3rd Ashes Test England v Australia July 6-10 1930hrs @ Headingley

[Embley]

Warner just have a slog mate

 

[ptrg]

Handy 150 runs last 5 wickets.
The top 5 of ours would be blushing to get half that.

Honestly, Warner needs either 40 or see out 20 overs, or he can **** off.

Just can't have 3, 4 & 5 coming in after Dave "got himself into trouble there"

 

[Syd_Bombay]

Will 3rd test thread surpass 2nd test posts count ?

 

[Aussie_boy]

Does this campaigner pretend he's hurt to look like a hero? It's surely not that bad if he can play like this.

The Novak Djokovic of Cricket

 

[ITCHY EYEBALLS]

We need at least 400.

 

[Westend]

Well that was fun while it lasted.

Not many better sights in cricket than seeing Stokes tee off.

Happens every time he plays Australia and we keep dropping him

its becoming tedious and very poor by Australia

 

[William Caresser]

Maybe people can now give some credit to Murphy. Was the only one who actually got Robinson on strike and now has gotten the wicket.

Starc was poor but would have absolutely taken this at the start of the day.

Not his fault at all. It was the ridiculous spreading of the field to the tailenders starting with Wood which just handed England free runs and all the momentum.

 

[Tugga27]

That drop by Murphy when Stoke was on 46 really hurt.

 

[Conception]

Because it's getting results?

No stupid, the team is getting results, not Cummins' abysmal captaincy.

 

[Polly]

Does this campaigner pretend he's hurt to look like a hero? It's surely not that bad if he can play like this.

Yes he does.

 

[Headless]

I’ve realised there are bots and teens on this site that know * all about cricket.

But we're not 600 runs in front, BAT. And Starc dropped a catch that looked a tough chance at best.

 

[Iceman!]

It's nothing

It's not nothing, in a low scoring game it can basically be an extra wickets worth of runs. Disappointing it isn't more but it isn't nothing.

 

[Kanye West]

5/87 to start and 3/95 to finish

Think we should go back to just playing good cricket to the tail.

Shows England have their batting order upside down, silly gits!

 

[Snarls Barkley]

Most catches in an innings by Smith. He already had a share of the record

 

[Foucault1989]

We're 2-0 up despite his tactics, not because of them. Why is his only strategy to bowl short and have all fielders on the boundary to every lower order batsman? Why doesn't he have faith in the bowlers to get the batsmen out bowled, lbw or caught behind the wicket? Let England right off the hook today. Absolute garbage.

How can you say it's not because of his tactics? If we lose he'd get crucified. If we win he gets crucified. You might not like it but we are on the verge of outright winning an ashes series im England

 

[catstorm]

We have the lead, but the asylum hour has been dreadful captaincy. Bowling tactics and field positioning was all wrong.

As I have said from the start we win because of having a more talented side, Cummins as captain is a handicap. Which was proved in India as we played significantly better after he left.

 

[Coasters7]

Would have taken any lead before we started bowling.

Still have to get better bowling at Stokes when he is teeing off

Now bat for 5 sessions you c*unts

Any lead before we started but they were 5-87 and 7-142. That’s absolutely piss poor and there’s a worrying pattern over all 3 tests with not keeping our foot on the throat.

Cummins tactics to the tail is to buy the wickets rather than bowl them out and I haven’t seen it work in our favour once.

We’re 2-0 up but have done our best to lose this series. Should have been over a long time ago

 

[Hollow Knight]

There's going to be a lot of pi$$ed off Aussie supporters if we come out and capitulate in this second innings after that post-lunch nightmare.

And people will bizarrely blame our bowlers and give the batters a pass.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Wood bowled terrifically in the first innings but they are short storms to be weathered. It's not relentless. See it through, guts it out.

 

[Back One Out]

What an innings by Stokes. He crawled to 20 runs off about 65 balls and went WHOOSHKA
Awesome hitting (and done under some duress with a crook leg)


Too many clowns in this thread. The constant negativity and sooking is exhausting.
Reminds me of the match threads with all the free kicking whinging and umpire bashing


Big Footy sucks.

 

[deedog2]

**** it, lets play some bazball

 

[PAFCsince1870]

Probably the best batting conditions we've had all series. Cue Warner nicking a sucker ball wide of off stump and Labuschagne continuing to not show up.

 

[Kapow!!!]

Robinson can’t bowl, we’ll make enough and then we’ll skittle them for even less than this innings. So many doomsayers in this thread the second England get a run on. It’s a Test, momentum shifts but we keep standing up at the important moments.

Quoted because I couldn't like it twice. And I'm a f@$%ing pessimist!

 

[danstar]

We royally ****ed that up, we will be bowled out for under 100 now

 

[MatthewB]

A narrow lead but England with the momentum.

Need a decent opening stand to take the wind out of their sails

what, with Warner opening, your kidding