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The Ashes
pompeynic
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Anybody else kind of dreading the upcoming Ashes series?
It’s bad enough that I’m going “ back to my youth “ and having to follow the games on the wireless, ( **** BT Sport, robbed me of the ability to watch baseball and now the cricket) but I am thinking that this tour looks as doomed as the last couple down under.
The bowling attack looks one paced and very much the same. Right arm medium, apart from Wood who has a little pace, but doesn’t do much with the ball, and he probably won’t play more than one or two games due to injury. Broad has an awful record in Australia, Anderson not much better apart from one series a decade or so back. Robinson, on his first international tour, and Stokes who hasn’t played a game since July and is beginning to look more like Charlton Heston in El Cid every day, are being lined up for heavy workloads.Two slow bowlers who could not spin a top, and I have not even got to the incredibly fragile batting lineup. I hope I’m wrong and they surprise me, but I am not hopeful that England will win one , let alone two or three out of the five test matches, needed to regain the Ashes.
It’s bad enough that I’m going “ back to my youth “ and having to follow the games on the wireless, ( **** BT Sport, robbed me of the ability to watch baseball and now the cricket) but I am thinking that this tour looks as doomed as the last couple down under.
The bowling attack looks one paced and very much the same. Right arm medium, apart from Wood who has a little pace, but doesn’t do much with the ball, and he probably won’t play more than one or two games due to injury. Broad has an awful record in Australia, Anderson not much better apart from one series a decade or so back. Robinson, on his first international tour, and Stokes who hasn’t played a game since July and is beginning to look more like Charlton Heston in El Cid every day, are being lined up for heavy workloads.Two slow bowlers who could not spin a top, and I have not even got to the incredibly fragile batting lineup. I hope I’m wrong and they surprise me, but I am not hopeful that England will win one , let alone two or three out of the five test matches, needed to regain the Ashes.
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Both sides have good bowlers that, while they can still perform in individual games, will not play every game. It is not just ours that are past their best.
The Aussie batting line-up does not look as strong as it did a few years ago. That said, our batsmen look fragile-we need at least 2 people to average 50 alongside Root to have a chance. Then, and only then, will it be close.
I would say the 1st Test was key-but I was at the 1st Test at Lord's in 2005, and we got battered.
PS-I think there will be highlights on the Red Button. BT for me
Ashes to Ashes: How a Sporting Defeat Led to Major Social Change
by Martin Claytor.
https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/The-Ashes-And-Legalisation-Of-Cremation/?fbclid=IwAR39Gpm1R53TnhUBJWIzDV65hFFSof1JttO8Rq8xekswbjx8JhJ1BNg9CWc
Well that's a good start...
I said the batting was fragile, but 11-3 is ridiculous. Root will be practicing his Native American rain dance once he gets his pads off.
@pompeynic
I planned to watch until Lunch (2am) but I'm having second thoughts now.
Early-ish night for me...
I was in Australia for the 06/07 tour, it was depressing how quickly that tour went wrong under Freddie Flintoff. I saw England score 551-6 dec in the first innings at Adelaide and lose, then capitulate in Perth. It’s not a great place to visit when you’re getting biffed.
First plan rest Anderson for the first test.
Second plan leave Broad out on the day of test and play a spinner even with a green wicket and cloud cover cunning hey.
Third plan with the overhead conditions and pitch looking ideal for a win toss bowl first, we elect to bat first another cunning move.
So when the sun is beating down today and the Aussies close 300/4 pray that the weather forecast is right and let it rain rain and rain some more.
Shambles.Enjoy tonight's action.
question
Should we have picked another seamer?
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I don't think so we looked at the pitch on the morning of the game and decided to go with the make up of the team we have.
That was what we felt was right decision and i think if we had bowled to the best of our ability we'd of put Australia under a bit more pressure than they were today.
However we still took 7 Australian wickets today.We are a BIT(LOL)behind in the game,but i no the guy's will come back fighting in the next 3 days.
So he thinks that taking 7 wickets while being flayed to all parts of the ground is ok,maybe if we'd batted a day longer and posted a score in excess of 400 as for being a bit behind the game pfff if that's what he thinks we should be boarding the next flight home.
It's all B.T.'s fault lol
We haven't got the best players. But we have picked the wrong ones, at the wrong times. And we went into the 1st Test with no preparation, whatsoever.
But at least Root faces the press. Where is Silverwood? It's not as though he is busy applying his tactical genius. This is a man who, after being slaughtered, says he would have picked the same 11 again for the 1st 2 Tests.
Who is coming out of this Series with any credit? Root, purely as a batsman. Malan has done quite well. Stokes-considering the last time he played cricket, I had hair. Wood. Think that is it, so far.
82/83 we drew series to retain
85 we Gower's summer we won 3/1
86/87 Gatting's team won 2/1
Now if your talking the 90s early 2000s we were as bad as this present day team,mind you in the 90s2000s the Aussies had some proper player's.
To name a few of the top of my head from the 90s
S Waugh M Waugh R Ponting M Hayden plus when you got rid of top five you had a certain A Gilchrist to come out at number 7 and smash it to all parts.
As for the bowling G McGrath B Lee backed up by M Kasprovicz and a certain spinner named Warne.
The current Aussie team is ok but were doing a grand job of making them look like world beaters.
The definition of insanity springs to mind.