1st Test: Australia win!
2nd Test: Australia win!
3rd Test: Australia win and retain the Ashes!
Onward to the Fourth Test
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Bloody hell what a spectacular finish! Shame Head couldn’t see it through to the finish, but he deserves man of the match IMO. Starc a close second.
Yeah, agree.
Australia don’t have a chance to win without Starc, and the other bowlers too.
But you just don’t often see innings like that from Head. Strategically, drew first blood from the opposition bowlers, and got the important first win. He may have won the Ashes with that knock.
C’mon Aussies!
Geez the English won’t be happy about that sixth wicket. Confusion all around. Both teams looked like they were gonna review, when the umpires didn’take a decision…them umpire went straight to 3rd ump without making a call. Then snicko shows more of a smush than a snick, IMO.
It’s so simple.
Umpires should make a decision. If they aren’t sure, then benefit of the doubt goes to the batsman.
If either team doesn’t agree, let them review it.
They are making it overly complicated.
I’mma be honest, I think I’d prefer one thread per test. One per day might be excessive, but one per series leaves the thread kinda languishing outside of my memory by the time the next test comes around.
True and it needs to be pinned on the home page. Aussies vs Poms. It’s our national duty to gloat.
May not be worth it. Series will be over in a couple of days 😆
Let’s see if any of these clowns have learnt how to bat today.
And that applies to both sides.
Apparently not.
Well, Australia hung on longer than expected this morning, and England’s first session was better than I’d have hoped for, but this second session…apparently not.
I saw England 1/60 and had some chores to do. Thought Aussies were done. Check again and they are 5/76. Craaaazy!
England on their knees.
And one of the best Head jobs I’ve seen.
Game, blouses.
England collapse to all out for 172.
Poor from England. Good from Starc with 7/52
And he’ll be coming back with a hat trick hanging!
Please keep these cricket threads open during the series. I love reading these comments.
100%
Just read this which is exactly the vibe in our office slack channel today https://www.betootaadvocate.com/fuck-the-melbourne-cup-this-first-ball-actually-stops-the-nation/
I’ve seen enough. There’s no way the English will survive Nathan Lyon in the 4th innings.
The English will need a huge 1st innings to have a chance here.
One more left. Let’s gooooo!
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Welcome back to the Wollongabba ground as we fire up for the 2nd Test.
And Starc has already sent 2 Poms back to the dressing room!
C’mon Aussie, c’mon!
Not walking when you know you hit it, until after the opposing team has confirmed their decision to review, is a very unsportsmanlike behaviour.
I never had a situation where I had to decide whether to walk or not, but I gotta confess, I wouldn’t walk. It would balance out all the other dodgy times I was given out, when I wasn’t.
When the umpire tells me I’m out, that’s when I go.
I can basically respect that, at the lower level.
The key difference in representative and professional cricket is DRS. If you get given out when you know you’re not, you can review it and have it set right. But if you know you’re out with so much confidence that you’d walk the instant the other team reviews it (because you know there’s no chance it won’t be given not out based on camera angles or anything like that), you shoulda just walked the first time.
Uhoh! They’re changing the ball. The fix is on!
I so lonely…
And that’s it for Day 2. Feels like Australia should have been a couple of wickets less and in an even better position. That would have set the bowlers up for tomorrow night.
Bad catching from England, but they are still in it. If they can set a target, who knows what the pitch will do if we get to day 4/5.
