| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? 22:41 - Jan 6 with 2498 views | Melford |
Let's do a lunchtime score sweepstake. I'm saying 48-4. |  |
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| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 22:43 - Jan 6 with 1984 views | gainsboroughblue |
Assuming a full session. 60-3. Which is depressingly optimistic. |  |
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| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 22:44 - Jan 6 with 1980 views | BABLUE |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 22:43 - Jan 6 by gainsboroughblue |
Assuming a full session. 60-3. Which is depressingly optimistic. |
75-2
What am I doing? |  | | |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 22:47 - Jan 6 with 1960 views | TrumptonBlue |
97-0.
114 all out an hour before tea. |  | | |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 22:48 - Jan 6 with 1960 views | Ftnfwest |
Having watched Elgar show what not giving your wicket up without an almighty fight means earlier, yes probably will be about that |  | | |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 22:48 - Jan 6 with 1956 views | gainsboroughblue |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 22:44 - Jan 6 by BABLUE |
75-2
What am I doing? |
You could rearrange your numbers into a more likely score! 27/5 maybe. It would certainly help get this nightmare series finished quicker. | |
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| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 22:49 - Jan 6 with 1953 views | bluelagos |
3 down by lunch. 7 by tea. All out in last session for 203. |  |
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| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 22:55 - Jan 6 with 1939 views | Ftnfwest |
Rain, we could be saved….for a bit | | | |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 23:10 - Jan 6 with 1917 views | Chrisd |
I’m going to put this out there for discussion, our batting has been woeful there’s no disputing that, however I honestly believe our bowling has only been marginally better. For example, Nathan Lyon has a better batting average than all but three of our players and Starc has a batting average of 75!! The Aussies post yet another 400+ first innings total and we still can’t bowl them out. Not really sure this suggests our bowling has been that good either?!
No, I won’t be an utter waste of time. England will be 205 all out. [Post edited 6 Jan 2022 23:11]
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| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 23:21 - Jan 6 with 1895 views | Coastalblue |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 23:10 - Jan 6 by Chrisd |
I’m going to put this out there for discussion, our batting has been woeful there’s no disputing that, however I honestly believe our bowling has only been marginally better. For example, Nathan Lyon has a better batting average than all but three of our players and Starc has a batting average of 75!! The Aussies post yet another 400+ first innings total and we still can’t bowl them out. Not really sure this suggests our bowling has been that good either?!
No, I won’t be an utter waste of time. England will be 205 all out. [Post edited 6 Jan 2022 23:11]
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Don't disagree, but without runs on the board the bowlers are always going to be under pressure and struggling.
Interesting quote from Broad
"You can dissect loads on this trip, but first-innings runs is where you live in Test cricket," said Broad.
"We've failed to deliver that. It doesn't matter what bowlers you play if you're getting bowled out for 140. That might be a bit brutal, but that's the truth in Test cricket."
Oh, and getting well optimistic, 57-3 |  |
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| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 23:25 - Jan 6 with 1875 views | Ryorry |
Rain delayed start, so
13 - 0 ;/ |  |
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| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 23:27 - Jan 6 with 1871 views | Chrisd |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 23:21 - Jan 6 by Coastalblue |
Don't disagree, but without runs on the board the bowlers are always going to be under pressure and struggling.
Interesting quote from Broad
"You can dissect loads on this trip, but first-innings runs is where you live in Test cricket," said Broad.
"We've failed to deliver that. It doesn't matter what bowlers you play if you're getting bowled out for 140. That might be a bit brutal, but that's the truth in Test cricket."
Oh, and getting well optimistic, 57-3 |
No runs on the board from us when the Aussies have batted first, which they have done twice. That’s the 3rd first innings total by the Aussies out of the 4 tests where they have posted a score of 400+. I’m certainly not excusing our batting, but I really do think our bowlers are escaping criticism because the batting has been so inept. [Post edited 6 Jan 2022 23:28]
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| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 23:36 - Jan 6 with 1841 views | XYZ |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 23:25 - Jan 6 by Ryorry |
Rain delayed start, so
13 - 0 ;/ |
You win, I reckon. | | | |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 23:40 - Jan 6 with 1838 views | Ryorry |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 23:36 - Jan 6 by XYZ |
You win, I reckon. |
Hah, advantage of posting later than the rest of you  | |
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| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 00:45 - Jan 7 with 1790 views | stonojnr |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 23:40 - Jan 6 by Ryorry |
Hah, advantage of posting later than the rest of you |
restart at 1:10 if no more rain, i reckon thats 50mins of play till lunch :) | | | |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 02:33 - Jan 7 with 1699 views | XYZ |
Boland 8-7 lol | | | |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 02:43 - Jan 7 with 1689 views | BlueBadger |
I've just been up all night with the old man who's been quite unwell and is now on his way to hospital or the second time in a week.
