The Ashes 25/26

[dedja]

Sorry lads ,have to disagree
Carey plays a lot more reckless than Smith and he gets accolades , as he should

I don't remember Carey letting his team down through a brain explosion quite like that.

There are no similarities.

[Jim05]

Sorry lads ,have to disagree
Carey plays a lot more reckless than Smith and he gets accolades , as he should

I don't remember Carey letting his team down through a brain explosion quite like that.

Yep
150 to get with over 2 full sessions remaining in a flat deck with your frontline spinner missing.
Two set batsmen that could just knock it around and see the new ball off

[mal]

Sorry lads ,have to disagree
Carey plays a lot more reckless than Smith and he gets accolades , as he should

I don't remember Carey letting his team down through a brain explosion quite like that.

There are no similarities.

https://www.cricket.com.au/matches/CA:2 ... 6591202112

Please observe first innings this test match

[Armchair expert]

Short ball is not working brainiacs

[dedja]

Short ball is not working brainiacs

Literally does my head in …

[RB]

Sorry lads ,have to disagree
Carey plays a lot more reckless than Smith and he gets accolades , as he should

I don't remember Carey letting his team down through a brain explosion quite like that.

There are no similarities.

https://www.cricket.com.au/matches/CA:2 ... 6591202112

Please observe first innings this test match

Do you think - taking into account the game situation like what Jim said - that the brain fades are of an equivalent nature and magnitude?

[mal]

RB
Yes game awareness means you gotta be smarter than usual
Concede


However this series has little to do with bazzabat bazball this and that
Its about the better team playing at home

I would rather blame Brook than Smith on brainfades this innings

[valleys07]

Brook's shot was bloody awful. So was Smith's.

In Smith's case - you've just hit 4 boundaries by playing excellent cricket shots, then that?

It's rubbish.

[RB]

However this series has little to do with bazzabat bazball this and that
Its about the better team playing at home

I agree we're the better team - probably home or away - but this series has confirmed that it's smarts, tactics, discipline, concentration, teamwork, and holding catches that's the difference, rather than merely talent.

[dedja]

Also helps if you don’t drink Kool-Aid

[mal]

Game plan for England
Introduce BAZBAT
Get 100- runs before the new ball
To about 6/307
Play shots, dont be too accountable or too safe
Then negotiate the new ball

Easier said than done

7/309 job done
Now the plan MUST be
Bat sensibly- nothing rash- each ball in its merit

EG
Tea plan should be
8/380 and game on

OZ
Just bowl the 3 best bowlers as much as possible and win


PS i misjudged when new ball was available in first post

[Jim05]

Trav bowling second over after lunch is interesting to say the least

[amber_fluid]

Missing by a mile

[dedja]

Missing by a mile

Not quite, maybe a kilometre.

Steve Bucknor would have been proud of that decision.

[mal]

Technology in sport does work- MOST of the time

[am Bays]

WTAF are we doing here?

[dedja]

WTAF are we doing here?

It’s like when you stop to give a hitchhiker a lift, then when they’re just about at the door handle, you put the foot down and faark off.

[mal]

Terrible shot CARSE sweeps of his stumps for 6 ....
7/333

[helicopterking]

Some of the Worst Captaincy I’ve seen.

[mal]

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