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

[Westend]

You don't have to wait and see how we go.
There's no life in it whatsoever in the first session with a new ball.

It's a poor pitch.

That nick to crawley would of been out last week at the oval....no bounce

its poor so far the pitch

 

[Westend]

so how many leaves from pope...thought bumball was all about hitting it

 

[DocklandsSaint]

Ali and Root will be bowling plenty of overs...and based on my memories of Ali, I don't think Australia will be too worried about that

 

[Santana]

"Smart Cricket"

Trying to super attack a prime Starc in the 1st over of a WC Final....

 

[Happy Mastenator]

English groundskeepers are nothing if not consistent in preparing pitches that favour England. Every pitch used to move every witch way with a nice green tinge. Their best bowlers are now 40 so they go all out preparing for bazball. As bad as the Indian groundskeepers

 

[kenneje]

Good to see Hazlewood up at 140 clicks. Stop that campaigner from walking down the pitch at him.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

The Duke is becoming a bit more hazardous now

A bit of movement. Lacquer wearing off

 

[peternorth]

Well, its certainly no longer just a sub-continent thing.

england should be stripped of test status

 

[Westend]

F**k sake harris is in the field

 

[doggies ftw]

What a joke of a pitch, man the other countries are just genuinely pathetic. This is so sad for a day 1 pitch in England, what a sorry excuse for a cricket team.

You wonder why test cricket is dying, it’s because pitch doctoring is now apparently the norm for two of the big 3.

Can’t wait for Smith to bat for 3 days and it to backfire big time

 

[Jamurp]

Ollie Pope looks like Rick Astley.

 

[11kgm]

Pope is the vice captain **** me they are struggling

 

[Jimmy#17]

It's Boland time.

 

[troybe]

Scotty!

 

[Gough]

Boland on.

 

[chickenonachain]

And here we go

 

[freo_leo29]

Repeat the first ashes plz Scotty

 

[Bedi]

here we go

 

[11kgm]

Woah (assuming that’s swear filter)

It won't let me say campaigner

You need a midwicket

 

[outabounds]

Terrible wicket, I would want to hear about England ever complain about an Indian raging turner. Seriously, wtf is with Stokes telling the curators what to prepare. Not good for the game

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[Westend]

boland is used to playing on a dead MCG wicket been doing it for years

 

[Plugger35]

Looks like the curators are on the Bazball bandwagon and have rolled out the perfect pitch for it.

Boland on now though so the pitch might not look as batter friendly.

 

[ams4crows]

Well done Boland he tried to smash it but too good

 

[hawkman]

No pie 1st ball from Boland

 

[Jamurp]

Still think Warner would be out by now if we'd batted first on this deck.