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The Ashes 2017-18

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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,792
    And I would get Bairstow batting at 5 for the very same "right handed" reason.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,792
    45-0 off 15 at drinks. Great start but a vulnerable time immediately after drinks as evidenced by the number of times batsmen get out in the first over after them.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,792
    thai malaysia addick said:

    Opening partnership of 100+ needed to put some pressure on their bowlers. I don’t see it happening but as Geoff Boycott said it’s a funny old game (or am I getting mixed up?)

    Half way to that target.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Is that the first 50 opening partnership of the series?
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,767
    Lovely stuff from the openers.
  • AshBurton
    AshBurton Posts: 1,142
    Got away with one. Top edge from Stoneman inches short of being caught. As fellow off-spinner @Leuth rightly noted, Lyon is scary.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,792
    Stoneman dropped. The sweep is a "risk/reward" shot hitting with the spin let alone against it on a turning and bouncing track.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,792
    The_President said:

    Is that the first 50 opening partnership of the series?

    Yes it is.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    AshBurton said:

    Got away with one. Top edge from Stoneman inches short of being caught. As fellow off-spinner @Leuth rightly noted, Lyon is scary.

    Turns it almost as much as me. Bowls a couple of mph quicker and maybe hits better areas. Oh look here's a review
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,857
    Oakster said:

    Nice shot of the Roland Out flag - well done lads!!

    Oakster said:

    Nice shot of the Roland Out flag - well done lads!!

    @oohaahmortimer is there. Read once or twice he is not a fan of Roland !!
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  • jamescafc
    jamescafc Posts: 1,831
    Feel like they're getting on top a little now.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,767
    edited December 2017
    Cook gone lbw to Lyon after a review. 53-1
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,857
    53-0 will become 70-3
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    jamescafc said:

    Feel like they're getting on top a little now.

    Get a grip! It's just one wicket, and it's our rabbit. Vince will sort Lyon out*

    * maybe
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,477
    Need a century from one of our lot.
  • AshBurton
    AshBurton Posts: 1,142
    edited December 2017
    @Riviera will love that one. Cook got well forward, ball looks like it could have been sliding down leg - 99% benefit of the doubt to the batsman in club cricket.
  • jamescafc
    jamescafc Posts: 1,831
    Leuth said:

    jamescafc said:

    Feel like they're getting on top a little now.

    Get a grip! It's just one wicket, and it's our rabbit. Vince will sort Lyon out*

    * maybe
    Haha suppose you're right :smile:
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,338
    Alistair Cook's averages versus spin/pace:

    Since 2015:
    v pace: 53.0
    v spin: 35.3

    2010-2014:
    v pace: 40.6
    v spin: 76.3
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    Vince destroys Lyon for a single to long leg. Momentum: shifted
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,338
    Cook's average against Murali and Warne - 74

    Cook's average against Lyon - 19.5
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  • AshBurton
    AshBurton Posts: 1,142
    Leuth said:

    AshBurton said:

    Got away with one. Top edge from Stoneman inches short of being caught. As fellow off-spinner @Leuth rightly noted, Lyon is scary.

    Turns it almost as much as me. Bowls a couple of mph quicker and maybe hits better areas. Oh look here's a review
    Can’t resist a nibble at that one. I think you do yourself an injustice as you have more variation than Lyon - in particular the surprise beamer over the batsman’s head. In fact it’s only your stubborn refusal to bat left-handed that is keeping Moeen in the England side ahead of you.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,792
    Addick Addict said:

    It is so important that Vince and Root bat for a long time against Lyon. If they get in of course.

    Time to step up you two.
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,477
    Arse, silly Stoneman
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,767
    Stoneman out to Starc for 36.

    54-2
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,767
    Piers Morgan opened his gob on twitter at 50-0.

    We're 4-2 since.
  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    Callumcafc said:

    Piers Morgan opened his gob on twitter at 50-0.

    We're 4-2 since.

    Did he? Is he not on live TV at the minute
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,792
    Chizz said:

    Cook's average against Murali and Warne - 74

    Cook's average against Lyon - 19.5

    Sadly it's not just spin that Cook is now vulnerable against - one 50 in his last dozen innings for England and that was against the CA X1
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Target less than 300.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,767
    cafcfan1990 said:

    Callumcafc said:

    Piers Morgan opened his gob on twitter at 50-0.

    We're 4-2 since.

    Did he? Is he not on live TV at the minute
    He's basically live tweeting it.

    This is what he put up when Cook and Stoneman were going well

  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Its such a shame that Vince always looks so good.

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