That was probably more fun than listening to TMS commentate on this Ashes tour. |  |
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| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 03:22 - Jan 7 with 1666 views | Ryorry |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 02:43 - Jan 7 by BlueBadger |
I've just been up all night with the old man who's been quite unwell and is now on his way to hospital or the second time in a week.
That was probably more fun than listening to TMS commentate on this Ashes tour. |
Sorry to hear that Badger, hope he's alright.
At least he can take a bit of comfort from the fact that he's not an England cricketer playing in this Ashes tour. | |
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| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 03:33 - Jan 7 with 1659 views | bournemouthblue |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 23:10 - Jan 6 by Chrisd |
I’m going to put this out there for discussion, our batting has been woeful there’s no disputing that, however I honestly believe our bowling has only been marginally better. For example, Nathan Lyon has a better batting average than all but three of our players and Starc has a batting average of 75!! The Aussies post yet another 400+ first innings total and we still can’t bowl them out. Not really sure this suggests our bowling has been that good either?!
No, I won’t be an utter waste of time. England will be 205 all out. [Post edited 6 Jan 2022 23:11]
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Making it to 200+
We can dream! |  |
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| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 04:03 - Jan 7 with 1640 views | Samuelowen88 |
Pretty dismal so far.
Bizarre non dismissal for Stokes there as well. But should he even be playing? Sounds like he could be doing himself harm playing. |  |
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| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 06:48 - Jan 7 with 1572 views | Chrisd |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 03:33 - Jan 7 by bournemouthblue |
Making it to 200+
We can dream! |
For this England batting line up making it past 200 is the equivalent of a good batting test side scoring 400+. At one point, 70 balls, 0 runs for 3 wickets! Credit to Bairstow and Stokes for their innings, oh and our other reliable scoring contributor ‘extras’.
I wonder if we’d give Zimbabwe a good game in test cricket? That’s about our level. | |
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| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 07:26 - Jan 7 with 1548 views | BABLUE |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 06:48 - Jan 7 by Chrisd |
For this England batting line up making it past 200 is the equivalent of a good batting test side scoring 400+. At one point, 70 balls, 0 runs for 3 wickets! Credit to Bairstow and Stokes for their innings, oh and our other reliable scoring contributor ‘extras’.
I wonder if we’d give Zimbabwe a good game in test cricket? That’s about our level. |
Or Ireland | | | |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 07:35 - Jan 7 with 1538 views | The_Romford_Blue |
Well batted JB. |  |
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| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 08:03 - Jan 7 with 1500 views | Chrisd |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 07:35 - Jan 7 by The_Romford_Blue |
Well batted JB. |
Yes, very much. A good counter-attacking innings from Wood at the end too. Although it is great to see England actually showing some fight, we are still well behind in this game. [Post edited 7 Jan 2022 8:20]
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| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 08:06 - Jan 7 with 1493 views | bournemouthblue |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 06:48 - Jan 7 by Chrisd |
For this England batting line up making it past 200 is the equivalent of a good batting test side scoring 400+. At one point, 70 balls, 0 runs for 3 wickets! Credit to Bairstow and Stokes for their innings, oh and our other reliable scoring contributor ‘extras’.
I wonder if we’d give Zimbabwe a good game in test cricket? That’s about our level. |
This!
I must admit I stayed up to see Stokes 50 and then ended up watching the middle session on disbelief
Once that Kookaburra gets old, it's a whole lot easier to bat
I do fear that that suggests this pitch isn't that bad a place to bat really, the pitch isn't quite as old as a day three pitch given all the rain delays which may even point to a case of it being around the best time to bat all test
Hopefully we can hang around tomorrow morning and frustrate the Aussies, the worst thing that could happen is we collapse within about 10 overs and they then pile on the lead and declare with us having to see out four sessions | |
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| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 08:41 - Jan 7 with 1429 views | Ftnfwest |
| Anybody staying up for The Ashes? on 04:03 - Jan 7 by Samuelowen88 |
Pretty dismal so far.
Bizarre non dismissal for Stokes there as well. But should he even be playing? Sounds like he could be doing himself harm playing. |
still can't work out what the aussies were appealing for and of course why the umpire gave it out | | | |
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