Ashes 2023
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@MajorPom said in Ashes 2023:
@junior said in Ashes 2023:
Lighten up, MajorPom!
You're right, if the shoe were on the other foot, the Aussies would probably also be invoking the "Spirit of Cricket" - and we would all be pointing out what a bunch of hypocrites they are too! For me, that's the whole point - this bullshit concept of the "Spirit of Cricket" is simply whatever suits me in the circumstances when the rules don't. It's the similar to, but far worse than, "rugby values".
Profile updated until the conclusion of the Ashes.
Lets face it, without me, this would just be a circle jerk of the most convicted of cheating sporting team on the planet. The Lance Armstrong of cricket.
Not having a bar of it.
If England can't win the Ashes, at least England are going to walk the Moral Ashes.
(I originally had we instead of England ... but I couldn't do that without doing a bit of this)
(C) @Virgil
Well fucking played. I saw your new moniker in another thread and had a good fucking laugh. Excellent work.
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3-0
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@MiketheSnow said in Ashes 2023:
3-0
Yeah that’s what I’m predicting.
I’m sure they’ll come out with bluster and fire at the horrific injustice of what they went through in the last test…….
….but overall I can’t see them on a level field with Australia over five days.
Labuschagne will get a huge score. Green will also chime in with a terrific all round performance. You read it here first.
It’s also Steve Smiths 100th test and he generally goes ok.
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Glenn McGrath talking sense. Well, until he talks about the catch.
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@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@MiketheSnow said in Ashes 2023:
3-0
Yeah that’s what I’m predicting.
I’m sure they’ll come out with bluster and fire at the horrific injustice of what they went through in the last test…….
….but overall I can’t see them on a level field with Australia over five days.
Labuschagne will get a huge score. Green will also chime in with a terrific all round performance. You read it here first.
It’s also Steve Smiths 100th test and he generally goes ok.
i saw McCullum has come out to say their all fired up and winning 3-2 sounds pretty good etc.....
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@Kiwiwomble said in Ashes 2023:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@MiketheSnow said in Ashes 2023:
3-0
Yeah that’s what I’m predicting.
I’m sure they’ll come out with bluster and fire at the horrific injustice of what they went through in the last test…….
….but overall I can’t see them on a level field with Australia over five days.
Labuschagne will get a huge score. Green will also chime in with a terrific all round performance. You read it here first.
It’s also Steve Smiths 100th test and he generally goes ok.
i saw McCullum has come out to say their all fired up and winning 3-2 sounds pretty good etc.....
He’s a dick.
……and he used to be one of my favourite ever BCs back in the day too.
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@MajorPom said in Ashes 2023:
Glenn McGrath talking sense. Well, until he talks about the catch.
It's a very good read outside of the catch. One part that struck a chord:
If they had been given the opportunities this England team have had, at Edgbaston and then at Lord's, let me tell you, they would not be 2-0 down.
The Bairstow dismissal, the Yorkshireman walking out of his crease like he owned the game, was the culmination of everything we have seen from this current team.
I have read a lot about the 'spirit of cricket' this week. Well, you have to respect Test cricket with your attitude as well. You cannot just go wandering out of your crease.
It took something like the Bairstow incident for England to realise they are in the battle - and that is disappointing.
Especially the part in bold. I've read in a surprising number of places this week that it shouldn't have been out because 'Bairstow wasn't trying to take advantage', or 'but Bairstow tapped his foot back in the crease to show the ball was dead/the over was over'
Many dismissals happen in cricket without the batter necessarily trying to take advantage. Lots of stumpings happen because we're a clumsy oaf and overbalance, not only from charging down the pitch trying to smash the ball for 12, or from trying to sneak a run...
On the second part - other than in backyard cricket by calling the local variation of "wickets" - in no part of the laws of the competitive game does a batter unilaterally decide when the ball is dead. What happened to playing to the Umpire or referee - that we teach kids in all sports on a regular basis
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England XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Ben Stokes (c), Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Stuart Broad, Ollie Robinson, Mark Wood
Feels like a stronger England side on paper - a strong top eight with the bat. 9, 10, and 11, depends on which version of Stuart Broad turns up. Suspect they'll be fired up more than ever in front of a feral Headingly crowd. Bairstow will be an absolute pest behind the stumps - once he actually catches it.
Read somewhere Pat Cummins confirming that Todd Murphy will play, but the balance of the Aussie pace pace attack is still to be decided given they bowled last at Lords, and the short turn around in terms of rest and niggles.
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@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2023:
England XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Ben Stokes (c), Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Stuart Broad, Ollie Robinson, Mark Wood
Feels like a stronger England side on paper - a strong top eight with the bat. 9, 10, and 11, depends on which version of Stuart Broad turns up. Suspect they'll be fired up more than ever in front of a feral Headingly crowd. Bairstow will be an absolute pest behind the stumps - once he actually catches it.
Read somewhere Pat Cummins confirming that Todd Murphy will play, but the balance of the Aussie pace pace attack is still to be decided given they bowled last at Lords, and the short turn around in terms of rest and niggles.
