5th Ashes Test England v Australia July 27-31 1930hrs @ The Oval

[rippersnipper]

have you ever seen a ball move like that that's "91 overs old" ? haha

Honestly this match is an absolute farce. Have to really start questioning how many more the top order would have made with the original ball, or at least one that looked similar. Yeah, we've still thrown it away, but a lot of that control that the openers earned through hard work was just taken away from us.

 

[King Elvis]

Awful lot of celebrations for a team that DIDN'T win the Ashes.

 

[Corkintheocean]

36 off this over only leaves 19

I like the way that dumb thinks.

 

[darrenmorgan]

What's the go with the bails thing? Can the fielding team just play around with the stumps whenever they feel like it?

It’s a quirk of cricket

 

[Tugga27]

Has anyone ever seen so much celebrating for failing to win the Ashes?

You can't be happy winning a test match and drawing the series?

 

[Ephemeral Hope]

Awful lot of celebrations for a team that DIDN'T win the Ashes.

Same here. We should be angrier. They’re a shit team they can be content not winning. We need to have higher standards.

 

[freo_leo29]

Has anyone ever seen so much celebrating for failing to win the Ashes?

They're winning the match, ofc they will celebrate

 

[PhatBoy]

I dislike this rent-free talk too, but whose position would you rather be in? Australia who has held the Ashes since 2013 and has a significant win loss ratio over England, or England who manage to draw home series assisted by dubious umpiring decisions? Clearly Australia have been the vastly superior side over the last 10 years.

Again, why should this impact on England trying to win and wanting to?

Of course Australia have had the better of their contests hence they have the trophy.

 

[ABAB]

Do you think the presenters will ask Cummins or Stokes about the change of ball????

 

[MadEyeEmmy]

Broad on the boundary soaking it up after getting out our number 10 lolololll

 

[dumb]

don't know why the're so happy when they don't care about results

 

[Plugger35]

A run out could be on here.

 

[Corkintheocean]

Actually a really good bloke believe it or not

 

[ams4crows]

**** this sucks why are player bloody touching the bails ****ing w***er

 

[hoopla]

Great bowling from Broad, you could see that coming after beating Murphy twice in a row.

That's game over now you would think.

It was over from the ball change. Let’s face it. Our only hope was the umpires replacing it with a ball in a similar condition. Oh well. In the words of Stokes, “I wouldn’t like to win a test that way”

 

[Moonwatcher]

330 is a decent 4th innings score.

 

[Tugga27]

Same here. We should be angrier. They’re a s**t team they can be content not winning. We need to have higher standards.

They're far from a shit team.
Hard to win an Ashes series away from home.

 

[1990crow]

330 is a decent 4th innings score.

Reality is we need to bring a better team over next time.

 

[10Dulkar]

Wicket with their last ball in tests?

McGrath and Hadlee come to mind if I am not mistaken (very possible)

 

[Mr Meow]

Some people seem to be happy with just retaining.

Things aren't binary. There are shades of grey.

Retaining is a million times better than handing the urn over, yet not as euphoric as winning. Surely not a hard concept to understand?

 

[Corkintheocean]

* this sucks why are player bloody touching the bails ******* w***er

Murphy should have stepped back when he was on his run in. See how he enjoys a bit of gamesmanship.

 

[FreoRicci]

Our batters' inability to turn good starts into big scores has prevented this series being 4-0

Always 100-200 runs left on the wicket. Almost every inning. Even today there’s easily 100-150 runs left if the batters did their job

Didn’t really threaten 400 any match.

 

[k31th]

dropped haha... was a tough chance

 

[dumb]

dropped the ashes

 

[Neese]

54 come on that's 10x6