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Monday, December 27, 2010

England on track to win the Boxing Day test


England took Australia by surprise on the first day of the Boxing Day test and restricted them for just 98, with the help of Anderson and Tremlett. Now on the second day they are going strong as expected by the kind a start they got on the first day with both the openers scoring half centuries.

England lost both their openers pretty sooner on the start of the second day but they had completed their job, next it was all on the middle order to perform well to get a huge lead against the Aussie’s. Jonathan Trott along with Kevin Peterson and Matt Prior accomplished what England was looking for. Jonathan Trott is still playing strong after reaching his second century of this cricket series with Prior who is playing on 75 and on his way of scoring his first century against the Aussie’s.

Australia struggled from the day 1 and now they are already trailing by 346 runs with England having both their set batsmen on crease and 5 wickets in hand. Australia can expect a lead of over 500 with the way England are going at the moment if they don’t do something special to stop them. Australian fans are already disappointed with the Aussie performance on the two day of this game of cricket. It also exposed the Australian teams weak bowling line up not able to bowl to their strengths when under pressure.

Australia will have to improve their performance ahead the World Cup, as they are amongst the top contenders of the Cup. They should try and not let the expectations of their fans go down in vein. England is all set to conquer this game with quite an ease. It’s been an exciting game of cricket to see England comeback strongly after a defeat in their previous game.
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