Ashes 2019
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@KiwiPie said in Ashes 2019:
@Catogrande Just saw the highlights and Yes, Smith should have been checked out after that wobble.
Surely Moeen can't last much longer in the team? He's picked as a spinner for his batting and he can't make runs, then England need to pick their best spinner. Still a tough game to call. England should have got a big lead by bowling Aus out for under 200 or getting 450 but haven't quite been good enough.
Weird also that the bails have to fall off for you to be bowled when originally the bails were added to make it easier to tell when someone had been bowled. The ultraedge shows the slightest snick on the bat and went crazy when Root's stump was hit yet it's not out. Strange game cricket .....
I think Moeen is surviving on his highlights reel from a couple of years ago, no rational reason for his selection really.
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@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2019:
How good is that from Steve Smith? The ultimate way to return to Tests.
This is actually 25 now, but still...
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Oz 240-ish ahead.
Geoff Boycott's waspish comment on Smith's dismissal.
That's the best thing that could have happened to Australia. Otherwise they would have batted all day and only given themselves a day to bowl England out
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What an awful day. Sitting inside with a farting dog watching Smith bat England out of the game. Looking forward to work tomorrow.
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Either the wicket is a batsmen's dream or England were clueless in the last 20-30 overs of the Oz innings.
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@NTA said in Ashes 2019:
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2019:
How good is that from Steve Smith? The ultimate way to return to Tests.
This is actually 25 now, but still...
Bugger me days he really is some player isn't he ?
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No matter the result, a test with 144 and 142 is a phenomenal effort. Especially with the build up and then the context of the test when he came in the 2nd innings.
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The bit I liked the most was when he just started flogging Stokes all over the shop, and didn't even bother running once he knew he'd middled it. Just whack the fucking thing, then turn and walk off to the side in his own weird fashion, before facing up to the next one.
I reckon Lyon could make the Pommy openers his bunnies this series. Certainly Roy and Burns aren't going to enjoy facing him tonight.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Ashes 2019:
No matter the result, a test with 144 and 142 is a phenomenal effort. Especially with the build up and then the context of the test when he came in the 2nd innings.
he might have a sneaky hope that England win from here. What's better than a hundred in a losing effort? Two hundred in a losing effort!! Cricket's pinnacle.
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I reckon this is going to be a great series. And how rare is it to have a live test going into day 5 these days!?!?!
This game could have unfolded sixteen different ways - if Smith was dismissed early in either innings, if Burns knicked one of his 100 play-and-misses, if either team's tail doesn't wag, if the ball dislodges Root's bail etc etc etc. Both teams will walk off after this test thinking they should have won.
As it stands, the game is more or less in the hands of Lyon. The deck looks pretty dead for the quicks, but Lyon is extracting plenty of turn. I'd be giving a slight edge to the draw, just because I like England's batting depth. But if they are 3-fa at lunch then I reckon we could just get it done.
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And while I'm here, I'm going out on a limb to say I like having names on the back of test shirts.
I just like knowing who the players are when they move about the field. Within a second of turning on the TV I know the bowler and the non-striking batsman. And then if someone is moving in the field I know who they are, rather than having to decipher that fact based off their gait and/or height and/or prominent tattoos or birth marks.
And I don't think they look that bad. I can take or leave the numbers, but the names should stay.
