Ashes 2021-22

[Crazy Horse]

Someone mentioned this Aussie team is hard to hate now, but while Smith and Labuschagne are in the team I have no problems hating them. Labuschagne has only been in a few minutes and he is annoying the crap out of me already. He is very pucnhable.

[NTA]

@dogmeat said in Ashes 2021-22:

Harris is gone for 3 - 10/1 after 6

Fucking rubbish shot. He wasn't mentally up to it last time I saw him, and nothing appears to have changed.

[dogmeat]

@kiwimurph Wood's on and consistently pushing it through at 150 kph

[NTA]

@dogmeat said in Ashes 2021-22:

@kiwimurph Wood's on and consistently pushing it through at 150 kph

Around the wicket to Warner. What a shock.

[NTA]

Stokes has him, then loses him. Good line. Shocking front foot.

Warner's feet not much better. Should have left the delivery before. Hands everywhere.

[dogmeat]

Stokes gets Davey but has overstepped.

Both dickwads so who cares

[NTA]

Confidence shot to shit here on all fronts.

[NTA]

Channel 7 just showed vision: every ball Stokes bowled in that first over was a noball. Only the wicket one was called back.

I'd be a little pissed off, but then how fucking hard is it to train like you play?

[Rapido]

@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:

Channel 7 just showed vision: every ball Stokes bowled in that first over was a noball. Only the wicket one was called back.

I'd be a little pissed off, but then how fucking hard is it to train like you play?

Wow. Why?

They check every ball now. Even have the little siren.

Is this because a broadcaster /covid/ some people and kit not actually working from Brisbane?

[NTA]

@rapido said in Ashes 2021-22:

@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:

Channel 7 just showed vision: every ball Stokes bowled in that first over was a noball. Only the wicket one was called back.

I'd be a little pissed off, but then how fucking hard is it to train like you play?

Wow. Why?

They check every ball now. Even have the little siren.

Is this because a broadcaster /covid/ some people and kit not actually working from Brisbane?

Third ump should be doing it. Paul Wilson is clearly not paying attention as some of those were massive.

[mariner4life]

a quick comparison, if you will indulge me

Test match opening bat has been a problem child for NZ as long as any of us can remember, we have had a fair number of shit ones

Marcus Harris currently averages 23.77

That is good enough to land him at #25 in the list of NZ openers with at least 10 tests.

The only names below him are How, Franklin, and Pocock.

There are some very ordinary names ahead of him

This is not a vintage Australian batting lineup.

[Virgil]

@mariner4life said in Ashes 2021-22:

a quick comparison, if you will indulge me

Test match opening bat has been a problem child for NZ as long as any of us can remember, we have had a fair number of shit ones

Marcus Harris currently averages 23.77

That is good enough to land him at #25 in the list of NZ openers with at least 10 tests.

The only names below him are How, Franklin, and Pocock.

There are some very ordinary names ahead of him

This is not a vintage Australian batting lineup.

wait you figured out how to use statsguru over at cricinfo?

[MN5]

@mariner4life said in Ashes 2021-22:

a quick comparison, if you will indulge me

Test match opening bat has been a problem child for NZ as long as any of us can remember, we have had a fair number of shit ones

Marcus Harris currently averages 23.77

That is good enough to land him at #25 in the list of NZ openers with at least 10 tests.

The only names below him are How, Franklin, and Pocock.

There are some very ordinary names ahead of him

This is not a vintage Australian batting lineup.

I thought you’d forgotten Blair Hartland but he only played nine tests.

Pretty sure he scored more runs off his helmet than off his bat back in the day.

[mariner4life]

@virgil said in Ashes 2021-22:

@mariner4life said in Ashes 2021-22:

a quick comparison, if you will indulge me

Test match opening bat has been a problem child for NZ as long as any of us can remember, we have had a fair number of shit ones

Marcus Harris currently averages 23.77

That is good enough to land him at #25 in the list of NZ openers with at least 10 tests.

The only names below him are How, Franklin, and Pocock.

There are some very ordinary names ahead of him

This is not a vintage Australian batting lineup.

wait you figured out how to use statsguru over at cricinfo?

[mariner4life]

aaaaanyway

it's getting ugly for England. By all accounts it's brutally hot in Brisbane (so look for the 3rd session to get washed out), their spinner is getting flogged around the park, and these two are pretty set.

[Chris B.]

Leach getting treated like he's bowling at the death in a T20.

[MN5]

Marnus keeps fluking that freakishly good test record…..

[barbarian]

Fuck me this is lovely. I feel safe.

[NTA]

@mariner4life said in Ashes 2021-22:

aaaaanyway

it's getting ugly for England. By all accounts it's brutally hot in Brisbane (so look for the 3rd session to get washed out), their spinner is getting flogged around the park, and these two are pretty set.

Only 31C? The "feels like" is closer to 33 tho.

Anyway, fuck all that. While humidity is reported at 45% they're Poms, and fielding in a cauldron sucks. And Wood looked injured and now Stokes is fucked.

[NTA]

@rapido said in Ashes 2021-22:

@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:

Channel 7 just showed vision: every ball Stokes bowled in that first over was a noball. Only the wicket one was called back.

I'd be a little pissed off, but then how fucking hard is it to train like you play?

Wow. Why?

They check every ball now. Even have the little siren.

Is this because a broadcaster /covid/ some people and kit not actually working from Brisbane?

OK the update from the Ch7 comms team: prior to the Test, the front foot ball checking tech from the ICC was cactus, so they're only using 3rd ump for wicket delivery checking. The rest is up to the onfield guys. Piss poor.