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Was thinking the same listening on the radio at work
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In Australia. Neither side would be thrashed in home conditions.
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Extremely annoying, that. I'm not bothered about a drawn series maybe being the correct outcome; that win was there for the taking. Twice. Lunch on the second day, we were 92/1, in reply to India's 224. We should have been looking at a lead of 150+ on first innings, probably 200. We ended up with a lead of 23. Not enough players used their heads, and were dismissed playing daft shots. Again, yesterday afternoon, we were 301/3 (effectively 4), needing 73 more runs for the win,with Brook and Root cruising along. Brook then loses his train of thought, and gets out to a crazy shot. Getting beat by an innings, or by 300 runs, would be (in some ways) easier to accept as we would never be in with a chance of winning such a game.
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Totally agree with you. Harry Brook throwing away his wicket was the pivotal moment yesterday & was completely unnecessary. Just brain dead cricket that exposed the rest of the team. Pretty shameful to have lost 6 wickets, for 66 runs in 23 overs.
Fair Result and the right series score of 2.2, the winners were the fans of test cricket,
When was the last series played to this level of drama outside of the Ashes?
Next up is the late-night radio of the Ashes. I love listening to the cricket on the radio in the Ashes down under
When was the last series played to this level of drama outside of the Ashes?
Next up is the late-night radio of the Ashes. I love listening to the cricket on the radio in the Ashes down under
England's tail is not as good as people make out, Once we got down to Smith the wicket keeper it was always going to end this way. I am still not 100% about Smith for the Ashes with the gloves and bat
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Comes back to Brook throwing his wicket again.
After his commentary this series, I can assure you I haven’t
true, but everyone thinks we bat right down to 10 haha or 9
What i think is even if we had won the test and won the series 3.1 it was a lot closer than that
2.2 is about right and both teams can take something out of the series,
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I absolutely agree.
Expecting the batsmen down the tail & then the bowlers to hit the winning runs is not very realistic, certainly not against the quality sides like India.
It just makes the one dimensional & often brain dead batting approach all the more annoying. When you see some of the dismissals by supposed top quality batsmen in this series, it drives you mad. I’m completely on board for attacking & entertaining cricket & there have been many very good days with England over the last couple of years, but there often seems to be a one size fits all approach to the batting when sometimes you just need to dig in & grind out the result.
England were in total control when Root & Brook were batting. Brook throws it away, exposes Bethal, who shouldn’t even have been picked with his lack of cricket played, Bethal dominates the strike but can’t score, Root barely faces a delivery for a while & has a bit of a brain fart when he gets to face a few deliveries, then suddenly the tail is exposed & it was so predictable that England would blow it.
They made terrible decisions on the lbws, both folded under pressure. Even though the replay said umpire's call, I doubt the Overton one would have even dislodged the bail!
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Money talks in cricket as it does in football, and in cricket India is where the money is. That said, any team that drops six catches in one innings deserves to lose.
He looked pretty hopeless today but I’m not sure how you can say this considering he’s averaging close to 50 and generally looks quite solid behind the stumps.
Posting competitive totals against the likes of Hazelwood, Cummins, Starc, Boland and Lyon will be our biggest obstacle.
Good point well put - I thought the very same when Tongue bowled 11 extras in his first over !!!!!
The problem with Bashir ( just like Crofty back in the day ) he just bowls “the one that goes straight on”
I think he is ready for test match cricket. He just hasn't had any game time of late, and I think that is an issue by the England camp. I personally feel he would be a better no3 than Pope, who continues to be out lbw, falling over. Something the Aussies will target!