Ashes 2023

[Jim05]

249 to go!

It will be an exciting day of cricket, hopefully the weather clears.

Reckon we could lose close to a session to rain today.
Would be very apt if rain cost us the win

Unfortunately England will win the moral Ashes 5-0

[MW]

Interesting reaction by Uzzie and Marnus over than England supporter yelling 'boring' to them coming off the field.
Would be worse things said in the primary school playground than that...signs that this English campaign to push bazball and high tempo cricket has taken its toll on us?

[batmanbegins]

The big downside of our aggressive batting approach coming through now with the toll it takes on your bowlers to keep coming back so soon, especially with an old or injury prone attack. No doubt if Australia wins this then there long term approach has paid dividends and they can tell england to be quiet.

Just a massive day of cricket to come.

[MW]

The big downside of our aggressive batting approach coming through now with the toll it takes on your bowlers to keep coming back so soon, especially with an old or injury prone attack. No doubt if Australia wins this then there long term approach has paid dividends and they can tell england to be quiet.

Just a massive day of cricket to come.

Their bowlers get 2/3rds of a day to recover and come back fresh tomorrow. We have 250 to get at 2.8 an over with 10 wickets in hand on a day 5 pitch. Gonna be a ripping day.

One thing I'd like looked into (and we could be doing it as well for all i know) is the rate that the English bowlers leave the field after a spell. Why is that allowed?

[amber_fluid]

Interesting reaction by Uzzie and Marnus over than England supporter yelling 'boring' to them coming off the field.
Would be worse things said in the primary school playground than that...signs that this English campaign to push bazball and high tempo cricket has taken its toll on us?

Marnus is a flog and a spoilt brat.
He should have just kept walking.
The crowd will give it to him more now.

[FlyingHigh]

249 to go!

It will be an exciting day of cricket, hopefully the weather clears.

Reckon we could lose close to a session to rain today.
Would be very apt if rain cost us the win

Unfortunately England will win the moral Ashes 5-0

Love the irony if we chased 250 at 5 an over.

[FlyingHigh]

Interesting reaction by Uzzie and Marnus over than England supporter yelling 'boring' to them coming off the field.
Would be worse things said in the primary school playground than that...signs that this English campaign to push bazball and high tempo cricket has taken its toll on us?

On the face of it seems pretty precious. Who knows if there is more to it

[MW]

Interesting reaction by Uzzie and Marnus over than England supporter yelling 'boring' to them coming off the field.
Would be worse things said in the primary school playground than that...signs that this English campaign to push bazball and high tempo cricket has taken its toll on us?

On the face of it seems pretty precious. Who knows if there is more to it

One thing is for sure, the England crowd who are lucky to have such close access to the players will lose this privilege for future Ashes series. No chance Australia allows it again for future tours.

[Brodlach]

Interesting reaction by Uzzie and Marnus over than England supporter yelling 'boring' to them coming off the field.
Would be worse things said in the primary school playground than that...signs that this English campaign to push bazball and high tempo cricket has taken its toll on us?

Marnus is a flog and a spoilt brat.
He should have just kept walking.
The crowd will give it to him more now.

That will worry him, for the last day of the series

[whufc]

Interesting reaction by Uzzie and Marnus over than England supporter yelling 'boring' to them coming off the field.
Would be worse things said in the primary school playground than that...signs that this English campaign to push bazball and high tempo cricket has taken its toll on us?

On the face of it seems pretty precious. Who knows if there is more to it

What I've found interesting is that Khawaja in particular seems to be struggling/reacting with the crowd 'abuse'. He was front and centre of the long room exchange and now involved in what appears to be a very minor case of banter.

Take it all back if any is racism related and he deserves to belt a few blokes but, on the surface, he seems to really reactive to interactions with the crowd.

On the other hand, he really bought into the Aussie crowd banter a couple of seasons ago where he was on the boundary dancing (i think it was Adelaide Oval)

[Jim05]

The big downside of our aggressive batting approach coming through now with the toll it takes on your bowlers to keep coming back so soon, especially with an old or injury prone attack. No doubt if Australia wins this then there long term approach has paid dividends and they can tell england to be quiet.

Just a massive day of cricket to come.

Their bowlers get 2/3rds of a day to recover and come back fresh tomorrow. We have 250 to get at 2.8 an over with 10 wickets in hand on a day 5 pitch. Gonna be a ripping day.

