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The Ashes 2017-18

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  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    This is getting ridiculous. Paine is given out LBW Anderson and reviews. DRS says missing on height but no way was that ball any higher than Smiths that was given out. Paine was out of his crease and further up the pitch than Smith but not to an extent to make that much difference.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,766
    I still think I'll trust the calibrated-to-within-millimetres tech over your opinion Riv. :-)
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Callumcafc said:

    I still think I'll trust the calibrated-to-within-millimetres tech over your opinion Riv. :-)

    Why? It's not just me. Listen to Agnew, Vaughn, Tufnell and Swann. They have all questioned THIS VERSION OF DRS!! I'm not talking about the one we use over here, I've never found any issue with that but the system that Cricket Australia have adopted is not the one we use anymore. They dumped Hawkeye for a different domestic version.
    Why accept something just because it promotes itself as so accurate? The trained naked eye with the benefit of looking at incidents again is better than the system employed this series.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,091
    edited December 2017
    I agree with Rivera, ball tracking looks wrong to me.

    Aussies declared just after lunch. I think we can avoid an innings defeat with a target of 240, cue no day 5!
  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    Great start , Stoneman caught behind in the second over 4-1
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,230
    Cook has gone now for 14.
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    dickplumb said:

    carly burn said:

    Root could do a lot worse than giving the youngsters in the squad a run out for the last two.

    We need to look to the future. The days of relying on Broad and Anderson are numbered.

    I am with you on this one Carly, they couldn't do much worse. At least there would be a bit of enthusiasm.

    Foakes
    Stoneman
    Vince
    Root,
    Malan,
    Bairstow,
    Moeen,
    Woakes
    T. Curran,
    Wood,
    Anderson

    Shield the youngsters from this cluster fuck. Let the old guard take their medicine and then get them out of the team after this series is over.

    No point putting emotional scars on the likes of Foakes.
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    Rain just before tea.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,791
    carly burn said:

    Atletico Addick said:

    Graeme Swann hammering into England's senior players for not offering enough support to the younger players.

    This is the same Graeme Swann who quit and ran home to England half way through the last Ashes tour out here...

    Strange Character Swann.

    Talks well one minute and then complete and utter tosh the next.
    Not much different from most people?
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,791
    LenGlover said:

    Received a Christmas card from an old colleague today.

    In early 1979 we were working and staying in Barry (pre Gavin and Stacey) and had adjoining rooms. She recalled in the card listening to us win the Ashes on her transistor radio overnight and banging on the wall until I banged back to acknowledge the good news!

    As she also said no chance of that this time!

    Tell us more about the banging on the wall.
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  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,336
    Wake up. Australia 550 all out. England 200 for 0.

    Then I woke up.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,849
    Ah the joys of getting up early, tired and hungover, to watch England lose!
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,015
    Brilliant. They lose 5 wickets in about 2 days, we lose 3 in 2 hours.
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    edited December 2017
    Wasn't everyone getting all excited after day one of the test?!

    Seems a lifetime ago
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,633
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,679
    This is ridiculous.
    Starc just got more turn bowling at 90mph than our fucking spinners get.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,679
    Best delivery of the match tbh
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,849
    One of these two goes, and you can see it being all over tonight
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,791
    I'm starting to think that my prediction of a drawn series isn't going to come to fruition.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,954
    Addick Addict said:

    I'm starting to think that my prediction of a drawn series isn't going to come to fruition.

    Pessimist.
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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,791
    RAINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,091
    Only $1 (60p) entry for tomorrow, fair!
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,856
    James Anderson speaking on BT Sport: "We're behind the game a little bit, but we are where we are. The rain helped us a little bit tonight. Tomorrow we've got to come back with a good attitude.

    "I thought the application today was really good. We've got plenty of batting to come too. We'll rely on everyone tomorrow to get us through the day."
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,856
    Really James.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,954
    Friend Or Defoe said:

    Only $1 (60p) entry for tomorrow, fair!

    One cent per minute?
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,679
    Prediction time.
    Will the Aussies have to bat again in this test.

    I say yes ,but only just.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    edited December 2017
    Well, its not just the England performance which is shit - the TV coverage is too. BT have gone for the low budget,low quality, Aussie dominated format , which tbh , is far below average- who wants to sit there and be told by some smug sneering Aussie how to bat/bowl/field??. Even the DRS used is shit (ask Riv !).
    There are a lot of people in senior management within the ECB who will (hopefully) be in the pooh come the quadrennial Ashes post-mortem where its all 'overhauled' and a 'future plan' established but the same result applies in 4 years time.
    Who i feel really sorry for are the thousands of people who have travelled out to Oz at least hoping for England to compete.
    I think the first thing to do would be to drop Cook and Ali, bring in Crane and someone else, anyone, i dont care - let Cook retire and Ali feck off back to Worcester never to be seen again.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,954
    blackpool72 said:

    Prediction time.
    Will the Aussies have to bat again in this test.

    I say yes ,but only just.

    Not, sadly not.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Ali now has the magnicent Ashes figures of 3-318.
    And a batting average of 19.

    Well done Mo - you've really excelled there.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,856
    The_President said:

    Well, its not just the England performance which is shit - the TV coverage is too. BT have gone for the low budget,low quality, Aussie dominated format , which tbh , is far below average- who wants to sit there and be told by some smug sneering Aussie how to bat/bowl/field??. Even the DRS used is shit (ask Riv !).
    There are a lot of people in senior management within the ECB who will (hopefully) be in the pooh come the quadrennial Ashes post-mortem where its all 'overhauled' and a 'future plan' established but the same result applies in 4 years time.
    Who i feel really sorry for are the thousands of people who have travelled out to Oz at least hoping for England to compete.
    I think the first thing to do would be to drop Cook and Ali, bring in Crane and someone else, anyone, i dont care - let Cook retire and Ali feck off back to Worcester never to be seen again.

    @Leuth - Ali being bullied again

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