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The Ashes 2017-18

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  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,312
    Anyway, this game's gone. Australia won't bat as badly as us
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,312
    / we won't catch as well as they did lol
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,839
    Terrible drop by Hales that
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,667
    Short caught and bowled Rashid
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,312
    Haha, Short could have put that anywhere! They're still going to walk it
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,667
    Stoinis out.
    Australia 98 for 4.
    Probably still going to lose though
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,667
    103 for 5.
    Come on England
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,757
    blackpool72 said:

    103 for 5.
    Come on England

    That is harsh but Roy made the catch a lot harder than it should have been.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,667
    Overalled and not out.
    F#$$ing joke.
    Even Aussie comentater saying it's out
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,839
    Two let offs for Maxwell...
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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,757
    Roy misjudged the catch and could have made that one step more to take it without diving.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,616
    "same old Aussies, always cheating.."
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,667
    Addick Addict said:

    Roy misjudged the catch and could have made that one step more to take it without diving.

    I agree but when the decision is this close the third umpire normally goes with the on field umpires decision.
  • Addickted2TheReds
    Addickted2TheReds Posts: 7,735
    Games like today show what Root brings to the team.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,757
    Maxwell 103 off 58
    The other 6 batsmen 51 off 53

    And we "dropped" Maxwell at least twice.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,312
    Today showing that you need two spinners in any T20 side
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,839
    The Hales drop was a shocker, the Roy one I must admit looked ambiguous on the replay, it was really close to the grass. He misjudged the catch anyway.

    Great innings by Maxwell, but England needed another spinner. Don't know why Malan wasn't tried for at least an over
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,839
    Addickted2TheReds said:

    Games like today show what Root brings to the team.

    We missed his bowling today!
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,667
    T20 games are often one sided affairs.
    You do get a lot of big hitting and it can be exciting but for me it is my least favourite format of the game
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,839
    The chat with Punter during play was interesting, but daft to continue with it and ignore the key drop by Hales, a strange choice by the Aussie producers
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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,757
    Leuth said:

    Today showing that you need two spinners in any T20 side

    Stokes coming back (one day) will allow us to have two spinners and four seamers too.

    Billings goes for him, Jordan goes for the spinner, still not convinced by "famine or feast" Roy as he barely averages 20 in international T20s (and just 27 in other T20s with a very poor BB season) so I would bring Root in and push Malan up to open (giving us a left/right combo too). Woakes has to come in and Morgan stays for now but, if he becomes the Mike Brearley of white ball cricket, we drop him too.

    So we would have something like this:

    Hales
    Malan
    Root
    Morgan
    Stokes
    Buttler
    Ali
    Woakes
    Plunkett/Willey/Curran
    Rashid
    Wood
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,616
    I still think Curran (?) should have bowled a massive wide or a bouncer for the final ball. They only needed 1 to win & therefore would have left the cheating bastard high & dry on 97. The Chappell's didn't have any problems bowling it underarm when NZ needed a six many moons ago.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,312
    Don't think you can say he cheated! It was a dubious umpiring call
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,839
    No Morgan today, as he had a slight groin strain, Vince replaces him, Buttler captains
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,839
    17/2, Hales and Roy out cheaply
  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    34 -3 Malan run out
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,839
    This is painful!
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,616
    England obviously want to come home early by the way they're playing.
  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    Nice to see the lads have been practicing running between the wickets. Nearly a couple of cases of Yes, No, Yes, No, Shit, Sorry between Butler and Vince
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,839
    Vince has got most of his runs through 1st slip

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