Cricket Thread

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.