| Ashes 2023 16:47 - Jun 8 with 103568 views | Hoopstar |
Ah the home Ashes series is almost upon us, my personal favourite sporting event (not down under, that's just generally depressing.) I need something big sporting wise to focus on and quit my worrying about QPR for a while.
Anyone going?
I was at the first day of the World Test Championship at the Oval yesterday. The Aussies looked in depressingly good nick with the bat and their pace attack appears as terrifying as ever.
I think it's going to be an exciting, tough, tense series that'll go down to the wire. I only managed to get tickets to the very final day of the Ashes on 31st July at the Oval, you never know.
I predict...
Crawley to average less than 20 with Duckett getting closer to mid 30s
Brook to really secure his position as an outstanding talent and mainstay of the team
Pope to struggle again~
Root, in what could be his last home Ashes, proving his worth again
Bairstow - haven't a clue which version turns up post broken foot
Broad - an Ashes too far? You'd be mad to write him or Jimmy off.
Robinson to nab Smith at least four times..
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| Ashes 2023 on 22:50 - Jun 29 with 2353 views | MrSheen |
Lords is unusual in that the surface tends to get easier rather than more treacherous as time goes on. There have been some big winning 4th innings totals recently. Losing Lyon is massive (if confirmed). | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 05:23 - Jun 30 with 2239 views | ozexile |
100% agree with you. It's ok going for entertaining the crowd and being positive but you have to respect the opposition you're facing. This is the equivalent of playing rush goalie in the play off final. | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 07:41 - Jun 30 with 2151 views | MrSheen |
I like the suggestion from Australian fans online that Lyon is actually suffering from concussion. Who knew Peterborough had so many fans there? | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 11:03 - Jun 30 with 2017 views | MrSheen |
Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 11:39 - Jun 30 with 1981 views | Nov77 |
Utterly brainless from Brook again.
Thinks it’s a T20 game. | |
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| Ashes 2023 on 11:44 - Jun 30 with 1973 views | DieByYourSide |
Suicidal stuff. | |
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| Ashes 2023 on 11:51 - Jun 30 with 1958 views | denhamhoop2 |
This is as brainless a display of batting as you will ever see Attack Attack Attack is fine and well but try playing the situation from time to time. The problem is the whole macho this is the way we play and Plan A Bazball had a row with a mate in the pub last night where he said it's so exciting well how exciting is it to lose an Ashes 5 0 at home. When you have the Aussies down keep your foot on there throat don't let them up or else at your own peril | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 11:56 - Jun 30 with 1939 views | Nov77 |
They read out a stat saying England attacked 83% of short pitched deliveries in that mad hour yesterday, with the field set the way it was it could only end in one way. Root had already had an escape caught pulling but it was a no ball, so what does he do? Pull again and get caught.
They’re good enough to beat this Aussie team without throwing their wickets away. | |
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| Ashes 2023 on 12:07 - Jun 30 with 1909 views | flynnbo |
Ridiculous batting. The aim is to win Test matches but the Aussies have found us out. [Post edited 30 Jun 2023 12:11]
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| Ashes 2023 on 12:07 - Jun 30 with 1906 views | Hayesender |
This is brain dead batting from England | |
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| Ashes 2023 on 12:10 - Jun 30 with 1887 views | Rangersw12 |
Throwing away the Ashes | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 12:12 - Jun 30 with 1870 views | thame_hoops |
Without repeating what others have said here, and in the media, I just do not understand how England can be so brainless. When the field is set for short pitch bowling, and you keep falling for the same trap over and over again. I just don’t understand. You know what ball is coming, and they aren’t even fast bouncers. The ball that got Harry Brook this morning was a slow long hop bouncer if that is such a thing. Crazy | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 12:14 - Jun 30 with 1871 views | Nov77 |
How many of our batsmen have been out to good deliveries in this innings? I can’t think of one. Each wicket thrown away. | |
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| Ashes 2023 on 12:15 - Jun 30 with 1863 views | thame_hoops |
Stokes got a good ball, he was playing sensibly | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 12:23 - Jun 30 with 1842 views | flynnbo |
Maybe England have made other plans for Sunday. | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 12:31 - Jun 30 with 1819 views | CamberleyR |
I'll say it now, a lead of 90 there's no way back. They'll bat us out of the game, 2-0 down and the Ashes gone for another 18 months | |
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| Ashes 2023 on 12:39 - Jun 30 with 1783 views | ted_hendrix |
Maybe we're not as good as we think we are? or we keep getting told we are.
The ashes are now history.
Ridiculous really. | |
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| Ashes 2023 on 13:02 - Jun 30 with 1723 views | Antti_Heinola |
Well, most people said we'd get hammered before the series, so... how good do we think we are exactly?
Going to be unbelievable when we win this series 3-2 though! | |
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| Ashes 2023 on 13:05 - Jun 30 with 1712 views | GaryBannister86 |
I admire your optimism, Antii, and in fact even if we go 2 down we have proved in both Tests that we can beat them.
Just add a bit of common sense to Bazball batting and we will be OK. I know it's the old if it had gone for 6, would have been a great shot, but that is when you hit that shot on a one-off basis. Whatever Brook was trying to do actually made him look like a No.11, very bizarre.
Only Stokes and Tongue were got out and that can't work. | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 13:10 - Jun 30 with 1690 views | Rangersw12 |
More of chance of QPR winning the league than us winning this 3-2 | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 14:30 - Jun 30 with 1569 views | daveB |
When we played so well last year and in Pakistan there was a fair bit of common sense in how we batted, very aggressive but when under pressure see through those tough spells. We've been a bit brain dead at times so far in the ashes not really reading the situation
Although should say England having a batting collapse is not a new thing, we've done it in every ashes series I can remember | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 15:10 - Jun 30 with 1505 views | connell10 |
We gotta a wicket. bazball rules | |
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| Ashes 2023 on 15:58 - Jun 30 with 2901 views | GaryBannister86 |
Exactly. We didn't bat like this in Pakistan. All this "go even harder" business has actually fried their brains. I hope Baz comes out and says that rather than "we didn't go hard enough". Basic mistakes here.
There is more to cricket than the Ashes. We need to learn and improve rather than throw it all away. It is a top-class Aussie side too. | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 16:44 - Jun 30 with 2788 views | westy |
So then most people will be right on the shitshow we’ve been delivered so far | | | |
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