The Australian press will be brutal. This batting brittleness continues to hound them. Along with not allowing the follow on and batting under lights, they won’t be holding back I’m guessing.
The Ashes 2017/18
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rochdaleblue
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Great point mate. When they are on a roll (winning) Australia is a tough place to tour. But when things don’t go their way, the crowd and press aren’t slow to show their displeasure. Let’s hope it’s that way tomorrow.
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You crims have had the meme pace attack well we have the meme 6,7 and 8 in Stokes, Foakes and Woakes. I pray it happens one day for the giggles.
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Look at all the Aussies in here patting us on the head, saying there's a chance, when really they're sniggering to each other in the background.
England will probably lose 3 wickets in the first hour.
I'm glad it's on at 3am so I don't get drawn in, this is not a team that breaks fourth innings records (which don't really get broken anymore, even by sides with a backbone).
Also saw anderson having a pop at the batsman, he's an all time great is jimmy, but pretty sure after putting them in the aussies had the luxury of declaring, maybe don't slate your own team publicly, can you imagine if someone not in the 'in' crowd did that
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Apart from the spell yesterday, I've never seen Anderson bowl well in Australia. Ever.
Big call, but I wouldn't have taken him, just like I wouldn't have taken Cook, who hasn't scored a ton against them in 8 years. Horses for courses, Kuwaja doesn't go to India cos he can't play spin.
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Root out first, caught behind
Woakes bowled by lyon
Ali caught at mid off playing expansive drive off lyon
Bairstow not out as tail unsurprisingly doesnt wag.
England lose by 100 runs, no one cares about smith's follow on decision and the question will be is it going to be a whitewash.
I'd still take Jimmy, but surrounding him with other english condition bowlers was an error, in fairness they wanted finn to play, if we had the depth yeah I see the argument, but we don't. Same problem with Cook, I would love to drop him, fair weather batsman more worried about his average than his team, but the lid at lancashire found himself out of form, and no one else has stepped up. I think jimmy has to play though, even just for the new ball spells, I still love him as a cricketeer, and as a fella, he is part of swanns boys, and I've heard enough about that group on the last tour to consider them a bunch of tits
sounds depressingly likely
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Oh he's a massive, massive bowler, but he bowls too wide and too short in Australia, and can't swing a kookaburra. I'd have left him at home, and I don't say that lightly, because his record speaks for itself, but it's mainly built on a home record, a bit like Ashwin for India.
Surely there's better options, Willey even? He could swing it out there.
I can't stand that gobs**te Smith. I've been a big cricket fan since around the back end of Allan Border's captaincy of Australia and they have never had such a dislikeable captain as him.
Plus he's such an ugly (but hugely effective) batsman to watch.
We are second favourites. But if England can somehow sneak home it puts enormous pressure on him given his dubious decision not to enforce the follow-on and the Aussie media may well turn on him.
Plus he's such an ugly (but hugely effective) batsman to watch.
We are second favourites. But if England can somehow sneak home it puts enormous pressure on him given his dubious decision not to enforce the follow-on and the Aussie media may well turn on him.
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Smith was alright, a nice likeable chap, until he got the captaincy, and that title seems to come with the job description of turning into a combination of Aldo and Dalglish.
I thought Anderson bowled well in the 2010/11 Ashes Down Under and his record in five tests of 24 wickets at 26.04 seems to suggest this.
He did have some ordinary performances in Australia in 2006/07 and 2013/14 though.
I like what I've seen from overton, there's something there, you don't have to bowl ninety plus if you can produce height and bounce, tremlett barely got it above 80mph and was great in oz when we last won, Don't know how wood has gone for the lions, but I reckon the lad will never get a full season without injury
sadly, i think this is nailed on
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