Ashes 2025/6
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/GOM it's annoying that the graphic at the bottom always displays "Australia need 4 more wickets to retain the Ashes" instead of how many runs England need to win. No shit, England are 6 down, I can do the math. Please just show a running total of how many runs are needed you clowns.
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Anyway, 167 to win with 4 wickets in hand, 2nd new ball just taken. Aus will be exceptionally keen to wrap this up with the new ball, or will start to get a bit nervous.
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@No-Quarter said in Ashes 2025/6:
Anyway, 167 to win with 4 wickets in hand, 2nd new ball just taken. Aus will be exceptionally keen to wrap this up with the new ball, or will start to get a bit nervous.
Looks like they have lost Lyon
Can’t see England getting that close but would love it they at least put the pressure back onto the Aussies for once -
Smith throws it all away in typical Bazball style after playing a blinder. Damn. Game, set and match.
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@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2025/6:
Starc was turning into cannon fodder, but Smith has gone for one big hit too many
I can hear some furious tapping, it's Geoffrey Boycott all the way in Yorkshire writing his latest article......
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@No-Quarter said in Ashes 2025/6:
/GOM it's annoying that the graphic at the bottom always displays "Australia need 4 more wickets to retain the Ashes" instead of how many runs England need to win. No shit, England are 6 down, I can do the math. Please just show a running total of how many runs are needed you clowns.
Fox and Australia both arguably going through the motions this morning.
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England win that session, but still unlikely to win the game. Though with Lyon out that opens the door just a bit. The manner of dismissal for Smith was so frustrating...
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@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2025/6:
This is why England were so frustratingly awful in Perth - as unusually there are some real journeymen in this Oz side.
2nd innings 100 run lead, 9 wickets in hand….
No Cummins, no Lyon -
Well that was a decent effort from England in the second innings - best I've seen Crawley bat, he looked really assured. And they got some runs from having a deep batting line-up although it always looks a bit fraught.
Surely England must take at least one of the 2 remaining tests now the series is gone and so is Lyon?
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Well that's the end of that nonsense.
I can't wait for Boycotts column. Should make for good reading.
England showed more guts and determination on the whole but still not enough, as @Donsteppa said this Australian team aren't without weaknesses but their big guns stood up when needed.
It must be shit being in Oz, 3-0 down, series gone already, knowing the press will be ripping them apart and realising they have to man up to try and get a bit of respectability.
.....and maybe some "moral victories" along the way too.
Oz might relax a bit, no Lyon makes things a bit closer........
I'm picking 4-1.
