The Cricket Thread

[mightyrooster]

Under 100 to win for England now 3 wickets in hand Im getting worried

I spoke too soon didn’t I and am beginning to get worried too.

[mightyrooster]

Lyon gone as well.

[Andrew Walker]

Another one gone 1 more wicket

[horrie hastings]

Beautiful hands by Labuschagne

[eddie]

Australia retain the ashes with no help from Green.
His match hilights? Very poor bowling this morning that helped England put on 100 for the 7th wicket, two failures with the bat and a dropped catch.
Have to say a fairly typical performance.
However, his place is under no threat for the next test, despite a well performed all-rounder waiting in the wings.
Well played sir!

[mightyrooster]

3-0 and we retain the Ashes. Smashing the poms at home again, minus quite a few of our players at various stages. Now for Melbourne and Sydney.

[Bates]

Poms are shite

[Andrew Walker]

Beautiful hands by Labuschagne

That was a great catch Great to win and even better for the match to go 5 days and to really have to earn it

[caz]

great win. gee cummins is a class act. hasn't played a game for months but didn't miss a beat. he'd be a candidate to make the best aus 11 of the last 50 years, with lillee, mcgrath and warne the other bowlers.
lyon was sorely missed on the last day but his wicket of stokes was crucial.

[mightyrooster]

It looks like we’re looking at another 2-3 day test match.

[horrie hastings]

20 wickets in one day. This test match is going to be a financial disaster for the MCG unless something turns around, you have to ask questions about how good the wicket was.

[caz]

have the aussies already got a winning lead lol? will be interesting to see if the pitch becomes easier to bat on.
from a cricketing pov i don't mind short tests - it's good to see how teams adapt to different conditions and if you look at the dismissals from yesterday there were batting errors but from a financial pov two day tests aren't good

[mightyrooster]

Still not sold on Jake Weatherald as an opener.

[horrie hastings]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA15ojvclaI

[mightyrooster]

Well we can expect the Sydney test to last till the 4th day since it usually rains and washes out a few days of every test! That Melbourne wicket was a disgrace. Our batting was pretty ordinary though to be fair. I’m a big Green fan but even I have to admit his batting this test was abysmal which I’m sure Eddie will agree with lol.