Well, the Adelaide 2nd Test starts tommorow, and wondered what the predictions were for this one?

Preperation at Adelaide Oval has hit extreme mode, with our capacity going from 28,000 to 32,000!

McGrath is still in doubt with his heel injury. If he doesn't play, hopefully Brett Lee can pull through after his shaky performance at the Gabba. McGill was dropped; whilst Shaun Tait and Mitchell Johnson were named in the 13 man squad!

Should pan out to be a rather interesting 2nd Test!

Are you going to any days, Nic?

I'm looking forward to it as always and I love the country feel of the Adelaide Oval.

Wont find out about McGrath until the start of play - hope he plays.

I'll be switching the radio on in a hour's time to catch the beginning of the game before I fall asleep (it starts at midnight GMT). After England's appalling bowling at the Gabba, I can't feel confident about their prospects at Adelaide, where pundits predict a batsmen's wicket. Like Copago, I hope McGrath plays; but even if he doesn't, that will only make England's batting task a bit easier - it won't do anything to aid us in the apparently hopeless job of bowling the Aussies out.

England have named the same side as the first test. Thought Panesar might have had a shot this time.

Can't find any word yet on the Australian team.

I hoped that Panesar would get a chance too - maybe replacing Anderson. Of course, Harmison's safe for the second Test simply because he bowled so badly in the first: English cricket is like British politics in that respect.

Pigeon is playing.. another 6-wicket innings would be a nice start.

England won the toss, and did a lap of honour...

There hasn't been alot of action since lunch. Currently England 2/108. Clark got both wickets.

McGrath hasn't played his best, or so from what i've seen. Maybe his heel wasn't ready to play on.

Hopefully it's a bit more interesting this afternoon.

Yes Copago, i will be there... working I'm selling merchandise! I will be there on Sunday though.

Nice start to the Test Bell got a slow fifty, Collingwood continues to play strongly if not stylishly and Pietersen is taking the attack to the Aussies...

Still the first day itself, but One of the two draws I thought about might happen here?

No thoughts on MoYo's (Mohammad Yousuf) record breaking year? 1788 runs in a calendar year, 9 centuries in 11 Tests, including 4 in the last 3 tests, well over 650 runs against West Indies in the series...phew....all attention of this board only on Ashes?

I guess it's just because not everyone can watch the other matches .. not only are they only on PayTV (sometimes at that) they're also usually on in the middle of the night -for the Australians anyway. It's not that we don't care it's just we don't get to see or hear much about it.

But on saying that it's a momumental effort from Yousuf

Stumps day one here, and I really enjoyed it. Bit slow in the middle there with Bell and Collingwood taking it slow but once Pieterson came in things got a bit more interesting. 3/266 I'll go along with you, srini, for the draw ... where do you think the next one will be?

Good morning and welcome to coverage of the second day at Adelaide. The weather is warm but cloudy - 19 degrees, southerly wind and a chance of showers later in the afternoon.

England 266/3
Collingwood 98* (202b 7x4)
Pietersen 60* (95b 5x4 1x6)

Paul Collingwood and Kevin Pietersen resume on the second day at the Adelaide Oval with an unbeaten 108-run partnership in the bank already, and a chance to turn a promising first day for England into an imposing first-innings total . . .

Will Collingwood succumb to 'the nervous nineties'?

Will Pietersen get in more trouble for his comments about South African cricket? Pietersen Remarks Sparks Complaint

Will the Australian bowlers come to grips with a pretty flat Adelaide pitch (the Adelaide pitch has come in for some criticism for the lack of assistance it has offered to the seam bowlers)?

Come On Aussie, C'mon, C'mon . . .

Tea day two and Collingwood just gets out for 206! He may not be pretty to watch but the man has determination and concentration in bucket loads. Be great to see how Pieterson (146 no) and Flintoff go now. Must be so draining fielding on a day like this.

Clarke is by far the best bolwer we have at the moment.

Piterson and the SA comments. I have to agree - I hate this whole quota thing in sport and in the workplace .. if a person is good enough to be there they should be there regardless of race, sex, disability and so on. And yeah, no way was Cronje the only one involved in that whole mess.

(edit to add the e for Clarke - so as not to be confused with Michael Clark who for trivia's sake is a West's Tigers fan and therefore is worshipped. It doesn't take much for me to worship someone - I'm shallow like that)

Oh and I think I'm going to scream if one more person says that "Pom" is racist.

uh oh!

A couple of dodgy umpiring decisions haven't gone Englands way here ... Strauss was sooo unlucky and it would have be so very different had he not been given.

So now it's 9for and England need all the runs they can get in all the time they can do it in to stop Australia coming out for a slog.

THis morning I would have staked my son on a draw (in fact I still might, he's being a right pain today ) but that doesn't look as likely now.

After four days of traditional attritional (hehe ) cricket, I won't say boring cause I loved every ball, all the nerves are coming out now.

Finally!

Anderson did well to hang around for 40 minutes against some great seam AND spin bowling.

Aussies need 168 in 36 overs- 4.6 rpo.. should be fun!

I just wonder how many Poms went to bed last night thinking it's a certain draw (as did we all, except for Michael Clarke ) and are going to wake up and think they're having a nightmare.

I was not even going to bother watching, because I expected a boring day, so went shopping instead.

I walked past a shop with a TV in the window, saw the Poms (oops, honourable English gentlemen) at about 5/77, and bolted for home! Shopping can wait one more day...

Hayden out for the worst. shot. ever.

Hehe - I'm loving this!

Didn't expect the Englishmen to fold up like they did!

I remembered India beat Australia in Adelaide when they last played there in 2004, but the pace then was so different!

For four days now, both teams seemed to happy playing for a draw though Ponting did say they were going for a win...

So time to modify predictions from 3-0 to 4-0 for Australia, I guess...

96/2 as I write, 72 more from 18 overs...exciting finish, eh?

And Australia win by 6 wickets...fair result, it seems, given the mindset of the Englishmen. They seemed to go into the last day thinking a draw was definitely the only result possible!

Some good cricket has been played over the two tests and am sure more good cricket will be played by England too, but I am really tempted to ask all those who predicted a close series in terms of result, how in the world did they think it was possible? 4-0 to Australia with a possible draw only at Melbourne...

Mmm, silly poms (oops, english gentlemen) . . . packed up a day early thinking the Aussies'd capitulate . . . never in a million!

C'mon Aussie C'mon, C'mon . . .

Oh woe...........misery . Personally, I was praying for rain. Such is my despair that even marmite toasties can't buck me up........woe....tragedy.
Betcha that we'd thrash you at tiddly-winks tho'.

When any team has a wizard like Shane Warne no lead is safe! I am not at all a cricket fan and it is only the potential joy of the Celts at the discomfiture of the English that makes me look at the results and the highlights.

Having said that I had to admire the performance of England in the last series. I have revelled in the performance of the Aussies in this one. The skills of truly great sportsmen (in whatever field are impressive - Warne is simply magic!