The Ashes 2019

[SpookyFrank]

Horrible drop there from Leach. He'll have nightmares about that.

 

[SpookyFrank]

England have bowled absolute dross since the Smith wicket. Wide balls, long hops and half volley after half volley. This is where Root fails, the situation is sliding yet he does nothing.

Yeah when Nathan Lyon is hitting multiple boundaries in one over that's probably a sign that you're bowling dreck.

 

[mhendo]

Yeah, the England bowlers are making Lyon look like a top-order batsman.

If England win this test, it will be a drawn series. It just occurred to me look it up, and if that happens, it would be the first drawn Ashes series in almost 50 years. The 1972 series in England was 2-2-1.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Fast and straight. That's how to do it.

.. or slow and straight.

 

[Teaboy]

Yeah, don't trust slip.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Ok so they got there. Not before bowling shite and dropping two catches.

15 minutes to bat. Odds on a wicket...?

 

[Mumbles274]

Odds on

 

[Mumbles274]

Remember when Strauss and Cook would come out to bat with maybe an hour or so, and both survive and not only that put on 40 odd quick runs

/wipes tear from eye

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Remember when Strauss and Cook would come out to bat

You could have ended there tbf.

 

[Mumbles274]

You could have ended there tbf.

True

Remember when we had opening batsmen

 

[littlebabyjesus]

True

Remember when we had opening batsmen

.. and middle-order batsmen.

 

[brogdale]

Fair play to the Shitgift boy; that was some catch.

 

[Teaboy]

Ok so they got there. Not before bowling shite and dropping two catches.

15 minutes to bat. Odds on a wicket...?

Watching Denly trying to play glorious cover drives to very wide balls is going to be fun.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Watching Denly trying to play glorious cover drives to very wide balls is going to be fun.

They'll be tempting him, I'm sure. If I were Hazlewood I'd definitely be firing a couple out wide tonight.

 

[brogdale]

Not easy in those shadows & sun.

 

[planetgeli]

69 overs bowled. And they make Archer bowl 24 of them.

Do not ruin your new toy.

But bloody well bowled lad.

 

[planetgeli]

Who was it rabbiting on about par scores earlier today?

Do you know what par means?

Obviously fucking not. I use words carefully. Just because Australia are shit doesn’t make them not below par.

Standard.

 

[brogdale]

Wouldn't want to be facing that stuff.

 

[Teaboy]

Clever eating of time by Burns. I'm beginning to warm to him, well his attitude.

 

[Teaboy]

Wouldn't want to be facing that stuff.

Such is the life of an opener. Whilst everyone else is hiding you have to stroll out there and face their fastest bowlers at their most fresh and with a brand new ball in hand. Openers don't get a nightwatchman.

 

[brogdale]

Clever eating of time by Burns. I'm beginning to warm to him, well his attitude.

Yeah, fair play to the lad...that really is opening.

 

[brogdale]

Burns must be praying for Denly to get a single!

 

[Teaboy]

Its alright if it hits you as long as it doesn't hit the wicket. It's the bowler's job to get you out, they may enjoy hitting you but as long as you're still at the crease you're winning.

 

[brogdale]

Its alright if it hits you as long as it doesn't hit the wicket. It's the bowler's job to get you out, they may enjoy hitting you but as long as you're still at the crease you're winning.

 

[Teaboy]

I will say that its been horrible watching some of the batting this series but by crikey there has been some high quality fast bowling on display.

 

[friedaweed]

Butta fingers ya dag!

 

[brogdale]

For 0

 

[Casual Observer]

Kumar, you berk.

 

[a_chap]

Incidentally, anyone else an Isa Guha fan? Infinitely better than Alison Mitchell.

I think they're both great.

And Mitchell is a proper laugh if you get to chat with her at a match