I’d say top seven. Crawley is shite.
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@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2023:
England XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Ben Stokes (c), Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Stuart Broad, Ollie Robinson, Mark Wood
Feels like a stronger England side on paper - a strong top eight with the bat. 9, 10, and 11, depends on which version of Stuart Broad turns up. Suspect they'll be fired up more than ever in front of a feral Headingly crowd. Bairstow will be an absolute pest behind the stumps - once he actually catches it.
Read somewhere Pat Cummins confirming that Todd Murphy will play, but the balance of the Aussie pace pace attack is still to be decided given they bowled last at Lords, and the short turn around in terms of rest and niggles.
I’d say top seven. Crawley is shite.
He lives a charmed life in that squad.
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@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2023:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2023:
England XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Ben Stokes (c), Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Stuart Broad, Ollie Robinson, Mark Wood
Feels like a stronger England side on paper - a strong top eight with the bat. 9, 10, and 11, depends on which version of Stuart Broad turns up. Suspect they'll be fired up more than ever in front of a feral Headingly crowd. Bairstow will be an absolute pest behind the stumps - once he actually catches it.
Read somewhere Pat Cummins confirming that Todd Murphy will play, but the balance of the Aussie pace pace attack is still to be decided given they bowled last at Lords, and the short turn around in terms of rest and niggles.
I’d say top seven. Crawley is shite.
He lives a charmed life in that squad.
Yep and if you take out his 267 his career average drops to 24.
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@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2023:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2023:
England XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Ben Stokes (c), Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Stuart Broad, Ollie Robinson, Mark Wood
Feels like a stronger England side on paper - a strong top eight with the bat. 9, 10, and 11, depends on which version of Stuart Broad turns up. Suspect they'll be fired up more than ever in front of a feral Headingly crowd. Bairstow will be an absolute pest behind the stumps - once he actually catches it.
Read somewhere Pat Cummins confirming that Todd Murphy will play, but the balance of the Aussie pace pace attack is still to be decided given they bowled last at Lords, and the short turn around in terms of rest and niggles.
I’d say top seven. Crawley is shite.
He lives a charmed life in that squad.
Yep and if you take out his 267 his career average drops to 24.
Hey it's England's answer to Bryan Young!
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@Cyclops said in Ashes 2023:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2023:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2023:
England XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Ben Stokes (c), Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Stuart Broad, Ollie Robinson, Mark Wood
Feels like a stronger England side on paper - a strong top eight with the bat. 9, 10, and 11, depends on which version of Stuart Broad turns up. Suspect they'll be fired up more than ever in front of a feral Headingly crowd. Bairstow will be an absolute pest behind the stumps - once he actually catches it.
Read somewhere Pat Cummins confirming that Todd Murphy will play, but the balance of the Aussie pace pace attack is still to be decided given they bowled last at Lords, and the short turn around in terms of rest and niggles.
I’d say top seven. Crawley is shite.
He lives a charmed life in that squad.
Yep and if you take out his 267 his career average drops to 24.
Hey it's England's answer to Bryan Young!
He lost his powers when he shaved his mo I reckon
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@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@Kiwiwomble said in Ashes 2023:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@MiketheSnow said in Ashes 2023:
3-0
Yeah that’s what I’m predicting.
I’m sure they’ll come out with bluster and fire at the horrific injustice of what they went through in the last test…….
….but overall I can’t see them on a level field with Australia over five days.
Labuschagne will get a huge score. Green will also chime in with a terrific all round performance. You read it here first.
It’s also Steve Smiths 100th test and he generally goes ok.
i saw McCullum has come out to say their all fired up and winning 3-2 sounds pretty good etc.....
He’s a dick.
……and he used to be one of my favourite ever BCs back in the day too.
Indeed. When 2-0 down what you don’t want to hear is the coach talking about still being able to win.
Conceding defeat is the way forwards.
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@MajorPom said in Ashes 2023:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@Kiwiwomble said in Ashes 2023:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@MiketheSnow said in Ashes 2023:
3-0
Yeah that’s what I’m predicting.
I’m sure they’ll come out with bluster and fire at the horrific injustice of what they went through in the last test…….
….but overall I can’t see them on a level field with Australia over five days.
Labuschagne will get a huge score. Green will also chime in with a terrific all round performance. You read it here first.
It’s also Steve Smiths 100th test and he generally goes ok.
i saw McCullum has come out to say their all fired up and winning 3-2 sounds pretty good etc.....
He’s a dick.
……and he used to be one of my favourite ever BCs back in the day too.
Indeed. When 2-0 down what you don’t want to hear is the coach talking about still being able to win.
Conceding defeat is the way forwards.
‘Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way….’
McCullum should listen to more Pink Floyd
But anyway, of course a team wants to win, it’s more the way he says things.
‘Winning 3-2 sounds pretty good…..we’re not gonna have beers with aussies etc’
Makes him sound like a cock.
