2019 2nd Ashes Test - Lords 14-18 August 2019

[MinerBoy]

to be fair, a couple from point/gully region got there first and were checking on him but Smith brushed their inquiries off quickly.

Finally. Yes exactly .... the point I made was that Smith look composed enough that he wasn’t in serious trouble fairly quickly. Despite the fact that he stayed down for a bit. That’s not to say he won’t by bloody sore and isn’t very lucky. And yes Archer should have given him a check in.

But if I could see Smith brush off the first Pom in from the other side of the world then perhaps Archer could see the same thing and knew he was “ok” from 12 feet away so maybe we could just reel in the hysterics a touch.

Hope Smith pulls up well anyway back to his health and continues this phenomenal series he’s having


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[ozaddy]

I think that’s a little unfair. They ran over to him as soon as it happened. The English medical team even ran out onto the ground.

I think we should give Archer the benefit of the doubt that it was just nervous laughter after the incident.

I nervously laughed that you could think that was nervous laughter from both Archer and Buttler.

 

[Kappa]

Bulls**t, you've been cry like a girl on here since Smith got hit on the arm.

What do you mean bullshit? That doesn't make any sense in response to my post? Thank you for confirming your intelligence. Casual sexism too, not surprise from a person like you.

 

[docko911]

So Siddle and Cummins have probably stayed in long enough that Smith would have finished his concussion test, does that mean the next batsman in will be Smith or his replacement?

 

[Embley]

Archer does come across as a knob of the highest order.....arseh*le fits in well in the england attack. Even Brett Lee used to check on opponents long before the Hughes incident.

 

[Browney2006]

You're counting 'retired hurt' as wickets now, are you?

Huh? Archer has gone for 60 runs, plenty of them from smith. What are you talking about

 

[Donnie Darko]

Cummins bowled the exact same short stuff.
But Archer is like 10 mph quicker by the looks of it.

That spell just changed the series as far as Im concerned.
Smith wont be the same player after getting hit like 4 times. Even on a pitch as lifeless as this Lords pitch .

 

[Snarls Barkley]

feels like siddle cummins have more fight than most of the top order

Probably better techniques. Both very solid in defense

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Carrying on in here over a quiet giggle is lame. Just looking to get offended at anything.

 

[Ducky Tie]

Stop showing the ball hitting him. It's not something that needs a million replays.

 

[The King!]

any actual smith update?

 

[HBF]

Review that one Root.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Cummins bowled the exact same short stuff.
But Archer is like 10 mph quicker by the looks of it.

That spell just changed the series as far as Im concerned.
Smith wont be the same player after getting hit like 4 times. Even on a pitch as lifeless as this Lords pitch .

You're right, he'll be better for sure

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Archer is faster than those guys. Also he faces Pattinson Cummins and Starc in the nets every day...

With a helmut, chest guards, arm guards, inner thigh guards.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Carrying on in here over a quiet giggle is lame. Just looking to get offended at anything.

Says the guy who watches ****ing car racing. Cya nerd

 

[Moonwatcher]

This is a bit creepy. Guess what Steve Smith's average is right now:
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63...

This means something.

 

[VirgilHilts]

How many of them didn't grow up playing cricket in Australia? If you can't see the difference, well...

Fawad Ahmed.

 

[The King!]

who could be bothered writing to the referee


and we need like for like for smith? better dig the don up

 

[maryjames]

Steve Smith is focused

 

[Magma]

im not exactly sure what was so incredible about that archer spell.

he bowled it quick but rarely accurately, and gave away runs sloppily.

 

[BarryMorgan]

I have a new love in life - Michael Holding saying ‘concussed’

 

[Damon_3388]

From cricinfo: "Archer to Smith, no run, oh dear! He's been clattered here by the short ball. He's down. This is nasty. Took him on the unprotected part of the neck. The medics are out there straightaway, from both sides, and the England players have immediately gone to Smith. "

Not really what happened, though.

Archer was wandering back to his mark stone-faced afterwards, like he'd just sent down a routine dot ball, then came back to stand at the side of the pitch and have a giggle with his keeper.

 

[carnthemlions]

Yeah fair comment. There are different perspectives. I'm not going to condemn a fast bowler for doing what he set out to do.

Maybe Hughes didn't reverberate around the rest of the world like it did here.

I think a lot of batsmen would play short bowling very different if they saw more than the occasional spell of genuinely dangerous short pitched bowling from the likes of Johnson, Archer, Riaz etc. It wasn't always that way. There's a lot of faith placed in protective equipment and true pitches, this one's shown it's not always consistent if you put enough into the short ball.

 

[Crashy]

concussion sub

I think Rabadas grandmas cousins next door neighbour was an Aussie

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Stop showing the ball hitting him. It's not something that needs a million replays.

did it hit him flush or was there a slight deflection off the grill? not that it matters