The Ashes 2019 (01 August - 16th September)

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England 11-0 at lunch.

They didn't lose a wicket in a session. :faint:

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15-1, Hazlewood gets Burns.

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15-2, off fucks Roy again.

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Graham Thorpe, England's batting coach said he believes Roy will get a century in the second innings.

:haha:

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Denly gloves one over the slips.

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Denly nearly found a mightily impressive way to get himself out.

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England beat their first innings score. :bow:

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Labuschagne on for a twirl. :wacko:

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England have batted professionally.

When does the collapse start?

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Short stuff on Denly makes it go up in the air but lands safely.

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England are 90-2 at tea.

Well done to Root and Denly.

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England bring up a century. :bow:

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Aussies appealing after every ball.

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141-3, off goes Denly.

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England close on 156-3.

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Three overs, not a single run!

Dangerous play with the new ball only five overs away.

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Stokes' helmet goes kablammo. The one on his bonce that is.

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Lyon gets Root.

He scored 1 extra run.

Fucking daft batting.

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Bairstow showing them how it is done. :bow:

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5 wides! :lol:

Surely they couldn't. Could they? Or all out by lunch?

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238-4 at lunch.

Come on boys!

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Bairstow goes. :popcorn:

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Buttler run out :doh:

Oh dear.

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Oh FFS.

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50 for Stokes!

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261-7. Fuck!

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Overthrows!

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Archer smashing it about.

What a legend. :bow:

77 to go.

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Archer goes down!

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And down goes Broad.

All on the 11th wicket partnership to save us. :lol:

:rose:

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Stokes gets another six, nearly taken for the win!

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Reverse sweep for six!

:haha:

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Stokes is shitting on them!

21 to go...

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Stokes gets his century. What a man!

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Only 19 needed!

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Leach is stuck to the crease.

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Harris drops it!

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Jesus Christ :lol:

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9...

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Two four's, only nine needed now!

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One ball to fend off, Leach!

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2...

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SMASHED FOR SIX!

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Lyon fumbles!!!!

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Fucking hell!!

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Aussies fucked their reviews!

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Come on Leach. :sick:

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Leach to get the winning runs?

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Aussies cannot retain the Ashes!

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1...

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ENGLAND Win!!!!!

Oh my fucking god Stokes, you ginger beast!!

Aussies. :haha:

What a bottle job!!!

[Marc Overmars]

England win!!!

Ben Stokes. :bow:

What an innings!

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Wow :bow:

Wow. Brilliant.

[GP]

A decent innings

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Ably assisted by Leach. :bow:

The best 1 run innings in test history?

[Letters]

Well. I generally think cricket is rubbish but that was all pretty ridiculous.

So...cricket :bow: :unsure:

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Cricket is great when it comes down to the wire.

Makes me more anxious than most other sports.

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The problem for me is it often doesn’t.
And you could say the same in football, I mean, yesterday about an hour in the result was clear.
But football only lasts a couple of hours, a test match lasts 5 days and sometimes after the first day the result is all but known.
It’s all too slow.
But this was obviously a remarkable match.

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Most important thing is that the Ashes are somehow still alive despite posting 67 in the first innnings.

:haha:

[LDG]

Stokesy you fucking legend!!

Stood at a festival. Bloke goes “England won”

Me: :woohoo:

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Aussies make 98-2 at lunch, Broad with both wickets.

Smith is back.

Woakes dropped for some reason.

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170-3 at tea. Overton bowling Lambrusco.

Smith is still there. :(

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Smith had to fend off a delivery bowled from a beach ball. :haha:

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Aussies make 245-5 at lunch.

Another century for Smith.

Archer dropped him on 65. :doh:

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Smith gets 200.

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Root gets Smith! :haha:

Found his weakness, part time bowlers.

438-8. :sick:

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Aussies declare on 497-8.

Shite.

[GP]

That's quite a lot of runs.

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England close on 23-1, Denly the man to go.

Overton in there as nightwatchman. :lol:

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Come on, British weather. You know what to do.

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England are 165-2.

Overton going for 5.

Root in the 60's, Burns in to the 80's.

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Burns goes on 81. Berk.

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Root went on 71. :rolleyes:

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200-5, Roy was bowled by Hazlewood on 22.

His second highest score of the series. :haha:

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Bad light stops play.

Come on the draw. :bow:

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Day Four starts now. :sick:

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Aussies take the second new ball.

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Stokes with an inside edge for four. :lol:

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I think counts as a drop from Starc, C&B chance on Stokes.

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Sexy pull from Bairstow.

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228-6, Starc bowls Bairstow. :rolleyes:

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Stokes goes for 26. Oh dear.

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256-8, off goes Archer.

Gower sticking it in to the tailenders and never criticises the batsmen. Twat.

