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The Ashes 2017-18

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  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    edited December 2017
    Starc gets an lbw decision against Malan but overturned on review.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    edited December 2017
    72-3, 23 overs

    Cook 35*
    Malan 8*
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    Cook edges Lyon to slip, out for 37.

    80-4
  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    102-5 good ball from Cummins gets Malan caught behind Paine.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    128-5 (46) at tea

    Ali 22* (53)
    Bairstow 17* (34)
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Vince - Boycott very critical. Ball was in the right area and there was a bit of extra pace and bounce but probably shouldn't have played at it.

    Root - played a loose drive far too early in his innings. Better than that but isn't getting into line with his head at the moment. Pressure of captaincy?

    Cook - battled but played at Lyon with bat too far away from him and gave catching practice to Smith at slip. Similar to first Test.

    Malan - got a good one from Cummins and an excellent catch from Paine.
  • dickplumb
    dickplumb Posts: 4,835
    I said bowled out for under 250. It is heading that way.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Really do not understand what Bairstow is doing batting at 7 - he should be in our top 6 and even if we only move him up one batting place it will mean that Lyon isn't bowling against two left handers. Well not straightaway anyway.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    And Moeen plays a nothing shot against the spin to give a great return catch to Lyon.

    132-6
  • Addickted2TheReds
    Addickted2TheReds Posts: 7,735
    I wonder if Bairstow could have done more to get in the way of Lyon there...
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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    So now Bairstow is batting with the tail again.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,010
    dickplumb said:

    I said bowled out for under 250. It is heading that way.

    With our tail we might not even get to 150
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Lyon now has 7 wickets in the series - 6 of them are against left handers with Woakes being the exception. The others are Stoneman, Cook, Malan and Moeen who has got out to Lyon in all three innings to date!
  • dickplumb
    dickplumb Posts: 4,835
    golfaddick said:

    I blame the ball. Give Broad & Andersen a Duke ball & we would be bossing the Series.

    The main problem,and has been for a number of years, is our batting. A batting collapse is not very far away. The Australian batsmen are mentally strong and will tough it out. Most of our fold like a pack of cards. The ball we use is immaterial.

  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Well Bairstow has gone now caught and bowled by Starc.

    147-7
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    I bet the selectors are thinking "if only we had someone who just occupied the crease!" And you just know what that sort of thinking leads to - the return of The Snail!!!!!
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,333
    Hmm. An innings and what? 150?
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    And Ballance is, of course, another left hander. What is about us having so many of them? If we drop Vince for him then Root would be the only right hander in our top six and we'd have seven in the side. In club cricket you'd probably come across one maybe two in a side.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:

    dickplumb said:

    I said bowled out for under 250. It is heading that way.

    With our tail we might not even get to 150
    Never in doubt!
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    We just need some grit, fight and determination. At the moment I am not sure this lot are capable of it at the moment. It is back to the worst of the 80s.
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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    169-7 at drinks and just 273 behind now!

  • AshBurton
    AshBurton Posts: 1,142
    This comment just posted on the BBC thread has hit the nail on the head for me:

    Jonny Morgan: Waking up to the Ashes is a bit like leaving a child unattended in the kitchen. There’s a possibility they’ve done something amazing. More likely, everything is a total mess and it’s probably for the best you didn’t see it.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    edited December 2017
    Woakes and Overton now put on the best partnership of the innings. 33 runs and counting for the eighth wicket.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    50 partnership for these two now.

    194-7.

    49 more needed to avoid a follow on.
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,810
    doesn't matter if we avoid it or not, just delays the inevitable
  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,299
    Elthamaddick said:

    doesn't matter if we avoid it or not, just delays the inevitable

    Stop being so pessimistic. A 200 partnership here & we're back in the game!
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,670
    208 for 8
  • AshBurton
    AshBurton Posts: 1,142
    That one looks even more self-inflicted than usual:

    WICKET
    Woakes c&b Woakes 36 (Eng 208-8)
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    219-8 at the end of the session.

    24 more runs to avoid a follow on.

    Overton 36*
    Broad 0*
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    219-8 at dinner and now only 223 behind

    Woakes and Overton have presumably batted their way in to the next Test given that they have more than all bar one of our top seven

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