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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    soapboxsam said:
    Addick Addict said:
    As this is the plan, it's times like this when we could do with Wood steaming in at 90mph rather than Broad at 80mph

    I thought it sounded as if it would be Broad or Wood for the starting 11 and Broad has been the pick of the England bowler's.
    I actually would have picked the seam attack we did. But that's not to say that this isn't an occasion that calls for that extra pace. The commentators are talking about Stokes doing it but the guy has bowled just 7 overs in the game and we really do not know if he can slam that left knee down. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    edited June 2023
    I'm sorry but that's 38 extras we've conceded already in the match including 22 no balls. That is ridiculous. If Michael Holding were commentating he would say as much. To put that in perspective, Australia bowled 4 no balls. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    Oooh Travis!!!
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,334
    MarcusH26 said:
    thai malaysia addick said:
    Head is strange. The year he played for Sussex, he couldn't make any decent scores - 50 runs in his first 7 innings as far as I recall, yet he has always scored big in Oz. Let's hope he finds his Sussex form today.

    That spell with Sussex was absolutely atrocious in all formats. Think he got one 50 all season. 
    Yep, that's right.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    Where we are getting away with these no balls is that the 3rd Umpire is calling them. In the old days with the standing Umpire calling them it was, in effect, a free hit. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    Most no balls by England in a Test since 2006. Bizarre why this has been a problem out of nowhere
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    thai malaysia addick said:
    Head is strange. The year he played for Sussex, he couldn't make any decent scores - 50 runs in his first 7 innings as far as I recall, yet he has always scored big in Oz. Let's hope he finds his Sussex form today.
    Did he have the moustache back then? That must be the key to his improvement.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    128-4
    153 runs required
    53 overs to go

    England 2.38
    Australia 2.00
    Draw 11.50
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    kinveachyaddick said:
    On what we've seen so far in this test, Anderson would be the one to make way for Wood for Lord's
    Anderson has definitely been the least effective of the 3 seamers. I wonder if Woakes or Potts might be considered also if they want fresh legs.
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    killerandflash said:
    kinveachyaddick said:
    On what we've seen so far in this test, Anderson would be the one to make way for Wood for Lord's
    Anderson has definitely been the least effective of the 3 seamers. I wonder if Woakes or Potts might be considered also if they want fresh legs.
    I would always pick Woakes at Lords.
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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    Moeen Ali you beauty!!!
  • kinveachyaddick
    kinveachyaddick Posts: 3,875
    Yeeehaaaaaaa
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    Wow. That's the thing about Moeen, he'll bowl a number of loose balls, but get it right enough to take wickets.
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    This is why test match cricket is the greatest game in the world.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    Never doubted you, definitely not. Well done Moeen. Huge wicket
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    Khawaja making Dom Sibley look aggressive, but as long as runs are being scored at the other end, he's doing his job.
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,673
    Green looks incredibly nervous 
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,349
    Can Bairstow not catch?
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,560
    Only following the thread on and off but could someone post the score when a wicket goes down please?
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Stolen from twitter

    Feel like so much of this depends on Moeen's finger. His fourth innings record with the ball is properly brilliant: Average better than Warne, and, with a cut-off of 50 wickets, the second-best strike rate of all time
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  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,459
    Jimmy at about 75% this Test
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,673
    carly burn said:
    Jimmy at about 75% this Test
    Yeah hasn't looked right
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Australia 20/21, England 11/8, draw 13/2 on Bet 365. 

    Score 173-5. 108 required by the Aussies.
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Pelling1993 said:
    carly burn said:
    Jimmy at about 75% this Test
    Yeah hasn't looked right
    He said himself he is struggling due to lack of preparation because of that groin strain. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    The 56th over, and still no Stokes. 
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,223
    killerandflash said:
    The 56th over, and still no Stokes. 
    Tip it Stokes! 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    England have been a bit "predictable" in the last half hour.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    killerandflash said:
    The 56th over, and still no Stokes. 
    I was thinking the same. This situation calls for something different and Stokes can give you that but the longer it goes on without him bowling the longer it appears that he can't. There is no scoreboard pressure whatsoever, the ball is doing next to nothing and Khawaja looks like he's got half an hour to play every ball. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    181-5

    100 required with 40 overs still to go
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Australia pissing it.  only 100 needed now with 5 wickets left.

    Need an inspired spell from someone.

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