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The Ashes 2013 Thread

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toffeemax said:
Bit of an odd post, Agar was dropped because he was in the team as a spinner. Had a one in a million knock but ultimately he wasn't getting wickets, hence dropped.

Cook's form was always going to have a drop, he's been one of the best around over the past few years with the number of runs he's scored. He still got a 50 today and has made 3 throughout the series, hardly scintillating stuff but not Bairstow standard... He was also very unlucky as the ball that got him was an absolute beauty, would of got out every left hander playing.

As for KP he again is due an off day, after scoring a century it is hardly easy to get back into the same mindset on a different pitch and just get another hundred, if he could do that, he'd be the best in the world.

Finally the suicide rate stat is interesting, one I'd not heard of before. As a psychologist it's something that will really interests me, something to look into!
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Been quite a few articles about it over the years; pretty sure Simon Hughes and Derek Pringle have penned stuff relating to it in the Telegraph.
 

i suppose it's the correct decision (very lucky for rogers though), i mean rogers may not have reviewed it if he thought he was given out LBW. The umpire may have given it out LBW if he hadn't have made an original error of thinking he hit it.

rogers has had about 3/4 lives already, if he doesn't make this count then he never will
 

toffeejack said:
i suppose it's the correct decision (very lucky for rogers though), i mean rogers may not have reviewed it if he thought he was given out LBW. The umpire may have given it out LBW if he hadn't have made an original error of thinking he hit it.

rogers has had about 3/4 lives already, if he doesn't make this count then he never will
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I would have been gutted if I had been given out LBW on that. I always think that as long as the correct decision is made then the DRS has a value. The poor aussie lad would have had to go with these specsaver umpires!

England batsmen wont win the game so it is down to the bowlers today.
 
the thing i want to know is, if it was hitting instead of umpires call, surely it wouldn't have been given out (because the umpire said not out to LBW), but then england could have reviewed that decision and then it would have been given out??

Rodgers would have kept his review but would have been out on england's review.


am i right?
 
toffeejack said:
the thing i want to know is, if it was hitting instead of umpires call, surely it wouldn't have been given out (because the umpire said not out to LBW), but then england could have reviewed that decision and then it would have been given out??

Rodgers would have kept his review but would have been out on england's review.


am i right?
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For an England referal on the LBW, I believe that at least half the ball must be hitting to overturn a decision. That was only just clipping.
 
The umpire gave a catch, not LBW and so it would have stayed with umpire if hawkeye only showed a snick on the bails.

Mind you, wouldnt mind seeing a cricket ball smash into Gareths Bails.
 

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