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The Ashes 2021/22

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  • FFS the Aussie commentators are moaning about our run rate - it's Test cricket and we're going at almost 4 an over!
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Bed time methinks
  • Anyone got a decent stream?
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Leuth said:
    You don't pick Leach and then choose to bat second. Starc is not great in Tests. Think we have a chance here (he said, before Hazlewood destroyed all his illusions inside twenty minutes) 
    *nervous laughter*
  • Andyessgee90
    Andyessgee90 Posts: 845
    edited December 2021
    If* Root goes and that’s bed time for me fully expecting to wake up to the convicts on 270-2 
  • Not that it would have helped much but I wish we'd bowled.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    11-2. Malan edges to the keeper off Hazlewood.
  • Every time you see a replay of that dismissal it gets worse. 
    It does but that is the pressure of the situation. He did two things I bet he has not done in the nets all tour - going too far across his stumps and missing the ball. It's also not the ball Burns was expecting or focused on for all those hours.
    It doesn't matter what you are expecting, you protect your stumps. 
    Which is where the nerves come in - and cause him to move too far across his stumps. He was expecting a ball on and outside off stump and probably mentally prepared himself for that ball a million times before he went out there. I wouldn't have made that mistake but then I'm not facing Starc 
  • I'm skipper so sorry Mitch but you're only getting two overs!
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    Cummins brings himself on to bowl after only four overs.
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  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    edited December 2021
    Cloudworm said:
    Anyone got a decent stream?
    Watching on BT sport and about to throw phone at screen as these commentators are getting on my nerves already. Not just cos we’re 2 down. So if you find one with no sound it’ll be a result.

    Why do they show the score as 2-11 and not 11-2 like normal? 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,625
    Cloudworm said:
    Anyone got a decent stream?
    Watching on BT sport and about to throw phone at screen as these commentators are getting on my nerves already. Not just cos we’re 2 down. 

    Why do they show the score as 2-11 and not 11-2 like normal? 
    Aussies have always done/said it that way. 

    A bit like the Americans with the date.

    Have to show their masters that they are different. 
  • Every time you see a replay of that dismissal it gets worse. 
    It does but that is the pressure of the situation. He did two things I bet he has not done in the nets all tour - going too far across his stumps and missing the ball. It's also not the ball Burns was expecting or focused on for all those hours.
    It doesn't matter what you are expecting, you protect your stumps. 
    Which is where the nerves come in - and cause him to move too far across his stumps. He was expecting a ball on and outside off stump and probably mentally prepared himself for that ball a million times before he went out there. I wouldn't have made that mistake but then I'm not facing Starc 
    Doesn't excuse a poor shot that should have gone for four.
    Think that you were right that bowling first, when nerves are at their worst, would have been preferable. 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,625
    Totally agree with their commentators about Broad & Anderson. 

    Got to win the first Test. And you do that by playing your best bowlers. 
  • Cloudworm said:
    Anyone got a decent stream?
    Watching on BT sport and about to throw phone at screen as these commentators are getting on my nerves already. Not just cos we’re 2 down. So if you find one with no sound it’ll be a result.

    Why do they show the score as 2-11 and not 11-2 like normal? 
    Because it's an Aussie feed and graphics and that's how they show it down under. The funny thing is that we talk about a bowler taking 2 for 11 but not the score 2 for 11
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,735
    Disaster 
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    11-3. Root edges to slip for a duck.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,900
    We are so under prepared 
  • That is an absolutely unplayable delivery. 
  • Great decision to bat then. 
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  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,625
    This is going to be reminiscent of India v NZ last week. 

    We'll be all out for less than 100 & then they will bat & get 400 plus  
  • England look so undercooked going into this match
     :# 
  • Hate to say it but I think we should bowl first if we win the toss. Conditions might be at their optimum for bowling and the openers on both sides are going to be as nervous as kittens. One good ball is all it takes after all and that applies whether you are Harris, Hameed, root or Smith. 

    "In these conditions you need a bit of luck" - Gilchrist. We would struggle to lose the Test in the first session bowling but could easily do it by batting first
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Well hey, I did call it at least
  • This is going to be reminiscent of India v NZ last week. 

    We'll be all out for less than 100 & then they will bat & get 400 plus  
    50 and 500?
  • Burns and Malan fucked it. No matter how good Root is you can’t have him coming in after 5 minutes on the first morning of an Ashes series. Root fucked it by batting first. Players are bottling it. 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,625
    Doesn't help not having any warm up matches. Looks like they've just got off the plane & have sleep in their eyes. 
  • Half our squad needs to catch covid, isolate then fly home, series called off. It'll be less embarrassing
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,625
    Burns and Malan fucked it. No matter how good Root is you can’t have him coming in after 5 minutes on the first morning of an Ashes series. Root fucked it by batting first. Players are bottling it. 
    Root doing a Nassar here.

    What is it they say......win the toss and 9 times out of 10 you bowl. The 10th time you think about it.....and then bowl. 
  • Anyone in Australia watching it on Channel 7?