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Post by hoskotafe3 on Dec 8, 2021 17:37:54 GMT
Desperation from commentators to try and drum up some interest in the rest of this match. "Hameed batted well for his 25." 25? Really? "Pope played a fine innings." He made 35. "Excellent rear guard from Buttler." He played a swash buckling cameo and got out how and when he always gets out...for 39.
Already trying to set up Broad and Anderson's absence for the trying-too-hard horror show we're likely to see from the inexperienced attack tomorrow. Seems set up very nicely for a Warner special.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Dec 8, 2021 23:47:03 GMT
Not coming in around the wicket to the left handers? Have England put any research at all into this series. Robinson bowling at sub 130. Bright Sunshine. More disaster looms.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Dec 8, 2021 23:54:18 GMT
Robinson gets Harris. OLlie's length has been immaculate, though his line's been a little wide. Australia 1-11.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Dec 9, 2021 0:34:33 GMT
Stokes gets Warner off a no ball. England descending into farce here.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Dec 9, 2021 1:28:05 GMT
Australia doing it pretty easily now. England haven't bowled badly, but didn't do enough with the new ball. Flattened out now. Good to bat on.
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Post by weststigersbob on Dec 9, 2021 2:07:23 GMT
Australia doing it pretty easily now. England haven't bowled badly, but didn't do enough with the new ball. Flattened out now. Good to bat on. There’s just enough in it to give bowlers hope with a hard ball and prominent seam. But an old ball - it’s a pretty good pitch to bat on. Not for the first time in last 30 years I’ve been watching cricket -Australia makes the most of the opportunities presented to them. The opposition, this time England, don’t. Far too many edges short of slips and their spinner is a pie chucker. |
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Dec 9, 2021 3:01:41 GMT
FFS England... hard enough to create 20 chances without dropping catches and having to take 25.
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Post by weststigersbob on Dec 9, 2021 3:14:51 GMT
And now Hameed misses a run out from about 3metres away.
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Post by weststigersbob on Dec 9, 2021 3:54:07 GMT
Australia lead by 1 - with 9 wickets in hand. And one of those are Steve Smith, a bloke England traditionally have struggled to get out.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Dec 9, 2021 4:38:17 GMT
Australia lead by 1 - with 9 wickets in hand. And one of those are Steve Smith, a bloke England traditionally have struggled to get out. Didn't have much trouble getting him today. Wood has been impressive at times, not that it was a particularly impressive wicket. |
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Dec 9, 2021 5:12:28 GMT
England with a too little too late fightback. Glad Robinson denied Warner a hundred. Dave did not deserve to score one today, and Ollie certainly deserved to get him out.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Dec 9, 2021 5:27:39 GMT
Green shoulders arms and loses his off stump. A lovely sight for any former pacer.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Dec 9, 2021 7:09:50 GMT
Excellent hundred by Head. Off 85 balls. Really buried this game when England had a small fightback going.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Dec 9, 2021 7:36:22 GMT
7-343 at stumps. England tried hard in the field but had little to show for it. The fielders let down the bowlers badly which met, in spite of excellent bowling from Wood and Robinson, a respectable second was all England could manage on a day they needed to dominate to get back into the game.
This is looking like the feeblest England outfit since the mid 90s. As a matter of fact 1994-95 is a pretty good comparative. Good bowlers in Malcolm, Fraser and Gough creating scores of chances for inept fielders to put down while their batters consistently struggled to make 200. Going to be a long summer for the tourists.
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Post by weststigersbob on Dec 9, 2021 8:35:26 GMT
7-343 at stumps. England tried hard in the field but had little to show for it. The fielders let down the bowlers badly which met, in spite of excellent bowling from Wood and Robinson, a respectable second was all England could manage on a day they needed to dominate to get back into the game. This is looking like the feeblest England outfit since the mid 90s. As a matter of fact 1994-95 is a pretty good comparative. Good bowlers in Malcolm, Fraser and Gough creating scores of chances for inept fielders to put down while their batters consistently struggled to make 200. Going to be a long summer for the tourists. I think the batting in 94/95 is better than this lot, Root excluded. Gooch, Atherton, Stewart, Thorpe, Hick and Ramprakash should’ve gone a lot better than what they did with the bat, but you’re right about the fielding - not the nimblest group I’ve ever laid eyes on.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Dec 9, 2021 11:32:15 GMT
Stokes bowled 14 no balls that weren’t picked up by the umpires in the first session alone!
