Australia 263 all out
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Australia 263 all out
An utterly gettable target and England are fucking it right up.
Stop wafting your bat at the ball you dumb fucks.
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30 more needed.
24 to go. 4 wickets to go. It should be relatively straightforward.
:Sick:
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Could go either way tbh
24 now.
Brook. :bow:
Oh you have got to be joking. Why?
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Brook hopefully has done enough.
Smashed by Wood!
Wood smacks a four!
Wide. :lol:
Wood dropped!
England win by three wickets!!! Wooo!!!
The Ashes are alive!
For now.
I can’t remember a more frustrating series than this, the last three series’ in Australia we were never in it and you just had to shrug your shoulders. Even in 2019, we were well beaten at Edgbaston and Old Trafford.
Where as you can make the case for saying we could have won the first two test matches, not because we are better than Australia quite the opposite they definitely have a stronger side than us (though I think they’ve missed Nathan Lyon in this test). But because we insist on making things difficult for ourselves…declaring at Edgbaston and throwing wickets away in the second innings there and the first innings at Lords.
Australia have very much played within themselves, where as we’ve been utterly reckless/casual at times
Hopefully a bit of momentum carries us forward at Old Trafford, and maybe some batting coaching to say you don’t need to play at everything…it’s ok to leave certain things…it’s test cricket after all.
I fundamentally lost interest when they took cricket off FTA TV
I hate the boorish England fans, who are happy to celebrate an illegitimate World Cup 'win' and the recent fuss over a legitimate stumping has made me want England want to losr mote than ever, ok so well done to Beardie Tattoo Man for winning the march, fair dues, but either it was a very difficult wicket or test cricket is in its last death throes for all the scores to be this low
294-8
Is that good ?. Not if we carry on with harikari batting in response
Also hate to say it but agree with the above comment, Test cricket was so much better on FTA….Beeb and then Channel 4.
Crikey 200-2 replying to Australia’s 317
I think the only chance we have of winning this test and thus keeping the chance of regaining the Ashes alive would be to build big first innings lead, weather forecasts suggest we might run out of time
310-2
Crawley and Root nicely bedded in, only a 7 run deficit
Definitely giving ourselves a chance of winning this test. Definitely best batting performance of any side in this series
422-4…can we bat the Aussies out of this test today?
506-8 at Lunch
120 runs put on in morning session
Dare we consider the prospect of an innings victory.
I'm not watching but if it's that kind of pitch that England can get that score then the Aussies are just as capable of getting 600Quote:
Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn
Possibly but then you’d have to ask yourself why they didn’t do that when they batted first, when the pitch and the wicket was at its most amenable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
The fact that there have been a lot of clean bowls from Australia, suggests it’s not going to be a good wicket to bat on from here on in…especially with changeable weather
It’s nice to say “Bloody hell” in relation to Johnny Bairstow in a good way
Oh no, Bairstow not out on 99 but Anderson gets pinned lbw by Green
That’s just cruel oh well 592 all out, a lead of 275
Khawaja gets a Nick and is caught behind 32-1
113-4 close of play
Woop
This is definitely England's game.
The weather forecast is so grim though.
Yeah the Australians have this won. Can blame the weather but we knew what to expect and our bowling yesterday was poor. Should have put in Wood from the off before the light turnedQuote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
It's bucketing down and basically over
England :pal: :haha:
The day much like the Ashes itself, proved to be a bit of a damp squib for England
Still though after four tests I feel I can say if Australia are the best side in the world currently then Test Cricket is in the doldrums.
Don’t get me wrong, England are still only marginally better than a few years ago when Steve Smith batted us off the park, but if we’d had Archer and Leach we’d have won this series and by a comfortable margin. Australian batting was mediocre at best, aside from the second innings at Lords their bowling was massively aided by our suicidal tendency to need to play at everything.
Disappointing way for it to end, but ultimately no one to blame but ourselves…how we managed to fuck up at Edgbaston so badly I will never know. Oh well
Aren’t you English? :unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
I don’t care about cricket but it does same inherently ridiculous that a whole series can be won or lost because of a rainy day.
At the risk of making an assumption, I don’t think he likes the fact that England only won the 1 day Cricket World Cup because of the umpire not understanding the rules when awarding runs to England in the final against New Zealand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Aren't you aware that laughing at our own sides's failures is a long-standing tradition of this board? :unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
It's much simpler than that - it's just funny :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn
So final Ashes test at the Oval - had the potential to be a series decider like in 2005 and 2009 but sadly it’s just a dead rubber. Would be nice to level the series like four years ago. Unlike four years ago I think drawn series would be least we deserve, where as Australia were far better than us in 2019
I don’t think England are that good (certainly no where near the level of 10-12 years ago) but neither are the Aussies that marvellous…they have definitely missed Nathan Lyon and will I think continue to miss him today on a surface where I think he’d tear us to bits
This is a lot like the first innings at Edgbaston, Australia defensive fielding allowing England to take singles and England are happy to take them 48-0
After solid start (and frankly a bit of luck) Crawley and Duckett both gone within an over of each other
283 all out.
On one hand definitely not a batting surface, on the other hand losing seven wickets for less than 100 is pretty disappointing
Apart from Brook no one really got going. Moen Ali actually did ok considering he can barely walk. But a lot of clean bowls
Australia 295 all out. Very frustrating. But it’s been a good test…given they have to bat last it’s far from a disaster but given the weather forecast I wouldn’t bet on a result meaning they will win the series 2-1
Took one over to get rid of the deficit