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Broad gets Warner again
Lovely stuff |
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bairstow looks like he has put on a couple of stone since last year.as for rest of them,brain dead
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The draw @ 5-1 is short, unless next 3 days are a wash out
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Brain dead cricket at times particularly from England batting unit.
Loyalty has its price. This match is currently separated by Marsh’s 118. This cannot go on. Foakes must be reinstated. Robinson was a big mistake . I suggested Tongue should have played but with the weather and pitch it should have been Anderson. I think they need to look at their selections this series. The catching is inexplicable and inexcusable. Nothing to add on that. |
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Hi slogger
Shirley there will be a result in this match but tomorrow may be the chance to lay the draw? |
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This entire series has been a right England ball$ up, we should have closed out the first test quite comfortably to make us bossing things along nicely.
Now, as incredible as it is, we're odds on to go 3-0 down and lose the series in this very poor manner. |
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thats right slippy.aussies are playing test cricket and we are playing school yard cricket.not much between the two teams imo.miles apart in coaching and game plan though.
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16 missed chances. Wow.
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Let them see the series out in empty stadiums simple really
An utter joke that deserves the embarrassment of empty stadiums |
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Can't we just forfeit the last two tests ?
It pi33es me off they played the moral game and then produce this pathetic cowardly performance |
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There's no point busting a gut Mr Wood, even if you leave them needing 250 they won't get near it so fook em mate
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Only Stokes capable currently of handling high quality bowling.
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must be expecting some rain interruptions considering the draw is only 6/1
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But harsh Sonts
Quite an even balance Bettye teams although they have the better bowlers, better batters, better catchers and better tic tac’s I think the weather has evened things up a bit, they have generally had the worst of it. I love this Stokes guy but someone somewhere has to be the adult in the room. The side is unbalanced and we need a wicket keeper. Some of the select and combinations have been lamentable. Whilst I deplore the ground and pound arroyos Strauss and Cook, there is a time and a place. We have not ground the Aussies down and that has cost us. |
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Quite an even balance between the teams
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Stokes is great to watch and a terrific player but he needs to change gear now and again. It;s like going all-in at the poker, all of the time. There;s always the "once" coming when you go out. Half an hour of Alf Tupper then an hour of Boycott would work so much better. In my view.
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I think he has an incredible grasp of what to do and when that is why it is all the more galling the way he got out at Lords. He was literally alone and adrift and knew he had to get the runs himself. Imho he made a mistake and after an hour and a half should have trusted Broad. The pressure of conversing 2 or 3 singles an over builds into a torrent.
The thing J have with Stokes is he is not prepared to concede mistakes now that might be a necessary quality of leadership or sporting genius but it does not wash with me. If you lose a match and say you would not have changed a thing is stupid. I can understand the need to not admit mistakes in public but do not try and pull the wool over my eyes. The wicket keeping situation is grave. Johnny is not as bad as most have said. He has been half decent in the past but this series he had been sub club, not just poor but a liability that may have cost England a chance if regaining The Ashes. The problem is really how do you balance a team that needs 4 seamers and a spinner if Stokes cannot bowl. I understand the locker is bare but I think selections have also contributed and this has not been acknowledged. Robinson should never have played this Test. Contrary to opinion again I think this series has been gripping. Aus are by far the better team with better bowlers, batsman, wicket keeper and catchers and yet England could and perhaps be 2 zip up with the prospect of securing The Ashes on Monday. Apart from having the best of the weather I cannot fathom how! |
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alistair cook rates stokes ahead of beefy( but admits didnt really see botham ),
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No way!
Botham was unbelievable! What Stokes has done with the bat to win things and recently not to have been nothing short of genius. Cricket is Art and the artist Stokes is up there at times with Michelangelo. I haven’t got time to go into it now but it would make a great thread. |
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Botham for me
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I haven’t got time to go into it now but it would make a great thread.
I, for one, would enjoy this thread. |
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They should be pitching it up, for the most part, here.
If they're determined not to, Wood ought to be the one aiming at Carey and Head. They might be keeping Wood fresh for a go at another tail-end mop up, if they get the chance. |
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Either way, gotta make the most of this.
Not dissimilar to the period that Australia nicked off our openers under the clouds in the first Test. |
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Maybe they just don't want to dismiss them too quickly, so they can avoid Starc and Cummins in this
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Can't be chasing more than 200 on this wicket
250 we're beat in my opinion 180 ish wed have a shot |
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Get them out and get just stop oil to throw jigsaw pieces on the wicket... Delay the game until tomorrow morning
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Bairstow knocked these off in
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You would like to think we'll take care of this match from here.
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...under 20 overs last Summer
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Whatever happens from here (and I'd rather take Aus at 2/1 than lay it)...
It would be remarkable if we found ourselves 0-3 after the situations we've had in each of the matches. |
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This is England though slippy
 165/6 when that went down and I'm still wishing we had them 60 runs less than that |
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Who can forget us chasing 142 vs Pakistan in 2012 and getting spun out for 72
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Jeeeeeez - JB even did his best to engineer a **** up with that catch
Love Brook's nonchalance. |
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Nah all over
Not getting 250 on this Utter filth after the 8th went down, fook knows what happens when the tail is in thinking wise |
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half an hour of england slogging tonight
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Had £45 on Australia at 3.1, we win ill take the loss but dont think we will sadly
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Theres no way its a draw surely?
No rain tomorrow so finishes tomorrow regardless |
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even with another full day washed out wouldn't be a draw imo
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england 1/3 overnight 10 wickets in hand needing another 224
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well england have done well today .. its for them to lose it now but surely they won't
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