The Ashes 2013 Thread

[Bigmaclad]

How did Nathan Lyon's take so many wickets when the pitch is offering nothing for a spinner?!

 

[BigBlueConk]

England are playing like a pub side lads. Pub side.

 

[toffeejack]

How did Nathan Lyon's take so many wickets when the pitch is offering nothing for a spinner?!

because they were all gifted to him ha. i don't think he actually got any of them out, possibly pietersen, but only because his ego got the better of him and he couldn't bare to leave the ball.

i think we all knew choosing bresnan was not going to pay off, he's batting's detoriated so much that there is no need to pick him with this in mind.

england have barely turned up all series, they've been very poor imo.

 

[Elong]

Who have you got your money on TJ?

I quite like Rogers, not sure why, he's got a real grit about him, knows his game, scored a **** load of runs in county cricket, now every test is a bonus, pains me to say it but a guy like him deserves a bit of fortune, Anderson has been all over him all series, so for him to get through the new ball, it's fair he gets a few runs. Only this one time though

 

[toffeejack]

i like him too, i just fail to give anyone any credit when they get so so lucky constantly, it annoys me greatly. I put a ton on england retaining the ashes and that was it because i feared how bad their form was leading up to the series.

two early good wickets for england and now they're into the tail again they've run out of ideas. Over the last couple of years they've constantly let the opposition's tail bring the team back into the game. we'll probably end up with a 40-50 run deficit against a team with harris batting at 9.

 

[toffeejack]

one partnership in this whole innings and they have a lead - nobody else has got to 20, shows how badly england batted.

 

[toffeejack]

kind of threw away all the good work with some poor deliveries to harries. Why we bowl short and wide to tailenders i don't know. Get the yorkers in ffs. May have taken that at the start though, no demons in the pitch, need to attack them and get a quick 320 or so. No doubt cook will see 30 as too big of a lead and play to bat australia out of the win via time. Needs to take an attacking initiative as captain though

 

[toffeejack]

one positive is that the aussies have scored a hell of a lot of runs from edges. In Aus these will carry and hopefully we'll see shades of that innings back in 2011 when we had all 10 caught behind the wicket.

 

[potato]

a lead of 32 is nothing, i eat leads of 32 every week.

 

[Bigmaclad]

Did well there England, give them a total of 350 to chase, that should be enough to bowl them out in

 

[BigBlueConk]

They have Root sussed out.

 

[toffeejack]

i think it's fair to admit they have rushed this opening combination. He's too young and too inexperienced to be chucked into open. Especially given that the move kept bairstow in the team and not compton

 

[thebluefox]

They have Root sussed out.

said from day 1 root should not be opening the batting for england

 

[BlueLlama]

said from day 1 root should not be opening the batting for england

Who would you have instead Foxy? Batting candidates are all a bit meh in my opinion.

 

[thebluefox]

Who would you have instead Foxy? Batting candidates are all a bit meh in my opinion.

ye your right bl , carberry at hampshire , even trescotick for the home series, upgrade trott to open , root has got into the bad habit of not trying to score runs.