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Those Head runs last night look abit annoying now, should still get over the line but fully expecting us to be 7 or 8 down.
 
BringBackSwales said:
Read what I said. He got a couple of decent scores in 1 test, as I said, but if you think 28 is decent over 35 tests we strongly disagree.
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It's been what we've has since struass tho , untill there is an alternative it wont chance , unless he finds the mentality in which case were winning
 
domalino said:
No it doesn’t, Steve Smith and Joe Root are widely considered two of the best batsmen ever to play the game.
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Yes, it says the standard of batting in this test has been pretty poor, not smart enough against good bowling (bar the odd exception).

As I said earlier in the thread, I think a lot of the batting in the series as a whole has been poor, yes some outstanding innings, but not enough on either side really.

Crawley gets criticism because he nearly always gets out playing a stupid shot, rather than getting a good ball, the one that got Ali was a good ball for instance, both Root and Crawley gave their wickets away by poor choices.
 
BringBackSwales said:
Read what I said. He got a couple of decent scores in 1 test, as I said, but if you think 28 is decent over 35 tests we strongly disagree. Also as I said if the top 6 average 28 then the team is lucky to top 250
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I don’t care what his career average is, the fact he averaged 10 or something in 2021 doesn’t mean anything to the present. I care that his average in this series is higher than Smith, Warner, Labushagne, Bairstow, Pope, Brook (before this innings).
 
Any other team you'd say we're in a comfortable position.

Our own discipline will make the difference here. We have a bizarre obsession with throwing wickets away. Don't think Australia have been all that dangerous this morning, and yet we've lost four wickets in a session.
 
Claytop said:
Those Head runs last night look abit annoying now, should still get over the line but fully expecting us to be 7 or 8 down.
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I was there yesterday and while that was a bit frustrating to see Head score those runs, I don’t think we could’ve asked much more from the 25 overs bowled. 6 Australian wickets and England 27-0 at close was as good as anyone could’ve realistically hoped for when play finally got underway.
 
M18CTID said:
I was there yesterday and while that was a bit frustrating to see Head score those runs, I don’t think we could’ve asked much more from the 25 overs bowled. 6 Australian wickets and England 27-0 at close was as good as anyone could’ve realistically hoped for when play finally got underway.
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It was certainly a lot more than I realistically expected.
 
M18CTID said:
I was there yesterday and while that was a bit frustrating to see Head score those runs, I don’t think we could’ve asked much more from the 25 overs bowled. 6 Australian wickets and England 27-0 at close was as good as anyone could’ve realistically hoped for when play finally got underway.
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It was our best day in these ashes yesterday, but we only had to play one session, no brain needed just go at it, this run chase will still require some thinking, I like that we’ve wrestled back control every time we’ve lost a wicket
 
meeesh said:
Well if they don’t knock these off it’s time to give up playing them in the future,never mind rest of this series,we’d be better playing Oman and Afghanistan,Scotland and Namibia we might win a few then
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We've beaten every test nation in the last 3 years apart from Australia who are currently ranked 1st
 
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