The ashes 2023

[leicsmac]

2 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said:

I mean, we'd take a draw right now right? 

At Lords, and given the current game situation?

 

Yes, take it and look for the equalising win next one up.

[leicsmac]

Hope Robinson continued to give an earful to Marnus as he went off there, clearly touched a nerve with the Aussies with his comments.

[StanSP]

Amount of no balls is ridiculous. 

[Super_horns]

Wasted opportunity at the moment.

Can we engineer a collapse? - seems unlikely 

[fuchsntf]

Forget Bazball…….Ausbal is the newwordin cricket

 

&England top of the noball brigade…and they have to be ashamed of continually

dishing spitballs and continually steppingover the mark…Stokes nobody has excuses..

underminding all they THINK they represent….

Australia Go about their business without swanky slogans…

Australia get runs without swanky slogans…&

later will take wickets without swanky slogans.

We lost the series when Stokes declared in first test,and continued to bowl NBs

through this one..

Anderson does his bit & holds the fort,Broad is Broad…We ain’t got a new generation of Bowlers….that can produce better 2nd string bowlers like Australia

have done since Warnie & Magrath,helped new boys along…

 

 

 

 

 

 

[StanSP]

 

 

[Tommy Fresh]

Travis Head is superb, great to watch

[fleshdaddy]

Getting pasted here. Very disappointing day.

[Voll Blau]

9 minutes ago, StanSP said:

 

 

Yes. Unpopular opinion but I've always disliked Lord's and its sense of self-importance.

 

The scenes when we won the World Cup would have been a million times better at any other ground in the country.

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

I've been a massive supporter of bazball and think criticism has been well over the top. We look like complete prats now though. 

[StanSP]

Just now, Voll Blau said:

Yes. Unpopular opinion but I've always disliked Lord's and its sense of self-importance.

 

The scenes when we won the World Cup would have been a million times better at any other ground in the country.

Agreed. It's all very prim and proper. 

 

They showed a clip from the Long Room earlier as players went in for the rain. It was so diverse.... 

 

Not.

 

[StanSP]

Aus-ball? 

Once Head gets settled he's a very fiery player. Will find the boundary so regularly. 

[Finnegan]

Is it lords where all the silly Tory willy pullers dress like tunnocks caramel wafers with no sense of self awareness? 

[StanSP]

2 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

Is it lords where all the silly Tory willy pullers dress like tunnocks caramel wafers with no sense of self awareness? 

Yep. It's the MCC colours though and the dress code is quite strict for the Pavilion. 

[deejdeej]

Bowlers get hardly any stick compared to batsmen. We've bowled terribly today though and I hope it's called out

[Finnegan]

Just now, StanSP said:

Yep. It's the MCC colours though and the dress code is quite strict for the Pavilion. 

 

This is the shit I can't stand. 

 

It's just fvcking sport. I like a bit of tradition, I like stuff like the Haka or whatever in rugby that's alright. Don't mind Abide With Me at the cup final or whatever. 

 

But the whole dress code shit, it's just elitism, it's class snobbery, just a bunch of nob heads cosplaying landed gentry. It's silly. 

[StanSP]

Fvcking hell.

 

Get up to go make some dinner and Root takes 2 in an over

 

[Finnegan]

Why would you try and smash someone out of the ground on your third delivery on 0 runs when the opposition are riding the high of an important wicket? What a div. 

[st albans fox]

Nathan Lyon licking his lips watching root get warne proportions of spin …..

[RowlattsFox]

19 minutes ago, Chocolate Teapot said:

I've been a massive supporter of bazball and think criticism has been well over the top. We look like complete prats now though. 

What has today got to do with bazball? 

[CosbehFox]

11 minutes ago, deejdeej said:

Bowlers get hardly any stick compared to batsmen. We've bowled terribly today though and I hope it's called out

Extras column scoring well again 

[purpleronnie]

Dont worry the forecast is crap.

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

4 minutes ago, RowlattsFox said:

What has today got to do with bazball? 

Various bits tbh.

 

Selection, chat in between games, one days training pre game. I'm all in favour of letting the players have fun but we've dropped sitters and bowled loads of no balls. We look under prepped.

[Corky]

1 hour ago, Finnegan said:

 

This is the shit I can't stand. 

 

It's just fvcking sport. I like a bit of tradition, I like stuff like the Haka or whatever in rugby that's alright. Don't mind Abide With Me at the cup final or whatever. 

 

But the whole dress code shit, it's just elitism, it's class snobbery, just a bunch of nob heads cosplaying landed gentry. It's silly. 

Women weren't allowed in the Members section until 1998.

 

I love how cricket has been shown to be elitist in the same week Lord's absolutely proves it.

[fuchsntf]

Ausbal…one test and partial 2nd Test up & in command…

I don’t want an English One off Dunkirk Test…

I want the series after much bragging about Bazball or we have just moved the furniture & not changed the room flow..