Ashes 2021-22
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@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
@duluth said in Ashes 2021-22:
Australia have juggled their fast-bowling pack again. Cummins' is back after his enforced absence in place of Michael Neser while Scott Boland will make his debut in place of Jhye Richardson who has a leg injury. Josh Hazlewood has not recovered from his side strain.1 David Warner, 2 Marcus Harris, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Steven Smith, 5 Travis Head, 6 Cameron Green, 7 Alex Carey (wk), 8 Pat Cummins (capt), 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Scott Boland, 11 Nathan Lyon
As expected, England have made a number of changes. Rory Burns, Ollie Pope, Chris Woakes and Stuart Broad have all been left out in favour of Crawley, Jonny Bairstow, Mark Wood and Jack Leach. It means that England have what looks a more balanced attack with the extra pace of Wood and left-arm spin of Leach, although he is sure to be targeted by the Australia batters as he was in Brisbane.1 Haseeb Hameed, 2 Zak Crawley, 3 Dawid Malan, 4 Joe Root (capt), 5 Ben Stokes, 6 Jonny Bairstow, 7 Jos Buttler (wk), 8 Ollie Robinson, 9 Mark Wood, 10 Jack Leach, 11 James Anderson
I reckon Hameed is lucky to survive. Looked completely out of his depth in the six balls he faced in his last innings but then again they old ‘deck chairs on the titanic’ adage comes to mind to be honest. Burns showed more than he did but got dropped.
Perhaps the memory of Ray Illingworth will spur them on ?
How good is a Boxing Day test now all the Xmas shit is done and dusted ? I’m having a booze free day though, so the kombucha will have to do instead.
Well, it took nine balls this time, always good to be proven right…..his technique and body language was shot to fuck from the moment he took guard. Hopeless.
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@donsteppa said in Ashes 2021-22:
To be fair to England, they aren’t spoilt for choice with batting options, and Hameed at least looks like he has a better technique to survive than Burns. Even though another duck is the result…
Interesting logic for a guy who scored two very quick ducks in a row.
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@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
@donsteppa said in Ashes 2021-22:
To be fair to England, they aren’t spoilt for choice with batting options, and Hameed at least looks like he has a better technique to survive than Burns. Even though another duck is the result…
Interesting logic for a guy who scored two very quick ducks in a row.
Burns has the sort of technique (mainly backlift) that, if you saw a kid in an opposition team bat like that, you’d just tell your kids to bowl at middle stump and soon he’ll miss a straight one…
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@donsteppa said in Ashes 2021-22:
@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
@donsteppa said in Ashes 2021-22:
To be fair to England, they aren’t spoilt for choice with batting options, and Hameed at least looks like he has a better technique to survive than Burns. Even though another duck is the result…
Interesting logic for a guy who scored two very quick ducks in a row.
Burns has the sort of technique (mainly backlift) that, if you saw a kid in an opposition team bat like that, you’d just tell your kids to bowl at middle stump and soon he’ll miss a straight one…
…..but he did occupy the crease and get some runs. Hameed looked like a tail ender from ball one with his concrete feet.
Pretty silly argument in one sense, whoever is there is basically cannon fodder.
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@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
Bloody Hell Cummins is one decent bowler.
Looks a bit nice and friendly though. That should be a work on going forward.
If he was a Kiwi you guys would talk cricket in winter.
I know, he’d be the bowling version of KW. he’s a lovely bloke too.
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Root gone. England are fucked.
Time for the Aussies to book the booze for a massive party with Urn in a couple of days time.
