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3rd test about to start, hopefully England can get some runs on the board this time. 2nd test was a joke.
Kinda worried about dropping Dawson on what could be a good wicket for spin later on - still need to take 20 wickets, and with 4 right-arm seamers and two right-arm off-spinners, I'm concerned about a lack of variety...
Kinda worried about dropping Dawson on what could be a good wicket for spin later on - still need to take 20 wickets, and with 4 right-arm seamers and two right-arm off-spinners, I'm concerned about a lack of variety...
Also whenever I'm confident about England they collapse like a sack of spuds, so here's the anti-curse.
Double anti-anti-curse just in case.
Great result for England - good bowling performances all round, especially for TRJ. Early days, but nice to see fast bowlers stepping up at a time where we need to be thinking 2 years ahead, when Anderson and Broad retire / slow down.
Still questions over the batting, but I see no need to change things in the 4th test.
Still questions over the batting, but I see no need to change things in the 4th test.
Your jinx powers took about 5 days to make it down under.
CA and ACA agree terms to finally end player pay dispute
Glad the bangers tour is back on, Australia have treated them with a serious amount of disrespect over the years.
CA and ACA agree terms to finally end player pay dispute
Glad the bangers tour is back on, Australia have treated them with a serious amount of disrespect over the years.
Wahab Riaz owning Shane Watson in the 2015 World Cup is one of the most beautiful things I've witnessed on a cricket field:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1rxOOn36Pw&t=1s
Aussies should have lost that game handsomely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1rxOOn36Pw&t=1s
Aussies should have lost that game handsomely.
good news: west indies have improved their bowling loads this time
bad news: their fielding has got much worse and simple catches are now a step too far
england on the other hand are a model of consistency: top-order collapse, which is then steadied by root who makes fifty then gets himself out to a nothing ball soon after, then #battingdeep pulls us to near 300.
bad news: their fielding has got much worse and simple catches are now a step too far
england on the other hand are a model of consistency: top-order collapse, which is then steadied by root who makes fifty then gets himself out to a nothing ball soon after, then #battingdeep pulls us to near 300.
Mate, the selectors have only themselves to blame.
I still like the Aussies for the Ashes, but the cricket is gonna be real ugly.
- Bringing back Starc too early for a meaningless tournament in an Ashes year, no less;
- First dropping Khawaja and then picking him with no cricket under his belt for 6 months,
- Persisting with the Angry Ant like he's got tenure (fair enough he scored a 50 in his last dig, but he should have been flicked way before that.
I still like the Aussies for the Ashes, but the cricket is gonna be real ugly.
don't think australia struggling on a minefield against a quite good bangladesh side says anything about the ashes. i'm sure players like warner who look profoundly confused by a turning ball in the sub-continent will go on to average 85 on australian pitches against a swing attack built for english conditions and moeen ali.
very much enjoying our second test. quite like malan despite being baffled by his inclusion prior and not seeing how he is an international test player, he has a good temperament and plays the match situation.
very much enjoying our second test. quite like malan despite being baffled by his inclusion prior and not seeing how he is an international test player, he has a good temperament and plays the match situation.
I respect Malan for digging in, but if you are getting bogged down by Bishoo and Rostan Chase - even on a pitch with decent spin - you probably aren't test calibre. I wouldn't drop him because there are already too many gaps in the lineup, but he is not good enough.
Umpire Ravi is terrible. He has had loads of decisions overturned and that no ball call for Bishoo was negligence. They've missed many of Gabriel's where he is going six inches over the line for fuck sake.
Moeen is playing incredibly here.
Umpire Ravi is terrible. He has had loads of decisions overturned and that no ball call for Bishoo was negligence. They've missed many of Gabriel's where he is going six inches over the line for fuck sake.
Moeen is playing incredibly here.
the bbc really need to re-do their 2002 "100 greatest britons" tv series to take into account the existence of moeen ali
west indies have been poor after putting themselves in a great position as late as an hour before tea. i know our batting lineup is deeper than the mariana trench but there's been so much village fielding and captaincy. roach and shannon really let the game get away from them with loose deliveries too.
west indies have been poor after putting themselves in a great position as late as an hour before tea. i know our batting lineup is deeper than the mariana trench but there's been so much village fielding and captaincy. roach and shannon really let the game get away from them with loose deliveries too.
Well we needed a professional performance, and pretty much got one. Stokes and Bairstow will be disappointed, but Moeen and Woakes have done a great job after the upper order had done some hard grafting.
Malan will be on the plane for the winter - if he applies himself that well in Australia then all well and good, although he did look a little tired at the end, and it's going to be a lot harder down under.
We may as well send in Anderson at three.
Malan will be on the plane for the winter - if he applies himself that well in Australia then all well and good, although he did look a little tired at the end, and it's going to be a lot harder down under.
We may as well send in Anderson at three.
Nah, it'll be the usual case of the Aussie batsmen becoming unstoppable at home and everyone will forget how useless they were in Asia.
Yes, get fucked Churchill, Moeen should be a shoo-in for the top spot. He constantly digs England out of trouble with style while being impossibly polite and self-effacing. And he's from Birmingham.
He is the best.
Yes, get fucked Churchill, Moeen should be a shoo-in for the top spot. He constantly digs England out of trouble with style while being impossibly polite and self-effacing. And he's from Birmingham.
He is the best.
we've bowled absolutely terribly today. not impressed. buzzing for the ashes where australia will make 756-6d on a road and then we'll still end up 34-3 again.
however as a tight conclusion to a five day test match it is extremely good. wouldn't be particularly unhappy if the windies won here after the ludicrous uk media over-reaction to the 1st test and how magnificently braithwaite and hope have batted.
however as a tight conclusion to a five day test match it is extremely good. wouldn't be particularly unhappy if the windies won here after the ludicrous uk media over-reaction to the 1st test and how magnificently braithwaite and hope have batted.