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Post by Carl LaFong on Dec 9, 2021 14:00:47 GMT
Stokes bowled 14 no balls that weren’t picked up by the umpires in the first session alone! England were left frustrated by a lack of assistance from the on-field umpires and a breakdown in technology following a dismissal off a no-ball from Ben Stokes that helped Australia tighten their grip on the first Ashes Test. Stokes had bowled David Warner for 17 with just his fourth ball of the second morning only to see the wicket chalked off when replays showed he had overstepped. With the opener’s pugnacious 94 laying the platform for Travis Head’s remarkable century in the evening session, its cost was significant. Bowler error was clearly at play here, although it also transpired that Stokes had similarly overstepped for the three preceding deliveries. “Pathetic officiating,” said Ricky Ponting on commentary, reflecting the fact England’s returning vice-captain was ultimately unaware of the repeat issue until it saw a wicket scrubbed off. Front foot no-balls have been the domain of the third umpire since February last year, when, after a successful trial by the ICC, a four-camera set-up was introduced for Test cricket to take the burden away from the on-field officials. In the main the new set-up has worked well. But it wasn’t until the Warner “wicket” occurred, however, that it was learned the system is in fact missing from this first Test after breaking down upon arrival from the UK. The job of checking the front line has returned to the middle until the system is fixed, with Rod Tucker the umpire who missed these initial no-balls. Host broadcasters Channel 7 later showed that in fact some 14 deliveries from Stokes’ initial five-over spell were similarly illegal due to over-stepping, a problem not just for the bowler but costly for the batting side also.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Dec 9, 2021 18:43:46 GMT
Why do they need a 4 camera system? How hard is it to just use the run out cameras? There's the line. There's his foot. It would give the third umpire something to do between balls rather than twiddle his thumbs.
Anyway, England should forget about the score when they bat again and just bat like it's day one and they're building a total. Burns needs an innings to retain his spot, Malan has another opportunity to show he can be an effective #3,.Root has another chance to leave a mark on the series. Stokes is injured which is a bugger. Pope and Buttler both have another chance to get to 30 odd and go on this time. If they get shot out for something sub 200, they might as well mail in the scores for the next 4 games. All they have in reserve is Crawley, whose a utility but can only fill one spot.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Dec 9, 2021 19:10:15 GMT
7-343 at stumps. England tried hard in the field but had little to show for it. The fielders let down the bowlers badly which met, in spite of excellent bowling from Wood and Robinson, a respectable second was all England could manage on a day they needed to dominate to get back into the game. This is looking like the feeblest England outfit since the mid 90s. As a matter of fact 1994-95 is a pretty good comparative. Good bowlers in Malcolm, Fraser and Gough creating scores of chances for inept fielders to put down while their batters consistently struggled to make 200. Going to be a long summer for the tourists. I think the batting in 94/95 is better than this lot, Root excluded. Gooch, Atherton, Stewart, Thorpe, Hick and Ramprakash should’ve gone a lot better than what they did with the bat, but you’re right about the fielding - not the nimblest group I’ve ever laid eyes on. I'm starting to think that, in Australia, you don't need to exclude Root: he's excluded himself. England's 94 batting might look better, but they were rolled for 167, 212 and 91 in the first two tests. Thorpe was the only one of those you mention who scored a hundred. Their other batting heroes were Mike Gatling (100 at Adelaide),Phil DeFreitas (88 at Adelaide and Man of the Match) and Darren Gough (51 at Sydney coming in at 7-198). Anyway, we just don't seem to get great Ashes series in Australia. Not that this was ever likely to be one given the "talent" on show from England, but it is annoying you get 2-1, 3-2, 2-all series in England and 4-1, 5-0, 4-0, 5-0 here. Even 3-1 in 10-11 had 3 innings victories to England. Just one good game out of five would be nice. |
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Dec 10, 2021 1:52:17 GMT
Australia 425 all out. Head making 152. But of justice for Wood with two late wickets giving him 3 for the innings.
DRS saves Burns' career overturning an lbw. For me it looked not out live, though all the commentators thought it was stone dead.
I hope they don't keep bowling on Burns' leg stump once he's in. Looks like he has a decent leg glance and they might bowl him into form. Given his fielding, having him in the XI may not be a bad outcome anyway.
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