1st Ashes Test England v Australia June 16-20 1930hrs @ Edgbaston

[Manbearpig77]

Game slipping from us (again) here.

Have to cleaned up this tail.

 

[danstar]

Games officially done, we will be bowled out for 125

 

[ams4crows]

More players around the bat in catching positions

 

[doggies ftw]

At least we know Scotty will put it on the stumps

 

[Moonwatcher]

South Africa chased 283 in 2008 at Edgbaston. England the only team to chase higher.

 

[k31th]

At least with Boland we might get Robinson out knicking haha

 

[10Dulkar]

Have we bowled one this whole test with the England bats going hard at the ball?

Especially as it would grip on this dry surface.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Starc gets bagged for cleaning up tailenders, making his figures look better

 

[Anzacpaul]

Get another slip in Cummingspaigner

 

[Magma]

we've paid way too much respect to tailenders for years now. we dont bowl full enough or we dont bounce them properly. it's some sort of lame inbetween

 

[Mr Meow]

Games officially done, we will be bowled out for 125

Oh you're back with this! You already called 5-0 early on day 1. Took a while to muster up something else with that kind of conviction.

 

[Coasters7]

Difference between 230 and 280+ is massive here. Not to mention the overs we’re losing in good batting conditions. Those 40 runs could be ours

 

[scottywiper]

Pitch is flat as. We can chase 300 IMo.
Doesn't mean we will but it's very doable.

 

[Browney2006]

If 'Bazball' becomes the regular way of playing test cricket, then I will lose my s**t and stop watching the best sporing contest available. Loss of a wicket is so important/sacred/concequential in a Test match so as to create tension.

Loss of a wicket in 'Bazzball' is incosequetial, therefore uninteresting and , well, bahah...
So if we. as test cricket affectionados dont want to to lose the game......what can we do?

Cya nerd

 

[Blue1980]

South Africa chased 283 in 2008 at Edgbaston. England the only team to chase higher.

And that was last year, nothing in the pitch suggests chasing down even 300 is impossible. Only history suggests it, but last year england chased down 378 same venue.

 

[Speck]

Robinson keeping the strike **** me. BRING THEM UP

 

[ams4crows]

Bring the field up for **** sake we leaking runs and the tail ender's look comfortable batting!

 

[scottywiper]

Our inability to keep a batman off strike is remarkable.

 

[Plugger35]

Robinson batting like a top order batsman.

 

[doggies ftw]

Pitch is flat as. We can chase 300 IMo.
Doesn't mean we will but it's very doable.

100% - I’m not concerned at all with a session today and 280.

Need to wrap this up before tea though

 

[Zevon]

I get the bowling is poor but geez it says a lot about this pitch that a bloke like Ollie Robinson can look impenetrable in defence and has all the time in the world to play aggressive shots against the short ball. What an embarrassment.

 

[Snarls Barkley]

Starc gets bagged for cleaning up tailenders, making his figures look better

I would've left him out this game, it looked like he'd lost his control a bit lately and thought the other three would be more useful.

In retrospect with the nature of this pitch, probably would've been a good call to play him. Think he would've offered a bit more than Boland and Hazlewood on this surface.

 

[k31th]

Not sure why we're persisting with Lyon... doesn't look threatening to somebody having a swing

 

[Nuggetz]

Cummins is a poor tactical captain. It's been masked by an excellent bowling attack.

 

[Whiskers]

Finally