England v Australia - THE ASHES

[The Equaliser]

fairly carbon copy of lord's this one. we just need to bat the same length as them if days 4 and 5 are washed out as expected.

looked straight and didn't do anything that from siddle.

Haha, it pitched and moved away.

Root out now to a snicko decison on review.

 

[toffeejack]

mare, utter mare.

it may well have been out, but they can't 100% be certain to overule the umpires decision. his bat is very close to his pad at the point of impact and is not a spikey graph like you normally see when a bat hits ball.

 

[toffeejack]

Haha, it pitched and moved away.

Root out now to a snicko decison on review.

i only had one look. the commentators were saying how great it was, i was just asking the question.

 

[toffeejack]

typical.

england have been denied so many runs by johnson's no balls, but when he gets a wicket and they bother to check it's behind the line.

 

[The Equaliser]

83-5

The collapse is ON.

 

[wandyr79]

Not great this but hard to feel angry when we have destroyed them in the last 2 tests and the result means nothing in the whole scheme of things.

 

[The Equaliser]

OOPS

 

[toffeejack]

Jonathan Agnew

BBC Test Match Special

"I just don't get the inability of either team to get their heads down and knuckle down. I don't care if it's the modern way - it's the wrong way."



nailed it.


....from a bowler. only rodgers and smith have actually dug in here in the series and set the benchmark. batting in this series has been truly abysmal 80% of the time.

 

[ToffeeDoug]

Truly awful technique, if you can call it that, by Mo Ali trying to play that short ball.

 

[rascal]

Let's never play cricket in London again

 

[ToffeeDoug]

Now, THAT is really really poor, an awful shot from Stokes. Why does everyone have to be in such a damn hurry all the time. Poor Mo Ali left yet again with the tail.

 

[The Equaliser]

Awful shot that from Stokes.

 

[roydo]

Not in the remotest bit arsed. Lost count of the times we got trounced in 3 or 4 tests, only to win the final one against Australia.

Ironically, The Oval staged a few of them.

 

[ToffeeDoug]

Broad is going to get peppered with short stuff. Hope he has got a decent helmet on.

EDIT. We will never find out!

 

[ToffeeDoug]

Back in the day, we used to have a six match Ashes series, who is to say this series wouldn't have ended 3-3?