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Yep its just started chucking it down here just outside London, on its way to the Oval.

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Absolute vertical river here now - let's hope they accidentally take the covers off for a moment. The way he's playing it'll take a flood of Biblical proportions to dislodge Langer.

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Oh dear lord be it in thy power, let it p** down for 1 hour.

Will that help?

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Thank you very much. My street is now flooded. Inch and a half, judging by the bucket I left outside.

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Oh dear, very sorry, but I don't know one to make the sun shine.

On a serious note, I think the weather has given us a get out of jail free card. By the way the aussies started I reckon they could have passed our total, even if by only a little. Then, if we made the same mess as we did in the last game then we would be struggling on the final day.

2 batsmen let us down in the first innings.

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I think it would be an absolute tragedy (or maybe "travesty") if we won the Ashes by default because of the weather instead of having them decided on the pitch :(

England should have to *fight* every inch to win them.

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The Aussies would have lost at Old Trafford but for the weather.;)

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We already have fought to win the ashes in the two games that we have won. The Aussies got away with a draw at Old Trafford because of a day of rain, so i don't see why we can't ;)

Edit - Beat me too it :)

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Think we have proved we are the better team, regardless of the weather intervention.

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To be honest, things are much closer than we all ( except Graham ) ;) imagine.

Last Sundays Telegraph had some excellent stats in it. One of which revealed that the average score per wicket throughout the first 4 tests was almost identical, England shading it by a couple of numbers in the second and third decimal place. This was mainly due to the efforts of Warne & Lee with the bat.

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Yeah, beat me to that one as well.

Also, was there not one match that the aussies were definately playing for a draw in their second innings and they managed to last out the final day.

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And England are probably going to win the Ashes *because* of the weather.

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OK, this is it hopefully a good day for serious cricket, wonderful game so far. ;)

I would like to see the England team win but yesterday was hard work 242 - 2 clearly the Australians are trying, we need wickets. But as long as we see good quality cricket I'll be happy whatever the result. so no rain please, rain go away :)

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329/5, just wonder what sort of lead they will set us, my be about 150, we could play defencivly for the draw.

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I hope to hell they don't, that would make a lot of people very unhappy.

If you're going to win something, for gods' sake try to *WIN* it!