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The Ashes: Australia v England, 2013-14.

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  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,941
    Don't worry. Will hit a couple of fours in a minute as get frustrated then slap one straight to mid off.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,957
    Oh dear Cook.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,038
    So soft from Cook when he was beginning to look comfortable.

    Need Bell here.
  • cafcinperth
    cafcinperth Posts: 1,688
    One batsman needs to get a hundred or we are in the deep stuff
  • ozaddick
    ozaddick Posts: 2,855
    Good bowling is strangling our batsmen. I fear a shot played through frustration will cost us wickets. Terrible decision for root. No way that was out.
  • Mike
    Mike Posts: 6,170
    shit KP
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,957
    MrOneLung said:

    Don't worry. Will hit a couple of fours in a minute as get frustrated then slap one straight to mid off.

    Great call. Mid on though ;-)

  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,038
    KP you prick
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,038
    All out for 220 I reckon
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,930
    Time to say goodbye to KP

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  • ozaddick
    ozaddick Posts: 2,855
    Bollocks. Gonna get spanked again.
  • Red_Pete_in_Dubai
    Red_Pete_in_Dubai Posts: 2,764
    KP's England career is rapidly coming to a conclusion. He is SO out of form.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,038
    Just such poor shot selection and decision making throughout the series
  • Super_horns
    Super_horns Posts: 1,299
    Another collapse looming?

  • E_cafc
    E_cafc Posts: 2,617
    Why couldn`t they just bat and see the rest of the day out without taking silly risks? Pathetic!
  • cafcinperth
    cafcinperth Posts: 1,688
    I just hope (foolishly) we can get to three hundred
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,957
    I like Stokes. Gets right behind the ball and shows intent with his decision making.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,930
    edited December 2013
    Shane Warne was calling it right for me saying that England just completely lost their intent. When the scoreboard doesn't really move on the bowlers play with freedom and the pressure in the batsman just builds. Make a mistake and the score hasn't moved on.

    If we were 230-4 at close it would not have seemed so bad. Now we've got to bat another 20-odd overs in the morning just to get to that mark
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,853
    well that was disappointing.
    two wickets go and cook just stops playing cricket.
    cook as captain obviously told KP to play defensively. cook then goes out cheaply. KP thinks right now I'm going to do it my way. 10 minutes later he's out cheaply.

    both tactics are wrong. these senior players have been acting like novices.

    apart from a few shots from stokes most of the balls were left. all very well but as AFKA says above you make one mistake and the scoreboard hasn't moved on cos of you cautious play.

    choose shots carefully. look for singles. scoreboard ticking over. indian batsman are great at this, once they are in after several singles they then start playing with more attack. going for boundaries.



  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,903
    To be only on 180 after 68 overs is terrible. You could understand being cautious to some extent but by comparison, Australia were 267-5 in the 71st over (before lossing the wicket of Haddin). It's just poor play all around.

    Saying that, I have good feelings about Bell and Prior. Hopefully they'll both get 50s and the others can muster another 100 runs between them and we'll get to 400 somehow...

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  • Addickted2TheReds
    Addickted2TheReds Posts: 7,762
    You underestimate the influence of bowling on the scores, we bowled back of a length and gifted them runs whereas they squeezed us and left us with few scoring opportunities.

    I'm not excusing the batting display but it is one of the contributing factors towards it.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,834
    I wouldn't be surprised if KP calls It a day after this series. He looks like getting out every time he comes to the crease.
    It's not all bad though , I have a feeling we will make 400

  • dickplumb
    dickplumb Posts: 4,835
    Bedsaddick said:

    I wouldn't be surprised if KP calls It a day after this series. He looks like getting out every time he comes to the crease.
    It's not all bad though , I have a feeling we will make 400

    Can you, I can't. I think we will be bowled out for less than 300.

  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,455
    Well, that was worth staying up for. 245 all out I reckon.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Bell out LBW Harris. It went to DRS after on-field umpire said not out.

    I've said it before and I'll say it again now. Hawkeye or whatever this system is called is crap. That ball would have gone over the stumps. This pitch has bounce, it hit Bell above the knee roll. We've seen similar balls at Brisbane and Adelaide being shown to go over but not at Perth??? Ridiculous.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,903
    edited December 2013
    All out 251. 71-6 in the session.
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    painful watching as Warner takes apart our one paced attack - Prior should have stumped the little turd
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,957
    edited December 2013
    Oakster said:

    painful watching as Warner takes apart our one paced attack - Prior should have stumped the little turd

    And Prior/Cook should have pouched Rogers.

    We're also not helped by the fact that Broad can't bowl as a result of being hit on the foot by Johnson's LBW yorker. There is a possibility that he has broken his foot!

  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,957
    Australia 123-0 at tea for a lead of 257. Glad I got up :-(
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,957
    Prior is having an absolute mare. Two missed stumpings now and put Cook off for the dropped catch.

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