Ashes 2025/6
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@canefan said in Ashes 2025/6:
@NTA said in Ashes 2025/6:
Starc. Fucked England's top order both innings.
If our batting showed any patience whatsoever on Day 1 we win by an innings
Still destructive, even after all this time
Still have nightmares about him fucking us in the CWC final. Not only is he an outstanding bowler he's got a little bit of menace in him which is great
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@MN5 said in Ashes 2025/6:
@canefan said in Ashes 2025/6:
@Dodge said in Ashes 2025/6:
This is going to be a long series of short matches. Glad they didn’t bother playing any proper warm up matches. Shameful
They clearly took no notice of the BCs last tour to Australia. No warm up games, got ground up in first test in Perth and never recovered
No tours games isn’t an excuse for batting like a bunch of beach cricketers trying to hit every ball into the surf.
I’ve played more watchful innings at Mahia….
Our Geoffrey is still with us and I was right. He's furious! He's in his mid-eighties, but he's hauled himself from his recliner to the writing table to pen a critique!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360896012/i-cannot-take-stupid-england-team-seriously-any-more
Fabulous stuff!
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@Chris-B said in Ashes 2025/6:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2025/6:
@canefan said in Ashes 2025/6:
@Dodge said in Ashes 2025/6:
This is going to be a long series of short matches. Glad they didn’t bother playing any proper warm up matches. Shameful
They clearly took no notice of the BCs last tour to Australia. No warm up games, got ground up in first test in Perth and never recovered
No tours games isn’t an excuse for batting like a bunch of beach cricketers trying to hit every ball into the surf.
I’ve played more watchful innings at Mahia….
Our Geoffrey is still with us and I was right. He's furious! He's in his mid-eighties, but he's hauled himself from his recliner to the writing table to pen a critique!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360896012/i-cannot-take-stupid-england-team-seriously-any-more
Fabulous stuff!
Awesome article. It’s even better if you read it out loud in a Yorkshire accent if you can do one.
Everything he says is right.
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@Virgil said in Ashes 2025/6:
I’d hope like fuck McCullum never gets anywhere near coaching the Black Caps.
We have our own regular humiliation from time to time, we don’t need what ever the fuck this fetish he and Stokes love to engage inEveryone fell in love with Bazball. Maybe bit so much now
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@MN5 A worrying thing for England is that he's right about Archer.
Bowled nine overs the previous day and looked super threatening.
Second innings he was struggling to crack 135kms and innocuous.
2/11 off nine overs in the first innings.
0/45 off eight overs in the second.
He's not going to be much use if he can only bowl two shortish spells per match.
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@Chris-B said in Ashes 2025/6:
@MN5 A worrying thing for England is that he's right about Archer.
Bowled nine overs the previous day and looked super threatening.
Second innings he was struggling to crack 135kms and innocuous.
2/11 off nine overs in the first innings.
0/45 off eight overs in the second.
He's not going to be much use if he can only bowl two shortish spells per match.
I think their batting approach and talent is of more concern.
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The most disrespectful and annoying thing about this is
There's no fucking cricket to watch on a Sunday. Have a fucking look at yourselves you fucking fluffybunnies. I'm supposed to fl9at around the pool this arvo drinking beers and watching cricket.
Now? Just floating around the pool, drinking beers...What time does Sha Tin come on line?
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I didn’t understand why the English bowlers didn’t follow oz’s lead and bowl across the Aussie batsmen, bowl it wide of off stump towards the slips and see if they took the bait. They made it all too easy for them, I don’t think it would have mattered if they were chasing 200 or 350, they still would have got there
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@mariner4life said in Ashes 2025/6:
The most disrespectful and annoying thing about this is
There's no fucking cricket to watch on a Sunday. Have a fucking look at yourselves you fucking fluffybunnies. I'm supposed to fl9at around the pool this arvo drinking beers and watching cricket.
Now? Just floating around the pool, drinking beers...What time does Sha Tin come on line?
I'm a bit sleep deprived from watching the footy this morning and had a mini-glitch.
I thought, "Why didn't fucking NZ Cricket schedule yesterday's ODI for today, so I'd have some cricket to watch"?
Then I remembered...
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@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2025/6:
Boycott is right about Archer. He's great until he has to bowl a third spell. Odds on him being injury free by the fifth test must be about 50/50 at best.
Especially because his entire teams plan mean he will never get a decent rest.
Which makes their idea over a 5 test series even more idiotic
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@canefan said in Ashes 2025/6:
Everyone fell in love with Bazball. Maybe bit so much now
Maybe not so much if you want a 5 day test match, but I think the Aussies were playing bazball too.
Heads innings was bazball ultra, beat them at their own game.
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I've avoided the rugby threads here for a while, but I'll get right back into the cricket pages. How good. Suck shit England.
Certainly not ruling them out for the series, but you feel like that was the one they had to win. Cummins will be back in Brisbane. Joffra/Wood will only tire as the series goes on. We've just got to keep them at the bowling crease for as long as we can.
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