Ashes 2017-2018
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manlyfan76
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Can cook continue after this test?
Father time is calling him home me thinks.
Father time is calling him home me thinks.
Cook is like Punter when he gave up captaincy. Just going through the motions collecting a pay cheque
Bit of life in the old WACA too.
Bit of life in the old WACA too.
manlyfan76
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New ball is looking good.
Bit of a collapse from the Poms there at the end after a good partnership to get them back in the game. Still 400 runs is above par for first innings so they should be happy with that - they will have to try hard to lose from here.
manlyfan76
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2/164 and Peter overton is struggling
We have a game.
We have a game.
Fluffy
Journey Man
Great bowler with the Duke at home, pretty average away. not uncommon but he would probably the worst for 400 wicket club
Fair, is a guy that can look innocuous when conditions aren't in his favour
manlyfan76
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Anderson's 5 for seems a long way away.
I called a Smith double late yeasterday and its looking good at 173 not, just surviving an lbw from Jimmy's front foot.
I called a Smith double late yeasterday and its looking good at 173 not, just surviving an lbw from Jimmy's front foot.
Selectors looking like geniuses with the Mitch Marsh call.
How good is Smith ? 4 years in a row he has scored 1000+ test runs. He now has the second highest test average all time. Unorthodox but very very effective - eye like a dead fish. It's one hell of a purple patch.
How good is Smith ? 4 years in a row he has scored 1000+ test runs. He now has the second highest test average all time. Unorthodox but very very effective - eye like a dead fish. It's one hell of a purple patch.
manlyfan76
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Ill admit i was not for Mitchell's selection, BUT he has batted well on this pitch.
We win the Ashes by lunch on day 5.
manlyfan76
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And that's 4 hundreds for England, bowlers in this innings.
Fluffy
Journey Man
Looked it up, Average in Aus is 37.88 so pretty poor over here. Not much better over your way 18@36 from 5 tests, I would have expected him to be good there.
Only place where he has been ok is the West Indies and UAE.
2/3 of his wickets are at home.
His last tour here was interesting, Southee and Boult were swinging it around corners while the Poms couldn't move it off the straight and they weren't happy about it
Haven't watched much of this current test at all, it was on at the pub the other night so saw a ball or 2. Poms scoring 400 was about 250 short, the WACA pitch is a bit flat and boring these days, remember growing up in the 90s seeing Curtly hitting the huge cracks and it was great cricket to watch, having said that though high chance the Poms will fold and we get a result
Most of the Aussie pitches are way too flat these days and have lost much of the character that they used to have which made the cricket great viewing on all sorts of pitches
manlyfan76
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Drop in pitches have dulled the matches somewhat. Nothing wrong with a pitch that is going to fall apart on day five. But they won't even have a green top on day one now even when they know days 2,3,4 will be a road to bat on. My worry is that while day night tests have been great, that due to the ball potentially swinging at night they will make the pitch flatter and flatter to avoid three day tests.
Our ones over here are all too flat now as well, although we seem to get results most of the time the spectacle isn't that great
Have always enjoyed test matches more when the 1st innings of each side are around 250-300 with the batsman working hard for their runs
The pink ball mentioned earlier, everyone enjoys those tests and they are normally good viewing because the bowlers have a chance
I absolutely despise the experiment being carried out with 4 day tests and I hope it is an absolute failure
Have always enjoyed test matches more when the 1st innings of each side are around 250-300 with the batsman working hard for their runs
The pink ball mentioned earlier, everyone enjoys those tests and they are normally good viewing because the bowlers have a chance
I absolutely despise the experiment being carried out with 4 day tests and I hope it is an absolute failure
rain rain go away!
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