Ashes 2019
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This is enthralling stuff.
Crowd have been riding every ball for the last 90 minutes!
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Lab comes on and snags a big wicket. Excellent bowling change by Paine.
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And they get the final LBW.
Oz retain the Ashes and go 2-1 up in the series.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Ashes 2019:
Oz retain the Ashes and go 2-1 up in the series.
How is this possible?
I read in all the English newspapers that Ben Stokes could and would defeat Oz on his own, single-handedly....
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@Victor-Meldrew that’s “Sir” Ben Stokes to you
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@junior said in Ashes 2019:
@Victor-Meldrew that’s “Sir” Ben Stokes to you
If it goes 2-2 they'll probably do that.
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@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2019:
@Snowy 2001 when S Waugh was still captain
Right, odd number years of course, when held in England.
Ansett actually folded 2002 but doesn't change the fact - bloody long time ago.
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@Snowy said in Ashes 2019:
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2019:
@Snowy 2001 when S Waugh was still captain
Right, odd number years of course, when held in England.
Ansett actually folded 2002 but doesn't change the fact - bloody long time ago.
September 2001? I always remember a One news bulletin where the first half hour was only two stories; 9/11 and the Air NZ/Ansett debacle unfolding.... fun times! Helen Clark having to fly home on an air force plane because of angry ground workers in Melbourne... (Edit: looks like they did indeed briefly rise from the ashes a month later, then Ansett Mark II finally fell to bits in March '02)
2005 saw lots of news stories of 16 year old keen Aussie cricketers in shock that the Baggy Green had lost the Ashes for the first time in their lifetime. Been mostly to and fro since...
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@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2019:
Edit: looks like they did indeed briefly rise from the ashes a month later, then Ansett Mark II finally fell to bits in March '02
Yeah it was a token gesture I think. Can't remember all of the facts, just I had a load of ex Ansett guys flying with me in 2002.
As for the Ashes - a large yellow band there in that era for sure.
I'd like to see one of those for the Bledisloe.
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@barbarian said in Ashes 2019:
Nice to get the job done. I reckon if England got away with the draw we'd struggle to back up in the 5th test.
The decision to bowl Marnus was a beauty from Paine.
Agreed. I would have been very nervous heading into a decider.
The fact that it took until the last hour is a measure of the pitch and the lack of menace from Lyon. Not his best series after being given fairly friendly conditions.
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So it transpires that Australia can in fact win tests without resorting to boorish, aggressive, head-butting-the-line on-field behaviour. Who knew?
Well done to Tim Paine et al.
Smith obviously a big factor in the performances, but Cummins and Hazelwood have been outstanding too imo.
