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Lyon just a world class bowler and they have 2 other world class bowlers too we have one top bowler! Australia just too good especially in there country!
 
Think even if we win that first test we would have got best 4-1 me and a few others get lulled every ashes series in Australia that we have a chance! I predicted 2-2 just because I thought our batting would perform! How wrong was I..
 
waspish said:
Lyon just a world class bowler and they have 2 other world class bowlers too we have one top bowler! Australia just too good especially in there country!
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They also have a habit of stepping up and turning up when it comes to an Ashes series on home turf. There were question marks over this Australian team prior to this series starting which gave most of us some hope that we were in with a half decent chance this time. Despite coming up against Australia sides that aren’t close to the dominant teams of the 90s and most of the 00s, we haven’t won a single test over there since the 2010/11 series, yet other teams have managed it. Even the West Indies won a test match there just a couple of years ago.
 
M18CTID said:
They also have a habit of stepping up and turning up when it comes to an Ashes series on home turf. There were question marks over this Australian team prior to this series starting which gave most of us some hope that we were in with a half decent chance this time. Despite coming up against Australia sides that aren’t close to the dominant teams of the 90s and most of the 00s, we haven’t won a single test over there since the 2010/11 series, yet other teams have managed it. Even the West Indies won a test match there just a couple of years ago.
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A good day overall today considering the shite that has been offered over the previous weeks.
Reason playing sensible cricket and forgetting this crazy bazball game.
Jonathan Agnew just summed it up bazball has not worked for 2 years and needs binning.
 
It's quite obvious they should have dropped Pope (who has an average of 13 in Australia in 6 tests) promote Jacks up the order and keep Atkinson in the side to share the bowling workload and probably score more runs than Pope anyway? Instead Jacks has had to bowl too many overs when before this tour he hasn't played a test since 2022. He is a batsman who bowls a bit not the other way around FFS. The lack of thought that has gone into preparation and selection is absolutely astonishing.
 
M18CTID said:
They also have a habit of stepping up and turning up when it comes to an Ashes series on home turf. There were question marks over this Australian team prior to this series starting which gave most of us some hope that we were in with a half decent chance this time. Despite coming up against Australia sides that aren’t close to the dominant teams of the 90s and most of the 00s, we haven’t won a single test over there since the 2010/11 series, yet other teams have managed it. Even the West Indies won a test match there just a couple of years ago.
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First and second test we were pure arrogant and braindead in big moments! We had to win that first test to just make it a contest! If you listened to Vaughn before then series he was predicting 2-2 like I did but also said we had to win that first test match and lose that he said it be a long series!
 
Noticed we actually 25 overs short of what we have bowled in our two innings so we actually keeping them in the field quite a bit longer than the other two tests
 
Why the fuck does Brook thinking playing reverse sweeps against world class spinners is the way forward.Is anybody saying just play straight to the gormless twat.
He needs fucking off with Crawley,Pope and Duckett.
Till we address the 4 day game this will continue.The bulk of 4 day cricket should be played in June,July and August,not in april and september.
 
melrose40yarder said:
Why the fuck does Brook thinking playing reverse sweeps against world class spinners is the way forward.Is anybody saying just play straight to the gormless twat.
He needs fucking off with Crawley,Pope and Duckett.
Till we address the 4 day game this will continue.The bulk of 4 day cricket should be played in June,July and August,not in april and september.
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The problem was with that shot was Lyon just come back and it was his second ball maybe have a look for an over or two at least!
 
Fair play to Crawley - third decent score in four innings. Maybe the penny has dropped that he can be (more) effective batting properly.
Duckett and Pope both wank, again. Why we didn‘t take someone else capable of batting in the top 3 is beyond me. Bethell looks more like a 5/6.
Brook is a bit of a tit, but bigger issues elsewhere.
Jacks is a passable lower-order batsman but a poor bowler - nowhere close to being good enough to be our main spinner.
Moving forward, I‘d push Stokes up to 3. At least he can bat properly against the seamers. Bring Bethell in at 6. Couldn‘t give a shit whether it‘s Smith or Pope at 7 with the gloves. Play Bashir. Archer, plus maybe Atkinson and Tongue?
We‘ll still get hammered, but can‘t just keep doing the same.
Although the fact that Aus have so easily pissed the first 3 probably increases the chances of them taking their eye off it and us getting a result in one of the last two …
 
sh249 said:
Fair play to Crawley - third decent score in four innings. Maybe the penny has dropped that he can be (more) effective batting properly.
Duckett and Pope both wank, again. Why we didn‘t take someone else capable of batting in the top 3 is beyond me. Bethell looks more like a 5/6.
Brook is a bit of a tit, but bigger issues elsewhere.
Jacks is a passable lower-order batsman but a poor bowler - nowhere close to being good enough to be our main spinner.
Moving forward, I‘d push Stokes up to 3. At least he can bat properly against the seamers. Bring Bethell in at 6. Couldn‘t give a shit whether it‘s Smith or Pope at 7 with the gloves. Play Bashir. Archer, plus maybe Atkinson and Tongue?
We‘ll still get hammered, but can‘t just keep doing the same.
Although the fact that Aus have so easily pissed the first 3 probably increases the chances of them taking their eye off it and us getting a result in one of the last two …
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I’d try jacks at 3 can’t be worse than pope it either work or not
 
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