I got up this morning eagerly expecting us to press home the advantage. The only advantage we pressed home is having a few days off
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We’re just saving Woods hamstring. As said a few days ago he isn’t ready for a 5 day test…5D chess.
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I’ve always maintained that the idiocy known as bazball will fail
Followed the ashes for a fair bit.
England were flatterred when they got Aussies out even if it meant Aussies gifted those wickets to stokes etc.
You got to know on the nature of the dismissals.
Archer and Stokes will call it quits before.
I mean go for it when the time and situation calls for it. There was SOOO much time left!! Get set and then go for it. This gung ho approach against a top class bowling attack on a helpful pitch is just. Innings suicide. And don’t turned out to be.
Majority of those guys don’t have the defensive techniques to keep out the good ball.
The ones that do got out to balls they should absolutely be leaving.
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And I do hope India loses the second test match too
Utter cunt that Gambhir is , it’s probably what he deserves
Australia batsmen got out to ridiculously cheap dismissals that even Afridi would have not played.
And that set the English team into a false equivalency that the pitch wasn’t a road.
Oh hi @Limiescouse , nice to be back.
Not sure if we watched the same test. Some of the were quite testing deliveries.
And you can’t view the dismissals in isolation. The entire innings the whole of the England team bowled at a high pace. The average speed for the entire bowling unit for the whole inning was 87.5mph. That can easily manufacture mistakes.
That’s called test cricket.
Read my second paragraph
And also it’s the heavier ball which does the trick and not the speed out of the hand
The problem is the benefits and the downside are not even evenly distributed as the cost of a wicket is so much bigger than the benefit of quick scoring
If it goes well you give yourself a good chance to win but in cricket you are never more than one wicket away from the balance of the game looking different and so you can undo hours of good work within just a couple of overs. And If it doesn’t go well you put yourself in a position of needing your opponent to do something equally stupid to get you back into the game
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Whatever you want to call it, Aussies faced them in a volume and intensity they haven’t face in years. Definitely not from an England attack
Australian bowlers do the effort ball enough. And again you guys want to quote on speed off the hand.
The same Aussie attack had Cummins and Hazlewood missing.
Not talking about the Aussie attack. I’m replying to your point of Aussies getting out cheaply. My point is that the English bowlers deserve the credit. Bad shots can be manufactured by pressure, no matter how good the batters are.
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