| Cricket's looking like carnage 12:24 - Jul 27 with 5852 views | redrickstuhaart |
Should be 5 down. |  | | |  |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 14:54 - Jul 27 with 2619 views | gainsboroughblue |
We're 5 down now.
This bloody series. You can go from looking in complete control one minute to in trouble the next. 196/5 is a bit on a tightrope. This is the partnership that may make or break. Sub 300 at the Oval first dig is generally nowhere near enough.
Mind you, they did put us in and I'm only following by text updates on website so no idea what conditions are like. |  |
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| Cricket's looking like carnage on 15:08 - Jul 27 with 2599 views | redrickstuhaart |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 14:54 - Jul 27 by gainsboroughblue |
We're 5 down now.
This bloody series. You can go from looking in complete control one minute to in trouble the next. 196/5 is a bit on a tightrope. This is the partnership that may make or break. Sub 300 at the Oval first dig is generally nowhere near enough.
Mind you, they did put us in and I'm only following by text updates on website so no idea what conditions are like. |
Pretty pathetic.
In big trouble now. Pitch is not full of snakes.
Mindset, from picking Anderson at the Oval, is all wrong. | | | |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 15:08 - Jul 27 with 2599 views | SaleAway |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 14:54 - Jul 27 by gainsboroughblue |
We're 5 down now.
This bloody series. You can go from looking in complete control one minute to in trouble the next. 196/5 is a bit on a tightrope. This is the partnership that may make or break. Sub 300 at the Oval first dig is generally nowhere near enough.
Mind you, they did put us in and I'm only following by text updates on website so no idea what conditions are like. |
Its nipping about under the lights, but england have gone full gung ho.
Brook was batting well, but we'll be all out for <230 now I would think. | |
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| Cricket's looking like carnage on 15:09 - Jul 27 with 2594 views | gainsboroughblue |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 15:08 - Jul 27 by SaleAway |
Its nipping about under the lights, but england have gone full gung ho.
Brook was batting well, but we'll be all out for <230 now I would think. |
184-3.
Now 212-7. | |
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| Cricket's looking like carnage on 15:12 - Jul 27 with 2575 views | SaleAway |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 15:09 - Jul 27 by gainsboroughblue |
184-3.
Now 212-7. |
Moeen was injured, so was just swinging.
Stokes got bowled off stump trying to whip through mid-wicket
Bairstow played on wafting without moving his feet
Brook drove at a wide one without moving his feet.
its poor shots. We get into this mindset sometimes, that the only way when we lose wickets is to go harder... looks silly when it doesn't work | |
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| Cricket's looking like carnage on 15:13 - Jul 27 with 2568 views | gainsboroughblue |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 15:12 - Jul 27 by SaleAway |
Moeen was injured, so was just swinging.
Stokes got bowled off stump trying to whip through mid-wicket
Bairstow played on wafting without moving his feet
Brook drove at a wide one without moving his feet.
its poor shots. We get into this mindset sometimes, that the only way when we lose wickets is to go harder... looks silly when it doesn't work |
What's wrong with Moeen? | |
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| Cricket's looking like carnage on 15:14 - Jul 27 with 2563 views | SaleAway |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 15:13 - Jul 27 by gainsboroughblue |
What's wrong with Moeen? |
Looked like groin.... | |
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| Cricket's looking like carnage on 15:14 - Jul 27 with 2561 views | Ryorry |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 15:08 - Jul 27 by redrickstuhaart |
Pretty pathetic.
In big trouble now. Pitch is not full of snakes.
