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The Ashes - Australia 2013/14

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...how bad was that. I got up at 02.45 watched for 30mis and we were ok with 2 wickets down. Went back to bed, switched the radio on just after 04.00 and Tremlett was batting. Ridiculous.
 
toffeejack said:
1 good day in how many years and they have the cheek to blag? haha.

when i saw the score when i woke up, i wasn't shocked.

That's an an embarassment of a score, but this is a batting line-up that couldn't even cope with neil wagner.

I've said it time and time again but the main reason for this is one-day cricket.

Cook, Carberry, Trott, Pietersen, Bell, Root.

All of them have played regular ODI cricket within the last year. Why ffs? Test Cricket should be the main focus. Trott and Cook's strike rates have gone up, but their scores and averages have plumuted in the opposite direction.

How are the coaching staff so blind not to see it? Ever since he's been a regular fixture in the ODI Team Trott has stopped leaving every ball that's not hitting the stumps like he use to. He use to be a wall, unbeatable, but now he's a man who races to 20/30 off about 40/50 balls, when before it would take him 70, but he'd then go on to get 130 odd or more.

Gone from the best batting line-up in the world to one of the worst in about 2 and a half years. The bowlers are going to be shattered on this tour, they have to bowl at 13 batsmen already, well before the end of day 2! Why bother? They've been brilliant for the last year and have had such a heavy workload and have usually been the saviours with the bat on more than one occasion.

I think Gooch's time should have been up a long time ago imo, when will england learn to bat well in the first innings of a first test abroad? Pretty pathetic given the line-up, why do they keep making the same mistakes?

They are getting themselves out to average deliveries. There's a reason it's called test cricket, it's not been much of a test to bowl at this england for the last year and a half.

Was looking forward to a nice weekend of staying up all through the night to watch the cricket, is there any need to? this match is all over already i feel.
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Some good points there mate. This could be one series too far for the bowlers to bale us out unless the batsman pull the finger out. Awful collapse last night and under huge pressure to get anything out of this test.
 
could not understand the gloating after day one in the coverage. to me it felt like Perth 2010 letting them get away from a disaster to a half decent score. ...its even worse now. to stand any chance England have to bowl them out for no more than another 150 runs. the bowlers must be livid. time and again they have got the team into match winning positions only to be let down by the batsmen.
 

Was only going to watch first hour. If we had no wickets I would have given up. Still need to get them all out for less than 200 though, not getting carried away.
 

Sad to see Jimmy Anderson looking so un-threatening. Bowling tidily but not looking like taking a wicket.
Hoping for reverse mockers here but there's not much depth to our bowling.
 

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