The Ashes 21/22

[StanSP]

51 minutes ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Less or more? 

Slightly more. 

[Phil Bowman]

5 hours ago, Bert said:

Why hasn’t anyone questioned the absurd decision to bat first?  

‘Nine times out of ten when you win the toss, you bat first. Don’t even need to think about it. The tenth time, you think about it. And then bat first.’

 

I won’t have the quote exactly right, and I can’t remember who said it.

 

I think the problem was the batting, not the decision to bat! We all know Australia would have been 230-1 or something, and he’d have been even more slated for putting them in!

[fuchsntf]

Our Heroes of cricket must have the same defensive coach as Leicester..!

[Super_horns]

46 minutes ago, Phil Bowman said:

‘Nine times out of ten when you win the toss, you bat first. Don’t even need to think about it. The tenth time, you think about it. And then bat first.’

 

I won’t have the quote exactly right, and I can’t remember who said it.

 

I think the problem was the batting, not the decision to bat! We all know Australia would have been 230-1 or something, and he’d have been even more slated for putting them in!

Agree - Cummins said he would have batted too apparently

 

Like you say they probably would have not been 30-4 or whatever it was. 

 

 

[deejdeej]

Can somebody explain to me why the Gabba is such a fortress to the Aussies? 

[Izzy]

4 hours ago, Line-X said:

^

Let me dig through and quote some of @Finnegans recent posts. I mean, you’ll have a field day 

[Finnegan]

I mean, 

[Guest Electric Yetis]

Went sleep with my ear phones in listening to TMS. Must have fallen sleep just before it started and was woken by Agnew shouting 'BOWLED HIM'.

 

Had to take the ear phones out in the end due to the continuous stream of wickets keeping me awake.

[Corky]

Woke up, went as expected. 

 

Couldn't see past a hammering before, the rain might prevent that but we are a poor batting side when Root is firing and worse when he isn't. 

[Duquesne Whistle]

Calls that England should have bowled are off the mark. 

The blueprint for success in Australia is usually the same. Win the toss, bat, fight your way through the difficult first session keeping wickets, not giving a toss if you score at 2 round per over. 

Then, make hay in the mid afternoon and evening sessions as the bowlers begin to toil under the heat. 

Day 2, often the best batting day, when the track speeds up but also flattens out, pile the runs on. 'twas ever thus.

 

England just weren't good enough to survive and put pressure on. 

Not a huge surprise given they had no warm up but we know they are prone to a collapse even when playing regularly. 

 

The only saving grace in this series is that Australia have a lot of question marks over them. Sadly, England may not be good enough to expose those flaws. 

 

There's time to recover, but a laughably predictable first day. 

 

[goody2028]

Last night summed up 

[Duquesne Whistle]

3 hours ago, Rain King said:

Went sleep with my ear phones in listening to TMS. Must have fallen sleep just before it started and was woken by Agnew shouting 'BOWLED HIM'.

 

There wasn't much of a gap between those two. Does 15 seconds actually count as sleep?

[Guest Lako42]

Smith and Warner both to knock easy tons I reckon. 

 

Not too much for Warner to mentally worry about seeing as we conceded this test before it started. 

 

Wimps

[kingkisnorbo]

Is the weather going to affect day 2? Looking on all the weather apps but you never know really. Wouldn’t mind us shithousing a draw. 

[Duquesne Whistle]

11 hours ago, Finnegan said:

Isn't it basically tradition that you get smashed at the Gabba anyway? 

I mean, it's a bit like New Zealand/Wales at rugby, you always know the script..

[Guest Electric Yetis]

2 hours ago, Duquesne Whistle said:

There wasn't much of a gap between those two. Does 15 seconds actually count as sleep?

Well I didn't hear the anthems or the team coming out so probably fell sleep 10/15 mins before.

[Duquesne Whistle]

4 minutes ago, Rain King said:

Well I didn't hear the anthems or the team coming out so probably fell sleep 10/15 mins before.

Ah 

I assumed by 'start', you meant as Starc reached his mark and 'bowled him' when Burns lost his mind and his stumps . Hence my confusion.

[Tommy Fresh]

Kind of hoping they put a decent total on the board, as I'm picturing us bowling them out for less than a hundred only for our batsman to make another mess of it, which would be even more infuriating.

[adam]

Not a cloud in the sky! 

[Guest Lako42]

Weather looks ace. 

 

Which is more than can be said for the year I lived in brissy

[SexyGammonFox]

22 minutes ago, adam said:

Not a cloud in the sky! 

40% chance of rain in a couple of hours. Fingers crossed!

[CosbehFox]

Wicket. 
 

Its ****ing awful having to deal with the Aussie coverage. It’s like watching Russia Today 

[The People's Hero]

That was a beaut from Robinson. There's a genuine bowler in there.

[Osavo]

Robinson is brilliant isn't he

[SexyGammonFox]

4 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Wicket. 
 

Its ****ing awful having to deal with the Aussie coverage. It’s like watching Russia Today 

It's a sad state of affairs when Warne is the most pro England guy on coms!