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Re: The Ashes
85 - 6.
Buttler doing his level best to be dropped before we go to the UAE. He's destructive in ODIs, but wretched so far in tests.
What a downer to the end of the series from an England perspective.
Buttler doing his level best to be dropped before we go to the UAE. He's destructive in ODIs, but wretched so far in tests.
What a downer to the end of the series from an England perspective.
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True but his keeping has been much improved from what I've seen which will probably keep him in the side.
I do feel for him slightly in that he keeps coming in without the top order having set any kind of platform. No doubt he should do better but there's no point packing your lower-middle order with ODI/T20 sloggers if they're consistently coming in with less than 100 on the board. He's caught in 2 minds in that situation.
Unless there are some serious heroics in his second innings Lyth is done for, his dismissal today would embarrass a club cricketer.
At the moment our batting seems to be:
Plan A - Root makes big runs
Plan B - ?????
I do feel for him slightly in that he keeps coming in without the top order having set any kind of platform. No doubt he should do better but there's no point packing your lower-middle order with ODI/T20 sloggers if they're consistently coming in with less than 100 on the board. He's caught in 2 minds in that situation.
Unless there are some serious heroics in his second innings Lyth is done for, his dismissal today would embarrass a club cricketer.
At the moment our batting seems to be:
Plan A - Root makes big runs
Plan B - ?????
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And another goes.
And another while I type...
Stokes 15, Broad 0.
Siddle showing why he should have played from the start.
And another while I type...
Stokes 15, Broad 0.
Siddle showing why he should have played from the start.
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Yes, Lyth is dog meat.LDB wrote:True but his keeping has been much improved from what I've seen which will probably keep him in the side.
I do feel for him slightly in that he keeps coming in without the top order having set any kind of platform. No doubt he should do better but there's no point packing your lower-middle order with ODI/T20 sloggers if they're consistently coming in with less than 100 on the board. He's caught in 2 minds in that situation.
Unless there are some serious heroics in his second innings Lyth is done for, his dismissal today would embarrass a club cricketer.
At the moment our batting seems to be:
Plan A - Root makes big runs
Plan B - ?????
Disagree re Buttler: He’s there to score runs first and foremost and seems incapable of playing his natural game. I wouldn’t be surprised if Bairstow gets the gloves, Ali moves to open and Rashid is in for the Pakistan tests.
Buttler has potential, but he hasn’t demonstrated he has the gumption at test level yet. Not that I’m singling him out specifically; our batting has been piss-poor for the longest time now.
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Re: The Ashes
107 - 8 at stumps.
England were wretched. That is all.
England were wretched. That is all.
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England all out for 149 and 31 - 1 after being made to follow on by Australia.
Lyth was dismissed for 10 and that will probably be the last we see of him in the test arena for a while.
Lyth was dismissed for 10 and that will probably be the last we see of him in the test arena for a while.
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Re: The Ashes
Yep, lyon made it talk.nut flush gooner wrote:Flatish wicket, did you see that cook ball spin from leg to off!arseofacrow wrote:Stop blaming the pitches.nut flush gooner wrote:So at last we have a 5 day pitch. My ticket is for Monday's play - happy days until I look at the weather forecast, yep it's gonna rain.
#ashesjinx
England only put the aussies in on a flatish wicket so that you might get use of your ticket, Show some gratitude
I said flatish mate, not dead. The clue is in the words
Offers: What the fuck happened last night?
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Arse:
It was an England collapse worthy of any of our poor 90s teams.
England are 100 - 3 with Bell and Root going. As soon as Cook goes the dominoes will fall.
It was an England collapse worthy of any of our poor 90s teams.
England are 100 - 3 with Bell and Root going. As soon as Cook goes the dominoes will fall.
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The best we can hope for is to bat out today and then rain to fall.officepest wrote:Arse:
It was an England collapse worthy of any of our poor 90s teams.
England are 100 - 3 with Bell and Root going. As soon as Cook goes the dominoes will fall.
However, for nuts' sanity perhaps they could play day 5 tomorrow before day 4
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I have lost my sanity. Second time i've been done over by England this summer.
Now all I want is rain and lots of it today. Looks like tomorrow is going to be wet anyway.
Ho hum, as I said earlier at least they wont cancel arsenal vs pool.
Now all I want is rain and lots of it today. Looks like tomorrow is going to be wet anyway.
Ho hum, as I said earlier at least they wont cancel arsenal vs pool.
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Don't follow the cricket - But a colleague said Eng;and had fucked up - and instead of totally humiliating the ozzies by following up the last game where they demolished them within the first innings - they blew it and let the smug upsidedown cock suckers off the hook.
sounds about right for england.
sounds about right for england.
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That and we're nowhere near as good as the ozzies made us look in the last gameOneBardGooner wrote:Don't follow the cricket - But a colleague said Eng;and had fucked up - and instead of totally humiliating the ozzies by following up the last game where they demolished them within the first innings - they blew it and let the smug upsidedown cock suckers off the hook.
sounds about right for england.
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Re: The Ashes
Well if it ain't Cricket - then the answer MUST BE "Rock N Roll" (At it very bloomin Best!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE32pvvaDT8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE32pvvaDT8
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Surprising and very enjoyable series win for England. Some tremendous performances too.
Awful from Australia mind (as well as England in parts). I'm all for positive cricket and trying to play the longer form of the game in a more entertaining fashion, but not at the expense of common fucking sense. Too often when wickets were tumbling players were still getting out to idiotic aggressive shots. 5-day cricket shouldn't be an extended version of the limited overs game where the result is determined by one or two sessions of madness EVERY game - test cricket needs that ebb and flow, pendulum-swinging entertainment as well as the dramatic and swashbuckling play. Entertaining in the short-term and a great series win but ultimately 5 uncompetitive results - people will get bored with this new form of the game pretty quickly if this keeps on happening.
Awful from Australia mind (as well as England in parts). I'm all for positive cricket and trying to play the longer form of the game in a more entertaining fashion, but not at the expense of common fucking sense. Too often when wickets were tumbling players were still getting out to idiotic aggressive shots. 5-day cricket shouldn't be an extended version of the limited overs game where the result is determined by one or two sessions of madness EVERY game - test cricket needs that ebb and flow, pendulum-swinging entertainment as well as the dramatic and swashbuckling play. Entertaining in the short-term and a great series win but ultimately 5 uncompetitive results - people will get bored with this new form of the game pretty quickly if this keeps on happening.
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That's about right.LDB wrote:That and we're nowhere near as good as the ozzies made us look in the last gameOneBardGooner wrote:Don't follow the cricket - But a colleague said Eng;and had fucked up - and instead of totally humiliating the ozzies by following up the last game where they demolished them within the first innings - they blew it and let the smug upsidedown cock suckers off the hook.
sounds about right for england.
We just saw the technical limitations of both teams and took full advantage of the conditions match situations at the most critical times.
Much better England sides/players failed their whole career against Aus because of their standards.
Still, a win's a win and there are positives. Root for sure.