Ashes 2025/6

[sparky]

@MN5 said in Ashes 2025/6:

@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:

The wheels fall off England's top order batting again.

What the fuck is up with these guys ?

Spending July and August playing the Mickey Mouse Hundred has destroyed these batsmen's technique and ability to cope with pressure.

[bayimports]

No way Harry Brook wants to own 26 will singlehandedly take them to safety

[sparky]

Root's duck will do nothing to convince Australians that he is any sort of goat.

[MN5]

@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:

Root's duck will do nothing to convince Australians that he is any sort of goat.

Walter Hammond is. Averaging 58 in Bradmans era will do for me.

[canefan]

@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:

The wheels fall off England's top order batting again.

Theee wickets inside the first 26 balls of the innings.

The same as Baz's team at the MCG in the CWC final

[Virgil]

Australia are going to bat again today aren’t they

[Donsteppa]

Don't understand why teams get the opposition 9 down, then revert to bowling half track rubbish in the name of trying to bounce out the tail. Neser the latest after taking four wickets.

[MN5]

@Virgil said in Ashes 2025/6:

Australia are going to bat again today aren’t they

No

[Donsteppa]

Better this over.

[MN5]

@MN5 said in Ashes 2025/6:

@Virgil said in Ashes 2025/6:

Australia are going to bat again today aren’t they

No

Goes to show what I don’t know.

One over apparently. What a niggly pain in the arse for Oz.

[Chris B.]

@Donsteppa In this day and age there's no excuse for any test team not having almost perfect information on how they should bowl on every pitch and at every batsman.

I honestly can't comprehend commentators being able to say that teams have bowled too short etc thoughout an innings when they've got specialist video analysts etc. What do those guys do for their money? Surely they're also listening to what the commentators are saying (and they usually sound right)?

[sparky]

Moronic batting by England.

[sparky]

Australia opening the batting with Scott Boland.

[Chris B.]

Boland eges the last one through gully for four.

Australia have the best script writers!

[sparky]

Twenty wickets in a day. The third innings starting before the end of Day One. Crazy stuff.

[Donsteppa]

@Chris-B said in Ashes 2025/6:

Boland eges the last one through gully for four.

Australia have the best script writers!

Quite the field setting too. Five slips and three in a leg side trap

[Chris B.]

@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2025/6:

@Chris-B said in Ashes 2025/6:

Boland eges the last one through gully for four.

Australia have the best script writers!

Quite the field setting too. Five slips and three in a leg side trap

Looked like Bethell might have dropped him?

[Donsteppa]

@Chris-B said in Ashes 2025/6:

@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2025/6:

@Chris-B said in Ashes 2025/6:

Boland eges the last one through gully for four.

Australia have the best script writers!

Quite the field setting too. Five slips and three in a leg side trap

Looked like Bethell might have dropped him?

Yep, at first glance I didn't think it had carried. Turns out that it did (at least on a CricInfo check)

[Kruse]

@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:

Australia opening the batting with Scott Boland.

So much potential for weirdness...

• golden duck to end first innings, then opens batting for the second...
• Could Tongue get a hat-trick, with two of the wickets being the same batsman? Has that been done before?
• can he get some wickets in second innings, and claim a 10-wicket haul plus credit as opening batsman?

[Virgil]

@MN5 said in Ashes 2025/6:

@Virgil said in Ashes 2025/6:

Australia are going to bat again today aren’t they

No

Yup