Ashes 2023
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@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@KiwiMurph said in Ashes 2023:
@barbarian said in Ashes 2023:
I think that's a fair view MR.
Once you strip away the bluff and bluster of Bazball, I think Australia are just a better side. Not by a wide margin, but by enough that it should show itself over five days.
It's the bowling. Broad and Anderson just aren't what they used to be. They can't sustain pressure, there's a let-off ball every over. The next gen aren't there yet. I wonder if this is Jimmy's last test. Or Ashes test at least. He's had an incredible career but they are carrying him at the moment.
This is what i was saying a day or two ago - this isn't two evenly matched sides. Aus are better.
Nasser Hussein said they were just a couple of days ago but he was sitting next to Ricky Ponting and probably thinking he was as good as him back in the day.
Nasser is also trying to engage viewers during an Ashes series.
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@KiwiMurph said in Ashes 2023:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@KiwiMurph said in Ashes 2023:
@barbarian said in Ashes 2023:
I think that's a fair view MR.
Once you strip away the bluff and bluster of Bazball, I think Australia are just a better side. Not by a wide margin, but by enough that it should show itself over five days.
It's the bowling. Broad and Anderson just aren't what they used to be. They can't sustain pressure, there's a let-off ball every over. The next gen aren't there yet. I wonder if this is Jimmy's last test. Or Ashes test at least. He's had an incredible career but they are carrying him at the moment.
This is what i was saying a day or two ago - this isn't two evenly matched sides. Aus are better.
Nasser Hussein said they were just a couple of days ago but he was sitting next to Ricky Ponting and probably thinking he was as good as him back in the day.
Nasser is also trying to engage viewers during an Ashes series.
Yeah fair enough and I am a fan of his to be honest. Atherton too. In fact all the ex players interviewed are pretty good value to be honest.
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A pretty good summation on the Starc catch from Ponting and Strauss. Not sure if it clears it up but some good reasoning all round.
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@NTA said in Ashes 2023:
Wow. That's a big call.
I mean, starc's catch last night was overruled based on the laws. So I guess ... Wow
Shouldn't be controversial at all. As Athens just said, nothing to complain about at all - it was just a dozy bit of play from Bairstow.
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@junior said in Ashes 2023:
@NTA said in Ashes 2023:
Wow. That's a big call.
I mean, starc's catch last night was overruled based on the laws. So I guess ... Wow
Shouldn't be controversial at all. As Athens just said, nothing to complain about at all - it was just a dozy bit of play from Bairstow.
Yeah, as Strauss said of the Starc catch, either way it was a sloppy bit of fielding from Starc. Same with Bairstow, a dopey moment.
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Lunch time pundits all saying Bairstow in the wrong, simple as that.
Top tier play to win at all costs, gotta do the basics.
Crowd reaction would be the same world over. Anybody suggesting SCG / MCG / Eden Park would be better is 100% full of shit snd they know it.
Aussies walking through The Long Room was something else!!
