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The Ashes 2017-18
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It'll be a relief to watch England play on pitches other than these fucking awful ones0
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Funny how it's only the English bowlers who have struggled to take wickets...Leuth said:It'll be a relief to watch England play on pitches other than these fucking awful ones
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Australia have got wickets through a combination of England's batsmen being fucking awful and their own ability to bowl short and fast now and again, which is just about the only cricket that works on these pitches1
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I think Smith has a bat that is actually a foot wide but the outer four inches on each side are painted with invisible paint. He doesn't miss the bloody ball!0
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Thinking that short and fast cricket is superior to others is so boneheaded and Australian. May they always get torn apart in the subcontinent and in England3
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You mean by being better at cricket.Leuth said:Australia have got wickets through a combination of England's batsmen being fucking awful and their own ability to bowl short and fast now and again, which is just about the only cricket that works on these pitches
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Give them five green, green seamers when they next tour England and watch them fail to work out how to bat or bowl on them. Then train our boys to learn how to duck any conceivable 90mph bouncer so we can draw the next away series 0-0 as well2
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Shocking bowling to a nervous batsman in his 90s, what should have been a nervous struggle was instead made a piece of cakeLeuth said:Moeen could really, really do without the one that drops a bit short. I mean, *I* could do without that ball, but I'm not bowling for England*
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The thing is that he's almost becoming a parody of himself - the movement is so dramatic and so exaggerated that he is literally taking the pxxx out of the opposition bowling. Even Mitchell Johnson says that Smith used to wind him up in the nets playing as he does to the extent that all he ended up doing was bowling shorter and shorter to him.AshBurton said:
A freak indeed. And tonight he’s really taking the Michael. Logically he should be easy to get out by bowling a fast leg stump yorker, given that he’s virtually batting at gully by the time the ball is delivered. I just don’t get it.Addick Addict said:Smith is an absolute freak - how does he make the way he bats look so easy? At times he looks like he could light a cigar and have three puffs of it before deciding exactly where he wants to hit the ball.
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Aussies to get 500+ & then bowl us out cheaply on a then turning wicket.
why is it that when we bat the pitch looks a bit tricky but when they bat the pitch is benign.0 -
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On a positive note it's less than 70 overs till the next new ball!
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Smith out c&b Moeen Ali 831
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Rip through 'em now Mo!
(Both Marshes to get hundreds?)0 -
Quite a few caught and bowleds in this seriesRiviera said:Smith out c&b Moeen Ali 83
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Hint: it's these fucking slow, shit pitcheskillerandflash said:
Quite a few caught and bowleds in this seriesRiviera said:Smith out c&b Moeen Ali 83
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Fucking hell when will bowlers learn0
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Crane appeals against Khawaja for LBW. Not Out but reviewed, would have been out but a bloody No-Ball, from a bloody leggie!0
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It was only a millimetre over the line but still, you just shouldn't even risk it0
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It's started doing stuff for the spinners at least. Hopefully we don't let 'em get much more than fifty beyond our total0
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Moeeeeeen0
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England's spinners suddenly clicked 10 minutes before lunch, a shame we have the break now
Gutted about that no-ball though. What's galling for England is that we lose a review and give away a run, as a result of the review as the umpire hadn't spotted it.
These things happen to "losing" teams. During a rain delay they showed the Sydney test from 2011, when Cook on his way to 189 was reprieved on 46 by a no-ball costing spinner Michael Beer his first wicket...0 -
A no-ball.Callumcafc said:0 -
Stupid for a spinner to get so close to the line. You can understand the 3rd umpire giving it, even if it could be argued that 1mm at the end of his boot was behind the lineCallumcafc said:1 -
Still think its a no-ball. To me, nothing is behind the line. Just because his boot curves out an inch higher up doesn't mean its a legal delivery.
And even if its that close, I'm with Boycs on this. As a spinner there is no way you should be bowling no-balls. Harsh lesson but hopefully he'll take note & go back half a yard.
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We don't lose a review for that, for what it's worth1
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These two bowling really well in tandem now. As I say, four and a half Tests too late. But it's something0
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Any no ball should result in bowler being unable to bowl for 30 minuted once that over is completed.
There is no need to be trying to land that close to the line.2
