Ashes 2025/6

[Donsteppa]

This is ideal from Australia's point of view. Cook the fragile English bowling attach further, then Starc with a new pink ball under lights.

[NTA]

[MN5]

@NTA said in Ashes 2025/6:

He’s gonna get a hundred today

I’m pretty impressed with him actually, interviewers compared him to Wasim Akram and he was having none of it. Very modest

[NTA]

Starc has faced 135 balls - second only to Root this match

[NTA]

@MN5 said in Ashes 2025/6:

He’s gonna get a hundred today

Fuck you bloody!

[NTA]

Doggett to try and give Mitch time to shower and get a massage.

[MN5]

@NTA said in Ashes 2025/6:

@MN5 said in Ashes 2025/6:

He’s gonna get a hundred today

Fuck you bloody!

Sorry

[NTA]

Innings ends on 511.

TBH could have been a lot more if Green and Smith didn't decide to fail hard.

[Cyclops]

Starc needs another 700ish runs to go past Warne for most test runs without a ton.

[NTA]

England survive unscathed to the end of the session and pile a few runs on while they're at it

[NTA]

TOOL ARE VERY LOUD

[sparky]

Australia now in total control of this match now and scenting English (or players who play for England's) blood.

An innings victory is a possibility.

[NTA]

England 3 down for -70

[sparky]

@NTA If Australia can get Root and Brook both out quickly, it will be night-night for England.

[NTA]

Root gone.

Now let's see

[NTA]

5 for -54

[NTA]

Smith burns a review, but why not?

6 for -43

Stokes is still there. Nothing is decided yet in terms of an innings victory.

We go to a 4th day I guess. Unless a quick wicket causes the umpires to rethink?

[sparky]

England take it to a 4th day. But they still need 43 runs to make Australia bat again.

This series is very one-sided indeed.

Australia are better team.

Then there's daylight

Then there's more daylight.

Then there's more daylight.

Then more daylight.

Then there's England.

[NTA]

@sparky and they've done this so far without Cummins of Hazlewood in either game, and Lyon for this test.

Their 2-2 result against India, and India getting whitewashed by the Proteas, puts a few things into perspective.

[sparky]

@NTA England produce an occasional elite cricketer: Joseph Root, Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad, in spite of their player development system rather than because of it.

The whole way young players are coached and developed in the UK need looking at.