Ashes 2025/6

[nzzp]

@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2025/6:

Surely Brook and Root can manage this one.

Kane and Ross did when it mattered

[Cyclops]

My normal formula for when a chase is beyond doubt is when runs remaining/(wickets in hand - 2) is below ten. Right now that's 35/(6-2) or a little under 9. But there's no way this is settled - these are going to as tense as you get.

[Godder]

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/ashes-2025-26-short-tests-are-bad-for-business-ca-ceo-hints-at-intervening-on-pitches-1517220

Wonder if the SCG will be a 4 day pitch...

[Cyclops]

@Godder said in Ashes 2025/6:

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/ashes-2025-26-short-tests-are-bad-for-business-ca-ceo-hints-at-intervening-on-pitches-1517220

Wonder if the SCG will be a 4 day pitch...

Everyone thought that Bazball was thinking short term, but he's been playing 3d chess all along. Lose in 2 days, bankrupt CA, tank their development programs and in 2060 the English will win 10 on the trot!

[Donsteppa]

Neser is back to being cannon fodder.

[MN5]

Bazball !

This is how test cricket should be played.

Five days can get fucked, a test isn’t a test if it goes into the third day.

[Godder]

All I want for Christmas is a 3 day test...

[booboo]

Root reviewing but looked plumb first up.

[booboo]

@booboo said in Ashes 2025/6:

Root reviewing but looked plumb first up.

And is.

[MN5]

Fucken hell, one final bit of drama. Root out LBW to Richardson.

Stokes in, clutch player. He’ll do it.

[booboo]

@Cyclops said in Ashes 2025/6:

My normal formula for when a chase is beyond doubt is when runs remaining/(wickets in hand - 2) is below ten. Right now that's 35/(6-2) or a little under 9. But there's no way this is settled - these are going to as tense as you get.

17/(5-2) = 5.66 ... ???

[Godder]

Those extras not helping Australia's cause... Leg byes are tough to control but byes and no balls are poor.

[sparky]

Joe Root's poor series and poor record in Australia continues.

[MN5]

@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:

Joe Root's poor series and poor record in Australia continues.

Yep, that’s why all this GOAT shit irks me. He’s not.

[booboo]

Stokes. Idiot

[booboo]

10 to get, 4 in the hutch

[sparky]

Stokes gone. Great catch by Carey.

Biggest choke of all time is on!

[sparky]

@booboo said in Ashes 2025/6:

4 in the hutch

Atkinson has a buggered hamstring so he will require a runner and will bat on one leg.

[booboo]

@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:

@booboo said in Ashes 2025/6:

4 in the hutch

Atkinson has a buggered hamstring so he will require a runner.

Didn't think runners were allowed anymore?

[Donsteppa]

Starc loses his line after the wicket, and that's all she wrote.