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Five wides from Cummins. :lol:

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278-8 at lunch, 20 away from avoiding the follow-on, which I'm not sure if it's that bad they get bowled out being so close to it.

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238-9, Broad gets bowled by Starc.

Out comes our hero Leach. :bow:

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Leach with 300% increase on the runs than he got in the last test yet nowhere near as important. :lol:

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No reviews left for the Aussies. :haha:

Leach was plumb lbw.

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Cover drive from Buttler. :cloud9:

England avoid the follow-on. :bow:

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England all out for 301.

Buttler bowled for 41.

Leach not out yet again. :bow:

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Broad gets his bunny Warner for a duck, lbw again!

0-1. :haha:

Pair for the match. :haha:

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Third duck in a row for Warner. :haha:

Need to come out with some breadcrumbs for him at the Oval.

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16-2, Broad get Harris LBW!

:bow:

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Harris reviews one as plumb as it gets.

:haha:

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Labuschagne and Smith.

Fantastic.

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24-3, Archer gets Labuschagne!

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Labuschagne and Smith.

Fantastic.

Smith.

Fantastic.

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Overthrows for four, well done.

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44-4, Archer bowls Head!

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Smith gets another 50. FFS.

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Stokes shakes his head so Root goes for a review.

:blink:

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149-5, Smith finally goes!

Fails with an 82. :haha:

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158-6, Archer gets Wade.

Great catch from Bairstow.

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149-5, Smith finally goes!

Fails with an 82. :haha:

What a failure.

Smith :pal:

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Aussies declare, 186-6.

Just 383 runs needed to win. :lol:

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Can England avoid losing a wicket before close?

No. 0-1. Burns sends it straight to head. :doh:

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0-2 Cummins bowls Root, golden duck and he's on a hat-trick.

:haha:

Useless.

[LDG]

For fucks sake.

It’s like watching Arsenal

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Roy fends it off. :faint:

[LDG]

Root needs to sack himself

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Gower somehow avoiding blaming the batsman again.

Burns, unlucky. Root, nothing he could do about it.

How about don't look down when your hanging your bat out hoping the ball hits it?

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Root needs to sack himself

I think he'd miss.

[LDG]

Nobody can play test cricket anymore in this country.

Sorry to sound like Boycott.

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2-2!

The comeback. :bow:

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England close on 18-2.

Tomorrow is surely the day we wave goodbye to the Ashes again.

[LDG]

I’ll be happy of we get to lunch.

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And so it begins. :sick:

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Denly went after such a wide one. :lol:

Worked out this occasion going over the slips.

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Denly and Roy have had enough of defending and just slashing at everything now. :lol:

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Denly and Roy have had enough of defending and just slashing at everything now. :lol:

Bloody stupid.

Just defend every ball. We can’t win this.

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51-2.

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Three overthrows. :haha:

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66-3, Roy bowled again. :rolleyes:

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Denly is on for the streakiest 100 of all time.

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74-4, Stokes out for 1.

It's all on Leach.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WizR5ZE8kys

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This is the most unenthusiastic Barmy Army chant in history.

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England make 87-4 at lunch.

Only losing two wickets a session mean this is in the bag. :bow:

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Denly gets his fifty.

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93-5, Lyon gets Denly.

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Bairstow goes. Reviews it but no luck.

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Lock up from Hamilton, Bottas passes!

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Lock up from Hamilton, Bottas passes!

Howzat!

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Me. :haha:

Also, the umpires are drunk too.

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166-6 at tea.

One long session to go.

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172-7, Buttler bowled by Hazelwood.

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That’ll be that then :(

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173-8, there goes Archer.

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Leach matches up his score from the first innings.

:bow:

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Tailenders will have to face the new ball after this over.

:(

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Leach not far away from out scoring Stokes in this match.

I knew who was the real hero at Headingley!

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20 overs to go!

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Labuschagne gets our hero Leach.

[LDG]

Damn!

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Some effort from the tailenders to even give England a chance.

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Australia retain the Ashes.

Grim.

[LDG]

Bollocks.

[Mac76]

England :haha:

good effort but the Aussies clearly the better side

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Gower quick to say Australia have outbowled England in the series but nothing about being severely outbatted.

Wanker.

At least his time is nearly up involved in punditry.

[LDG]

The difference is Smith, clearly.

Their bowling attack is superior (with Anderson out), but with the bat, you take him out, they’re pretty ordinary.

I think it’s possibly some of the best batting ever seen, he’s been that good.

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it's amusingly ironic that Archer/England's decision to try to get Smith out of the game through aggressive bowling got Labuchagne into the Aussie side, who's now emerged as their second best batsman

England :pal:

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5th test.

England are 86-1 at lunch. Roy has been dropped for this one, now the Ashes have gone.

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197-5, nobody with a score really.

