Ashes 2023
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@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2023:
England XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Ben Stokes (c), Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Stuart Broad, Ollie Robinson, Mark Wood
Feels like a stronger England side on paper - a strong top eight with the bat. 9, 10, and 11, depends on which version of Stuart Broad turns up. Suspect they'll be fired up more than ever in front of a feral Headingly crowd. Bairstow will be an absolute pest behind the stumps - once he actually catches it.
Read somewhere Pat Cummins confirming that Todd Murphy will play, but the balance of the Aussie pace pace attack is still to be decided given they bowled last at Lords, and the short turn around in terms of rest and niggles.
I’d say top seven. Crawley is shite.
He lives a charmed life in that squad.
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@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2023:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2023:
England XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Ben Stokes (c), Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Stuart Broad, Ollie Robinson, Mark Wood
Feels like a stronger England side on paper - a strong top eight with the bat. 9, 10, and 11, depends on which version of Stuart Broad turns up. Suspect they'll be fired up more than ever in front of a feral Headingly crowd. Bairstow will be an absolute pest behind the stumps - once he actually catches it.
Read somewhere Pat Cummins confirming that Todd Murphy will play, but the balance of the Aussie pace pace attack is still to be decided given they bowled last at Lords, and the short turn around in terms of rest and niggles.
I’d say top seven. Crawley is shite.
He lives a charmed life in that squad.
Yep and if you take out his 267 his career average drops to 24.
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@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2023:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2023:
England XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Ben Stokes (c), Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Stuart Broad, Ollie Robinson, Mark Wood
Feels like a stronger England side on paper - a strong top eight with the bat. 9, 10, and 11, depends on which version of Stuart Broad turns up. Suspect they'll be fired up more than ever in front of a feral Headingly crowd. Bairstow will be an absolute pest behind the stumps - once he actually catches it.
Read somewhere Pat Cummins confirming that Todd Murphy will play, but the balance of the Aussie pace pace attack is still to be decided given they bowled last at Lords, and the short turn around in terms of rest and niggles.
I’d say top seven. Crawley is shite.
He lives a charmed life in that squad.
Yep and if you take out his 267 his career average drops to 24.
Hey it's England's answer to Bryan Young!
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@Cyclops said in Ashes 2023:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2023:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2023:
England XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Ben Stokes (c), Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Stuart Broad, Ollie Robinson, Mark Wood
Feels like a stronger England side on paper - a strong top eight with the bat. 9, 10, and 11, depends on which version of Stuart Broad turns up. Suspect they'll be fired up more than ever in front of a feral Headingly crowd. Bairstow will be an absolute pest behind the stumps - once he actually catches it.
Read somewhere Pat Cummins confirming that Todd Murphy will play, but the balance of the Aussie pace pace attack is still to be decided given they bowled last at Lords, and the short turn around in terms of rest and niggles.
I’d say top seven. Crawley is shite.
He lives a charmed life in that squad.
Yep and if you take out his 267 his career average drops to 24.
Hey it's England's answer to Bryan Young!
He lost his powers when he shaved his mo I reckon
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@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@Kiwiwomble said in Ashes 2023:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@MiketheSnow said in Ashes 2023:
3-0
Yeah that’s what I’m predicting.
I’m sure they’ll come out with bluster and fire at the horrific injustice of what they went through in the last test…….
….but overall I can’t see them on a level field with Australia over five days.
Labuschagne will get a huge score. Green will also chime in with a terrific all round performance. You read it here first.
It’s also Steve Smiths 100th test and he generally goes ok.
i saw McCullum has come out to say their all fired up and winning 3-2 sounds pretty good etc.....
He’s a dick.
……and he used to be one of my favourite ever BCs back in the day too.
Indeed. When 2-0 down what you don’t want to hear is the coach talking about still being able to win.
Conceding defeat is the way forwards.
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@MajorPom said in Ashes 2023:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@Kiwiwomble said in Ashes 2023:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
@MiketheSnow said in Ashes 2023:
3-0
Yeah that’s what I’m predicting.
I’m sure they’ll come out with bluster and fire at the horrific injustice of what they went through in the last test…….
….but overall I can’t see them on a level field with Australia over five days.
Labuschagne will get a huge score. Green will also chime in with a terrific all round performance. You read it here first.
It’s also Steve Smiths 100th test and he generally goes ok.
i saw McCullum has come out to say their all fired up and winning 3-2 sounds pretty good etc.....
He’s a dick.
……and he used to be one of my favourite ever BCs back in the day too.
Indeed. When 2-0 down what you don’t want to hear is the coach talking about still being able to win.
Conceding defeat is the way forwards.
‘Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way….’
McCullum should listen to more Pink Floyd
But anyway, of course a team wants to win, it’s more the way he says things.
‘Winning 3-2 sounds pretty good…..we’re not gonna have beers with aussies etc’
Makes him sound like a cock.
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Glen McGrath is a pot stirrer.
All this stuff about the Bairstow dismissal, it looks like it’s the Aussies that keep banging on about it. Turning one blokes brain fart into a National arrogant stereotype.
You (rightly) got the decision. Move on.
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Australian team update:
For Australia, Mitchell Marsh replaces Cameron Green who has a low-grade hamstring strain following the second Test. Scott Boland comes in for Josh Hazlewood who is being managed after playing consecutive Test matches. Todd Murphy replaces Nathan Lyon following his calf injury in the second Test. Green is expected to return to full fitness for the fourth Test at Old Trafford.
Was a few well placed Twitter rumours about M Marsh or Neser joining the team.
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@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2023:
Australian team update:
For Australia, Mitchell Marsh replaces Cameron Green who has a low-grade hamstring strain following the second Test. Scott Boland comes in for Josh Hazlewood who is being managed after playing consecutive Test matches. Todd Murphy replaces Nathan Lyon following his calf injury in the second Test. Green is expected to return to full fitness for the fourth Test at Old Trafford.
Was a few well placed Twitter rumours about M Marsh or Neser joining the team.
I just heard a faint rumbling……I think it was @NTA ’s head exploding.
Is it too late for me to change my prediction and back England ?
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Wood steaming in with 150 k deliveries. And swing too. Good to see.
