Ashes 2023
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England's to lose Unless the weather fucks it all up 
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50% chance of rain in the morning session but should be clear after that. Saturday will be almost certainly be rained out entirely. Some showers around on Sunday but nothing heavy. I think there are probably 5 sessions left in this game. England will probably bat for most of another session to try and get a 200+ lead. Then they have to bowl Australia out in three and half session for less than 270 odd, I guess, to be a position to win this. 
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@sparky said in Ashes 2023: 50% chance of rain in the morning session but should be clear after that. Saturday will be almost certainly be rained out entirely. Some showers around on Sunday but nothing heavy. I think there are probably 5 sessions left in this game. England will probably bat for most of another session to try and get a 200+ lead. Then they have to bowl Australia out in three and half session for less than 270 odd, I guess, to be a position to win this. Good news, initially they were banking on three days solid rain weren’t they ? 
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Best day eva!!!!! Probably too little too late though with the weather. I think England will go for 200 more runs in a session tomorrow, likely get skittled for much less and then hopefully have enough sessions to have a real crack at Aussie. Didn't get to watch much today unfortunately (thrashed the old man at golf though, so can't complain) and tomorrow I'm at the cricket club for a tournament, so fingers crossed they have something sorted. 
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And no balls 
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@MiketheSnow said in Ashes 2023: And no balls That’s pretty rough pal, they’re trying their best out there 
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@MN5 said in Ashes 2023: @MiketheSnow said in Ashes 2023: And no balls That’s pretty rough pal, they’re trying their best out there    
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@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2023: Even more so, that they went in without a spinner. So, send out the spin bowling coach . .. to to do the EOD presser. 
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Didn't get to see a ball bolted live as work got in the way - I need a better work/life balance I think. Had a look at the highlights though and it looked as though the Aus fielding (Khawaja's catch aside) was bit ordinary? Root was undone but a nasty one when he looked in good nick which was a shame. I did like the way the Aussie's congratulated Crawley when he was out. A classy response. Ollie Robinson take note. 
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@Catogrande There definitely was some shoddy fielding - Cummins leading the way who put down Ali before Khawaja's catch. The field placings were just weird - very reactionary/half pie. 




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