The Ashes 2023

[Caolam]

No rules were broken; a defence mounted by the English Prime Minister but when no rules were actually broken somehow the people who didn’t break the rules are wrong. A very English affair.

 

[ToffeeTim]

So does this mean....

Crawley
Duckett
Brook
Root
Stokes
Bairstow
Moeen
Woakes
Broad
Robinson
Wood

?

No genuine number 11 in that line up, but 2 number 8s but one will be at 7. I'm not sure if it's a really long tail, or actually a lot more depth!

I'm not sure how Tongue will feel about being rested after 1 game! Also a team that possibly suggests Stokes can't bowl.

 

[Connor]

So does this mean....

Crawley
Duckett
Brook
Root
Stokes
Bairstow
Moeen
Woakes
Broad
Robinson
Wood

?

No genuine number 11 in that line up, but 2 number 8s but one will be at 7. I'm not sure if it's a really long tail, or actually a lot more depth!

I'm not sure how Tongue will feel about being rested after 1 game! Also a team that possibly suggests Stokes can't bowl.

Wood above Broad, but aye

 

[ToffeeTim]

Wood above Broad, but aye

I would have dropped Robinson tbh, but maybe they plan to drop him for Anderson game 4.

 

[Chewbacca]

I’d have put Bairstow at 4 and brought in Foakes as a real wicketkeeper/batsman

 

[Walken]

At least it lit a fire in the groins of some old tories. Can imagine their wives haven’t had a night like that since Yazz topped the charts.

Interesting to note is it was Kawarja they singled out

 

[Walken]

So does this mean....

Crawley
Duckett
Brook
Root
Stokes
Bairstow
Moeen
Woakes
Broad
Robinson
Wood

?

No genuine number 11 in that line up, but 2 number 8s but one will be at 7. I'm not sure if it's a really long tail, or actually a lot more depth!

I'm not sure how Tongue will feel about being rested after 1 game! Also a team that possibly suggests Stokes can't bowl.

Maybe one test he'd rather not bowl in so he can bowl in the 4th and 5th?

 

[maccavennie]

At least it lit a fire in the groins of some old tories. Can imagine their wives haven’t had a night like that since Yazz topped the charts.

"Elizabeth, Elizabeth, put Lady in Red on Elizabeth, I think it's that time of year again Elizabeth"

 

[LEONARD]

Never been seen in the same room at the same time?

 

[JimmyJeffers]

"Elizabeth, Elizabeth, put Lady in Red on Elizabeth, I think it's that time of year again Elizabeth"

You’re damn right I’m keeping the hat on

 

[Cool_Blue]

No if there was a mis-field and the players ran that would be well within what's normal in cricket. Bairstow clearly wasn't running a single though.

Wicket keepers at test level very rarely make errors, so that's why bastmen don't even look round when they leave the ball. They'd wait for the non-striker to alert them on the off chance there was a mistake and they could run a bye.

Stumping a player at the end of an over, when the batsman is heading down for a chat between overs, is poor sportsmanship.

Have yet to hear Bairstow's take on this. That little scrape mark he does with his foot after a leave, is that his way of saying ‘I’m not running, the ball’s dead’? Bizarre if so, how does he think that’s even a thing?

 

[Cool_Blue]

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Never been seen in the same room at the same time?

Get yourself to specsavers asap

 

[samsonthedog1]

So does this mean....

Crawley
Duckett
Brook
Root
Stokes
Bairstow
Moeen
Woakes
Broad
Robinson
Wood

?

No genuine number 11 in that line up, but 2 number 8s but one will be at 7. I'm not sure if it's a really long tail, or actually a lot more depth!

I'm not sure how Tongue will feel about being rested after 1 game! Also a team that possibly suggests Stokes can't bowl.

Feel like Tongue for Robinson would have been better there. Also the obvious Foakes question is raising its head again. But does look a more balanced team with a long tail.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Trump style justifications from the aussies, those in the wrong morally will always argue semantics over context.

Needs to be moved on from now, I'm glad it wasn't us that did it and its a shame another great match was influenced by it.

Kopites of the international sporting world. Always the victims never their fault.

 

[cronullasharks]

Kopites of the international sporting world. Always the victims never their fault.

Ooh, its getting nasty now! Is the kopite behaviour the crying after a loss, the winning without winning moral victories, moaning about negative fielding tactics ie not rolling over over for a loss, "bazball" - we invented heavy metal gegenpressing cricket, sitting on your high horse forgetting things from your own pasts broad, mccullum type stuff.