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2019 5th Ashes Test 12-17 September - The Oval
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Great move putting in silly mid off after the ball popped up there. **** me.
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Well you would play him over Curran or Woakes
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Time.
Why would you make it easier for us to block out the match?
The wicket hasn’t looked all that threatening
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Any chance soon we bowl at the stumps to their tail enders?
I reckon Bairstow and Curran/Woakes out in New Zealand with Sibley and Pope in.
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Lmao a wicket doesn't need to be threatening. It could be the roadiest road ever and 4 of our top 6 would still make less than 100 total.
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I agree with that.
If we had 11 jack Leeches we’d be odds on for a draw if we had 5 sessions to bat lol
**** me I have heard it all. Until this test a dead rubber Buttler had made 130 runs at 16.2. Every time they needed him to step up he failed. Yet you won’t stop potting Wade Head and Paine. But we would take Buttler spare me
Lmao you think our batting lineup can bat for nearly 2 days on a day 4 and 5 test pitch? One of the most ridiculous things I've heard all series. Warner and Harris will be lucky to survive 20 minutes, and our middle order has Wade Marsh Paine for christ sake.
Buttler is not upto it. It’s time they shipped him off. They picked him on the back of white ball form and are to stubborn to say they got it wrong
If only we had a Jos Buttler to save us
Buttler has a better batting average AND is a better keeper, so yea no shit he'd be an upgrade on Wade. Wade is a terrible test batsmen.
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Well, no.
But I’d be playing it safe if I were Root.
We’re definitely not chasing it that’s for sure
Playing it safe IS batting until halfway through tomorrow if possible.
The ball is swinging and it's only day 3, day 5 will definitely be much harder to bat on.
And for those who doubted what many of us have said. This is why you don't take tired and vanilla bowlers into tests and secondly you do not send the opposition into bat.
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Of course we wouldn't get the draw, if we could bat for 185 overs chasing just 380 odd we would win not bloody draw.
Modern players could stonewall and still get the two an over needed to win the game.
Buttler averaged 45 last year, his average is brought down by his last stint with the gloves a few years ago when he had no idea how to construct a Test innings.
That said he was having a lean run and on the verge of being dropped, this match probably saves him.
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If we batted for 180 overs we would win anyway
You just keep digging don’t you. Buttler has played the majority of his career as a specialist batsmen, Wade until this series has always had the gloves. It is well known taking the gloves hurts your productivity as a batsmen. Buttler is not up to test standard 5 first class 100s from 100 tells you that.
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If we get thrashed due to another batting failure, there is an upside that the loss may actually prompt Australian selectors to actually pay attention to the fact our batting line up is literally Smith and Labu + 4-5 gorillas and make big changes for the summer.
Unlikely, but it's a hope from what is looking a dire end to this test match.
Unlikely, but it's a hope from what is looking a dire end to this test match.
Talk to me when Wade has averaged 45 for a year in test cricket, or has a higher test average than Butler, either will do. Until then you're wrong and struggling to admit it.
He has made 5 first class 100s from 100 games shows you he still doesn’t know how to construct an innings in the longer form of the game.
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Exactly. Buttler has had one good test match - this one. Aside from that, he has been useless. He's a one-dimensional one-day batsmen. The only times he has looked good is when he is throwing his bat at the ball, but that approach wont work in Test cricket in the long run, particular where he has to run down a total without throwing his wicket away.
Arguably both his innings this match was without the pressure of losing his wicket: 1st innings, the tail was rapidly getting out, so he needed to get quick runs. 2nd innings, theyre ahead by a mile, so has again a lack of pressure to hold his wicket. When he's had to be defensive, he's been relatively poor.
Again, a downside of Paine puttiing them to bat first. Killed any ability to get scoreboard pressure.
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