Ashes 2021-22

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Fifth test will be Hobart. That's the best outcome IMHO.

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In related news: eat a dick, McGowan

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Malan goorne to Lyon bat-pad.

Stokes late for a bus?

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@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:

@booboo said in Ashes 2021-22:

@barbarian said in Ashes 2021-22:

@nta Never in doubt. A thumping victory that makes me think of Steve Waugh, Johnny Howard's trcksuit, Thorpedo and big Johnny Eales in his prime.

What a disaster for England. Leach hit out of the series. Stokes hurt. Robinson hurt. Couldn't happen to a better group of blokes. Why fly to Adelaide when you could just take a right turn and go all the way home, save everyone the trouble of watching you limp to sad defeat after sad defeat.

The only reason to go on is to give Jimmy Anderson a fitting send-off from test cricket - limping off with a hamstring injury as Australia pass 500 for the second time in Adelaide.

This post is aging well ...

They’ll still get pumped. Guaranteed.

Yep. Spoke too soon.

Root now for 89.

[Chris B.]

@booboo said in Ashes 2021-22:

@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:

@booboo said in Ashes 2021-22:

@barbarian said in Ashes 2021-22:

@nta Never in doubt. A thumping victory that makes me think of Steve Waugh, Johnny Howard's trcksuit, Thorpedo and big Johnny Eales in his prime.

What a disaster for England. Leach hit out of the series. Stokes hurt. Robinson hurt. Couldn't happen to a better group of blokes. Why fly to Adelaide when you could just take a right turn and go all the way home, save everyone the trouble of watching you limp to sad defeat after sad defeat.

The only reason to go on is to give Jimmy Anderson a fitting send-off from test cricket - limping off with a hamstring injury as Australia pass 500 for the second time in Adelaide.

This post is aging well ...

They’ll still get pumped. Guaranteed.

Yep. Spoke too soon.

Root now for 89.

Yeah - I was thinking this morning it was pretty unlikely that both overnight batsmen would manage to successfully restart and make 100. And always the possibility that if Oz got one, they'd get two.

They got three.

England really need two guys to get hundreds from here - most likely these two. Probably need to still be batting at lunch tomorrow - unless forecast showers severely disrupt tomorrow afternoon's play..

[Chris B.]

@chris-b said in Ashes 2021-22:

England really need two guys to get hundreds from here - most likely these two.

Sorry about that, Ben!

[Chris B.]

Rushing headlong toward defeat now!

Still 10 runs before Oz has to bat again.

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Once again, my daughter's annual dance concert is fucking up my cricket watching.

7 down for minus 5. Nice.

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Aus have to bat.

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@booboo said in Ashes 2021-22:

Aus have to bat.

Not for long probably.

8 down, 8 ahead.

[sparky]

England all out at lunch. Australia need 20 runs afterwards to go 1-zip up in the series.

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Let's see if Marcus Harris can actually be there at the end 🙄

[sparky]

Difference between these two teams is attitudinal. Australia are ruthless, England are lacklustre at the moment.

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Haaaaaa Carey!

Good line from Robinson.

[sparky]

Carey gone. England must be ruing not bowling first after winning the toss.

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@sparky said in Ashes 2021-22:

Carey gone. England must be ruing not bowling first after winning the toss.

They made that mistake back in the early noughties under Nasser Hussain.

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Australia 1-0 up with a 9 wicket win. Pleased for Pat Cummins who seems a decent sort. Australia big favourites for the series now, but I think England have enough quality in their squad to bounce back at some stage before the end of the Hobart Test.

[Chris B.]

@sparky said in Ashes 2021-22:

Difference between these two teams is attitudinal. Australia are ruthless, England are lacklustre at the moment.

Apart from talent, you mean?

Of the two teams that played here, I'd only take Root, Stokes and Buttler in a joint team.

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