The Ashes 2023

[marekb]

phew!

 

[Obes]

Review burned, nice.

 

[Davidoff]

Just dig in, lads. Top order need to do their jobs here

 

[Ivo]

Come on England. Let's keep this series alive

 

[Obes]

Just get to stumps without losing a wicket.

 

[Moomin]

This team have enormous ability. They have made far too many mistakes so far for such a good side

250 is very gettable out there but they will need to accept it will be tough at times and they will have to dig in at times. Aussie bowlers will get movement from this track, especially tonight

To be fair you have been a bit of a crying bitch about this England team.

They have gone out all attack and I'm 100% behind it. Test Cricket needs this to save it.

 

[Rita_Poon]

20 past 7 and the arena is cooking, and there's not even a whiff of fast edds.

 

[steven]

Should be a straight forward enough run chase imo. Don’t think the pitch is that bad in reality. Decent opening stand already. Get 50/60 here and England are laughing.

Series deserves to be at 2v1 for me.

 

[ste d' indica]

That's me on the couch all day tomorrow then.

 

[cronullasharks]

Should be a straight forward enough run chase imo. Don’t think the pitch is that bad in reality. Decent opening stand already. Get 50/60 here and England are laughing.

Series deserves to be at 2v1 for me.

Yeah i reckon you's got this one. And will do it with a minimum of fuss as well.

 

[Walken]

Damned good start from the openers, that feels so much better than 30 mins ago.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

This is great to watch. More exciting than any football (recently anyways) for me.
This england team will make mistakes and take risks but it’s more engaging than any other cricket I’ve watched in years. Across all 3 matches. This is only good for the sport.

 

[Walken]

Who were you having a go at in your original post by the way? Did you think England's tactics to Head and the tail enders was good?

I made a couple of points against the bowling to Head, my point though a bit tongue in cheek was the hyperbolic criticism Stokes captaincy seems to get for any error despite huge success and doing his level best to save test cricket. Its led by upper class morons like agnew and fossils like boycott, agnew especially will have been itching for bazball to falter, if he can manage to speak with rishi sunaks balls in his mouth.

 

[ToffeeTim]

To be fair you have been a bit of a crying bitch about this England team.

They have gone out all attack and I'm 100% behind it. Test Cricket needs this to save it.

100% attack won't work in tests. Being aggressive most of the time might work but good bowlers will bowl good spells and you need to see them off.

Anyway, very good effort by the openers to get through that period but also to get 10% of the runs. Could easily have been 15-2.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

If only some of these armchair posers had a seat in the England dressing room, could teach Englands most successful test set up for a decade a thing or two about 'proper' cricket

It's tough talking cricket on here Walks, reminds me of the match day threads, the comment about having 2 days to get 250 and being out for 160 in 40 overs, christ, before mccullum took over England would have folded for 130 at 3 an over anyway. England's batsmen apart from Root are very average with very average techniques, the bravado of 'bazball' is what is giving England any chance of winning test matches.