3rd Ashes Test England v Australia July 6-10 1930hrs @ Headingley
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Jeez does Winviz know something about the weather that we dont?
Seems crazy to have it 12%
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Doesn’t matter
Cringeworthy listening to the commentary.
And give us a spell about how exhausted and brave Wood is FFS! He even had a rest off the ground!
Harden the **** up!
Thank God our tear away quicks like Johnson and Lee weren’t that soft!
And give us a spell about how exhausted and brave Wood is FFS! He even had a rest off the ground!
Harden the **** up!
Thank God our tear away quicks like Johnson and Lee weren’t that soft!
So you'd prefer a wash-out than Australia having the opportunity to win this test/the series/the Ashes....
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It's been a pretty even test series so far, 2-0 doesn't really reflect how even it has been, it should be more like 1-1 but England bottled it in the first test.
It has been the best Ashes series I've seen since 2005 where no team has really got on top for long and there has been constant swings in momentum.
Wasn’t it Australia 55% England 44% and draw 1% 20 minutes before the end?
How did England get closer and how did the draw go from 1 to 12?
Well that was disappointing we finally get to bat in decent conditions and our two best throw their wickets away to ali of all people, whatever we make from now will likely be made under cloudy skies in between rain delays feels like we really wasted that great first session of bowling.
When you say best, do you really mean close?
I think both sides have been damn ordinary overall.
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With our fragile batting line up, I would take 13 straight days of rain from now and a 2-0 win.
weak as piss. We'll crush them 5-0.
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Mitchell Johnson was pretty soft before he grew the mo and became a badarse in that Ashes series in Australia in 2013/14.
Before that he copped the "he bowls to the left and bowls to the right, that Mitchell Johnson his bowling is shite" chants from the Barmy Army.
He would go to water worse than Starc in England when the Barmy Army gave it to him.
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WinViz isn't supposed to take into account the weather I thought?
Anyway, absolutely wild couple of days. The first couple of tests were very even with momentum shifting slowly (most of the time) one way or the other... But this test has been an absolute ride and a half. Look away for 30 minutes and the whole complexion of the match takes a complete u-turn.
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Yeah more that it's close and similar in how even the teams have been with the swings in momentum.
The 2005 series had better quality cricketers on both sides, Australia had Ponting, Gilchrist, McGrath, Warne while England had Vaughan, KP, Flintoff.
I don't think this series will match the 2005 series unless England can win the next 2 tests and take it to a decider for the 5th test like it was in 2005.
He seems not to value his second life like he does his first. He seems to view them as bonus runs , doesn't matter if he makes them or not.
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Don't mistake this for advocating Australia should take a Bazball style approach to their batting and has frustrating me no end when the commentators have been saying Australia hasn't been taking the game on when we're still usually going at a fairly brisk 3.5ish runs an over...
But I do think they had a point in that last session and tactically we might have been better to go a bit harder at the English bowling, especially Ali who I didn't think bowled poor but certainly wasn't as venomous or dangerous as 2/34 of 17 would suggest. It was quite comfortably the best conditions for batting all test and with cloud cover expected to dominate the next three days I think another 50 runs in the bank might have gone a long way, even if it came at the cost of an additional wicket. Obviously, the weird wickets of Smith and Labuschange played into the mindset and maybe it was tougher to bat than it looked...
But I do think they had a point in that last session and tactically we might have been better to go a bit harder at the English bowling, especially Ali who I didn't think bowled poor but certainly wasn't as venomous or dangerous as 2/34 of 17 would suggest. It was quite comfortably the best conditions for batting all test and with cloud cover expected to dominate the next three days I think another 50 runs in the bank might have gone a long way, even if it came at the cost of an additional wicket. Obviously, the weird wickets of Smith and Labuschange played into the mindset and maybe it was tougher to bat than it looked...
Think he's using the google win probability
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Not with the tripe we continue to dish out to Stokes and the lower order.
Especially hoping Stokes mistimes one as he’s blasting runs all over the park on the way to a hundred isn’t exactly a genius strategy.
I was happy for them to knock it around but if they are going to throw it away to ali then yeah at least make it part of a plan to take him down, such casual dismissals from smith and marnus when ashes is there to be won was very disappointing longer we keep england in series more crowds gt behind them and they start to believe and we keep letting them back in time after time at some point its going to cost us test matches.
Considering the current state of play, feels like it's early on in day 4.....not stumps day 2.
Opportunities galore for both sides in terms of gaining ascendancy.... most spurned through brain fades. Aust lost the plot after lunch, probably the down side of having a fast bowler as a skipper....when getting tonked by the tail, the red mist of bowling shorter and faster takes over....and tactical nous gets squashed by ego.
Be ironic if Aust did dodge a bullet here due to the apparent rain fest about to descend on Leeds....Eng have batted and bowled in the better conditions from day 1 of test 1....and rain may come and bite them on the backside. Though would be hilarious if it did happen....especially seeing Bairstow and Broad getting angrier then what they are now.
Opportunities galore for both sides in terms of gaining ascendancy.... most spurned through brain fades. Aust lost the plot after lunch, probably the down side of having a fast bowler as a skipper....when getting tonked by the tail, the red mist of bowling shorter and faster takes over....and tactical nous gets squashed by ego.
Be ironic if Aust did dodge a bullet here due to the apparent rain fest about to descend on Leeds....Eng have batted and bowled in the better conditions from day 1 of test 1....and rain may come and bite them on the backside. Though would be hilarious if it did happen....especially seeing Bairstow and Broad getting angrier then what they are now.
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Some pea hearts in this cricket board. Throwing the toys out because a batsmen plays a poor shot. Get a grip.
Right. Onto the cricket.
Aus still in a decent position, albeit one that is on a knife edge. But I know which dressing room I'd rather be in and it isn't englands.
Another 100 runs from our lower order and it is curtains for England.
Rain and clouds set to roll in....ashes are on the line. Fight to the end.
Right. Onto the cricket.
Aus still in a decent position, albeit one that is on a knife edge. But I know which dressing room I'd rather be in and it isn't englands.
Another 100 runs from our lower order and it is curtains for England.
Rain and clouds set to roll in....ashes are on the line. Fight to the end.
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He had a lot of luck early on in his test career and got a few chances but he is finding out now you don't get many chances in test cricket.
If you get a chance like Mitch Marsh did in the first innings with Root dropping that catch you have to make the most of it.
Never thought of it like that. He's conditioned to think he'll continuously get lives.
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Takes the forecast into account maybe?
Looking really bad tomorrow, and iffy on Monday.
That said, England would back themselves to chase down anything short of 350 inside of 2 sessions.
really cant see there being that amount of rain we are only up 140 with 6 wickets left this could be over day 3 or early day 4 one way or other very hard to see a draw.
Each to their own, but I prefer to watch live cricket than rain falling...
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