Mindset, from picking Anderson at the Oval, is all wrong. |
England are their own worst enemies sometimes, albeit I think it was a bad toss to lose. |  |
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| Cricket's looking like carnage on 15:17 - Jul 27 with 2542 views | SaleAway |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 15:14 - Jul 27 by Ryorry |
England are their own worst enemies sometimes, albeit I think it was a bad toss to lose. |
My one consolation is that Australia didn't turn up for the first hour. | |
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| Cricket's looking like carnage on 15:39 - Jul 27 with 2498 views | Coastalblue |
300ish, and not quite possibly are not going to get them, might not be a bad score on here today. Am there for the next two days, do not want to be watching Smith et al pile on runs. |  |
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| Cricket's looking like carnage on 17:46 - Jul 27 with 2394 views | redrickstuhaart |
This looks ominous and shows the benefit of some proper batting at the top of the innings. | | | |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 17:58 - Jul 27 with 2374 views | gainsboroughblue |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 17:46 - Jul 27 by redrickstuhaart |
This looks ominous and shows the benefit of some proper batting at the top of the innings. |
A well timed wicket. 283 doesn't seem a lot though at the moment. | |
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| Cricket's looking like carnage on 18:02 - Jul 27 with 2359 views | Churchman |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 17:58 - Jul 27 by gainsboroughblue |
A well timed wicket. 283 doesn't seem a lot though at the moment. |
The Oval is usually a high scoring wicket. 283 is poor. |  | | |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 18:37 - Jul 27 with 2328 views | Coastalblue |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 18:02 - Jul 27 by Churchman |
The Oval is usually a high scoring wicket. 283 is poor. |
Not been this season tbh. We're light, don't get me wrong, but 350 would have put us on top for my money. | |
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| Cricket's looking like carnage on 23:05 - Jul 27 with 2235 views | BlueForYou |
It was overcast & quite humid all day. Even so I think you need 400+ batting first at the Oval. We threw wickets away really. Anderson looks finished, totally ineffective, averaging 82 now for the series. Tongue should have played. Wood & Woakes our main threat. Ali hurt his groin jogging for a single. He needs to join Jimmy in the retirement club. Never know what might happen tomorrow! I have a ticket for Sunday. |  | | |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 07:36 - Jul 28 with 2144 views | Chrisd |
England were lucky they weren’t all out for under 200. The last couple of innings we’ve batted far more sensibly, then you get that utter nonsense again from them. It’s clearly an ego thing, but it looks so reckless, it’s not a one day game, but they bat like it. I was hoping they might have learnt, but they haven’t! Once again, the logic of selecting Bairstow, Ali and Anderson isn’t looking good, but when you have a huge ‘mates’ club as a closed shop, what do you expect? England have held the advantage in various points during this series and then with their daft approach simply given the ascendency away. | |
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| Cricket's looking like carnage on 08:07 - Jul 28 with 2124 views | Churchman |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 07:36 - Jul 28 by Chrisd |
England were lucky they weren’t all out for under 200. The last couple of innings we’ve batted far more sensibly, then you get that utter nonsense again from them. It’s clearly an ego thing, but it looks so reckless, it’s not a one day game, but they bat like it. I was hoping they might have learnt, but they haven’t! Once again, the logic of selecting Bairstow, Ali and Anderson isn’t looking good, but when you have a huge ‘mates’ club as a closed shop, what do you expect? England have held the advantage in various points during this series and then with their daft approach simply given the ascendency away. |
Nothing wrong with playing aggressively. It’s certainly ambushed lesser sides than Australia. But in long form cricket there is room for not throwing your wicket away, as Australia have proved.
Our team selection has been awful. Other than mates and fear of anything that wasn’t tried and trusted (against the spirit of Bazball), I can see no reason whatsoever for selecting Ali, Bairstow and Anderson (maybe the First Test for Anderson, but it was clear from his first game he was done).
