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Post by joe on Jun 16, 2023 10:15:02 GMT
1st eagerly anticipated match today.
Anyone like to predict the winners?
I’m going 3-2 England.
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Post by squarepoint on Jun 16, 2023 17:08:08 GMT
Unfortunately I think Australia will edge it owing to the strength of their batting.
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Post by squarepoint on Jun 16, 2023 17:20:30 GMT
I also predict that Coverpoint will be very unhappy with some of England’s declarations :-)
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Post by surreysteve on Jun 19, 2023 16:00:46 GMT
The best keeper in the world Ben Foakes should have
played. Next test drop Duckett move Brook up to open
and give the gloves to Ben. Johnny B his confidence is
shot behind the stumps.
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Post by joe on Jun 20, 2023 7:16:22 GMT
Shaping up to be a great final day with all 3 results possible especially with the rain about but I still think advantage Australia.
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Post by joe on Jun 20, 2023 18:33:42 GMT
Fantastic game of cricket but a few questions to be answered re declaration and selection.
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Post by coverpoint on Jun 20, 2023 18:59:54 GMT
The first innings declaration was a costly mistake.
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Post by squarepoint on Jun 20, 2023 19:43:58 GMT
All a bit slapdash. You can’t afford many mistakes if you want to beat Australia. Huge credit to Cummins for a brave captain’s innings.
Foakes should be recalled. I don’t think we should shunt a middle order batsman into opening so we either need to go without a specialist spinner, relying on Root for spin or choose between Brook and Bairstow.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jun 21, 2023 7:47:13 GMT
Way too much media hype... of course.
This is the strongest Australian team to tour England for quite some time. They are the No.1 Test side, for goodness sake, and beat
India quite easily in the final. The idea that Bazball can somehow magically conquer the best on name alone is nonsense.
Way too many errors from England alongside a Captain talisman who is not fully fit; a wicket-keeper undercooked, overweight and
with slow reactions; the country's top spinner injured for the series with a replacement who hasn't played Test cricket for two years,
with calluses to prove it.
Warner and Smith haven't even got going yet.
Bazball may work against the lower-rated Test sides, but Australia are at another, altogether higher level. If Stokes isn't careful, his
maverick and left-field decisions could become a joke as the series continues, where the media will turn against him. In hindsight, he
should never have declared in that first innings, not when Root was being so destructive.
It will be interesting to see how England respond at Lord's next Wednesday. Much the same, no doubt. Stokes do or die? Bazball was
fun while it lasted?
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Post by therealab1 on Jun 21, 2023 14:36:45 GMT
No inquest needed at all, if we didnt declare australia may have scored 600. The game changes so its impossible to know if the outcome would have altered.
Foakes has spilt a few for England missed stumpings as well, there are no guarantees at all.
I'd take you Warner and Smith and raise you with Brook, Pope, Stokes and Bairstow all yet to get going.
Simply it was a remarkable test match with a few fine margins going our way and the game could have been ours.
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Post by squarepoint on Jun 27, 2023 14:59:28 GMT
All a bit slapdash. You can’t afford many mistakes if you want to beat Australia. Huge credit to Cummins for a brave captain’s innings. Foakes should be recalled. I don’t think we should shunt a middle order batsman into opening so we either need to go without a specialist spinner, relying on Root for spin or choose between Brook and Bairstow. So for the second test we go without a specialist spinner but instead of playing Foakes we bring in Tongue, another seamer. I can only assume Stokes isn’t expecting to bowl much, if at all. I’m trying to stay optimistic but this doesn’t augur well. |
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Post by joe on Jun 27, 2023 18:36:05 GMT
Seems strange to me that they’ve gone with Tongue and not Wood who at least has a point of difference. Unless Wood isn’t fit?
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jun 28, 2023 11:43:23 GMT
Dropping Warner on 20 could be costly. The playback shows a straight-forward catch dropped by Pope. Unless England improve their fielding, there is little chance of us winning the Ashes. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/cricket/64959129 |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jun 30, 2023 8:58:20 GMT
The Lyon roars no-more! Is this the 2005 Magrath moment?  |
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Post by surreysteve on Jun 30, 2023 13:39:16 GMT
They could be 2-0 up Wicked so won’t matter that
much!! Our batters need to adapt. You can’t just
be one trick ponies and play the one way.
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