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Ashes 3rd Test at Edgebaston
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that would depend entirely on what type of wicket Strauss tells Nottinghamshire to produce.
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What makes it worse is that the Pommies are a dreadful side and at the moment it looks like the world rankings are upside down. I would drop Clarke, Voges and Marsh. Make Smith the captain and get Khawaja in. If you carry on doing the same things we will be beat but Clarke has done nothing for the side this series and that is unacceptable for a player of his calibre. It's harsh but he he can't buy a run and his technique looks dreadful.
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Dreadful? Then this Oz side is utter sh*te. Any Ashes series exposes weak links & atm there appear to be far more in the Oz side (Voges, Marsh, Starc...) compared to England (Lyth).
Clarke's having a bad trot but is a class player. Neville is still finding his feet but looks like he has a bit of backbone. Bairstow needs to be given a few more tests before condemning him. As a bowling unit Eng look much stronger on pitches offering some assistance. As for the batting, both top orders look brittle. |
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Both teams are very poor in the batting department, if you think Lyth is England's only weak point you haven't been watching. Clarke is gone, his back is not allowing him to move his feet the way he once did. He will retain his position because he is captain and Marsh will need to replace Voges. Australia will have their fingers crossed that Barstow sees out the series. Australia's bowling this test has been very poor, Starc needs to make way, his spells before lunch yesterday was appalling at best. England show us how to bowl on a seaming wicket and it wasn't making the batsman play at one in ten balls. As a lover of test cricket this series has been hard to watch.
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A match to lose your shirt on.
I'll make a small and thoroughly undeserved profit on this. Got it completely wrong, and saved by Finn, who I must say I rated and wondered why he wasn't in the Eng team. Agree that Clarke has to go, but I've thought that for a while. But I doubt it will happen before the next Test. |
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Clarke just looks so uncomfortable at the crease.
There's time when, as a batsmen, you have tough times - you get a few jaffa's, someone pulls off a miracle catch etc. But he looks genuinely shot to bits. As uncomfortable as Lyth, if not worse. |
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What did you not understand Johnny. The rankings don't lie, i.e Australia are rated a far better side than the Pomms in all forms of cricket at this time and yet the performance this series looks like it should be the other way around. England are a poor side as the rankings suggest but we have looked even worse. God how we need a Steve Waugh now.
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@Try my best. There are no outstanding teams in test cricket right now. Most teams lack in players of true test match quality, especially with all the retirements in the last few years. Players are generally flourishing in home conditions making teams look good in a home test match series. The lack of quality, adaptability and general metal frailties however make them all pretty awful away.
This includes England who despite being extremely pathetic in the short game, have still remained an adequate test side. Particularly at home. This disparity between home and away performances has made a bit of a mockery of the test rankings right now. The fact that Bangladesh are proving to be a tough nut to crack at home and a slighlty above average New Zealand side can man for man give any other test team a run for its money should tell you all you need to know about Test cricket right now. If New Zealand had Vettori and Ryder available they would probably be the strongest Test team out there right now. |
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england should just about prevail.....think the shorter versions of cricket are ruining test cricket...gone are the days when a player could bat for a couple of days..now its a couple of hours.
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Anderson ruled out and won't bat here, advantage Australia
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The Burnley Lara ruled out!
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really good insight here from Heals re wktkeeping
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Is there a 'will Ricky Ponting smash the TV' market!
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wtf is this, the Aussie sycophant segment
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Ian Ward has got a sky sponsored side stepper on
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Never has so much semen been spilled on a pre watershed programme
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Huge crowd considering this won't go to lunch.
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aussie lead now 23 ..when is it squeaky bum time for eng chasing?
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many a true word spoken in jest
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Nah the only times Eng have a mega wobble is against spin. Aus are devoid of spin so we should be ok up to 200.
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f*ck that handjob Broad's 300th wkt
hope Finn gets all the last 3 |
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Johnson might disagree.
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Eng's odds are drifting already! The lack of belief in the punters is palpable
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if oz keep this up till lunch they could win this.
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You will find Eng punters will back England to the hilt until they get in an unassailable position. Then they turn like pit vipers.
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any aussies in here who watch afl? hawthorne 1/6 favss at home, have scored 3 points in 18mins???
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the big odds on boys will just be filling their boots for the % return
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGLHW1hY-CY
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laying oz at 10 really is money for nothing.
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introduce stokesy and root sharpish...
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there has been precedent but i'd say the efforts to date have been more Minnie Mouse than Hercules
looks like they'll nick a few runs..the aussies but no way eng don't get over the line here |
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This is going to be a longish day
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Draw price coming in. Someone fancies these two to bat for three days then.
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I couldn't back the draw with stolen money. Even at 1000s.
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Yeah. I know. The wink gave it away.
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