Ashes 2021-22

[No Quarter]

LOL that's awesome. Clean bowled, reviews, not out.

[No Quarter]

@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:

That was shit, skipper

Should have been taken, but catching a ball coming at you while you are charging forward is a tricky business.

[NTA]

@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:

Stokes obviously glued the bails on at lunchtime

Nobody saw him do it because rangas have no soul.

Time for Lyon

[MN5]

@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:

@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:

Stokes obviously glued the bails on at lunchtime

Nobody saw him do it because rangas have no soul.

Time for Lyon

It’s true. I once saw him walk up to an automatic door and it didn’t even open.

[NTA]

Bairstow will be out caught at first slip off Lyon

[No Quarter]

Seriously good 50 from Stokes coming in under all sorts of pressure and the best bowling lineup in the world (ever?) with their tails up. Boy does he needs to go on with it though.

[sparky]

England reached new levels of shit in their batting before lunch. Decent fight back by Stokes and Bairstow in the afternoon session but it won't be enough.

[NTA]

@sparky hard to sustain that after a break but it's been a worthwhile fightback. About time.

[NTA]

No idea why Bairstow is wearing a vest - muggy 26°C at the ground.

Unless it's to hide his moobs. In which case I sympathize. Nothing worse than a thin shirt for a husky guy.

[NTA]

Stokes has worn a few.

Got some advice from the peanut gallery as he was going off for tea. Didn't like it.

[NTA]

Great shot.

Lyon struggling to get consistent line with the left/right combo and not much assistance from the deck.

[NTA]

Yeah. You're not reviewing that.

[NTA]

Ow fuck that looked painful. Bairstow not enjoying it. Bent the thumb back alarmingly.

[NTA]

Jos fails again. Terrible shot. Maybe a bit of pace off from Cummins but still ...

The Waj catching. Nice work for a lazy bloke.

[Chris B.]

@sparky said in Ashes 2021-22:

England reached new levels of shit in their batting before lunch. Decent fight back by Stokes and Bairstow in the afternoon session but it won't be enough.

You need to turn up in Oz with an absolute gun team or you're going to get your arses handed to you.

I bet these Englishmen are wishing they could've escaped with a 3-test series.

David White & Co need to be thinking long and hard about what sort of pitches we're going to play them on when they presumably come here for this cycle of the WTC.

[NTA]

England will avoid the follow on here but be in a helluva lot of debt going into the second innings

[NTA]

Starc's radar gone

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This will be a well deserved ton for Bairstow

[NTA]

Good day for England. Thought the Wood dismissal was a bit shit.

Bairstow the king. Stokes not far behind.

[Donsteppa]

For the talk about the England openers, there is some work going into Rory Burns's technique/setup. Bharat Sundaresen is one of the more insightful behind-the-scenes posters about cricket on Twitter, and this wasn't the first mention of Burns spending extended time with Graham Thorpe since he was dropped: