Ashes 2023 (14 Viewers)

[SlowerThanPlatt]

Fucking hell

 

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[Saddlebrains]

England actually deserve to be whitewashed, wank at batting, fielding and picking a past it Anderson

Been in commanding positions each test and threw it away

 

[Flying Fokker]

Poor performance today. So far. Or is it that the Aussies are better? They must think the game is theirs.

 

[lifeskyblue]

Just when you thought England would comfortably get to the target….Stokes and Bairstow fall


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[Gint11]

We just can’t bat well enough

 

[SlowerThanPlatt]

Bairstow has to give up the gloves after another horror show, only justification for his selection was that he can add something with the bat

 

[SIR ERNIE]

Too many players under performed so far. Take out stokes and a couple of the bowlers and the rest have been poor. Bairstow's had a shocker.

 

[chiefdave]

We just can’t bat well enough

Maybe if they stop treating test matches like a T20. It’s possible to be aggressive and have a high scoring rate without throwing wickets away

 

[SkyBlueSoul]

This partnership is the game now. Woakes is capable, just needs to see Brook through to a big score while adding a boundary here and there.

 

[tisza]

Maybe if they stop treating test matches like a T20. It’s possible to be aggressive and have a high scoring rate without throwing wickets away

there would have been more than enough overs today & tomorrow. You've put yourselves in a position to bat normally to win and you've unnecessarily gifted at least 3 of these wickets. You are putting zero pressure on Aussie bowlers as they know self-created mistakes will come. That simple drop of Marsh by Root is going to haunt them if they don't get over the line.

 

[CCFCSteve]

there would have been more than enough overs today & tomorrow. You've put yourselves in a position to bat normally to win and you've unnecessarily gifted at least 3 of these wickets. You are putting zero pressure on Aussie bowlers as they know self-created mistakes will come. That simple drop of Marsh by Root is going to haunt them if they don't get over the line.

Missed opportunities is the story of the series so far. Two strangled down leg is unfortunate but also a couple of poor shots chucked in. Wonder if that drop has played on Roots mind, not looked himself in either innings

Bumper barrage coming for Woakes.

 

[tisza]

Missed opportunities is the story of the series so far. Two strangled down leg is unfortunate but also a couple of poor shots chucked in. Wonder if that drop has played on Roots mind, not looked himself in either innings

Bumper barrage coming for Woakes.

Don't take on the short ball. Take the 1s and 2s. Get to 220 for 6 and see how the Aussies handle the pressure.

 

[CCFCSteve]

Don't take on the short ball. Take the 1s and 2s. Get to 220 for 6 and see how the Aussies handle the pressure.

Im with you but Woakes struggles to defend them

 

[SlowerThanPlatt]

Brook finally showing his class

 

[Finham]

Come on Woaksey.

 

[CCFCSteve]

Brook finally showing his class

Always classy just has the odd brain fade. Young lad though

 

[SkyBlueSoul]

Agree, dare I say they’re playing this well atm

 

[CCFCSteve]

Agree, dare I say they’re playing this well atm

Don’t say it SBS !!!

 

[Grendel]

Agree, dare I say they’re playing this well atm

Oh dear

 

[lifeskyblue]

Brook showing how it should be doing me and then ….how it shouldn’t.


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[Sky Blue Pete]

Wtaf

 

[tisza]

horrible shot

 

[CCFCSteve]

Get the fuck in. Great cameo from Woody but wow, fair play to Woakes, what a return !

 

[SlowerThanPlatt]

Get in. Three amazing tests so far

 

[SkyBlueSoul]

Oh dear

Don’t say it SBS !!!

 

[CCFCSteve]

Never in doubt

 

[lifeskyblue]

Roll on test 4


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[SkyBlueSoul]

My day 1 tickets for Old Trafford still matter!

 

[tisza]

Pulled it off despite some of the ugly cricket. Needed one batsman to produce a score so credit to Brook - let's keep him down the order. No 3 needs sorting quickly.
Key to series (aside from eliminating the drops & daft shots) has to be keeping Wood fit.

 

[Finham]

Get the fuck in. Great cameo from Woody but wow, fair play to Woakes, what a return !

Wood and Woakes the difference makers with bat and ball. When will they learn-ALWAYS PICK WOAKES IN ENGLAND!

 

[CCFCSteve]

Pulled it off despite some of the ugly cricket. Needed one batsman to produce a score so credit to Brook - let's keep him down the order. No 3 needs sorting quickly.
Key to series (aside from eliminating the drops & daft shots) has to be keeping Wood fit.

Maybe some ugly but also some ballsy cricket. Stokes in first innings kept us in the game and to get Aussies out for 220 second innings was very good especially with being a bowler down. Massive pressure on everyone second innings. Brook, Crawley, Woakes and Woody all played important roles at different times

Hopefully we can get some catching practice in over next 10 days, wrap Woody in cotton wool and go again !

Everyone’s certainly got their monies worth so far

 

[Northants Sky Blue]

Feared the Ashes were gone with the Stokes and Bairstow wickets but we dug that out.

Fantastic.

Do the selectors now have the stones to go for Foakes?

 

[JohnWH]

I'd prefer to see a change and bring in Foakes.

 

[oscillatewildly]

Looks like the only cricket we'll be seeing from today till Monday will be a morning session tomorrow (even then only if the forecast holds up)
So that'll be the 3rd test drawn - Aussies retain ashes and meaning we will avoid my predicted 5-0 reverse.
4 losses and a draw it will be then. (Again, weather permitting.)

Absolutely delighted to have called this spectacularly wrong on so many instances.
I could be on a roll here so I'm gonna throw this one out - City definitely won't finish in the top six at the end of the forthcoming season.

 

[Finham]

Watching back the highlights, that really was a cracking knock under pressure by Harry Brook. He broke the back of the total. Crawley worth a mention, too.