Ashes 2025/6
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@mariner4life said in Ashes 2025/6:
At this rate Australia will bat for more than an hour today.
Maybe even more two hours? Not much more, though!
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@booboo said in Ashes 2025/6:
Can nobody bat in Test matches any more?
A lot of soft dismissals.
Crowd got their money's worth!
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@antipodean said in Ashes 2025/6:
@booboo said in Ashes 2025/6:
Can nobody bat in Test matches any more?
A lot of soft dismissals.
Crowd got their money's worth!
Huh.
My favourite day watching v cricket in recent memory was the Sunday as Baz and his minions desperately held on to try and deny India an inevitable win.
There was no chance of winning.
It was desperately holding on for a draw. Hour upon hour.
It was ball after ball of not getting out.
Baz made three-hundy. And we didn't lose.
We get to here and 19 dudes lose their wickets in 360 mns?
Can not one batsman out of supposedly the two best teams in world cricket not bat for more that two hours?
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Well that must have been an interesting days cricket. Looking forward to the highlights somewhat - well at least the second half.
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@booboo said in Ashes 2025/6:
@antipodean said in Ashes 2025/6:
@booboo said in Ashes 2025/6:
Can nobody bat in Test matches any more?
A lot of soft dismissals.
Crowd got their money's worth!
Huh.
There's no tension on day one compared to the back end of a second innings, so wickets entertains the crowd.
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well i woke up and England were already all out, which was a pretty depressing start to the day, so at 10am, i'll take that as a first day's cricket. Just goes to show what a wicket with a bit in it can deliver and how hard it is to bat against top class fast bowling on it.
Archer, Wood, Carse and Atkinson were brilliant, and Stokes gets 5. Madness
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Fucken hell i have a ticket for day 3.......
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Disgraceful cricket from both sides.
Yes, spicy wicket obviously but thr shot selections were appalling.
As a bowler I love this, but...
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I wish Ollie Robinson was playing. That guy was great value in the 2023 Ashes on and off the field.
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@Virgil said in Ashes 2025/6:
Just watched the highlights, wickets are almost a perfect split of great aggressive fast bowling and utterly stupid shot selection. Getting caught on the boundary day 1 of a test match is quite the thing..
Especially as they're so short
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@MN5 There's been 74 Ashes series played since 1882.
Eight of that team played this century and in the past 14 series. It's really picking a team from the last 30 years plus Bradman, Lillee and Botham.
Beyond those three and, probably Warnie, I'm not sure anyone is locked in, though there's probably two or three would get in once you started doing a proper comparison with the old-timers.
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@Chris-B said in Ashes 2025/6:
@MN5 There's been 74 Ashes series played since 1882.
Eight of that team played this century and in the past 14 series. It's really picking a team from the last 30 years plus Bradman, Lillee and Botham.
Beyond those three and, probably Warnie, I'm not sure anyone is locked in, though there's probably two or three would get in once you started doing a proper comparison with the old-timers.
Definite recency bias.
He certainly loves his all rounders and has somehow shoehorned three of them in there, all have had huge Ashes moments ( Beefys being the most memorable ) but also some pretty dud series.
Adam Gilchrist wouldn't be happy batting behind them, also how does Joe Root get in this team based on Ashes history ?
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Stokes again proving the man for the big moment.
A year or two back he was barely bowling at all and 230 wickets in 115 tests is hardly frontline stuff overall but taking the situation by the scruff of the neck and snaring five is pretty inspirational ( helped by some bloody reckless batting to be fair )
I reckon Australia should declare overnight to get things moving even faster !
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@MN5 Yeah - very hard to see how all those allrounders get in ahead of many of the best fast bowlers of all time.
I doubt any of Vaughan, Root or KP would make a proper alltime team. Root's lack of a century in Oz is an asterisk in the context of his overall career, but a glaring miss in the light of Ashes history.
