Ashes 2021-22

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Should be another rain delay shortly. Leading NW edge just reached my place

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Another 8 overs bowled, and down she comes. That'll be lunch. By the time lunch finishes, this arsehole will arrive:

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Warner and Harris both fail to go on

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Labuschagne fucked it as well. Didn't have to play that at all.

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I'll give that day to England. They were shit in the first part of the day but found something like a good length later and built pressure.

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@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:

I'll give that day to England. They were shit in the first part of the day but found something like a good length later and built pressure.

What's the weather pictures looking like today?

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@hooroo radar is showing less rain activity, and less chance of rain as the day goes on.

Fair bit of rain overnight by the looks. Ground conditions won't be ideal and it'll still be muggy.

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This shows a clearing sky.

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[KiwiMurph]

These rain delays are ridiculous.

Multiple breaks where the covers aren't even on for 5 minutes before they come back out.

Meanwhile you've got the vice captain playing on his home track doing whatever he can to get off the field and not to play.

You wouldn't know these guys are in the entertainment industry would you.

[Hooroo]

Stokes has got them in all sorts of bother without taking a wicket.

[booboo]

Silly question maybe? But what happened to Joffra Archer?

[Hooroo]

@booboo said in Ashes 2021-22:

Silly question maybe? But what happened to Joffra Archer?

Injured

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@kiwimurph said in Ashes 2021-22:

Meanwhile you've got the vice captain playing on his home track doing whatever he can to get off the field and not to play.

Smith doesn't like damp gloves

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Noball tech has shit itself again. Now what? Half an innings without it?

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Smith gifts Broad a wicket. Never hitting anything.

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@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:

Smith gifts Broad a wicket. Never hitting anything.

He was bowling well though and the ball was doing enough to make him indecisive quite a bit that over.

Bowlers wicket rather than a batter giving his wicket away

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@hooroo said in Ashes 2021-22:

@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:

Smith gifts Broad a wicket. Never hitting anything.

He was bowling well though and the ball was doing enough to make him indecisive quite a bit that over.

Bowlers wicket rather than a batter giving his wicket away

Definitely the discipline is better from Broad compared to yesterday and earlier today.

However, Smith was well set and it was well outside off stump. Hardly a snorter. The lateral bat movement as the ball was rising was in direct contrast to a few overs before. Broad's discipline may have contributed but IMHO Smith clearly lost concentration.

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Green caught between swinging hard and leaving.

Fuck it - let the tail smack another 50 and then lets get into them.

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Stokes won't bowl again.

Anderson looks half shot. he's bowled nearly a quarter of the innings. Leach - just coming on - hasn't earned his keep in terms of giving the pace men a rest.

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Now Broad is going for a rest. FFS...