Ashes 2025/6
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Now THIS is the Adelaide i am used to
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Thata boy Archer, absolutely carrying England this match. Crawley, Duckett, Pope, take note of how your best bowler has shown you how to bat in a test match.
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Archer goes for 51, that's a hell of a knock from him given the circumstances. Has given England an absolute sliver of hope, but, they're going to have to fucking roll the Aussies on a very good batting pitch, so still almost no chance unless Archer can really fire up.
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Arguably England's best couple of sessions of the series, simply by virtue of showing a bit of guts.
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1 down 9 to go, comon lads!
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I can't believe he didn't review that. As a left hander, if I had the benefit of DRS I would have reviewed every single LBW from a right arm over the wicket bowler unless it hit me on the full.
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Maybe he's a good T20 buy. But Cameron Green must be one of the lowest averaging Test number 5s for Australia - 34.
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2025/6:
Maybe he's a good T20 buy. But Cameron Green must be one of the lowest averaging Test number 5s for Australia - 34.
Most overrated cricketer since Shane Watson.
He must have a hell of an agent.
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Green is turning out to be a bit of a myth really. They are desperate to make him a top order player without any real justification. That record might fly if he was batting at 7 and bowling a lot.
He'll keep his spot because Inglis has done nothing to keep his, but Webster must be feeling a bit gipped.
He'll also keep his spot because he's in his 20s
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Wonder if Khawaja has done enough to save his Test career at the expense of Green, when Smith is back.
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2025/6:
Wonder if Khawaja has done enough to save his Test career at the expense of Green, when Smith is back.
Inglis will go. If they are smart they will drop Green to 7.
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Point for discussion. Are there no top quality test players under 30? Starc, Head, Carey, Archer, Root, Stokes have been the standout players so far and all over 30. Is the focus on T20 producing a generation that can't bat or bowl for long? Answers on a postcard
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I think yes. They have all the shots but don't know when to use them. I think the riches on offer and the fact that young players can really only make money on the T20 tour is playing the patience out of them.
Guys who are happy to hit the top of off over and over (not a great trait in T20)
Guys who are happy to bat time when needed.Throw in there are only three nations that play bulk test cricket and this is where you get to
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Travis Head is a way better player than his record suggests, and that is probably a black mark against him. He'll go through real lean patches of pretty 30-odds and then peel of a succession of good hundreds. An aveage of almost 43 isn't shithouse, but you watch the ease with which he scores, and how tough he seems, and the shot selection he possesses, and it should probably be 5 better.
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I think T20 is so pervasive now on TV and streaming, a few of us increasingly curmudgeonly junior helpers are seeing changes in how players of all ages approach batting.
A reverse sweep to a hattrick ball in Intermediate grade cricket last Saturday being one of many little things. I shudder to think how many dozen laps of the field that would have resulted in back in the 90's
