The Ashes 2023

[Bohemian Toffee]

Absolutely dreadful cricket, that was unacceptable. Playing like it was a T20 match with 6 balls left and 20 runs needed.

Embarrassing.

I was sitting over a post all morning about when should we start talking about Stokes. In visible discomfort from the knee so limited as a bowler, don't know why he bats above Bairstow for low and slow innings.

Then Brooks contributes possibly the stupidest test cricket sequence I've ever seen. It must be ego, because there is no way this is a gameplan.

 

[jazzy]

More ridiculous batting by England.
Bazball / attack every ball might work against innocuous bowling attacks like New Zealand without Boult but against genuine pace it is coming apart at the seams.

 

[Connor]

This.



This.



And this again.



Absolutely pathetic.
Only Stokes wicket has been earned.
The rest have been thrown away

Duck the short ball. They’ll get their warnings and then have to move on. They’ll knacker out and you’ll be into the part timers too.

Fuming here

 

[neil999]

Still confused that stokes seemed to be the most conservative batsman...

 

[jazzy]

Still confused that stokes seemed to be the most conservative batsman...

Being given license to play shots and flailing at everything like Brook has done are 2 different things
One can only imagine that the England batters are thick as mince

 

[Milk]

More ridiculous batting by England.
Bazball / attack every ball might work against innocuous bowling attacks like New Zealand without Boult but against genuine pace it is coming apart at the seams.

And Pakistan were missing Shaheen Shah Afridi too

 

[Cool_Blue]

Lose this one and the criticism will be off the scale. Stokes will be under serious pressure to explain wtf England are playing at.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Lose this one and the criticism will be off the scale. Stokes will be under serious pressure to explain wtf England are playing at

absolutely everything, swinging at bees, flies, wasps, grasshoppers, the whole schmear...

 

[Dannymini]

Need another 70 minium here I think

 

[Cool_Blue]

Boycott must be having a coronary watching this ‘batting‘

 

[Rita_Poon]

bairstow gone for 17, soft give away.

very very poor

 

[Dannymini]

Over

 

[tommye]

And another cheap wicket.


Ffs

 

[Rita_Poon]

Robinson, Tongue and Andersson to go.

Awful, fine the lot an entire summers wage. Incredible this.

 

[Rita_Poon]

is that 3 wickets given up for about 35 runs this morning?