Ashes 2025/6
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@barbarian said in Ashes 2025/6:
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.
England had everything going their way at lunch yesterday.
- A lead of 100 with 9 wickets in hand
- Lyon crocked
- Khawaja crocked
- Doggett bowling dogshit
- Boland under pressure
All thrown away by tea and then trampled on by the end of the day. Yet Stokes and BMac won't change their approach which presumably means they will continue with driving outside off with no foot movement on bouncy pitches to balls that aren't full enough.
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There’s no logic in their approach either
How does it make sense to bat in such a way you don’t give your own bowling attack a chance to rest up? Not that they should have been anywhere near tired after rolling Oz so quickly.
I’d normally be backing the poms being the under dogs but I hope Oz pumps them 5-0 -
@Virgil said in Ashes 2025/6:
There’s no logic in their approach either
How does it make sense to bat in such a way you don’t give your own bowling attack a chance to rest up? Not that they should have been anywhere near tired after rolling Oz so quickly.
I’d normally be backing the poms being the under dogs but I hope Oz pumps them 5-0@NTA will choke on a sushi roll when he sees that…….
There’s some good banter flying around, I like this from one of Australia’s better fast bowlers…..
I really hope England can get competitive ( in the cricket, the banter…..everything ) they’ve made a fucken horrific start so far.
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I just don't think there are that many players that still posses the powers of concentration to bat long periods anymore when the conditions favour the bowlers a bit. Gone are the days of people like Dravid and Amla being superstars, all of the money is in the short form which rewards players that can hit the ball a long way, without testing their concentration over a longer period of time. So the best use of the talent available has been to let them "bat their natural way" to make as many as they can before they cock one up. Does feel like a coaching issue though, their focus should be teaching these guys that have excelled in the shorter form how to really dig in when the going is tough so that they can cash in later.
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@barbarian said in Ashes 2025/6:
And now England refuse to field any of their XI against the PM's XI in Canberra. It's a pink ball D/N game designed as a warm-up for the Brisbane test.
The main team are in Noosa instead. Who needs match practice in Aussie conditions anyway?
Anyone who's purchased tickets for Days 3-5 should be feeling really nervous right about now
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wait, is Brisbane D/N?
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@barbarian said in Ashes 2025/6:
And now England refuse to field any of their XI against the PM's XI in Canberra. It's a pink ball D/N game designed as a warm-up for the Brisbane test.
The main team are in Noosa instead. Who needs match practice in Aussie conditions anyway?
I see the value of rest, the value of getting away from it while doing a bit of practise. But it's like Usman Khawaja playing golf for three days straight before the first test- all good brother, but you'd better play well. Because if you don't you just put a massive target on your back.
Sure if Ussie scored a couple of 30-odds then nobody would have cared, or even known. But he fails, drops a catch and picks up a back injury, so of course people will raise an eyebrow when they hear you played three straight rounds.
The same will be said for England. The stakes are high now. Win and it's all good, but lose and you can bet the knives will be well out and the chariot's wheels will be starting to loosen.
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@barbarian said in Ashes 2025/6:
Yes.
lol okay rub out the middle session every day for the inevitable storm. I was in yesterday's one, it was impressive.
At least for a day game it comes through and only rubs out the last hour of play.
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@barbarian said in Ashes 2025/6:
And now England refuse to field any of their XI against the PM's XI in Canberra. It's a pink ball D/N game designed as a warm-up for the Brisbane test.
The main team are in Noosa instead. Who needs match practice in Aussie conditions anyway?
Who needs rest when you just got pumped in less than 3 days? When your backside is that sore it's probably preferable to be standing up
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@Virgil said in Ashes 2025/6:
Blowers is still alive!!
Yeah I was afraid to ask but this popped up on YouTube so to the fern it was shared.
Incredible ability to be both ridiculously posh and yet ridiculously likeable. I wouldn’t have thought it possible before hearing him.
Still sounds sharp as a ( very posh ) tack
Him, Bill Lawry and grumpy old Ian Chappell are still with us.
They were the international voices of my cricket watching youth, national treasures.
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@barbarian Three of the England squad have been sent to Canberra to play with the Lions but no one who was involved in the Perth side against the PM's XI so your statement is correct. This was always going to be the case apparently.
"The England Men’s Ashes Test squad have released three players – Jacob Bethell, Matthew Potts and Josh Tongue – to join the England Lions for their forthcoming two-day fixture against the Australian Prime Minister’s XI in Canberra, starting Saturday, November 29."
Shame for folks in Canberra and for us traditionalists not quite in the spirit of touring, but I understand why the England coaching set up might feel the best place to prepare for Test Two is behind closed doors.
It's going to be a tough ask to level the series against a super confident Australia in Brisbane. As a contest, this one will probably be all over by Christmas.
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@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:
@barbarian Three of the England squad have been sent to Canberra to play with the Lions but no one who was involved in the Perth side against the PM's XI so your statement is correct. This was always going to be the case apparently.
"The England Men’s Ashes Test squad have released three players – Jacob Bethell, Matthew Potts and Josh Tongue – to join the England Lions for their forthcoming two-day fixture against the Australian Prime Minister’s XI in Canberra, starting Saturday, November 29."
Shame for folks in Canberra and for us traditionalists not quite in the spirit of touring, but I understand why the England coaching set up might feel the best place to prepare for Test Two is behind closed doors.
It's going to be a tough ask to level the series against a super confident Australia in Brisbane. As a contest, this one will probably be all over by Christmas.
Not that I'm privvy to any kind of inside knowledge whatsoever but this England team strike me as one who are set in their ways and resistant to change. They seem likely to brush that result off and come out all guns blazing again. This could result in more competitive games if things go their way.
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@MN5 said in Ashes 2025/6:
@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:
@barbarian Three of the England squad have been sent to Canberra to play with the Lions but no one who was involved in the Perth side against the PM's XI so your statement is correct. This was always going to be the case apparently.
"The England Men’s Ashes Test squad have released three players – Jacob Bethell, Matthew Potts and Josh Tongue – to join the England Lions for their forthcoming two-day fixture against the Australian Prime Minister’s XI in Canberra, starting Saturday, November 29."
Shame for folks in Canberra and for us traditionalists not quite in the spirit of touring, but I understand why the England coaching set up might feel the best place to prepare for Test Two is behind closed doors.
It's going to be a tough ask to level the series against a super confident Australia in Brisbane. As a contest, this one will probably be all over by Christmas.
Not that I'm privvy to any kind of inside knowledge whatsoever but this England team strike me as one who are set in their ways and resistant to change. They seem likely to brush that result off and come out all guns blazing again. This could result in more competitive games if things go their way.
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