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RE: The Ashes 2023 - Australia in England - themaclad - 20-06-2023
Looks like it's pouring down in Birmingham at the moment, could be a very long day
RE: The Ashes 2023 - Australia in England - Lord Snooty - 20-06-2023
Oooh, in't it exciting.
RE: The Ashes 2023 - Australia in England - Lord Snooty - 20-06-2023
Well done Australia. Great match.
RE: The Ashes 2023 - Australia in England - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 20-06-2023
Feel so drained and deflated right now after hours of adrenaline, I can only imagine what the England dressing room must be like. Great innings from Cummins to win it, and it was the end the match deserved if not the result we all wanted.
RE: The Ashes 2023 - Australia in England - themaclad - 21-06-2023
All comes back to the declaration another 50 runs they don't win and interesting that the old fashioned way of batting i.e taking your time paid off
RE: The Ashes 2023 - Australia in England - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 21-06-2023
As I said on the fourth evening, though the declaration didn't pay off, if we'd stopped fluffing chances and bowling no-balls - the absolute basics of the game - then it wouldn't have mattered; we'd have had been 50-100 up on the first innings, and 1-0 up in the series by now. Like telling a poker player he was wrong to bluff on his first hand, when he spent the rest of the game holding his cards the wrong way round.
As for the traditional batting, Australia came up short in the first innings despite the numerous let-offs we gave them, and only chased the target down on the final day when Carey and Cummins finally threw caution to the wind with 70 left. If they'd done it traditionally, they'd have been blocking for their lives in that last hour.
RE: The Ashes 2023 - Australia in England - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 02-07-2023
Have to hand it to the Aussies, just when it looked like they might win the second Test fair and square and have the whole country on the team's back for throwing it away, they've instead managed to bring the Blitz spirit to Lord's and sent Stokes into Hulk mode. Whether we win or lose this one now, the crowds are going to be behind the lads and baying for blood the rest of the series.
Always cheating.
RE: The Ashes 2023 - Australia in England - themaclad - 03-07-2023
Bairstow rightly given out although he did mark his crease after the ball. Shoukd have left his bat in the crease technicakly you should ask the keeper if it's OK to leave your crease he didn't as he went on his nature ramble.
Thursday's 45 minutes of 20/20 costs them the game
RE: The Ashes 2023 - Australia in England - Lord Snooty - 03-07-2023
All this "spirit of the game" is a load of bollocks, in my opinion. And as for those inbreds in the long room. Wankers!
Schoolboy error from Bairstow.
Looking back over time. Pike got stumped by Hodges doing the same thing in The Test episode of Dad's Army.
Stupid boy, Bairstow.
RE: The Ashes 2023 - Australia in England - themaclad - 03-07-2023
