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

[DaTBird187]

Not sure that 7 blokes on the boundary was very Bazball either

Yeah they missed a trick not having three fly mid offs and a short fine long on.

 

[Blue1980]

Not too mention Headingley* 2, Adelaide, Melbourne 98/99, India 00/01 and the other ridiculous close losses we've had.

Adelaide 92/93, Pakistan 94, the oval 97, another one in India 2010.

Only close ones we have won I can think of recently are Bangladesh by 3 wickets 2006 and SA 2011, Cummins first test.

Cummins also hit the winning runs in that test, similar chase total and we won by 2 wickets then as well I believe.

 

[18082015]

Beautiful win!
So glad i stayed up
Now i have to function on 3 hrs sleep... and cant even get to sleep
So worth it!!!

 

[Whiskers]

Without Bazball, we wouldn't have won. England did what they wanted to do, which was entertain, so they should be happy.

Yeah coz it’s absolute rot!

 

[Doggy]

Might of dropped the Ashes...

Was a fair effort to be honest

 

[pugsville]

Bairstow

Bairstow will play, they could play a specialist keeper, pope? Duckeett ?

 

[largebus]

England I thought were the better side over 5 days which makes it even sweeter.
Hopefully the vultures in UK trash tabloids turn on thrm.

 

[JP Sauce]

Well Next test,

England.
Anderson 1 wicket, Probably makes way for Wood,
Moen Ali, probably doubtful , some great balls, but some dross. But Who Could same in?

Australis.

Warner. discussion but wins paper over things. he'll get another test.
Strac probably comes in for Boland.

Starc in for Warner. Cumdog opens.

 

[Outshined]

At least England can pat themselves on the back for being 1-0 up in the moral Ashes.

 

[Satan]

Any boss whos sacks you is bum

 

[dumb]

Ground empty

 

[pattymalone00]

Alex Carey with the genius throw away of a wicket in hindsight just saying

 

[smasha]

True but I feel like Poms had their 'noses in front' more regularly. Whenever we were gaining ascendency we lost a wicket. If anything it makes it sweeter.

WE will grow a leg after that game.
They threw everything at us,we did not bat well at all and still won.
Cummins,OMG,that is a knock of Gods,the stuff of immortal legends!!!

 

[Antzzz]

They landed punches but couldn't knock us out .....

 

[Moonwatcher]

Imagine being one of those who went to bed an hour ago...

They get the sleep and the surprise in the morning. Wish I were them.

 

[JP Sauce]

Jonathan Agnew has just nailed Anderson and Stokes with on field questions

To Anderson “you should have won that”

Stokes “do you regret the declaration”

How did they respond?

 

[Just Kreuzing]

Was a fair effort to be honest

Agree but don’t let that stop a bit of needling... **** him !

 

[Shifty1]

Michael Vaughan "Well England is getting more people interested in cricket so that's a win"

Moral victories!!

 

[Andronicus]

Can't remember a better test win than this for the hurt it causes to these ****wits.

 

[Milang_Panthers]

 

[Scorpus]

Usman: "I was absolutely shitting myself those last 5 minutes"

 

[Moonwatcher]

England were literally in front the whole game. We would almost get level then England would pull away.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Usman

 

[Rustin Cohle]

I love Usman but Cummins HAS to be MOTM.

 

[FredLeDeux]

He is BBQ'd . Has been for 6 months

Looked like every day of 40 years in the field