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Post by coverpoint on Nov 27, 2017 7:25:27 GMT
Bring the England players home! They are an embarrassment to themselves and their country. 5-0 to Australia is on the cards unless our players buck their ideas up.
England bowlers need to be more aggressive and knock Smith's head off in the same way the Aussie bowlers are doing with the England batsman! They are trying to hospitalise our batsmen so we should do the same to Smith and Warner.
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Post by coverpoint on Dec 2, 2017 10:18:50 GMT
Craig Overton gets Steve Smith. If only the selectors had not ballsed up the team selection in the first test selecting the useless Jake Ball instead of the promising Craig Overton we could have been 1-0 up instead of 1-0 down.
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Post by joe on Dec 2, 2017 11:32:52 GMT
I don’t think Overton is any better or worse than Ball, very similar medium pace right arm rubbish.
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Post by coverpoint on Dec 2, 2017 11:34:08 GMT
I don’t think Overton is any better or worse than Ball, very similar medium pace right arm rubbish. Ball was hopeless. Another rubbish bowling performance from England.
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Post by joe on Dec 2, 2017 11:50:53 GMT
What on earth was Root thinking deciding to bowl first? Day 1 to Australia.
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Post by coverpoint on Dec 2, 2017 11:58:51 GMT
What on earth was Root thinking deciding to bowl first? Day 1 to Australia. Conditions were perfect. Our bowlers did not bowl in the right place or the right length. Lets see how our batsman fare against 90mph by Starc and Cummins as opposed to our useless medium pace trundlers. Craig Overton speaking to BT Sport, asked about England's decision to bowl first: "There were overhead skies and we felt we could get early ones. We bowled well all day and didn't get the nicks we deserved." Translated "we bowled very poorly and let the Aussies off the hook."
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Post by coverpoint on Dec 3, 2017 8:06:45 GMT
5-0 to Australia. FFS letting Marsh and Paine gets runs shows just how rubbish we really are.
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Post by coverpoint on Dec 4, 2017 4:49:55 GMT
89-4 this is what too much mickey mouse T20 cricket and not enough proper championship cricket does. You reap what you sew ECB!
This is the worst England team ever!
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Post by philh on Dec 4, 2017 6:14:48 GMT
I had a feeling I would wake up to a batting disaster
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Post by moderator1 on Dec 5, 2017 6:26:35 GMT
And this is precisely why we love Test cricket, cricket played over several days with shifts in execution and perception. I'm not sure what I expected to wake up to but I did very much hope - though with fingers doubly crossed - that the bowlers could sustain the previous night's performance and leave England something within reach, even if still a big score. That's exactly what happened, and now the morning could be adventurous.
Warning: it may still end in tears, but what the hell?
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Post by philh on Dec 5, 2017 8:47:47 GMT
I’m not even considering any hope of getting that target unless we get within 125-150 with a decent number of wickets left. We are yet to see how the Aussies bowl when they are under some pressure though. I certainly wouldn’t risk any of my hard earnt money at the current odds of 15/4 while we are only 80 odd for 2.
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Post by hhsussex on Dec 5, 2017 8:50:11 GMT
I’m not even considering any hope of getting that target unless we get within 125-150 with a decent number of wickets left. We are yet to see how the Aussies bowl when they are under some pressure though. I certainly wouldn’t risk any of my hard earnt money at the current odds of 15/4 while we are only 80 odd for 2. Ah, that indicates there might be a tipping point....150-2 perhaps?
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Post by hhsussex on Dec 5, 2017 11:13:22 GMT
What a great day's play. Not perhaps the highest standard of cricket with far too many fluffs and missed opportunities by both sides, but that has always been the case. At half-way in runs, half-way more or less in wickets (Anderson and Broad don't usually hang around long these days) the score looks to me like England just in front, by virtue of Root still being there and no more reviews for Australia. The latter point may be the more decisive.
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Post by joe on Dec 5, 2017 11:26:38 GMT
Absolutely absorbing, Ashes cricket at its best, all 3 results still possible going into the last day. I will be setting the alarm for 3am, wouldn’t miss it for anything. C’mon England!
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Dec 5, 2017 13:10:51 GMT
Agree with the sentiment. I watched the last 4 hours and great to see England fighting back. The standard of bowling from both sides was high class, but credit to the England batsmen for doggedly staying in under floodlights.
Even so, bar a miracle, England will go 2-0 down in the series with a mountain to climb. Captain Steve Smith though has various character frailties which are now coming to the surface and if Anderson can keep chirping away at him and the bowlers keep getting him out cheap there is still a chance.
England just have to draw the series to retain the Ashes.
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