anybody know where i can get live streaming of the ashes

i have lectures all day tomorrow…. somethings got to give! Anatomy or Ashes????

Currently 20C here in Brisbane 2.5 hours before the first ball is bowled with a sunny day forecast and a maximum of about 30C.

Me thinks it will be somewhat hotter in the middle of the Gabba

So is it Giles or Monty ?

Gidday all - huge day. The shoes on the other foot now Will. I’m at work, you’re drinking coffee to stay awake

Anyway, I heard an interview with the curator on the radio this morning - says there will be a lot of life early, but also hot weather on the way. Wouldn’t want to bat last! So, expect a good start for the bowling side but this could be decided on day 4 or 5.

Wow although whoever wins the toss will bat, there seems a chance that if a teams bowls well on this first day a team could get skittled. Perhaps not a bad toss to lose, but still i hope that we bat first and tomorrow morning we are 300-5.

Morning all!
(Thats right! I can say say morning everyday this time round! )
Best news is, i only got one more day of school left for the year, and i got today off school, soo i will only miss one day of Cricket on tv!
(will have to use the radio tommorow)
How is the coffee going down Will? You might need to try some Red Bull and soem of thoose other energy drinks. Ill just give you a few tips i used to stay awake last year:

1) Make sure you keep the lights on in the room your watching in. As soon as you turn the lights out ang create that dark sleepy atmosphere most will nod off in a matter of minutes.

2) Always get up and go for a walk, get a drink or somthing to eat around every hour at the most. Time it with the drinks breaks. There is more chance of fulling asleep if your sitting in the same position for hours and hours.

3) DONT LIE DOWN! Avoid TV’s near Beds. Biggest mistake i made last year was thinking i could lie down for a bit durring Lunch or Tea. If your going to watch the tv near your bed, make sure your sitting bolt upright in your bed and avoid the temptation to lie down.

4) Have the Laptop at the ready so you can keep commenting ont his great Blog!

Have a good night lads!

I am not in the uk how the hell can I get live streaming?

Kia orana from the Cook Islands!

Great blog-been checking it out for ages but have’nt joined in the fray. However given the momentous day-today’s as good a day as any. There’s even Ashes madness here in the Cook’s in the South Pacific and we are NZ citizens. We are 4 hours ahead of Brisbane, so will catch most of the game after work. Sadly today I have a teleconference with our office in Hong Kong at 5.15pm. Not sure the Chinese would understand if I told them to can it whilst I go down to the local bar to catch the opening stanza’s of the match and drown a few cold one’s with the boys. Have to listen to the opening overs on Radio Austraila-sadly no TMS down here. The Aussie commentators aren’t a patch on the TMS crew.

The consensus around here is “Go the Poms!”

No Panesar in the team? - a bit of a defensive step by our Duncan. We’ll need McGrath to fall over a ball again.

Thats allright chris. What country you in, out of interest?
Only 45 minutes to go!

Clark in, Johnson 12th man.

now there’s not Monty i’m not sure i can be bothered to watch any more…

grr

Streaming is on http://www.willow.tv.

Note - give them an email address that is not your regular, I am getting a load of spam on the one I used earlier in the Year.

While we wait for the toss, some advice for Freddie:
“If you win the toss, bat; if you’re not sure, think about it and then bat; if you’re still not sure, ask for advice (just not from Nasser) - and then bat.”

There are good reasons for picking Giles (not that I would), but why oh why does Fletcher insist on thinking that a handful of extra runs at 8 matters in Test cricket? You have to bowl a side out twice. If we need runs at 8, we should be picking new batsmen…

Good work by Sky to cock up the toss announcement.

who have sky got commentating? just out of interest…

National anthems, flag raising, bloody hell, is this cricket or football?

Crikey. When they said ‘it went straight to second slip’, I didn’t realise they directly from the bowler!

Great start Harmy

Anyone else think Steve Bucknor has got a bit of a podge on him all of a sudden?

Why do we have to put up with this idiot Blofeld on the commentary?

TMS has just started working for me for some reason

Horrid start but starting to steady down a bit. Fortune favours the brave.

Geoffrey is already saying in my day I worked for everything I got, we neve had 14 back room staff, what are they playing at etc etc. “I don’t take pleasure in saying this etc etc” Think best go to bed and wake up with the score 270/8.

Flintoff has just got the first wicket. Go England. For live scores, where to find the best live streaming, updates and all the latest news reports about the Ashes try http://www.pommytragics.com

Nope - it’s Hoggard, but 10 from the over maybe it should’ve been Giles.

I reckon Gilo will start with the one that goes straight on!

Test

Okay, Australia did well there in the first session, cashed in on English nerves and 1 for 109 in 25 overs is a good start to the series. Mind you this pitch is a belter, and 400 (at least) is par. Anything below that and England will have done well.

Justin Langer’s return to form though is great to see!

Now Bell is bowling - first day of the first test - Ponting 90, things looking ordinary for England. Will need a special FLintoff finish to this day to lift them.

Just woke up. Sounds like I missed a great ton from Ponting. Is Harmy still bowling like a drain?

Woohoo KP’s getting more turn than Gilo

Morning all. Not a great start for England there. But hang in there guys, the wickets have to come some time…. don’t they??

harmison needs to be shot. that was an utter disgrace.

Day one and England out of the game-although its a very flat track. Harmison and Anderson AWOL (does he really play first class cricket in England??). Bell and KP bowling on the first day and worst of all KP getting bounce and turn -(Warne must be wetting himself). Its going to be a long 4 days for the Poms to save the test……Still great effort from the Captain. For the sake of the series I hope for a fight-back on Friday. Great to hear our friend in Tanzania is online.

