2019 1st Ashes Test - Edgbaston 1-5 August 2019

[Shiv]

Hope the other Aussie batsmen are watching smith and learning something about application at the crease

 

[nobbyiscool]

I'm very much enjoying the commentary tonight. These pommy bastards are flatter than one of those shitty fruit rollups

 

[Sylvia Saint]

What happens if they go upstairs and it's debatable whether the batsman is playing a shot? Like last over.

 

[Santana]

Didn’t realize he did. That’s odd. Thought he was fine. The comments were that Archer was better condition then Anderson.

Archer picked up an injury halfway through the WC apparently. He always seems to have a niggle.

 

[HBF]

Poms are almost waiting for us to make a mistake

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

What happens if they go upstairs and it's debatable whether the batsman is playing a shot? Like last over.

On field umpire makes the decision on whether its a shot.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

What a shot!

 

[corbies]

The reverse sweep has become Australia's most successful shot in Test cricket. Usman Khawaja saved a Test match almost exclusively playing it and I can't recall an Australian ever getting out to it in Test cricket.

 

[nobbyiscool]

Hope the other Aussie batsmen are watching smith and learning something about application at the crease

To be fair to our other batsmen, the only thing you'd be learning watching Smith is that he's a ****ing freak.

 

[Bedi]

crowd has gone very quiet

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

Time to pick the pace up.

 

[Richard Pryor]

smith losing patience with Ali's tripe bowling

 

[Milang_Panthers]

Bumble "How's that other game going?" haha

 

[yakka man]

On another level.

 

[Sausages]

All of the fight?

Imagine Smith and Waugh at the crease FK.....omfg.....no campaigner would get near us

 

[OffTheBit]

Haha yes Steve

 

[HBF]

Hit the shit Steve

 

[Shiv]

Shot

 

[StillAtLarge]

In think we've got enough runs right now, let alone whatever we end up with

 

[Rich the babe Evans]

**MISSING**

Eddiesmith and Xtreme

Please call local authorities if you find them.

You forgot to tag them... Here eddiesmith and Xtreme

 

[The Falcon Strike]

Bit early for this sort of batting I reckon

 

[FreoRicci]

Hope the other Aussie batsmen are watching smith and learning something about application at the crease

Renshaw reminds me of this. A little more patience with him. But the shorter format is really funking up the youth coming through.

 

[Mister B]

Smith taking the piss now.

 

[Eagleboy68]

I'm just saying he's blunt force rather than much timing and class. Long term he won't be the answer. Over time he will get found out but he may well do ok this Ashes in the form he's in.

I know what you mean. He's not a pure elegant batsman, then again neither was Watson and a few others that "made" it.
Fortunately he might get some confidence out of this and go on to carve out a decent career at 6?

Who else is there to force him out of he keeps scoring runs?

 

[Joffaboy]

I'm very much enjoying the commentary tonight. These pommy bastards are flatter than one of those s**tty fruit rollups

Very salty too.

Is this no.49 playing a different game to everyone else?