The Ashes 2010

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Originally Posted by badhat17

I wouldn't get too excited about Watson's Five for, he was bowling against a raw inexperienced Pakistan team missing half their batting line up.
If Pontings bad run continues, will the ruthless Aussie selectors wield the axe ?

It is said in the press that Ponting is deparate to get his name on the all time greats board at Lords, his averages in international cricket are a respectable 55ish but he has never carried that form through to a Lords test.

Because of his age it is highly probable he will never lead his country again in a Lords test against England.

Recently an honours board was put up in the visitors' dressing room, created for neutral tests. Shane Warne never took five at the home of cricket. Dennis Lillee didn't manage it either. Nor, for that matter, did Jeff Thomson, who thinks Watson's bowling is rubbish and once famously described him as "not an allrounder's ar$ehole".

Warren Bardsley and Charles Kelleway are up there for their batting in 1912 against South Africa. Shane Watson is the first bowler to join them.

The question being.....will Ponting grab what will probably be his last chance...and join them?