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Winning the world cup was never an issue for the Aussies to continue winning test matches as the Sky folk are stating its a world cup malaise
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How much have you lost on this one girls. You lot are clueless.
Won £500! How about posting your opinion on the cricket before a game starts? |
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England
-£2,465.96 Australia £5,492.99 The Draw £4,664.82 |
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mega wimp Root coming out with the same lame duck,deluded BS
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refusing to blame the batting again
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england's batting is crap
and bar smith & warner so is australia's |
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Isa should be sacked
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Hard to say which is worse, England's batting today or the umpiring!
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cant think of any other test side that Denley would get into..including the associates...fair enough if he was 22 with a bit of improvement in him....as for Roy..he will have a couple of more fails at the top of the order be moved down to five/six...fail again...then wont see him playing test cricket again(his hands get so far in front and outside of his body, just a walking wicket)...like to see sam curran back in...unless its swinging he probably will struggle but at least he is far less likely to break down and certainly carrys less mental scar tissue. Vince back in (25 will do)..Archer's gonner be fascinating..cant have both Bairstow/Buttler.
Burns Vince Root Stokes Foakes Woakes Curran Archer Broad Any spinner (doesnt matter all sh1t) any one of Buttler/roy/Bairstow in any position from 1-7 |
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"England surrender on final day"
Shock horror That has to be the most pathetic capulation in test match history Having them 122/8 and heading into the lead with 2 set batsman and 6 wickets in hand and still lose by that margin... that took some doing so fair play to us for that one   A shower of s**** |
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Did think it would turn into a minefield once we batted on it
Root should be sacked as captain for that shower of c*ap yesterday, just gave in and he has no clue when it comes to tactics either |
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game wasn't lost today. letting them off hook day 1 and after that hard to overcome having no anderson and moeen horribly out of form. root literally had no one to turn to at times yday
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Mafeking
Root needed to do some motivating, standing there like a chocolate teapot isn't going to rally the troops Get in the Aussies faces, sledge them, eff and blind if needs be, something to get your men tails up Standing there hands on hips and looking like a spare part at a wedding isn't going to do anything, it felt like a funeral yesterday Broad should be captain if only for the fact he winds up the Aussies |
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Failing that make Stokes captain?
Someone with a bit of fire in their belly ffs Root looks like the milky bar kids half brother |
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all these are getting knighted for winning a mickey. mouse trophy few weeks back, most of them CANNOTplay proper cricket.
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Loving this
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The selection of Moeen was plain daft. They didn't think him good enough to bowl 10 overs in the World Cup so...
His batting is shot to pieces. Woakes WAS fit yesterday and bowled 7 overs. Why? I still question Root's desire to be 'expansive' (yuk). JB's late cut off Siddle was ludicrous and Roy's shot today x rated . Haven't seen any other wickets today but fear the worst. JB down at 7 and keeping again needs some explaining. Foakes is the best in the country and has the potential to average high 30s at 7. If JB can't average 40+ at 5, he shouldn't be playing. If Bayliss and Root can't get the off field decisions right, we have no chance. |
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Root looks like the milky bar kids half brother
I don't know who the milky bar kid is but this made me chuckle. |
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In ASDA they have a shelf full of "Reduced to Clear" items. At certain times of day a member of staff appears with a price gun to mark everything down even further and hands back to the baying crowd their items that they'd already grabbed and given him to re-price. Usually it's a youngish Asian chap at my local store. I sometimes tell him he is "The Milky Bar Kid" and he gives me this polite-but-clearly-perplexed half-smile, even when I point to the "gun".
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You youngsters don't even have a proper old sea-dog for a Captain Birds-Eye these days.