One thing I'd like looked into (and we could be doing it as well for all i know) is the rate that the English bowlers leave the field after a spell. Why is that allowed?

For a team that trots out the “spirit of the game” line they are the biggest cheats out there.
How many times do their bowlers compete an over and then go off for some mystery injury only to return later looking fine. The umpires need to wake up to their BS and clamp down hard on it

[whufc]

The big downside of our aggressive batting approach coming through now with the toll it takes on your bowlers to keep coming back so soon, especially with an old or injury prone attack. No doubt if Australia wins this then there long term approach has paid dividends and they can tell england to be quiet.

Just a massive day of cricket to come.

Not sure its so much the bowler fatigue rather the fact they have created flat pitches so chasing on late day 3- day 4 is almost the best time for batting.

That will be the tweaks needed to bazball as you feel more teams will send England in to bat first as everyone knows they want to be chasing.

[The Dark Knight]

Actually gonna miss Broad

His episode of the Howie Games was quite good

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Yep very good interview, an even better interview was Mark Wood on the Grade Cricketer podcast, he is a very funny man!
https://youtu.be/m4o4FZ3DKzg

[Booney]

Actually gonna miss Broad

If he was Australian, I'd love him, but he's not so I loathe him.

[RB]

Interesting reaction by Uzzie and Marnus over than England supporter yelling 'boring' to them coming off the field.
Would be worse things said in the primary school playground than that...signs that this English campaign to push bazball and high tempo cricket has taken its toll on us?

On the face of it seems pretty precious. Who knows if there is more to it

One thing is for sure, the England crowd who are lucky to have such close access to the players will lose this privilege for future Ashes series. No chance Australia allows it again for future tours.

Not sure how you can avoid it at most venues. I don't expect anything to change ahead of the next series.

I think fatigue after playing 6 tests, moreso than bazball, has probably taken its toll but still, why engage with louts in the crowd in the first place..?

[shoe boy]

Actually gonna miss Broad

If he was Australian, I'd love him, but he's not so I loathe him.

With discussion re retirement of Broad and Possibly Warner soon do most players choose game and time of retirement? or has there been any world class players that have been dropped and never returned?
Example, did A Border, S Waugh, D Lillee choose when to retire?

[RB]

Those three all chose when to retire. Also the case for most of the real top players, although there are some counterexamples (e.g. Ian Healy). Then you've got players like Ponting who were basically given a farewell game and allowed to announce their retirement, rather than being dropped.

[amber_fluid]

Interesting reaction by Uzzie and Marnus over than England supporter yelling 'boring' to them coming off the field.
Would be worse things said in the primary school playground than that...signs that this English campaign to push bazball and high tempo cricket has taken its toll on us?

Marnus is a flog and a spoilt brat.
He should have just kept walking.
The crowd will give it to him more now.

That will worry him, for the last day of the series

It shouldn’t have bothered him to start with.
Just keep walking

[FlyingHigh]

Interesting reaction by Uzzie and Marnus over than England supporter yelling 'boring' to them coming off the field.
Would be worse things said in the primary school playground than that...signs that this English campaign to push bazball and high tempo cricket has taken its toll on us?

On the face of it seems pretty precious. Who knows if there is more to it

One thing is for sure, the England crowd who are lucky to have such close access to the players will lose this privilege for future Ashes series. No chance Australia allows it again for future tours.

Hopefully it doesn't come to that, because I think it is still one of the quaint, underappreciated things that set cricket apart from other sports. As small as it is, it kind of has an impact on the whole mentality of cricket IMO.

[heater31]

Interesting reaction by Uzzie and Marnus over than England supporter yelling 'boring' to them coming off the field.
Would be worse things said in the primary school playground than that...signs that this English campaign to push bazball and high tempo cricket has taken its toll on us?

On the face of it seems pretty precious. Who knows if there is more to it

One thing is for sure, the England crowd who are lucky to have such close access to the players will lose this privilege for future Ashes series. No chance Australia allows it again for future tours.

Hopefully it doesn't come to that, because I think it is still one of the quaint, underappreciated things that set cricket apart from other sports. As small as it is, it kind of has an impact on the whole mentality of cricket IMO.

Only took one incident at the old Adelaide oval dressing rooms for that glass balustrade/platform to take out several rows of seats to be installed......