Ashes 2025/6

[Cyclops]

Certainties in life: death, taxes and Starc wicket in the first over.

[Chris B.]

Starc gets Duckett lbw. 33/2

Duckett reviews but a folorn hope - looked out and was.

[Chris B.]

Mark Waugh saying he thinks Boland's bowled the loosest this morning he's seen.

Oz has some guy called Doggett on debut as the third seamer. His State record isn't fabulous.

They've got another debutant called Weatherald who will open - again his State record looks a bit mediocre for an Oz test player.

Both in their early 30s, so decently experienced.

England don't have a specialist spinner - Root is it I guess if they need it.

[Chris B.]

Now Root gets squared up by Starc and edges to slip - gone for a duck

39/3

Starc on fire!

[MN5]

Root falls a hundred short of that maiden ashes ton in Australia.

Grace Hayden undoes a button on her blouse......

Never mind, my boy Brook will sort things out.

[Virgil]

lol it’s all over already, wonder if the Aussies can wrap up the series inside 12 days like 4 years ago

[Chris B.]

Doggett goes straight through Pope with his first ball - misses everything somehow!

[Cyclops]

Crazy difference between Boland and Starc - so far Starc is 5 overs 3/10, Boland 4 overs none for 29.

[nzzp]

The step down from Starc is massive. Other bowlers not looking super scary right now.

of course, Starc with 3 wickets so far...

[MN5]

Huge wicket to Green as England were consolidating.

Brook and Stokes in the middle, mini crisis already, lets see the aggressive Ranga stand up !

94/4.

[mariner4life]

typical of this England team, 100 runs in a session at 4.5, but already 4 back in the shed.

Huge from Starc, night and day from the rest. At this rate Australia will bat for more than an hour today.

[Cyclops]

Massive wicket. At 100/3 at lunch the Aussies would probably have still had their nose just ahead but not by much, especially with two set batters.

[KiwiMurph]

@Chris-B said in Ashes 2025/6:

Oz has some guy called Doggett on debut as the third seamer. His State record isn't fabulous.

Harsh marker. He has 190 wickets at an average of 26

[nzzp]

Starc eh. That was a good ball

[sparky]

Stokes gone. Australia far too good for England.

[MN5]

@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:

Stokes gone. Australia far too good for England.

Brook will get a hundred and the tail will wag to make things competitive.

[NTA]

@MN5 said in Ashes 2025/6:

@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:

Stokes gone. Australia far too good for England.

Brook will get a hundred and the tail will wag to make things competitive.

Lol nar

[Virgil]

Starc gets 7 and England done inside 2 sessions
Go baz ball

[sparky]

Amazing that the whole series is essentially over as a contest before Tea on Day One of the First Test.

Congratulations Australia.

[No Quarter]

Incredible performance from Starc, basically all of his wickets were to superb deliveries as well as opposed to the batsmen giving their wicket away. With his two partner's in crime out injured he just decided to do it all himself, unreal that he's still putting performances like that in at 35. Aging like a fine wine.

Not over yet though, this Aus batting lineup is brittle, a couple of early wickets and it'll be all on.