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The Ashes 2017-18

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  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,637
    edited December 2017
    DRS is fundamentally flawed. The whole idea of the system is that it should get rid of wrong decisions & although I realise that major howlers are now generally avoided I believe that it shouldn't be down to the players to decide what decisions are reviewed. This has been my beef with DRS all along. It is now getting silly - nicks are going un-noticed & then players are reviewing plain "out" decisions just because they have a review left and they are the last man in. That is not what the reviews are there for. Perhaps the 3rd umpire should review all decisions (and a lot are obvious like bowled or caught so a lot may not need to be) but seeing as the 2 umpires in the field are the ones that naturally give players out, then why are players now becoming a 3rd umpire ??
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,783
    edited December 2017
    264-4 at lunch

    Cook 134*
    Bairstow 16*

    Trail by 63.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,783
    Turns out the ball hit Malan's pad outside the line of the stumps as well. Double umpiring cock up.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,783
    279-5

    Bairstow out for 22. Caught behind off Lyon.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,101
    We're now onto our tail.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,330
    Friend Or Defoe said:

    We're now onto our tail.

    Shaaaaadap. Moeen's come out blazing
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,783
    edited December 2017
    307-6

    Ali gone for 20 from 14 balls. No prizes for guessing who got him out.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,330
    Literally could have hit that long-hop anywhere for fuck's sake
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,810
    Goodbye to Ali for the last Test, utterly embarrassing batting.

    Awful shot from Bairstow as well, he has one score from seven innings in the series.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,101
    Leuth said:

    Friend Or Defoe said:

    We're now onto our tail.

    Shaaaaadap. Moeen's come out blazing
    Batted like a maniac. Lucky his 6 wasn't caught.
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  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,330
    Smith puts down Cook again! Once more though, would have been a screamer
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,637
    edited December 2017
    England batsman playing like they have a plane to catch..............or are they going the old P&O route & the boat sets sail tomorrow
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,330
    Some of these shots from Cook, my word
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,330
    Going to bed now, but hopeful we can bat the last session
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,783
    360-6 at tea.

    Cook 173*
    Woakes 26*

    Lead by 33.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,783
    366-7

    Woakes gone for 26.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,101
    edited December 2017
    Woakes out for a respectable 26. Caught behind by Payn trying a hook shot bowled by Pat Cummins. 366/7 Curran gets hit hard on his first ever test delivery much to Aussie delight.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,101
    edited December 2017
    Curran caught behind for 4 following a sucess DRS review from Australia. 373/8.
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,179
    Ormiston Addick said:

    Goodbye to Ali for the last Test, utterly embarrassing batting.

    Awful shot from Bairstow as well, he has one score from seven innings in the series.

    Let’s be honest, have any of England’s batsmen truly puked their weight on this tour? Malan probably just about. The rest have no more than one decent score a piece.

  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,783
    406-8 at the drinks break.

    Cook 197*
    Broad 18*

    Lead by 79.
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  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,783
    Double hundred for Cook. :-)
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,101
    Fucking hell!image
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,483
    Friend Or Defoe said:

    Fucking hell!image

    Fan fooking tastic!
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,483
    SoundAsa£ said:

    Riviera said:

    We now have to start blooding some new players. Sentiment out the window, there is simply no point in picking Cook anymore, nor Broad on this tour at least.

    No denying Cook has been absolutely abysmal.........thus far anyway.
    I just have a feeling that he still has something to offer and wouldn’t exclude him just yet.......he’s not very old and has been wonderful for so many years.
    I think he still deserves one more Test series and see how things go.......if it’s clear that the mojo has gone, then that would be the time for him to bow out gracefully.
    Very interesting to see what he has to say on the matter at the end of this series.
    Like I said.........I feel he still has a lot to offer!
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,101
    Broad now has our third highest score! 435/8
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,783
    Broad smashing it about. Love it.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,101
    :smiley:image
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,179
    edited December 2017
    This is one of only two or three times this series where the English batsmen have properly got on top of their bowlers. Great to see.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,101
    Aussies leaving the ground.
  • jamescafc
    jamescafc Posts: 1,831
    I noticed Cook has now moved up to the 7th highest run scorer in test match history today, overtaking Chanderpaul. Should overtake Lara very soon too

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