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Wicket but sucks when you lose a toss on a road. Takes the win out of it. We'll either draw or lose this imo
The pace England score, can't see this being a draw.
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Will be interesting to see how we play when we bat. Do we throw the bat around too or spend two days conservatively chasing a 400+ first innings total.
Don't think Australia will change the way they bat.
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Love your insight.
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Great viewing. Surprised they declared as Root was firing, I sort of get it as they're aggressively going for the win but could of easily made it lot more difficult for us.
Hopefully no cheap early wickets tomorrow night. Wicket is an absolute road.
Hopefully no cheap early wickets tomorrow night. Wicket is an absolute road.
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Intriguing day
Bowlers toiled hard in an unresponsive pitch to have them at 5-176 but excellent batting from Bairstow with support from Root swung the pendulum back towards England
After the Bairstow dismissal Root took charge with the tail and at 8-393 they had our bowling attack on the ropes
Then Stokes declared. Could easily have gone to stumps with 420+ on the board still only 8 down the way Root was going. All to get 4 overs at our openers
Hazlewood the best of the quicks - the most economical and looked the most likely to take a wicket. Cummins lacked penetration and Boland was expensive.
Lyon battled hard against aggressive batting and 4 poles on a day one pitch that didn’t turn was a great effort. Twenty runs off his last over hurt his figures a bit
Fielding wasn’t great with 3 gettable chances put down
Match is nicely balanced courtesy of that declaration
Bowlers toiled hard in an unresponsive pitch to have them at 5-176 but excellent batting from Bairstow with support from Root swung the pendulum back towards England
After the Bairstow dismissal Root took charge with the tail and at 8-393 they had our bowling attack on the ropes
Then Stokes declared. Could easily have gone to stumps with 420+ on the board still only 8 down the way Root was going. All to get 4 overs at our openers
Hazlewood the best of the quicks - the most economical and looked the most likely to take a wicket. Cummins lacked penetration and Boland was expensive.
Lyon battled hard against aggressive batting and 4 poles on a day one pitch that didn’t turn was a great effort. Twenty runs off his last over hurt his figures a bit
Fielding wasn’t great with 3 gettable chances put down
Match is nicely balanced courtesy of that declaration
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England would love it if we try to Bazball it rather than play our natural game. Hope we just bat normally and well to make their old bowlers toil well into Day 3 on that pitch.
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Feel like we'll get skittled for a score 150-200.
Just going by past ashes in England
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Messaged a geezer mate as I went to bed with Bairstow on about 20 odd.
"YJB has a glint in his eye. Loves sticking it to the Aussies"
Woke up to find that it was so.
England ahead - runs on the board count as we saw in the WTC - and recovered well after I thought we might have had them all out for 250-280 at one stage. Stokes sticking to the fearless mantra with his declaration.
Aussies would want to bat for the next 2 days I reckon. Really put miles on England's bowlers and get the pacing of the game back on our terms.
"YJB has a glint in his eye. Loves sticking it to the Aussies"
Woke up to find that it was so.
England ahead - runs on the board count as we saw in the WTC - and recovered well after I thought we might have had them all out for 250-280 at one stage. Stokes sticking to the fearless mantra with his declaration.
Aussies would want to bat for the next 2 days I reckon. Really put miles on England's bowlers and get the pacing of the game back on our terms.
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That declaration was rather... sporting.
We'd be aiming to bat until the middle of day 3 here.
We'd be aiming to bat until the middle of day 3 here.
nah. It’s a flat track and England’s bowling attack is toothless in that scenario. Australia will make 500+
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I think so too. And England will try to set a target anyway, so we should just bat as long as we possiby can.
Great opportunity for Australia here. Anderson and Broad are old, Robinson looks very pedestrian when asked to bowl repeat spells, and Stokes is coming off injury. If they can attack Moeen, and bat for 150 overs, England will be needing to wheel out a whole new attack for the next test. Perfect pitch to make it happen.
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Yeah we'll make 600 and bowl them out on day 5 easy.
We will be lucky to be still batting at stumps day 2 imo.
Once they get through the top 5 we're sitting ducks of late. Tail rarely wags.
Would love it if Warner could actually do something but I'm sure he'll be out in the first hour then say 2 or 3 down at lunch, 5 or 6 at tea and so on...
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We will be lucky to be still batting at stumps day 2 imo.
Once they get through the top 5 we're sitting ducks of late. Tail rarely wags.
Would love it if Warner could actually do something but I'm sure he'll be out in the first hour then say 2 or 3 down at lunch, 5 or 6 at tea and so on...
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Yeah we'll make 600 and bowl them out on day 5 easy.
We will be lucky to be still batting at stumps day 2 imo.
Once they get through the top 5 we're sitting ducks of late. Tail rarely wags.
Would love it if Warner could actually do something but I'm sure he'll be out in the first hour then say 2 or 3 down at lunch, 5 or 6 at tea and so on...
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My thoughts exactly. If the soap dodgers want to Dr a one day pitch to suit their batting approach then let's use it against them. Need to punish their aging bowlers by batting on and on and on.
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