Cheers!!

I knew sleeping through it was the right decision.

I knew it was bad when I asked one of my housemates if Mark, our fellow cricket-mad housemate, was still up when she went down at 6am, and she said, “No, it’s all dark and quiet down there.”

I knew it was bad when my friend didn’t text back with the night’s results straight away.

But I didn’t know HOW bad. 346/*3*? Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, people, was ANYONE aside from Freddie bothering to bowl? Reading these comments, my jaw dropped. BELL bowled? KP?? IF YOU’RE GOING TO BOWL KP, DUNCAN YOU DUNCE, WOULDN’T IT HAVE BEEN USEFUL TO HAVE MONTY THERE, PER CHANCE? And wouldn’t this wicket suit Mahmood? Mind you, he’d have to be MUCH more consistent. But then again…

Well, looks like the old Aussie joke is ringing too true for comfort:

“What do you call an England cricketer with 100 on the scoreboard?
A bowler.”

On my blog, I made a prediction about Ponting getting 157. Well, cross my palm with silver and ask me about your futures…

unless he makes a double century.

And let’s hope Harmy isn’t about to go the way of Trescothick. I have an uneasy hunch that may be the case.

But the beauty of test matches is that they can turn on a 5p piece. Day 2, here we come…

Early day my Pomgolian friends. Your lot were piss-poor today (bar Flintoff), but there are still four more days and four more tests to go. Warnie’ll have trouble sleeping tonight, if Jaapie Pietersen can turn it. Whilst it is still very early, it’ll be interesting to see how Harmless pulls up after today - he’d be feeling bloody homesick about now, wouldn’t he? Make or break time for him tomorrow. Nice first ball that - probably caught Flintoff by surprise more than anyone else out there!
My fear is that if you lot get flogged in Brissie, you’ll go back to your old-fashioned tactic of playing for a draw from the get-go. Boring as buggery for starters - and I know you could say it’s in your interest to do so - but at least try to win the series.
Kathy: are you aware that 9 telecast with a one second delay, that completely buggers up trying to use the radio commentary? (Otherwise, we all would!)

Clare,

Incapability Anderson? Unbelievable. Totally unjustified. He’s a world class bowler. Jones would’ve been a great asset - but anderson is a worthy replacement. Have faith.

On the same strip in a pura cup game a few months ago between Queensland and New South Wales, the teams scored 400 each, with the loss of few wickets - match drawn. If we bat sensibly we can save this game. Ponting one of the best players to have played the game - had a v.good day.

Day 1/25 has just gone. 4% of the series. There’s another 96% to go. I suggest you dont give up just yet.

Does anyone know how I can listen to the ACB radio commentary?…..apparently its only available to oz residents. Theres a guy there called Kerry O’keefe who was hilarious on TMS a few years ago. Hes a bit of a cult hero nowadays by all accounts.

Kerry O’Keefe is still on the radio and he’s scaring the crap out of Aggers….

Is Bill Lawry the commentator parodied in 12th Man (piss off yer out)?

Sorry Sean - yeah, the guy that loves the pigeons, and gets the piss taken out of him constantly for the enormous nose.

Well, he’s an utter legend full stop. Some people just don’t get how to follow the man. The trick is to sort of unconsciously screen out everything he says when he starts on about the glory that is Victoria!

Ernold

Still feeling the same about it now? There is a worrying lack of confidence about the team with the golden exception of Fred and I am reserving judgement on KP till we see what he can do. If it was only the bowling that was the problem we would have a chance of a fightback but this morning’s display of batting only makes it worse. Australia have played terrifically well but we have let them. There is so much more of a feeling of 2002 about this rather than 2005 and missing Vaughan, Trescothick and Jones is really beginning to tell. You say that Anderson is world class but I don’t feel I have seen that yet. I’m not criticising his talent but he doesn’t have much experience and an Ashes series is a very steep learning curve. I feel bad for them, its very hard to be under this scrutiny when confidence is low and hard to know what can be done to stop the slide. I haven’t lost confidence completely (I am the optimist who kept faith with Ramprakash for years!) but I do feel it will be very hard to pull round from this.

Please radio 5, get rid of Geoffrey Goycott .
He is becoming a big embarressment to English Cricket —he is self opinionated,arrogant and at every opportunity–crows about how he would have sorted out the aussie bowlers and every ball he hit would have been a four (at Least) .Geoffrey how many tours did you duck out of ?,when the likes of Lillee and Thompson , Holding and daniel were around? compared with the likes of Richards ,the chappels,the waughs ,tendulkar , Lara and many more too numerous to mention —you were well down the list so give it a rest. I bet they cant wait to get out of that commentary box when they hear you approaching —–my finger certainly makes a dart for the mute button on the remote

Maria,

So can you find the bbc ffed now? ABC has not got Henry!

oops! CRICKET*

you can watch the game live and free using wnamp click on their media library and click to shoutcast tv . a list of streaming media will show up scroll down till you see the ashes

enjoy!

Maria,
OOOPs I meant feed.

Ball and chain or trouble and strife?

Would not give up mine for the world!

Henry is a BBC commentator who has a way of making you feel like you are there and very old English.

Cheers,

Pete.
USA

i agree boycott is a fuk head who thinks his good he was a shit player a shit comentator who speaks shit since ur so good boycott why dont u put the pads on lets see how good u are