The Ashes
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This England team have such a weak lower order.
And a weak top order.
Thus will probably be their highest score of the series.
Bowling round the wicket from ball one at number 11's body is not on though IMO, no matter how much bad blood there is between Anderson and the Aussies.
Winning at all costs is the straya way
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Crying crocodile tears over Phil Hughes death, pledging behaviour had to change and then quickly reverting to type is also the Australian way it seems.
I don't really have an issue with the behaviour at all but every so often I sniff a whiff of hypocrisy from all involved
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Lol at the sanctimonious shit about short bowling at tailenders.
The only guy to get hit in the head was the opener, who took his eyes off it like a silly bastard.
The bunnies have the sense to duck, and they don't get many body shots that leave them in no man's land.
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Lol at the sanctimonious shit about short bowling at tailenders.
The only guy to get hit in the head was the opener, who took his eyes off it like a silly bastard.
The bunnies have the sense to duck, and they don't get many body shots that leave them in no man's land.
cough Wagner cough... stones, glass houses etc
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@no-quarter said in The Ashes:
Lol at the sanctimonious shit about short bowling at tailenders.
The only guy to get hit in the head was the opener, who took his eyes off it like a silly bastard.
The bunnies have the sense to duck, and they don't get many body shots that leave them in no man's land.
cough Wagner cough stones, glass houses etc
In some ways we’re lucky that Wagner isn’t 10kmph faster...
(And/or that he hasn’t toured the home of Bodyline with those tactics)
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@donsteppa said in The Ashes:
In some ways we’re lucky that Wagner isn’t 10kmph faster...
(And/or that he hasn’t toured the home of Bodyline with those tactics)
Clearly that would cross the line. And the Aussies know where the line is. They don't ever cross the line. Do you not know this?
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@mariner4life said in The Ashes:
That review this morning was disgraceful,
Liebke is always worth a laugh.
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Fairly evenly poised, though you'd still have England in front given we have to bat 4th and the pitch is already playing a few tricks.
The value of tail-end runs is reinforced time and time again. At 4/360, England should have put the game away and made 450+. Instead they crumbled and left the door open.
Warner looks a bit out of sorts, too. Big pressure on Smith to make runs here, though he looks well up for it.
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@barbarian said in The Ashes:
Fairly evenly poised, though you'd still have England in front given we have to bat 4th and the pitch is already playing a few tricks.
The value of tail-end runs is reinforced time and time again. At 4/360, England should have put the game away and made 450+. Instead they crumbled and left the door open.
Warner looks a bit out of sorts, too. Big pressure on Smith to make runs here, though he looks well up for it.
With all due respect to KW, Kohli and Root the angry lesbo is surely far and away the best batsman on earth right now.
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@barbarian Smith is looking pretty set now. Hope Eng change up their bowling. Trying to contain with everyone aside from Anderson . But they are leaking plenty.
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@nta Nah that's not the point I was thinking of.
But I understand how it could be construed as such
As I said, I understand short bowling, I still play and face it and recommend it. My national team has been doing it for a while now
More the hullabaloo at the time and the sentiments and hand wringing from the cricket world - led by Australians I'll add, that we can't let that happen and the tragedy.
2-3 seasons later and a different perspective (often from the same people) dims the emotions and sensibilities.
The game is set up to encourage short bowling to tail enders when the pitches are so laterally dire and it won't change - a bit like 5m lineout drives as a tactic to win.
They're both inherently ugly, yet totally plausible
However I do think with a new generation of players who have never batted without a helmet might negate the effectiveness of the
lineout maulbouncers to shit batsmen. I expect all cricketers from the compulsory helmet generation to play short stuff better
