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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,910
    It is very rare these days for us to get a decent start and even when we do wickets tend to follow:

    These are the fall of the first three wickets in the last half a dozen Tests (total runs made between the loss of the first and third wickets):

    1-1 22-2 34-3 (33)
    15-1 20-2 52-3 (37)
    125-1 159-2 164-3 (39)
    11-1 13-2 18-3 (7)
    0-1 38-2 38-3 (38)
    14-1 25-2 74-3 60)
    17-1 25-2 25-3 (8)
    47-1 61-2 62-3 (15)
    177-1 215-2 238-3 (61)
    17-1 22-2 73-3 (56)
    7-1 42-2 43-3 (36)

    Let's hope the trend is bucked today!
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,748
    Covered End said:

    Agreed, Lyth doesn't look, Test match class, to me.

    The review of his dismissals this summer says it all. He doesn't know where his off stump is and plays at far too many balls he could leave alone.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,067
    Ballance b Johnson 23

    28-2
  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,307
    Chrissy\\\'s Army!! said:

    Now would be a great time for Ballance to prove his doubters (including me) wrong

    Oh well.....
  • dickplumb
    dickplumb Posts: 4,835
    Oh dear the snail has departed. We have a real problem at opener and number three.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,910
    Ballance was batting as well as I've seen him bat. But, yet again, he has been found out by the full ball because he plays so far back in his crease.

    I did say three months ago, when his average of 65 at that time was being thrown at me that he had technical issues and that I would be sure that NZ and the Aussies would see that too. This isn't just a trough in form as he scored a lot of his runs against poor bowling attacks.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,067
    edited July 2015
    Bell b Hazlewood 1

    29-3

    Look what happens, when you bowl at the stumps !
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,985
    Bell out as well 29-3
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,910
    Addick Addict said:

    It is very rare these days for us to get a decent start and even when we do wickets tend to follow:

    These are the fall of the first three wickets in the last half a dozen Tests (total runs made between the loss of the first and third wickets):

    1-1 22-2 34-3 (33)
    15-1 20-2 52-3 (37)
    125-1 159-2 164-3 (39)
    11-1 13-2 18-3 (7)
    0-1 38-2 38-3 (38)
    14-1 25-2 74-3 60)
    17-1 25-2 25-3 (8)
    47-1 61-2 62-3 (15)
    177-1 215-2 238-3 (61)
    17-1 22-2 73-3 (56)
    7-1 42-2 43-3 (36)
    0-1, 29-2, 29-3 (29)

    Let's hope the trend is bucked today!

    Edited.
  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,307
    dickplumb said:

    Oh dear the snail has departed. We have a real problem at opener and number three.

    and four

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  • Blinkant
    Blinkant Posts: 598
    Poor
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,391
    Amending my prediction from 'bore draw' to 'exciting draw' ;)
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,906
    I am going to go read the Kent thread as it is not as bad as this one.
  • dickplumb
    dickplumb Posts: 4,835
    For whom the Bell tolls.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,067
    383-3 v 29-3.
  • kinveachyaddick
    kinveachyaddick Posts: 3,881
    Very predictable.

    Would like to say that hopefully we won't see Bell again after this Test but not sure who we would bring in?

  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,067
    Root c Nevill b Mitchell 1

    30-4
  • Blinkant
    Blinkant Posts: 598
    Be over by tomorrow morning
  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,307
    Chrissy\\\'s Army!! said:

    0-1. I predict This will be all over by sunday afternoon

    That was a mistype. I meant Saturday afternoon!!
  • HandG
    HandG Posts: 2,134
    Write off those horrible Aussies at your peril.

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  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,748
    Welcome back England. I've missed you.
  • Super_horns
    Super_horns Posts: 1,299
    Oh dear...well they always were going to fight back.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,910
    Addick Addict said:

    Covered End said:

    Rogers b Broad 173

    362-2

    We're right back in it :smile:

    Not sure that's good news. The wicket might be deteriorating!
    You all laughed when I said it but the facts speak for themselves:

    Yesterday - 337-1
    Today - 259-11

    I rest my case ;-)
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,910
    Cooky is now going to do a Root and smash his way out of trouble.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,264
    Addick Addict said:

    Cooky is now going to do a Root and smash his way out of trouble.

    I can only get the bbc live score update at work, i'm fuming
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,910
    cabbles said:

    Addick Addict said:

    Cooky is now going to do a Root and smash his way out of trouble.

    I can only get the bbc live score update at work, i'm fuming
    You're the lucky one. The rest of us have to watch it.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,067
    The wicket may have altered slightly, but the difference is in the batting & bowling, not the wicket.

    Poor batting by Lyth, Ballance & Bell. Root also played a poor shot, but Johnson, worked him over beforehand.

    Starc, Hazlewood and Johnson have bowled with hostility and at the wicket & man.

    We bowled 90% outside the off stump.

    This is the difference, not the wicket.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,910
    Covered End said:

    The wicket may have altered slightly, but the difference is in the batting & bowling, not the wicket.

    Poor batting by Lyth, Ballance & Bell. Root also played a poor shot, but Johnson, worked him over beforehand.

    Starc, Hazlewood and Johnson have bowled with hostility and at the wicket & man.

    We bowled 90% outside the off stump.

    This is the difference, not the wicket.

    I was being slightly tongue in cheek ;-)
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,067
    Yes, I did realise.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,015
    Don't think there are many things worse than a gloating Aussie sports fan.

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