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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Dec 19, 2021 11:19:12 GMT
Ouch :/
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Post by askew on Dec 19, 2021 13:18:05 GMT
So... whitewash? Doesn't really feel like you're going to get a win in this series, not unless things massively change. I’m sure in the next match they’ll double up on spinners only to find them curiously ineffective. And the batting will still be shite. |
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Post by Dougs on Dec 19, 2021 13:19:37 GMT
It's the batting really. The tram selection has been shite too, I agree, they've got that wrong every game. Aus bowling attack has been excellent though tbf.
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Post by lordofthedunce on Dec 19, 2021 14:46:32 GMT
It's the batting really. The tram selection has been shite too, I agree, they've got that wrong every game. Aus bowling attack has been excellent though tbf. That's how it feels but there was a stat shared on Twitter about the opening bowling attack and the terrible figures they returned. The eye-opening thing was that the same three bowlers (Broad, Anderson and Woakes) returned nearly identically bad figures in the same test four years ago. I agree, the batting had been poor but I think the bowling attack has not looked like a unit for a couple of years. I reckon Silverwood will get the axe. |
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Post by lordofthedunce on Dec 19, 2021 14:49:51 GMT
This was it:
"Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad and Chris Woakes in the 1st innings at Adelaide in 2017: 88-20-230-4
Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad and Chris Woakes in the 1st innings at Adelaide in 2021: 78.4-22-234-4
Four years of Ashes planning..."
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Post by Dougs on Dec 19, 2021 16:09:53 GMT
Yikes. I think they got it wrong by "resting" Jimmy and Broad for the 1st Test. If they needed a breather after, fine, but surely you start with your strongest team 1st up.
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Post by Dougs on Dec 20, 2021 7:18:18 GMT
Put us out of our misery FFS.
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Post by imamazed on Dec 20, 2021 9:21:00 GMT
Put us out of our misery FFS. I very much admire Buttler's resistance, and those around him, but, even now, yes, very much this. Get it over with. |
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Post by Dougs on Dec 20, 2021 9:29:27 GMT
Did well to take it to the last session but still a mauling.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Dec 20, 2021 9:35:55 GMT
Damn, I was kind of hoping you could draw it.
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Post by Nemesis on Dec 20, 2021 9:42:17 GMT
Careful there Buttler. CAREFUL.
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Post by SpiralScratch on Dec 23, 2021 11:46:39 GMT
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Post by lordofthedunce on Dec 23, 2021 13:08:53 GMT
I'd love to see our batters protect their wickets better, leave better and make their bowlers work a bit longer. The openers need to see off the new ball. The bowlers need to pitch it up. It's too friendly.
Unfortunately our players just don't look up to red-ball cricket, having lost test after test for months. The ECB just isn't interested it seems. Such a shame.
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Post by Dougs on Dec 23, 2021 15:30:10 GMT
The ICC need to do something tbh. It's dying on its arse. Which would be a proper tragedy, I don't think any other team sport can match the tension of a good Test match, which shifts back and forth etc.
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Post by X201 on Dec 23, 2021 23:12:34 GMT
Yikes. I think they got it wrong by "resting" Jimmy and Broad for the 1st Test. If they needed a breather after, fine, but surely you start with your strongest team 1st up. I think the logic at the first test was that Anderson’s figures at that ground were historically pants, so pointless to risk knackering him up |
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Post by stacks on Dec 25, 2021 23:47:38 GMT
The ICC need to do something tbh. It's dying on its arse. Which would be a proper tragedy, I don't think any other team sport can match the tension of a good Test match, which shifts back and forth etc. I agree! But there isn't going to be anything while the moneymen custodians have got a short form tournament making billions. Clearly the scum at the top want to emulate the success. So we get the hundred. IPL needs to die before we get any meaningful change. More inclined to think test cricket will be moribund for a good long while. |
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Post by jono62 on Dec 26, 2021 0:47:08 GMT
Good start England.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Dec 26, 2021 2:01:52 GMT
One more over!Surely you couldn't be three down before lunch
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Dec 26, 2021 2:02:08 GMT
Oh
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Post by stacks on Dec 26, 2021 2:06:31 GMT
Fucking typical.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Dec 26, 2021 6:30:27 GMT
Lol, what a farce.
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Post by Dougs on Dec 26, 2021 7:51:18 GMT
Pathetic. I predicted 160ao when I saw we'd lost the toss but I had hoped to be wrong. Listened to 30 mins when I stirred at 5.30am and that was enough. Silverwood has to go, surely.
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Post by askew on Dec 26, 2021 8:38:27 GMT
😂
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Post by Dougs on Dec 26, 2021 23:37:11 GMT
Fuck, David Gower looks old man. He's only 64 but looks much, much older. Did I miss an illness or something?
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Dec 26, 2021 23:50:58 GMT
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Post by askew on Dec 27, 2021 0:06:18 GMT
A very old school way of embedding the tweet there, Mola!
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Dec 27, 2021 0:08:02 GMT
It wasn't from my phone lol, someone sent me a picture they took from their phone.
Layers within layers
Here's it done more normally
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Post by Dougs on Dec 27, 2021 0:14:34 GMT
A full ball, finally!
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Dec 27, 2021 1:31:51 GMT
Hrm, this might actually be competitive!
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Dec 27, 2021 7:01:51 GMT
Lol, never mind
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