Ashes 2021-22

[RugbyReg]

Very Steve Waugh start to Cam Green’s career.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ was just about to say something similar, Reg: he looks like a guy who once he gets a hundred under his belt will get a heap more in reasonably quick order.

Fabulous innings from Head, can't really recall someone coming in at 12/3 & playing with that freedom & clearly the Poms hadn't either 'cos it knocked them completely off their bowling plans, started banging it in too short & trying to plug gaps when pitching it up & having catchers behind the wicket is what got them 3/12 in the first place. Root in particular looked shell-shocked at times.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

You bastards! Not only did you get Ussie, it spread to Smith and Warner too!

I hope you're proud of yourselves!

According to cricinfo that's the first time Warner & Smith have made ducks in the same Aus innings in any format.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Well doesn't that just sum up these Ashes...

If an Aus batsman knicked one behind & no-one appealed he'd probably make 150+

A Pom knicks one behind, no-one appeals & there's a run-out next ball...

 

[Up the Guts]

Enjoying certain commentators pumping up their favourite players because of “the intent they show,” and then going completely silent when they get out an over or two later. Of course, in the next stint their dismissals are subsequently put down as “unlucky.”

 

[RugbyReg]

Joe Root, the teams captain and best batsman, out LBW and didn’t review. Why on earth?

 

[Up the Guts]

Joe Root, the teams captain and best batsman, out LBW and didn’t review. Why on earth?

Especially after Elgar had his overturned when it looked out for all money.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Faaark me what a catch from Lyon!

 

[Derpus]

England being this trash is no fun

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Warne kinda called that with his "Warner doesn't take a catch" comments, just not for quite the reason I think he had in mind. But fuck me, I reckon I'd have caught that.

As for Pope: first class average 50, home track (The Oval) average 90-odd, Test average pretty average: does that make him Mark Ramprakash v2.0?

 

[Up the Guts]

Some of the best night watchman strike farming I’ve seen.

 

[The_Brown_Hornet]

Boland was fantastic, agreed. His teammates will love him for it too.

 

[Up the Guts]

Some appalling batting, Wood bowls 5 over spells at a maximum and hardly ever bowls to hit the stumps. They’ve seen Stokes have a go at the short tactic and injure himself only a test before, just duck them and let Wood burn himself out.

Bizarre that we can be so conservative with declarations and field placements (e.g. when Lyon’s bowling) but we consistently try to take on the short ball with hands going from low to high.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ yep, if Smith leaves it alone it's potentially a wide for height, instead he puts it straight down Crawley's throat. Head looks like he's a compulsive glancer of anything in the hip-to-armpit area, pretty sure Wagner got him at least once doing that last TT series.

Having said that, Aus probably less than 50 runs away from having enough to win this by close to 100

 

[Up the Guts]

^ yep, if Smith leaves it alone it's potentially a wide for height, instead he puts it straight down Crawley's throat. Head looks like he's a compulsive glancer of anything in the hip-to-armpit area, pretty sure Wagner got him at least once doing that last TT series.

Having said that, Aus probably less than 50 runs away from having enough to win this by close to 100

Yep, Wagner troubled both Smith and Head in that series. It was slightly more tolerable because it was a relatively novel tactic then and Wagner is also superhuman and you can’t just wait him out like Wood.

I expect this is why Langer will be moved on. There are recurring issues, including bowling sides out in the 4th innings and facing the short ball, that have never been resolved under his tenure.

 

[RugbyReg]

I know they've batted like shit but all it takes is Stokes to finally go off with a little bit of Crawley and Root support with Pope and Billings adding some spice and anything less than 250 is gettable I reckon

 

[Brumby Runner]

I see a little difference between Wood's short bowling and Stokes' short bowling. To me, it looks that Wood is trying to get the batsmen out, while Stokes seemed to be only trying to stem the run rate.

Having said that, though, I reckon both are being too leniently handled by the umpires.

 

[Up the Guts]

A very gettable total. As bad as some of the batting was this afternoon, a lot of the damage was done last night, I think at some stage we’ll see a team do a Bradman style order reversal when they have to bat at night.

 

[John S]

A lot less gettable now. It seems that the English tactic is that if they're not getting batsmen out then they try to bounce them out and just pitch it short.

 

[Up the Guts]

A lot less gettable now. It seems that the English tactic is that if they're not getting batsmen out then they try to bounce them out and just pitch it short.

Should never underestimate the quality of our bowling.