Cricket Thread

[DMA's]

To be fair, you're always a glass half empty person when it comes to the England cricket team. I seem to recall you having a right downer on the 2019 season, despite the fact that we won the World Cup and played in an entertaining Ashes series that included one of the greatest ever finishes to a test match at Headingley

For some winning the ashes is seen as the pinnacle for English cricket. I’d certainly trade in our t20 World Cup if it meant we won this series personally. It’s just so depressing watching us look so impotent against Australia at home

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

Mel Jones gets on my fucking tits. In fact all Aussies get on my fucking tits. The only ones I ever liked were Richie Benaud, Shayne Warne and Dame Edna fucking Everage. Now they are all deceased every remaining aussie gets on my fucking tits. But why is Mel Jones, Ricky Ponting and Mark fucking Taylor on my telly?

She is a bit smuggy, do the Aussie broadcasters have as many English as we do their lot? We’ve lost Bumble Botham Gower etc and replaced them with Morgan & a part time KP, just feels like we’ve gone too far the other way

 

[M18CTID]

For some winning the ashes is seen as the pinnacle for English cricket. I’d certainly trade in our t20 World Cup if it meant we won this series personally. It’s just so depressing watching us look so impotent against Australia at home

A T20 World Cup, yes, but in 2019 it was the ODI World Cup that we won and that had been the Holy Grail for many England one-day sides down the years

 

[cleavers]

Aussies will be declaring in an hour or so right?

About another 350 runs, sometime tomorrow afternoon.

KP isn't happy haha.

 

[waspish]

What’s the weather like because that’s the only thing going to save us from an innings defeat

 

[cleavers]

What’s the weather like because that’s the only thing going to save us from an innings defeat

Not bad enough.

 

[dadnlad]

how's tennisball going

 

[ancoats]

For some winning the ashes is seen as the pinnacle for English cricket. I’d certainly trade in our t20 World Cup if it meant we won this series personally. It’s just so depressing watching us look so impotent against Australia at home

Test cricket is the pinnacle and playing and winning the Ashes is the level all English Cricketers should aspire to and want to achieve in beating the Aussies home or away, This England squad and coaching staff/captaining, should all hang their heads in shame after today, Not being good enough at everything is hard to watch,

Unless the bowling Gods sprinkle some magic dust on the England bowlers after tea then it's going to get ugly very quickly,

Kevin Pietersen just said what everybody else is saying

 

[BringBackSwales]

She is a bit smuggy, do the Aussie broadcasters have as many English as we do their lot? We’ve lost Bumble Botham Gower etc and replaced them with Morgan & a part time KP, just feels like we’ve gone too far the other way

Miles too far. Bumble resigned but Gower and Botham were binned off by Sly as being too expensive, and replaced with the likes of butcher and keys, both dull, especially butcher. Last ashes in Aus was covered by bt and all the commentators were Pom-bashing Aussies, no note taken that a large chunk of their audience were poms

 

[waspish]

It’s great the way we have been playing you can be attacking in bowling batting but you still have to put the discipline in! Weather this morning and through the day seems they thought just to turn up and the Aussies be down 5 by lunch!