O tempora! O mores! |
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Archer, Woakes, Stokes and Broad are probably going to be our 4 quicks in the next test
Archer is untried and doesn't look good enough for test cricket, Woakes bowls like he's in 20/20s which is 3 over spells and then is tired, Stokes is basically a poorer version of a prime peter Siddle, will run in all day but hasn't really got the accuracy and pace to really threaten, he's a nice option to have if we've got 2 other great seamers though. Broad is Broad, he can have spells where he's totally unplayable, but he needs back up at the other end. Then there's the spinners Root had to turn to himself yesterday ffs. |
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I think England are flat track bullies when batting and only bowl well in helpful conditions otherwise look pretty ordinary at times. Aussie got their selection right and we did not.
Unfortunately Moen has to go for Leach. I like Moen but he needs to find some form and runs in County cricket. We could still play him and Leach in the same side with Root at 3. The answers unfortunately are not so obvious as the problems. Foakes is one of the answers. Get him in for Bstard or Butler. I like the look of Malan this year. Maybe he is ready for another crack. I have seen enough of Roy to know every gun fast bowler in Test Cricket would fancy him. It is a shame as I would like to see someone like him in the side but not Bstard, Butler and him. Too early to panic. Maybe Lords will return to a normal pitch and our batters might flourish I think only desperation will call for one of the young guns to open and then it will be too late. I am not a huge Broad fan, 1-91 in the second innings but he is now the leader of the line. Archer must come in at Lords. How does curran get in? I would rather play him than Denly. Move everybody else up. So for me Burns Roy Root Stokes Butler Curran Foakes Woakes Archer Leach Broad I wouldn't be averse to throwing in a youngster at the top instead of Roy but he ought to be given a chance. Test Cricket is a hard game. At the moment he does not look well adapted to it. |
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WD - Roy has no desire nor charge to adapt. Root wants him to play HIS way. Madness for sure but it's the brand....
Leach HAS to play. Archer is box office. As your team suggests, it's a no brainer to pick Foakes ahead of Denly. |
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Archer is untried and doesn't look good enough for test cricket
Give him a chance we need a FAST bowler |
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WD
I will give him a chance, I thought he should have been in ahead of Woakes personally But is he good enough? I'm sure we'll find out soon enough |
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SaveTheWhales. • August 5, 2019 3:04 PM BST
Odds for Lords? wondersobright • August 5, 2019 3:06 PM BST 11/8 5 11/8 something like that not bad |
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As long as I get my green I don't get wound up about Eng losses.
Nevertheless this Eng team if you look through last 5 years have a habit of bouncing back after a dreadful display at home so don't get too despondent. |
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likely as not to get owned again at Lords
weather may help them salvage a draw zero chance of winning(beforetiming)  |
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Laying aus at 2.3 for 500
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When people drink away the sorrow of the loss tonight, England will be favorites again.
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*today's loss
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Beyond me how England's batsmen can be so hopeless at playing Lyon's severe spin. Anyone who has played any game involving a ball will
know that if all you do is to block the ball the spin will take on your bat/racquet. It is essential to do one of three things: 1.Go down the wicket and hit it on the full, 2: hit the ball at the moment it bounces or 3, hit through the ball to cancel out the spin. Unbelievable naivety from England. |
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Sibley
Vince/Burns your choice but I prefer Vince Stokes Root Roy Buttler Foakes Woakes Rashid/Leech your choice but I prefer Rashid Archer Broad such a shame Morgan cant/wont play Test cricket purely for his captaincy. Root has been pitiful in this department |
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Foakes has to play,i believe his technique against the quicks is as good as anyone we have, Roy has to go , his dismissal was one of the worst shots I've seen at test level (would loved to have been in Boycott's presence when he played it!!), would bring Vince in for Denly, Archer has to play if fit along with Woakes and Broad, Moen out prob for Leech, as for an opener to go with Burns (still not convinced) I'm struggling, what happened to the lad from Lancashire?, he looked a proper batsman but seems to have dropped off the radar!
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Lyon was made to look like Warne today, he's not even in Giles class ffs
It baffles me how he manages to get the amount of wickets he does, he's a part time spin bowler in the 90s in my opinion |
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Part time is the new full time.
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agree sontaran, standard in sport in decline, but one area that cricketers have made giant strides is in their fielding
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