The Official Cricket Thread

[Gooch]

On 19/06/2023 at 15:00, Jairzinho said:

 

Not really sure how you can suggest otherwise, its been close no doubt but they've had the edge throughout. Looking like its going to end up that way as well.

[Bjornebye]

Fuck sake Stokes 

[Bloke]

This is what it's all about

[A_S]

Well, this is getting a bit tight. 

[Captain Turdseye]

Tense. As. Fuck. 
 

If all the other tests are half as entertaining as this it’s gonna be a great few weeks. 

[Creator Supreme]

Useless wankers have blown it.

[Captain Howdy]

In deep deep shit now

[Bjornebye]

Fuck sake. 

[Trumo]

Need a Harmison-Kasprowicz moment badly.

[Captain Howdy]

Yorkers 

[Captain Turdseye]

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

[Bloke]

Brave by Pope 

[Bjornebye]

Twats bastards 

[chrisbonnie]

Haven't been following this test match until today. But looks to me that stokes made some shocking decisions. Especially in the last hour. 

 

Refusing the new ball for a few a overs and sticking with bowling bouncers, when it clearly wasn't working. 

[Gooch]

57 minutes ago, Gooch said:

Not really sure how you can suggest otherwise, its been close no doubt but they've had the edge throughout. Looking like its going to end up that way as well.

 

Oh...

[Captain Howdy]

Great, great game, well done Australia. Just please learn from that utterly horrific declaration which has cost us the match.

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

Courageously batting by the Aussies  but more than a bit of self sabotage by England:

1. Extras spunked away

2. Dropped catches

3. Premature declaration? (Ooer)

4. Bairstow

[Carvalho Diablo]

Early declaration may have cost us the Ashes.

[Scooby Dudek]

Lost to a misfield, sums up how we grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory 

[Creator Supreme]

Absolute fuckwittery of the highest order! The Aussies will win this 5-0 now.

[Tj hooker]

Really like the new approach from Stokes and England generally but that declaration on the first day was unnecessary another 50 runs at least  were up for grabs and that's ultimately cost us the win .

I think he will learn from this and hope we can still lift the ashes .

[Pidge]

4 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Early declaration may have cost us the Ashes.

Nah, the strategy didn't lose it, the technical mistakes did.

[s(k)aturation]

One way of looking at that declaration, given how deep we got into the match, is that it prevented England from getting a draw.

 

That's not the way they play nowadays, and they are to be applauded for it.

 

That was a great game, regardless of the "benign" nature of the pitch.

There was some great batting and bowling from both sides.

 

As for Bairstow, I think he's worth his place as a bat in this style of England set up.

So it's not his fucking fault that England make him keep as well.

 

Very, very good game of cricket.

Given the encroachment of utter shite like The Hundred and Premier Leagues, England are leading the way - perhaps the only way given the Insta-demands of humankind nowadays - in how Test Cricket can survive.

 

Well done lads.

 

[Captain Turdseye]

I enjoyed it, even though it didn’t end the way we wanted. 
 

Without the declaration that match would have petered out to a draw today. Fuck that. 

[Bloke]

Every time they showed this Baz guy on Aussie TV he had his bare feet up on the chair in front of him.