Women's Ashes, The ODIs. January 12-17

[cats_09]

I meant the commentator

Got ya

 

[cats_09]

One major issue with matches at Junction Oval is their lack of planning for attendance in terms of food & drink options

They have the venue cafe/kiosk which has had a line well out the door since before the start of the match - it struggles on WBBL match days

And while they've got one pop-up option, it wasn't even open until not long ago and into the first innings and the line for that looks 50 people long

When they had matches here during the T20 WC, they had an additional 2 or 3 actual foods trucks - no idea why they didn't plan for that today

They really need to pull their finger out with better planning for match days at this venue

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Different roles, if Georgia isn't opening she sure as anything isn't batting where McGrath is,

Well, yeah. You'd shuffle down the order. Litchfield or Healy could both bat 3.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Probably don't want to bat at a SR below 60 and then throw your wicket away as an opener.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Pathetic revers sweep garbage from Litchfield

 

[cats_09]

England is trying to keep the pressure on by keeping the field up and restricting easy singles

That last over to Perry they only had 2 boundary, and with Mooney on strike to start this over it was 3

 

[Moonwatcher]

Pezza

 

[cats_09]

Considering how England didn't look totally confident going for that review and took until very late to call for it, it's just weird how plumb it ended up being

 

[mblack42]

One major issue with matches at Junction Oval is their lack of planning for attendance in terms of food & drink options

They have the venue cafe/kiosk which has had a line well out the door since before the start of the match - it struggles on WBBL match days

And while they've got one pop-up option, it wasn't even open until not long ago and into the first innings and the line for that looks 50 people long

When they had matches here during the T20 WC, they had an additional 2 or 3 actual foods trucks - no idea why they didn't plan for that today

They really need to pull their finger out with better planning for match days at this venue

It's a shame cause it things like this that can turn people of attending (AFLW has a similar issue at times).

Any idea of crowd size? It looks reasonable on TV, especially for a weekday, but hard to gauge from the limited angles.

 

[cats_09]

It's a shame cause it things like this that can turn people of attending (AFLW has a similar issue at times).

Any idea of crowd size? It looks reasonable on TV, especially for a weekday, but hard to gauge from the limited angles.

It's definitely a good turnout and more continually coming in

I'm in the first of the old stands & it's pretty full - the back 5/6 rows have been blocked off with no seating, while the other stand looks full

The grassed area has room but is filling up in places. The interesting thing over there is that I can remember previous matches here that have had an ice-cream truck over there for drinks & obviously icecreams, but nothing today


I'm tempted to see if Uber Ears will deliver here

 

[troybe]

Is the DRS bird at the beach, what’s with all the static?

 

[cats_09]

England with only 1 boundary rider for Gardner at the start of her innings


And watching the trouble we're having facing their spinners, I do think we missed a trick by loading up on pace rather than bringing Wareham into the match

 

[Moonwatcher]

McGrath will need to make some runs today for the team's sake.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Inconclusive to me

 

[cats_09]

Damn

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Gee whiz, enough doubt there surely.

 

[cats_09]

Inconclusive to me

Looked like there was a small spike as the ball went past the bat

 

[danielnajdek]

Where's the benefit of the doubt to the batter.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Gardner and King will terrorize the poms with the ball.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

I think the spike was probably bat hitting pad, but you'd expect the third umpire to stick with on-field call there.

 

[troybe]

Rana the new Hamish

 

[Moonwatcher]

McGrath only has 715 career runs?

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Absolutely blowing a dominant position here.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Hard to see us getting out of this one.

 

[cats_09]

Gardner and King will terrorize the poms with the ball.

Can you imagine Wareham as well to give 30 overs of spin

I doubt England go back to Filer - they'll try for 25-30 overs from their 3 spinners, with Bell & Sciver-Brunt to bowl the remaining, if it gets to that

It looked much easier to score with pace on the ball compared with trying to make the pace themselves - doubt we see more then 2 or 3 overs from Brown today, if at all

We may be better off seeing what Pez has to offer, especially as she normally has better control