Ashes 2025/6
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This thread should be a cracker over the coming months. It's not going to be ruined and sidetracked with tedious frathouse-esque banter. A nice and early pre-emptive heads-up for some of you so you don't have to wonder aloud what happened to some of your posts.
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England might win a Test (or even two) on the back of some individual brilliance by Root, Brooks, Stokes, Wood or Archer. But their overall batting and bowling line-ups are not deep enough and too fragile at the moment to win a series in Australia.
Australia are the overwhelming favourites for this one.
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If you subscribe to the view that the top of the Aussie order is still open, then today is a pretty big day.
South Australia are hosting Queensland and Victoria are playing NSW. Most of the key players will bat in these games.
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@mariner4life said in Ashes 2025/6:
If you subscribe to the view that the top of the Aussie order is still open, then today is a pretty big day.
South Australia are hosting Queensland and Victoria are playing NSW. Most of the key players will bat in these games.
Had a quick look at the teams and clicked on a few players
I know its only 4 of their FC sides but you can see why OZ are struggling with top order batsmen. Looking at their FC records all you see are guys averaging 25-35. Either really young or already in their 30's tried and discarded like Handscomb and HarrisAs i type this Victoria have already lost one of their openers early.
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@Virgil said in Ashes 2025/6:
@mariner4life said in Ashes 2025/6:
If you subscribe to the view that the top of the Aussie order is still open, then today is a pretty big day.
South Australia are hosting Queensland and Victoria are playing NSW. Most of the key players will bat in these games.
Had a quick look at the teams and clicked on a few players
I know its only 4 of their FC sides but you can see why OZ are struggling with top order batsmen. Looking at their FC records all you see are guys averaging 25-35. Either really young or already in their 30's tried and discarded like Handscomb and HarrisAs i type this Victoria have already lost one of their openers early.
Like you said previously. Both teams will be reliant on a few legends with varying degrees of average to very good backing them up.
But this is hardly a new thing in Cricket ( or indeed any sport )
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The problems Aus have are a build up of:
One guy in the top order getting a score on a rotation basis, with middle order runs setting a defendable total, and
An all-time attack rolling the opposition, resulting in a succession of test wins.
No one behind them stating a serious case to go in, allowing the boys club to allow old players to dictate when they go, and dumb shit like Green at 3.There are guys who have had hot seasons that get them nowhere and then they have a down season allowing the selectors to ignore them.
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@mariner4life said in Ashes 2025/6:
There are guys who have had hot seasons that get them nowhere and then they have a down season allowing the selectors to ignore them.
are we talking about Akira again?
/takes cover
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Konstas with another nice round 0.
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Handscomb (who they will not pick) got runs. Every other hope has so far shat the bed
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@NTA said in Ashes 2025/6:
Bledisloe? What the fk is that?! It's cricket season, you Polish harlots.
News is Cummins is out for the forseeable - back issues. Probably from carrying the entire nation the last few years.
I know he's only one person, but given how important the bowling attack in for Australia now their batsmen are inconsistent donkeys, this is a massive loss.
All it takes is a drop in form from one of the other mainstays and this is a remarkably open series.
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@antipodean said in Ashes 2025/6:
@NTA said in Ashes 2025/6:
Bledisloe? What the fk is that?! It's cricket season, you Polish harlots.
News is Cummins is out for the forseeable - back issues. Probably from carrying the entire nation the last few years.
I know he's only one person, but given how important the bowling attack in for Australia now their batsmen are inconsistent donkeys, this is a massive loss.
All it takes is a drop in form from one of the other mainstays and this is a remarkably open series.
yep, Australia's huge advantage was not only their four main bowlers, but the safety net of someone as good as Boland waiting to come in. Well now they are using the safety new right from the get go.
Cummins also provided a few of those valuable middle-order runs we talked about earlier. Boland ain't doing that.
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@mariner4life said in Ashes 2025/6:
Cummins also provided a few of those valuable middle-order runs we talked about earlier.
some match saving/winning knocks. He was bloody good.
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Marnus hits 159 and puts himself in to the first test
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@MN5 said in Ashes 2025/6:
What are the chances of another round of the battle of the Ians this Summer ?
For what it’s worth I give this one to Beefy for being slightly less childish and petty and admitting Chappell was a good player.
Team Beefy in this beef!
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Pat Cummins has been ruled out of the first Test.
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last round of Shield games for someone, anyone, to put their hand up.
Aussie could be in a spot here, the chat is around needing one opener, but again, because these selectors refuse to let anything go, they are working on the hope that Khawaja can refind some form. That double hundred in Sri Lanka is doing a LOT of heavy lifting (just like Warner's last one did) because other than that he has crossed 50 once since the start of last year. And he's had a lot of innings since then.
Essentially they are hoping a 39 year old can get his eye back.
