Fifth Ashes Test, The Oval, day three:
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By Mark Mitchener
ENGLAND SECOND INNINGS
(Lead by 172 on first innings)
From Paul, Sheffield, via text on 81111: "Cricket! Cricket! Cricket! How can anybody be watching/listening to anything but this"1025: Shame on me - I accidentally linked Anna’s Twitter comment toAlison Mitchell’s page.The correct link to follow Annais here.Go on, you know you want to.1023: Not wanting to “diss” the Swann-meister after his display yesterday, but he may have got his dates wrong - as on 5 June 1998, Northants were playing Lancashire. He did get John Crawley out, but not until “Creepy” had scored 109. Check outthe scorecard from that game on the splendid CricketArchive site.England spinner Graeme Swann on Twitter:](http://twitter.com/BBCTMS)“The noise at The Oval yesterday when Broady was bowling was phenomenal. Reminiscent of Northants v Derby, June 05 '98”
1015: If you give the page a manual refresh, you can take a look at our latest vote - how many will Andrew Flintoff score in his final Test innings And a quick parish notice - if you’re texting in to us today on 81111, then please - this is vital - include “CRICKET” as the first word. We share the text inbox with football and Formula 1, both of which will have long-running text commentaries today(Chris Whyatt’s F1 chat has already started)](http://www.paklinks.com/sport2/low/motorsport/formula_one/8215638.stm)and your comments will not get noticed if you don’t flag them up as being cricket-related. Thanks in advance.From Sean, LHR T3, TMS inbox: "Can’t wait for this to get under way. I reckon England have their noses in front but we mustn’t write the Aussies off. We need a lead of 350 minimum really. On a different note, I’d love to hear Glenn McGrath’s opinion on this, bearing in mind he boringly predicted a 5-0 whitewash"1008: And if you were heading for the pub as soon as play finished yesterday, you may have missed out on some other goodies which I can point you to -Ben Dirs’ blogabout Stuart Broad’s coming of age,Jonathan Agnew’s verdicton day two, andthe TMS podcastfeaturing Aggers and Geoff Boycott.
1004: Rather than rely on a weather report from any official sources, here’sJames Anderson’s meteorological verdict on Twitter:“Need a good day with the bat today. Sun is out which is a good start”. Ta, Jim.
BBC Sport’s Anna Thompson on Twitter:](http://twitter.com/annat1972)"Watching England skipping - yes, skipping - with a huge rope. Must say it’s not Freddie’s forte"1000: Morning, everyone. We had an absolute crackerjack of a day yesterday (well, it was Friday, Aussies were nine wickets down by five o’clock, so it was crackerjack) - so I hope you’re both physically and mentally prepared for day three of the deciding Ashes Test at The Oval.The match situation is that England are 58-3 in their second innings, but with an overall lead of 230. Captain Andrew Strauss has 32, debutant Jonathan Trott has eight. We’ve made one change to our line-up - and not a fake blood capsule in sight. Ben Dirs, who’s beenTwittering from The Ovalfor the first two days, is off at a wedding, so we’ve despatchedthe lovely Anna Thompsonthere instead.