The Ashes 25/26

[am Bays]

I almost feel sorry for this bloke

Serious question, has he ever played cricket before this test match?

Dunno, but he won’t ever after this one.

Hes not a bad bowler hes just got the yips. I feel a bit for him, hes barely played any cricket for 2 months and then hes asked to play here.

Agree he's not this bad having watched in during the English summers but his last game was in Canberra a month ago

[Lightning McQueen]

I almost feel sorry for this bloke

He's only going at 9 an over, just easing into it.

[Lightning McQueen]

Can you go be replaced for the concussion rule if you hit yourself in the head?

[The Dark Knight]

F***, I'd hate to see how much negativity and whinging would go on in here if we lost the series.

They came over here full of confidence, we were going "ok" at best and lost 3 of our 4 frontline bowlers yet all I've read all series is how Trav should be dropped, Trav isn't interested, no one is trying, there's no celebration when we take a wicket, we are shit, we don't try anything, we try doing too much. Just take a few minutes out of the day to appreciate that we've won the series, we're in a dominant position in this match despite all the shit-canning pre-match and since the first session.

We're doing alright for a team that has holes everywhere and needs to improve so much, roll on South Africa to put us to the test.

I like it mate, call it out. It's seems it just easier for people to whinge/shit can/get their back up about something the team/a certain player is doing and they can't do anything right in their eyes no matter how successful they are.

Former Test player Stuart Clark, now works for Cricket NSW as a selector and on the board, likes a whinge:

"James Allsop, who runs the cricket in Australia... is a grade club cricket coach that throws underarm balls to kids," Clark said on ABC Grandstand.

"That's what his background is. He's a lovely guy, don't get me wrong. But he now runs the whole of cricket. He can't tell (Test coach) Andrew McDonald or Steve Smith what to do.

"(Oliver), he runs high performance cricket, but I'm not really sure what he does now.

"Then you have George (Bailey) who is the chairman of selectors. Does he have the gravitas or the leadership skills to tell Andrew McDonald and Steve Smith, or Pat Cummins what to do? He should do, 100 per cent, but I don't think he does."

Yeah I didn't hear it live but Corbin and Ed played it on yesterday's day two wrap on the ABC Grandstand Cricket Podcast.

[The Dark Knight]

I almost feel sorry for this bloke

Serious question, has he ever played cricket before this test match?

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[dedja]

Jacks

[Jim05]

Lol

[am Bays]

Jonathon Agnew: "He's just dropped a chance that you toss to your Granny in the back yard..."

I also note the current page number of this thread

[Booney]

Root has 24 hundreds in the last 5 years.

100s for England

Root 41
Cook 33
Root in the last 5 years 24

[Lightning McQueen]

Jacks

Tufnell 2.0

[dedja]

Jonathon Agnew: "He's just dropped a chance that you toss to your Granny in the back yard..."

I also note the current page number of this thread

GILF?

[dedja]

Neser’s looking pretty comfortable … oh, hang on

[dedja]

Jacks

Tufnell 2.0

Tuffers wouldn’t have landed a glove on it, knocking him out cold hitting him between the eyes

[Lightning McQueen]

I think the Barmy Army should be playing the Benny Hill tune on repeat.

[dedja]

Stokes

[Jim05]

No more reviews lol

[wenchbarwer]

Jacks

Tufnell 2.0

Tuffers wouldn’t have landed a glove on it, knocking him out cold hitting him between the eyes

and then bouncing over the rope for six

[Trader]

oh dear.

[stan]

Fair review though. Carse was sure it hit the foot first and he was right. Nesser somehow got outside the line to play it.

[am Bays]

If it wasnt England you'd almost feel sorry for them