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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jul 26, 2019 11:10:21 GMT
hope we can see CUMMINS, PATTINSON and STARC bowling together.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 26, 2019 11:20:11 GMT
You'll see Pattinson, Hazelwood and Cummins methinks.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jul 26, 2019 12:12:01 GMT
Pimpin, is it you who is the big Siddle fan?
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Jul 26, 2019 15:53:03 GMT
Oz tend to think that blasting England with sheer pace is the way to go, when actually the nagging brilliance of Siddle has been just what the doctor ordered. He has been bowling well for Essex as well, but I doubt the Oz selectors will pick him. Word on the block today is that England will not risk both Archer and Anderson after injuries (Archer is to play for Sussex tonight), so obviously Anderson will play and Woakes (after today's performance and on his home pitch) will be in. I'm still trying to get Alistair Cook to come back just for this series, but he tweeted that it's a no no
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Post by Aj_June on Jul 26, 2019 18:38:23 GMT
Ashes 2005 - A series I will never forget as long as I live. That series was legendary with the most awesome test matches. Even Ashes 2009 was great.
I do love if we get another closely fought series and I have a premonition that it will be a close series this time too.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 26, 2019 18:53:16 GMT
I think the Lord's test tends to cloud people's judgment of the 2013 series. The first and 4th tests were excellent games of cricket fought on a knife's edge for most. The first test stayed on the knife edge to it's final gasp and the 4th was only removed from there by one of Stewey's specials late on the 4th day. 2015 was just bizarre.
This is an easy series to predict on the surface with England looking like they have no openers and a bunch of desperately out of form middle order players, and racing at least one bowler back from injury. Bancroft and Warner just batted well in the intra squad match, Smith is perpetually in form and the bowlers are never an issue. We've got the better spinner before England name there's and we have a more varied pace attack too. That all suggests to me that Oz have their best shot in years and have no excuses not to take it. But is cricket ever so simple?
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Jul 26, 2019 19:09:42 GMT
I think the Lord's test tends to cloud people's judgment of the 2013 series. The first and 4th tests were excellent games of cricket fought on a knife's edge for most. The first test stayed on the knife edge to it's final gasp and the 4th was only removed from there by one of Stewey's specials late on the 4th day. 2015 was just bizarre. This is an easy series to predict on the surface with England looking like they have no openers and a bunch of desperately out of form middle order players, and racing at least one bowler back from injury. Bancroft and Warner just batted well in the intra squad match, Smith is perpetually in form and the bowlers are never an issue. We've got the better spinner before England name there's and we have a more varied pace attack too. That all suggests to me that Oz have their best shot in years and have no excuses not to take it. But is cricket ever so simple? Will any of the Ashes matches go past 3 days if weather doesn't intervene? I think Bob Willis is absolutely spot on, bowlers will dominate and it could well come down to who scores the most consistently between Warner and Smith V Root and Stokes? Root should grow a pair and bat at 3 but he simply will not.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 26, 2019 19:21:52 GMT
I don't like Root at 3 at all. You should only be batting at 3 if you're a test No.3. Root is much better coming in at a time when the ball isn't moving and he can throw his bat at the ball. Stokes is an interesting one. He could indeed be the key. Warner and Smith should score plenty, but I think for both teams it's going to be what they can get out of guys like Bairstow, Bancroft etc. I don't think you can win a 5 test series off one or two men's bats.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jul 27, 2019 10:13:32 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jul 27, 2019 14:08:11 GMT
England squad:
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jul 27, 2019 14:11:07 GMT
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jul 27, 2019 14:25:22 GMT
man, that team bats really really deep.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Jul 27, 2019 18:25:19 GMT
England squad: Depressing is what that is. Any country that keeps picking hopelessly out of form players like Ali doesn't deserve to win a Test Match, absolute folly. Pimpin is right, England will be able to bat deep, they will need to! Their best chance is to out bowl Oz - presuming they snag Warner and Smith before they make 3 figures - then we could be in for some low scoring crackers. Fecking Moeen Ali, can't believe it - maybe he will bat at 11 and concentrate on his bowling? 11 is where he should bat at the moment, I'd rather have Jimmy batting for my life than The Beard these days!
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 27, 2019 20:06:38 GMT
Not only did they name him but they have to play him. Only spinner picked. So no openers to speak of and no real spinner either. Pretty narrow path to victory with whatever XI they're able to pick from that team I reckon.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Jul 27, 2019 20:33:49 GMT
Not only did they name him but they have to play him. Only spinner picked. So no openers to speak of and no real spinner either. Pretty narrow path to victory with whatever XI they're able to pick from that team I reckon. Exactly Only hope for England now is to get Oz batting in overcast swingers conditions in full effect and to get them out cheaply!
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jul 27, 2019 21:16:36 GMT
Denly and Root are bowling spin better than Ali is!
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 27, 2019 23:11:13 GMT
The other hope for England is that Australia don't learn from 2015 and try to smash Ali out of the attack every time he bowls and lose wickets as a result. It never really made sense to me why you would not want to milk Ali at one end given England have 4 pacemen and plenty of top order spin options anyway. Fair enough to go after spinners early if they're actually good and you want them out of the attack (Hayden tried that tactic with Harbajan in 2001 with great personal success) but when they're about as threatening as England's coach Trevor Bayliss was when he bowled part time straight turners then I'd like him bowling as much as possible.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jul 28, 2019 6:01:36 GMT
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jul 30, 2019 2:36:46 GMT
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Post by Aj_June on Jul 30, 2019 17:29:46 GMT
I believe Joe Root will have to come too early in every game if he bats at no.3. As posted by Carl earlier in this thread, England's openers have been too bad since Strauss retired.
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