With regards to these players why select them for the Oval Test? The Ashes are gone and so is an opportunity to introduce other/new players to the best opposition out there. All in all, it’s been an interesting series, but ultimately disappointing. | | | |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 08:09 - Jul 28 with 2119 views | redrickstuhaart |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 07:36 - Jul 28 by Chrisd |
England were lucky they weren’t all out for under 200. The last couple of innings we’ve batted far more sensibly, then you get that utter nonsense again from them. It’s clearly an ego thing, but it looks so reckless, it’s not a one day game, but they bat like it. I was hoping they might have learnt, but they haven’t! Once again, the logic of selecting Bairstow, Ali and Anderson isn’t looking good, but when you have a huge ‘mates’ club as a closed shop, what do you expect? England have held the advantage in various points during this series and then with their daft approach simply given the ascendency away. |
It is ego. We have players saying that its how they play and they will always go for it. Stupid if you are vulnerable outside a 6th off stump and can't resist. Im looking at you Mr Crawley. | | | |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 09:17 - Jul 28 with 2071 views | Herbivore |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 08:09 - Jul 28 by redrickstuhaart |
It is ego. We have players saying that its how they play and they will always go for it. Stupid if you are vulnerable outside a 6th off stump and can't resist. Im looking at you Mr Crawley. |
It's not ego, it's tactics. This is the way that England have decided to play and it's managed to significantly transform our fortunes as a test side over the past 2 years. We've gone from being utterly hopeless to very competitive and that hasn't been down to a huge turnover of players, it's been down to a change in mindset and approach. |  |
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| Cricket's looking like carnage on 09:45 - Jul 28 with 2057 views | SaleAway |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 08:09 - Jul 28 by redrickstuhaart |
It is ego. We have players saying that its how they play and they will always go for it. Stupid if you are vulnerable outside a 6th off stump and can't resist. Im looking at you Mr Crawley. |
To be fair to Crawley, I'd say this has been his best series for England... he's made a fair number of runs, and the way that he and Duckett play has made Australia back off..... we've barely had any 50 opening partnerships since Cook/Strauss finished. These guys don't necessarily have the massive partnerships, but they do normally get us going.
Biggest issues for me, have been Joe Root not really doing enough, Anderson, obviously not quite on it, and Bairstow looks so short of form, notwithstanding smacking a demoralised Australia attack around at OT. He's defended his performance by pointing out that he hasn't kept for 3 years and that he is coming back from injury. The problem with that, is that he implicitly admits that he's not at his best, in which case, he should have recused himself and they could have got Foakes in... who would have probably scored as many runs, and not cost us the first 2 tests... | |
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| Cricket's looking like carnage on 10:02 - Jul 28 with 2045 views | Herbivore |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 09:45 - Jul 28 by SaleAway |
To be fair to Crawley, I'd say this has been his best series for England... he's made a fair number of runs, and the way that he and Duckett play has made Australia back off..... we've barely had any 50 opening partnerships since Cook/Strauss finished. These guys don't necessarily have the massive partnerships, but they do normally get us going.
Biggest issues for me, have been Joe Root not really doing enough, Anderson, obviously not quite on it, and Bairstow looks so short of form, notwithstanding smacking a demoralised Australia attack around at OT. He's defended his performance by pointing out that he hasn't kept for 3 years and that he is coming back from injury. The problem with that, is that he implicitly admits that he's not at his best, in which case, he should have recused himself and they could have got Foakes in... who would have probably scored as many runs, and not cost us the first 2 tests... |
Crawley is the leading run scorer in the series isn't he, ahead of Khawaja? Khawaja has had one more innings of batting than Crawley as well. | |
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| Cricket's looking like carnage on 10:27 - Jul 28 with 2025 views | Chrisd |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 09:17 - Jul 28 by Herbivore |
It's not ego, it's tactics. This is the way that England have decided to play and it's managed to significantly transform our fortunes as a test side over the past 2 years. We've gone from being utterly hopeless to very competitive and that hasn't been down to a huge turnover of players, it's been down to a change in mindset and approach. |
It’s ego. The fact the Aussies dropped 5 chances and they still kept throwing their wickets away, utterly brainless. 283 is well below par at The Oval for a 1st innings total. They just don’t adapt. | |
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| Cricket's looking like carnage on 10:29 - Jul 28 with 2019 views | Chrisd |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 10:02 - Jul 28 by Herbivore |
Crawley is the leading run scorer in the series isn't he, ahead of Khawaja? Khawaja has had one more innings of batting than Crawley as well. |
Those stats are rather misleading. Take Crawley’s 189 out of the equation then he’d be way down the running scoring charts. On the eye, Crawley is very exciting to watch when in full flow, but he still doesn’t deliver often enough. | |
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| Cricket's looking like carnage on 10:37 - Jul 28 with 2010 views | Herbivore |
| Cricket's looking like carnage on 10:29 - Jul 28 by Chrisd |
Those stats are rather misleading. Take Crawley’s 189 out of the equation then he’d be way down the running scoring charts. On the eye, Crawley is very exciting to watch when in full flow, but he still doesn’t deliver often enough. |
So if you randomly exclude some of Crawley's runs then he's no longer the leading run scorer? Thanks for that insight. | |
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