Game Day Ashes 3rd Test. Big Ben vs Opera House, whingy Poms vs glorious Aussies. Lets secure the Ashes here.

[Plugger35]

He's big he's bad he's better than Ben Stokes.

Chris Woakes

 

[spudmaster]

Going to need to see the tail wag a bit or at least stay alive long enough for Head to reach a decent score.

 

[Triggering Tiger]

Starc is putting some top order batsmen too shame here.

 

[Triggering Tiger]

250 plus and we have shot to win this.

 

[Triggering Tiger]

Pricks!

 

[Triggering Tiger]

Falling like flies!

 

[Triggering Tiger]

Go murph!!!

 

[spudmaster]

Stating the bleedin' obvious here but every run is going to be vital. Loving these boundaries from Murph and Head, and you can guarantee Stokes will be slogging them again.

 

[spudmaster]

Nice half-ton Trav!
This 225lead (and counting) looking much better than the ~200 from a few overs ago.
250 a chance?

 

[Plugger35]

Head is a poor man's Stokes.

 

[NetworkNerd]

251

England win by 6 wickets

 

[NetworkNerd]

Maybe 8 wickets. Batting looks much easier for them

 

[Linda Lovelace]

Maybe 8 wickets. Batting looks much easier for them

Australia will win this.

 

[Triggering Tiger]

Maybe 8 wickets. Batting looks much easier for them

Shush pom.

 

[Coach_Required]

Never in an ashes series in England have I seen the poms get the best conditions for bowling and batting like this series, one day of overcast weather for our bowlers would be nice. Hopefully next test we will win the toss, cloudy, overcast and a green deck to bowl first would be great.

 

[The Sultan]

I think hes has done ok, couldn't hurt bringing him in, Warner has done nothing

Bancroft in for Warner that would be some delicious irony

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

Why is today not starting early?
I picked a bad day to give up sniffing glue.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

Never in an ashes series in England have I seen the poms get the best conditions for bowling and batting like this series, one day of overcast weather for our bowlers would be nice. Hopefully next test we will win the toss, cloudy, overcast and a green deck to bowl first would be great.

Humidity doesn't make the ball swing more.

Swing bowling not due to humidity, research suggests

Research on cricket balls as they are subjected to varying humidity suggests that it does not affect the phenomenon of "swing bowling".

www.bbc.com

 

[spudmaster]

Never in an ashes series in England have I seen the poms get the best conditions for bowling and batting like this series, one day of overcast weather for our bowlers would be nice. Hopefully next test we will win the toss, cloudy, overcast and a green deck to bowl first would be great.

#sandpapergate will be superseded by #CoinTossingGate if they win the remaining two coin-tosses.

 

[STPer18]

A Poms choke tonight would cap off the weekend nicely.

 

[Dinsdale]

A Poms choke tonight would cap off the weekend nicely.

It would be hilarious, but I fear they will knock the runs off easily

 

[NetworkNerd]

At worst they lose 2 wickets.
Hope the Aussies can at least draw one of the 2 remaining games

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

We can win this test, some real jellybacks out there tonight.
The ball is bouncing and moving, Cummo will take 5 wickets.

 

[Dinsdale]

We can win this test, some real jellybacks out there tonight.
The ball is bouncing and moving, Cummo will take 5 wickets.

If that happens you're getting a big prize

 

[Coach_Required]

We let the poms mind games get to us this test.