Now imagine that England attack with the usual injuries.
Atleast 3 if not 4 or the wickets that stokes got were ok cheap hit me deliveries.
The way England batten on the pitch, any halfway decent test grade pace bowler would have had a field day
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Nope. The bazballers made a normal test pitch look like a Greenfield.
No uneven bounce whatsoever on the pitch.
sigh
Again, viewed in isolation you may be correct.
If you have no respite from the high pace it makes you make mistakes.
Especially on balls you should be dispatching as you put too much pressure on yourself.
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It’s called test cricket. India’s got far more treacherous pitches as of now.
This pitch in aus is quite simply mild.
As I said this England team do well at out performing awful totals. Aussies weren’t going post 2 totals that low so the emphasis was playing methodically and once you get in a position like 65-1 or 75-2 you play yourself through to 250-300 and there are three middle order players who can do that there.
Simply no excuse to be 88-6. Especially when Carse and Atkinson then put a third of your total on after that. Utterly brainless as the likes of Green looked to potentially have a big knock so you know the Aussies have the players.
Whole thing is atrocious and it seemed obvious it was coming. As for Crawley well he will never be dropped but he is simply not good enough, I’m glad they wasted the county season playing with the other ball just so they could take the same old lads.
It’s going be 5-0 unless a storm floods one of the grounds
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One of crickets great myths. Banged in by Mark Wood or banged in by Boland (just off the top of my head), there is no way that physics is going to allow the ball bowled slower by Boland to have a ‘heavier’ impact. There is no torque imparted that can be equated to a heavier impact. Speed out the hand, air resistance, angle from release point to pitch impact point and pitch resistance are the only consistent variables to be taken into account that will determine impact force.
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The best part about the ashes this year is TNT’s coverage being so appalling I’m not tempted to get up at silly o’clock to see England embarrass themselves.
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If anything, Boland’s ball should be lighter, having had all the lacquer sandpapered off one side.
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Cricket Australia made a huge mistake by making Smith, Warner, And whatshisname an example of.
I wished they ignored the incident like the ECB do and the incident would be forgotten about, like all of England’s ball tampering misdemeanors.
Instead we have Smitty crying on tv and fans being robbed of one of his peak years in which he would have removed any doubt of being the second greatest batsman behind Bradman.
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Also dirt in the pocket, zippers, sunscreen and mints do a pretty good job as well according the past English players.
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If we’re discussing bad behaviour, we have to consider this outrageousness:
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This series is going feel really long if they continue to have 2 day games in between a fortnight off.
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Think the England team will be spending a lot of time washing their sheets if they keep shitting the bed like that. 
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This gives me African Child vibes…
What the… @Sithbare I know you warned about GG but I didn’t realise things have become THIS bad!
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What a stat. Makes you wonder, could Starc go down as the greatest opening bowler in test cricket?
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All right all right! No need to rub it in!
Jokes aside he is definitely a contender for that title.