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England Cricket 2025

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  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 13,255
    Running scared of Josh Tongue 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,477
    I cringe when I see England playing football before a game albeit that they just look like they're doing "keepy uppies". In fact, I cringe whenever a team does it and know of a couple of pro cricketers in recent years who have missed the whole of the season as a result of doing so. Their respective employers have not shared that information but described it as "an injury in training".  
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,477
    Australia have won the toss and it's not a surprise, given the pitch report which suggests that there will be a feast of runs, that they have elected to bat.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,477
    Khawaja in for Smith and will bat at 4
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,918
    Khawaja in for Smith and will bat at 4
    Gonna make the hammering even more depressing 😂
  • Shag
    Shag Posts: 4,578
    Anyone doing an all-nighter?
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,351
    Shag said:
    Anyone doing an all-nighter?
    I was planning to, but now we've lost the toss I'm not sure I want to stay up all night watching the Aussies hit the ball to all parts & our fielders shepherding the ball to the boundary. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,477
    Shag said:
    Anyone doing an all-nighter?
    Nope. Had this been a closer series I might have done but will sign off at lunch, try to get three of four hours kip and then catch up later particularly as the wife says I'm always grumpy when I stay up. But then she thinks that of me anyway so why change the habit of a marriage!!!
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,435
    Am I mad for thinking that batting second will mean a better batting performance? Having a target in front of their faces…

    Yeah I’m probably insane
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,477
    Am I mad for thinking that batting second will mean a better batting performance? Having a target in front of their faces…

    Yeah I’m probably insane
    Depends how many the Aussies get in the first innings, what pressure that puts on us and whether it turns on the 4th/5th day because, of course, we will be batting last against Lyon if that is the case. 

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  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,918
    Am I mad for thinking that batting second will mean a better batting performance? Having a target in front of their faces…

    Yeah I’m probably insane
    it will take at least an hour for me to get fully depressed tonight, that’s a marked improvement of the 5 mins it’s taken in the previous 2 tests. I’m taking the wins where I can!
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 13,255
    Has Rob Hatch flown over to Aus? Certainly talking as if he’s there 
  • Come on England, please, please win and make the rest of the series slightly interesting.
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,918
    Promising start from Carse, good shape into the left handers 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,477
    Promising start from Carse, good shape into the left handers 
    His line is excellent whereas Archer is struggling to land any two balls in the same place. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,477
    Promising start from Carse, good shape into the left handers 
    His line is excellent whereas Archer is struggling to land any two balls in the same place. 
    But his length is wrong. 
  • Need to sort out the no balls. A wicket off one would be very careless 
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,918
    Need to sort out the no balls. A wicket off one would be very careless 
    Gives me nightmares of the Tom Curran one off Warner
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,435
    Aussies and Michael Vaughan laying into our bowling already
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 6,823
    Ah Carse bowling utter garbage again. Was a fun two overs prior.

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  • Rubbish from Carse. Tongue should be bowling. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,477
    Need to sort out the no balls. A wicket off one would be very careless 
    My pet hate. And you just know that it's going to happen to us.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,477
    This does look a belter of a track but then it really wouldn't matter what state it was in given what we've served up to date. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,504
    This is what happens when you gas up an average county player like he's a generational talent. New Zealand letting him be man of the series against them is all-time shameful stuff 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,467
    What the hell has Carse been doing in practice,  to bowl this rubbish? And get in ahead of Atkinson and Potts?
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,129
    Hit top of off...
    Hit top of off...
    Hit top of off...

    Oh short and wide again...

    Hit top of off...
    Hit top of off...
    Hit top of off...

    Oh short and wide again...

    Same old same old!

  • Boom
    Boom Posts: 1,689
    England international Phil Salt has just opened the batting in the ILT20 for the Abu Dhabi Knight Riders with Michael Pepper. What a couple of condiments they are. 

    Sadly Salt was out first ball. 


    Had to look up the ILT20!
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,435
    edited December 17
    Short ball works for Archer. Weatherald hooks in the air and Smith gloves it

    33-1
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,477
    Short ball from Weatherald and he gloves it to Smith.

    33-1
  • One more, and we're at Khawaja with his bad back rather than Smith - come on!