:faint:

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227-8. :haha:

FFS.

Leach and Buttler still the men in.

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Buttler gets his fifty.

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271-8 at close.

Leach still there with his batting masterclass. :bow:

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England bowled out for 294. Broad the man not out for a majestic 0.

Aussies 55-2 in reply, Archer getting both Warner and Harris.

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187-8, Woakes just got Smith.

Only 80 this time for Smith. Clearly in decline. :rose:

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Leach drops Lyon.

Lyon has been cutting loose.

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Archer gets his Five-for. Lyon bowled!

Sky are claiming it as a slow ball magic delivery. It looked like a rank full toss to me. :lol:

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Root drops Hazelwood at slip.

He needs dropping.

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Aussies out for 225.

Stunner of a catch from Burns to get Siddle!

Archer with six-for. :bow:

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England close on 9-0.

Burns got whacked on the head.

Burns also given out last ball of the day but it clearly pitched outside the line of leg stump so fuck knows what the umpires are smoking.

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Hopefully Gower takes Bumble with him when he goes.

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Extra Cover Drive from Burns. :cloud9:

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Denly has been stuck on 7 for half an hour. :lol:

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Finally some runs!

Smacks Lyon down the ground for four.

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Denly smacks him for six this time!

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58-1 currently, Lyon removed Burns.

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Ohhh in the dick!

Denly. :rose:

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87-2, Root goes for 21.

He has been dreadful this series generally.

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England make 88-2 at lunch.

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Smith drops Stokes. :lol:

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Denly gets his fifty, time for him to get out now.

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193-2 at tea. :bow:

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Old Man Denly is on 90. :bow:

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214-3, Lyon bowls Stokes!

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Denly goes on 94. :doh:

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The game could not be set up for him any better and Bairstow still fucking fails.

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New ball taken.

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279-6, off goes Curran. Poor.

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Wonderful drive from Buttler.

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Cover drive from Buttler. :cloud9:

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Another boundary, this one tickling down at third man.

[LDG]

The game could not be set up for him any better and Bairstow still fucking fails.

So fucking cheap

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Banger is there. :bow:

[LDG]

Will we get 400 lead?

Hmm.

We need some test players before the return fixture. And fucking Root. Don’t get me started....

[LDG]

Banger is there. :bow:

:bow:

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305-7, Smith with a ridiculous catch to remove Woakes.

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305-8, Buttler goes!

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Will we get 400 lead?

Hmm.

We need some test players before the return fixture. And fucking Root. Don’t get me started....

Leach up the order. :bow:

Concerned with how it'll go in South Africa this winter. New Zealand too before that I guess.

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England close on 313-8.

Our hero Leach keeping it together as ever.

[LDG]

Leach up the order. :bow:

Concerned with how it'll go in South Africa this winter. New Zealand too before that I guess.

Chatted to a bloke in the pub who rightly said mo is a better bowler, so why would you keep leach on.

Tough choice.

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Mo needed to be taken out of his side, he was struggling to avoid full bungers all over the place.

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Leach smacks it for four. :bow:

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317-9, Archer gets the tiniest faint of a glove.

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Who was whistling Jerusalem? :lol:

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Broad launches it for six! :bow:

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Loads of fielders out there but Broad launches another one past them all. :lol:

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England all out for 329. Lead of 398. :scarf:

They've finally found a way to get rid of Leach. :rose:

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18-1, Broad bowls Harris!

:haha:

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Warner squirts one down down at third man. Tailender getting some luck.

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29-2, Broad gets Warner AGAIN!

:haha:

Seventh time in the series.

Warner thought he would get a big hundred. :doh:

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Stunning cover drive from Smith.

And so it begins. :(

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Punter is such a good commentator, annoyingly.

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Bairstow stumps Labuschagne!

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68-3 at lunch.

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106-4 currently but they go Smith out earlier!

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Burns with a great catch to remove Marsh.

However Woakes bowled it on a no ball. :doh:

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Wade gets his fifty.

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148-5, Root gets Marsh! :haha:

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Aussies make 167-5 at tea.

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Get that bug off the camera!

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200-6, Leach gets Paine as plumb as it gets! :bow:

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Archer and Wade giving it some to each other.

Teammates in the Big Bash. :lol:

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Wade gets his century. Second of the series.

Well done to him.

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Bairstow missed a stumping chance. :doh:

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Now Stokes drops Wade. Sort it out boys!

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244-7, Broad gets Cummings!

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Wade stays in after review.

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260-8, now Bairstow does stump Wade!

Root the destroyer with the ball. :bow:

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263-9, down goes Lyon!

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England win by 135 runs and square the series 2-2!

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Warner posing with the Ashes. :lol:

What a fraud.

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Beefy is already ready for going back to Spain. :lol: