Ashes Cricket 2019
Discussion
That was a fantastic first day of the Ashes, especially with the atmosphere and both sides going in even. Hopefully Anderson is fit to carry on, we'll really struggle without a him (and without a specialist bowler) for the rest of this game.
England did bowl well, apart from Stokes who was expensive, but probably being overused to make up the overs in Anderson's absence.
Steve Smith was fantastic, unplayable once he'd got in, Siddle did well to support him. He is one of the weirdest blokes in modern sport though. I do wonder if he has Aspergers or some form of mental illness, but it does make him a superbly dedicated cricketer. So strange in light of this that he was implicated in the whole sandpaper thing, he seems like the last person who'd want to get involved in cheating or even gamesmanship.
England did bowl well, apart from Stokes who was expensive, but probably being overused to make up the overs in Anderson's absence.
Steve Smith was fantastic, unplayable once he'd got in, Siddle did well to support him. He is one of the weirdest blokes in modern sport though. I do wonder if he has Aspergers or some form of mental illness, but it does make him a superbly dedicated cricketer. So strange in light of this that he was implicated in the whole sandpaper thing, he seems like the last person who'd want to get involved in cheating or even gamesmanship.
As always for a test match it’s a cracking day out. Crowd were on it from before the first ball. Broad and Woakes did some hard yards, Stokes not looking as fluent as I have seen him previously.
Ball seamed more than it swung, though losing Jimmy A is a massive blow. 122-8 to 284 all out is some rescue job. We missed a bit of X factor after tea.
I wouldn’t mind facing Moeen, where the only question being asked is ‘how far can I hit this one’
zygalski said:
All we are saying, is give cheats a chance.
All we are saying, is give cheats a chance.
Given that you guys want to live in the past ( crims 200 + years ago ) I guess we did give you a chance by being dismissed for 284All we are saying, is give cheats a chance.
Remember any of these guys you happily embraced and appear to have given a free pass to
Chris Pringle 1990, Mike Atherton 1994, Marcus Trescothick 2005, Faf du Pleiss 2013 & 2016 plus of course mintygate ( major beneficiary J Anderson )
The Barmy's definitely need a new muse the humor has gone way down market from a few years back and enjoying a beer in the pub with the barmy's
Roll on day 2 and a hard fought contest
Interesting to see if Lyon gets spin, if he does we might be in trouble, its sunny so should be a good deck for batting.
I worry for Roy, you just know he is going to waft at loads, might be down to Root to do a Smith.
Regarding Smith, I think he went with the flow, Warner was the instigator for me, Bancroft the fall guy and Smith the OK lets try it coz it worked so well in the Ashes! lol
I worry for Roy, you just know he is going to waft at loads, might be down to Root to do a Smith.
Regarding Smith, I think he went with the flow, Warner was the instigator for me, Bancroft the fall guy and Smith the OK lets try it coz it worked so well in the Ashes! lol
chunder27 said:
Regarding Smith, I think he went with the flow, Warner was the instigator for me, Bancroft the fall guy and Smith the OK lets try it coz it worked so well in the Ashes! lol
For me, Warner instigator, Bancroft the fall guy inexperienced stooge, Smith a skipper trying to have his guys backs when smelly hit the fan. However, without any evidence and purely my prejudice, I refuse to believe none of the bowlers recognised that monkey business was afoot.
Regarding the banter and riffs about the incident, that's banter. The booing, well given the above, Warner and Bancroft give it them once on and off. Smith maybe once walking on, but now he really did and does not deserve it after that knock. That was embarrassing.
Roy gone - almost to be expected that we'd lose one of the openers fairly early on.
I'd take 50 either side of that first total at this stage.
smith was immense yesterday and the tail wagged from where they were that was a brilliant effort and it showed the cricketing character of Smith. full marks.
lets hope for a ton from someone today
I'd take 50 either side of that first total at this stage.
smith was immense yesterday and the tail wagged from where they were that was a brilliant effort and it showed the cricketing character of Smith. full marks.
lets hope for a ton from someone today
I think the thing with Smith was his emotion, you saw how he was after the fall in that awful interview, and yesterday he was clearly very moved as were the dressing room.
Anyway, enough of that. Lyon as predicted looks very dangerous, Cummins looks a bit off and Siddle is your typical line and length end holder.
Burns looks OK, dodgy against spin, Root not settled at all yet. I though they started picking off singles quite nicely, but the Aussies seem to have stopped that a bit too.
Even contest, but you can sense Lyon maybe getting a run soon, maybe 2 or 3 in a batch.
Anyway, enough of that. Lyon as predicted looks very dangerous, Cummins looks a bit off and Siddle is your typical line and length end holder.
Burns looks OK, dodgy against spin, Root not settled at all yet. I though they started picking off singles quite nicely, but the Aussies seem to have stopped that a bit too.
Even contest, but you can sense Lyon maybe getting a run soon, maybe 2 or 3 in a batch.
Poppiecock said:
The 1950s called. They want to know when you'll be back home.
The name is just 'The Ashes' for the men, the womens series copied this and called themselves the womens ashes to distinguish - why should this force the original to rename? Whilst we're renaming history, should we ask the RFU / SRU to change the name of the trophy to the Kolkata cup?
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