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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2015 10:08:30 GMT
agree Aus have not bowled well. Holding and warne have just said if aus had bowled as they shd have done England wd have been out for 180 on this strip
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2015 10:55:41 GMT
Aussie bowlers find right areas at last and based on first 50 mins this morning this game could be over tonight #greattestpitch
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2015 17:47:18 GMT
Aussie bowlers find right areas at last and based on first 50 mins this morning this game could be over tonight #greattestpitch So due to bad light , dropped catches and wkts with no balls, the lucky 18,000 who paid 90 quid for a.saturday at the test will get to.see 30 mins as England knock over three tailenders. That's what will always happen when you leave 8mm of grass on the pitch. But who cares? Cracking two days, rule britannia, land of hope and glory, Winston Churchill.David.Cameron. Douglas Jardine .Badass Baden Powell. We whipped the wild colonial boys. |
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Post by fraudster on Aug 7, 2015 23:37:33 GMT
I liked the Edgbaston and Trent Bridge Tests because they were exciting. I didn't like the Cardiff and Lord's Tests as much because they weren't. You are insane Borderman - that's more exciting than sanity though so I wouldn't worry about it.
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Post by leedsgull on Aug 8, 2015 8:58:46 GMT
The problem is not with the pitch but with technique. We are witnessing the 20/20 generation who spend there days merrily swiping away without a slip in sight. All these nicks race away for glorious boundaries. I have been watching the arch exponent of this form of the game Maxwell this season. He has not got a clue how to bat properly. He swipes from ball one and sometimes it comes off. More often this season it has not.
Current players rarely have the patience to leave the ball or to play a maiden over when the bowler is on top. This is the true threat to Test match cricket.
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Post by coverpoint on Aug 8, 2015 9:16:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2015 10:28:25 GMT
The problem is not with the pitch but with technique. . If you leave 8mm of grass on the pitch you create the problem of technique. Doesn't matter who the batsmen are, if there is that amount of grass on the wkt, the game will never go beyond three days with modern batting methods. Apart from the partnership between root and bairstow(both of whom were lucky to survive early in their innings) England struggled as much with the pitch as the aussies. |
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Post by coverpoint on Aug 8, 2015 12:09:34 GMT
Congratulations to England on winning the Ashes back. Looking ahead to the naming of central contracts for 2015/16 I suspect Ballance, Jordan and Woakes might lose theirs with only Mark Wood being added to the list.
Will the Aussies give Rogers, Watson, Marsh, Clarke, Voges, Haddin, Johnson, Siddle and Ahmed a final game before retirement? Why they don't bring back Ryan Harris for one game? Why not play the coach too in his final game?
Dad's Army XI: Rogers, Watson, Marsh, Clarke, Voges, Lehmann, Haddin (+), Johnson, Siddle, Harris, Ahmed
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Post by mrsdoyle on Aug 8, 2015 15:06:32 GMT
My final post on this thread, brilliant England, I certainly didn't see that coming, at least before the Kiwis and Paul Farbrace arrived anyway.
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Post by howardh on Aug 8, 2015 16:26:10 GMT
How wonderful it was - and appropriate - to hear Alistair Cook give praise where it is due ... "To Mooresy, this is for you".
Speaks volumes and should make both the media and some of the vociferous critics on here hang their heads in shame.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2015 17:13:29 GMT
How wonderful it was - and appropriate - to hear Alistair Cook give praise where it is due ... "To Mooresy, this is for you". Speaks volumes and should make both the media and some of the vociferous critics on here hang their heads in shame. Well done to Strauss (who made the correct decision to sack moores) and to farbrace and bayliss who got England playing with a positivity and self belief that moores failed to do, and brought in the likes of Lyth bairstow and wood, brought back Finn, promoted stokes and totally reinvented the odi side. Fair enough to cook for bigging up his mate. But Strauss should hang his head in shame? Why the hell should he, or those who recognised it had to be done in order to break with the failures of the past and enable England to turn a page and begin a new era. |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Aug 8, 2015 17:23:48 GMT
It is quite extraordinary how only a few months ago England were written off as "no-hopers" - Australia would win easily - and
England would be humiliated.
What is the difference? A new coach, a new set-up, and above all a new energetic dynamic.
Energy, energy, energy, when it is stale, when it's jaded, change it.
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Post by flashblade on Aug 8, 2015 20:44:48 GMT
It is quite extraordinary how only a few months ago England were written off as "no-hopers" - Australia would win easily - and England would be humiliated. What is the difference? A new coach, a new set-up, and above all a new energetic dynamic. Energy, energy, energy, when it is stale, when it's jaded, change it.Hope your words of wisdom haven't fallen on deaf ears! |
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Post by howardh on Aug 9, 2015 4:59:24 GMT
Words of wisdom? Only when applied in a wise manner.
Arrant, opinionated nonsense otherwise.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2015 8:11:03 GMT
Words of wisdom? Only when applied in a wise manner. Arrant, opinionated nonsense otherwise. And in sacking moores and appointing bayliss, Strauss applied them very judiciously indeed, wouldn't you say, Howard? |
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