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Djibrilshairdo said:
Aussies openers have played very well, England haven’t.
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The simple reason is poor bowling even with it swinging around, You have to aim to hit the wickets and top off-stump is the golden rule at Lords, The better batsman will leave most that are going wide or on length, but at Lords with the slope you help and can fool any batsman into leaving,

It was a very big morning for England bowlers and we failed. so another session like that and its good to be hard to win this test and the ashes
 
ancoats said:
The simple reason is poor bowling even with it swinging around, You have to aim to hit the wickets and top off-stump is the golden rule at Lords, The better batsman will leave most that are going wide or on length, but at Lords with the slope you help and can fool any batsman into leaving,

It was a very big morning for England bowlers and we failed. so another session like that and its good to be hard to win this test and the ashes
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Yep, and our seamers are creating chances when they bowl the right line and length. Tongue is extracting a bit extra from the pitch and with the Australian bowling attack that's bad news.
 
Stick a fork in us were done ?

Broad and Anderson are finished if they can not bowl at Lords and take wickets on the first morning.
I did fear for England going into the ashes with little test cricket and now it's showing, If we are not careful and make changes in the 3 other test matches the Aussies are going to whitewash us 5.0
 
This is exactly why I was so critical after Edgbaston. I really couldn’t give a toss about entertaining neutrals I want England to regain the ashes and wining that first test was going to be massive for whoever won it.

We gifted Australia that game and it will bug me for some time tbh
 
The fear was always how are we going to take 20 wickets to win an Ashes test, it appears very unlikely from what we have seen in the series so far.
 
Chipmeister said:
The fear was always how are we going to take 20 wickets to win an Ashes test, it appears very unlikely from what we have seen in the series so far.
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To be fair, we took 18 in the last test and looked to have done all the hard work in breaking the back of the Australian run chase, before failing to see it over the line. The early signs from this test, however, are that we're going to struggle to take wickets a lot more than we did at Edgbaston
 
M18CTID said:
To be fair, we took 18 in the last test and looked to have done all the hard work in breaking the back of the Australian run chase, before failing to see it over the line. The early signs from this test, however, are that we're going to struggle to take wickets a lot more than we did at Edgbaston
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Mainly because smith and labuschagne played poorly at Edgbaston. I very much doubt they will do that again this series.
 
M18CTID said:
To be fair, we took 18 in the last test and looked to have done all the hard work in breaking the back of the Australian run chase, before failing to see it over the line. The early signs from this test, however, are that we're going to struggle to take wickets a lot more than we did at Edgbaston
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To be fair we failed to take 20 wickets to win the test and lost the test as a result, it is not looking anywhere near likely we can do it in this 2nd test
 
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