Ashes 2025/6

[mariner4life]

Starc!!

[African Monkey]

And now Root.

[MN5]

Grace Hayden undoes the second button

[sparky]

England crumble.

[nzzp]

@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:

@nzzp said in Ashes 2025/6:

This is going to be a tasty summer. Aggressive batting and bowling - can't wait

Anyone with 4th day tickets may be disappointed though.

The wya this is going, the third day looks unlikely

[sparky]

Huge belief and desire by the Australian bowlers to seize back control of this game since lunch.

[African Monkey]

@nzzp said in Ashes 2025/6:

@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:

@nzzp said in Ashes 2025/6:

This is going to be a tasty summer. Aggressive batting and bowling - can't wait

Anyone with 4th day tickets may be disappointed though.

The wya this is going, the third day looks unlikely

Could easilybe done by tonight.

[sparky]

WinViz - Today:
Before Pope's Wicket: Australia 24% England 74%
After Pope's Wicket: Australia 31% England 69%
After Brook's Wicket: Australia 37% England 63%
After Root's Wicket: Australia 44% England 56%

Australia now the favourite IMHO.

[MN5]

Bazball looking completely rubbish when you look at this scoreboard and consider the likelihood of Australia shitting the bed twice......

[Chris B.]

392/26 in the match.

[booboo]

@nzzp said in Ashes 2025/6:

@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:

@nzzp said in Ashes 2025/6:

This is going to be a tasty summer. Aggressive batting and bowling - can't wait

Anyone with 4th day tickets may be disappointed though.

The wya this is going, the third day looks unlikely

What is/are the shortest tests on record?

[Chris B.]

Commentators pretty critical of Oz going to the bouncer against these two. Sounds right to me.

They've been nicking everyone else out and now they've gone to the short ball and these guys have made hay.

England 194 ahead now, which probably has things at 50-50 given how it's gone so far!

[Cyclops]

I honestly don't know how to judge a good score on this pitch. I feel like there's abaut even odds of a England winning by about 50-70 runs and Australia winning by 8 wickets, I just have no idea how tough it really is.

[sparky]

Australia are the clear favourites IMHO.

England are going to end up with a lead of about 200. All it needs is for one of the Aussie batsmen to get away and make a 60+ and they are nearly there.

[nzzp]

TAB on Tribe had Aus $1.50 Eng $2.40

so who knows!

[nzzp]

@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:

Aussie batsmen to get away and make a 60+

This bowling unit has the potential to make that really difficult.

Aus chasing 204

[sparky]

Atkinson out.

Australia need to 205 to take a 1-0 lead.

[nzzp]

This is fantastic viewing

[sparky]

@nzzp 204 for the tie. 205 to win.

England need 10 wickets.

This isn't going to be a draw. This isn't going into Day 4 or Day 5.

[sparky]

Nine wickets in a session. Excellent effort by the Australian seam attack. Pathetic in the circumstances by England.

Good bowling but some of the shot selection was mad.