to his reading of a cricket match, I'd suggest this thread perfectly illustrates the accuracy of a stopped clock.
Well, I predicted Broad would run riot and there'd be fireworks first up, so your timing's not the best lefty. Besides, I didn't see any of you lot predicting a 3-1 win to England in this series. At least I had the temerity to make a call, it's easy to be all high and mighty in hindsight.
Before he changed his original post he was spouting his usual win the toss win the game nonsense as he thought Clarke had won the toss and decided to bat!
That's incorrect, and you know it. In my original post I wrote that Australia had won the toss, which is what I'd read on twitter as I was waiting from my fucking stream of the action to stop buffering. I edited it as soon as the vision came on.
And then proceeded to say it was the right decision, and that England would run riot. Which happened.
But anyway, the action itself... I went to bed after Australia's innings, so pretty much 3 minutes or so after a first ball was bowled. I don't think I've ever seen anything like that. As good as Broad was, and my word he was good, Australia were worse. A collapse as unlikely as you'll ever see. Every single one of them. Prodding at things, reaching for stuff, shit footwork, playing across the line, and looking back at the deliveries i think there was only 1 or maybe 2 of them that was actually going at the stumps.
Incredible, and if you play that bad then you don't deserve to win anything. But credit to Cook for the decision to bowl, and to Broad for that spell. In one half hour he won the Ashes. That's big-game bowling.
