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

[peternorth]

Where are the England posters ?

 

[luthor]

I stopped watching after uzzie out, but then kept checking score and couldn’t sleep, saw Cummins had teed off and begun watching again 37 to win.

Worth it, one of the greatest moments in Aussie cricket history.

Woke up about 3am

Just in time to see Carey get out

Resigned to losing.

227/8 and decided to try to sleep.

Tossed and turned for ages and eventually turned on 9Now on my phone .....just in case.

24 to win!

Then of course, couldn't possibly turn it off.

Pat Cummins. What a legend.

Elated with the win , especially after suffering through so many close test losses going right back to the 80"s .

So pumped now that sleep is going to be impossible.

What the heck.

There's always tomorrow night

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[The Casey Cat]

Did it really though? Was let down by dropped catches, sloppy fielding and a Broad wicket/no ball. I reckon he captained pretty well and went for the win, which should be commended and not criticised. Test crickets the winner!

Yea it did really. They had up to another 50 runs in them. They had plenty of time (like 4 full freaking days) to 'go for the win' without that needless stupidity.

 

[Outshined]

Wonder if Stokes will have the balls to declare
Again considering he has no regrets
Media should rip him and Mcullum to pieces

The narrative has already been set - we wouldn't have even had a game without Stokesy's daring (idiotic) declaration.

I'm all for them continuing to buy into the hype.

 

[Nuke Fremantle]

Over to you Stokes. We have a 1-0 lead and you have a 36 year old bowler and a 40 year old bowler with 5 Tests in 7 weeks.

 

[Kappa]

These are the games that makes a leader seriously second guess themselves.

 

[troybe]

Where are the England posters ?

They’ve all decided it’s sokkah season

 

[JasRulz63]

Pat Cummins batting averages

First three innings: 14.78
Fourth innings: 38.40

Averages more than Khawaja, Smith and Labuschagne in the fourth innings.

 

[10Dulkar]

Fair play to Lyon. He kept coming back at the English batsmen even when they went for him. We've seen so many spinners go to pieces in similar situations.

Then to stand up like he did with the bat. He batted superbly for a tailender. I really wish the naysayers would finally tip their hat to this guy. He has been an unbelievable cricketer for Australia and having met him he's as down to earth as you'll find.

 

[Blue1980]

The narrative has already been set - we wouldn't have even had a game without Stokesy's daring (idiotic) declaration.

I'm all for them continuing to buy into the hype.

Lol wouldn’t of had a game, yes they probably would of won.

 

[Maddo11]

Lyons boundaries off of Broad were first class. And then stokes had given his hat to the ump and was ready to go when Broad talks him into letting him bowl another

Shocking last hour for the poms

 

[pugsville]

These are the games that makes a leader seriously second guess themselves.

Depends some people don't do self reflection.

Some wake up at night 20 years later.

 

[dopefish]

Cumboy on whether this win makes up for the disappointment of Headingley...

"No idea what you're talking about mate!"

 

[peternorth]

Remember when roz Kelly was a presenter on the weather channel?

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

 

[ptrg]

Hahaha SOK U/A for all the remaining tests due to "unsurprisingly im off to drink red wine in tuscony"

 

[Neese]

That was fun now my heart has stopped racing

 

[The Casey Cat]

Over to you Stokes. We have a 1-0 lead and you have a 36 year old bowler and a 40 year old bowler with 5 Tests in 7 weeks.

And two of our bats more capable of wearing them out just went 4 innings and did #### all. I'd think it unlikely Marn and Smith will play 4 brief innings within the same test again any time soon.

 

[doggies ftw]

Did it really though? Was let down by dropped catches, sloppy fielding and a Broad wicket/no ball. I reckon he captained pretty well and went for the win, which should be commended and not criticised. Test crickets the winner!

Ah yeah no it’s not, ****ING WE ARE BAbY!!!

 

[Ishmael_]

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You can't deny it fellas. The man is gorgeous.

Ball or bat, we'll have our Pat. (One for the nans in the crowd).

 

[JP Sauce]

Hahaha SOK U/A for all r remaining tests due to "unsurprisingly im off to drink red wine in tuscony"

Stuart MacGill-style

 

[Iceman!]

Rested my eyes for about 7 minutes before the alarm went off...

Feeling fresh

 

[Maddo11]

Poms need to go back to the drawing board. Barstow as a batsman ok, but is a liability behind the stumps. Moeen was poor. Anderson and Robinson were mostly non threatening throughout.

 

[Mr Meow]

Fair play to Lyon. He kept coming back at the English batsmen even when they went for him. We've seen so many spinners go to pieces in similar situations.

Then to stand up like he did with the bat. He batted superbly for a tailender. I really wish the naysayers would finally tip their hat to this guy. He has been an unbelievable cricketer for Australia and having met him he's as down to earth as you'll find.

He laid the trap by pulling out with height to that field first innings (joking, but it seems that's how it went). The naive Stokes assumed both he and Cummins would do the same with less than 50 runs to win a crucial Ashes match. That's where naivety of one particular approach comes in to play.

 

[glenashley]

Wonder what England do at the selection table now?

Bairstow had a shocker behind the stumps?

Ali out due to injury / form?

Rotate some fast bowlers?

Who they got to bring in in keeping / spinning / seaming?