| Ashes 2023 16:47 - Jun 8 with 102599 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 15:21 - Jul 6 with 2207 views | MrSheen |
Scotland just blasted out of the next 50-over world cup by the Dutch. The Dutch not only needed to win, but had to do it in 45 overs. West Indies only won one game in the Super 6, against Oman. |  | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 15:30 - Jul 6 with 2189 views | robith |
Catches win matches, put them down at your peril |  | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 15:34 - Jul 6 with 2162 views | Nov77 |
How do we turn a dominant position into a vulnerable position so quickly?
Serving up pies to marsh, doubt he’ll ever score an easier century.
Two dropped catches have cost us over a hundred runs so far. |  |
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| Ashes 2023 on 16:12 - Jul 6 with 2089 views | ted_hendrix |
Four catches dropped today. |  |
| My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic. |
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| Ashes 2023 on 16:28 - Jul 6 with 2055 views | robith |
Wood is just so transformational for this attack. That pace can bowl England back in at any time | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 16:37 - Jul 6 with 2015 views | toboboly |
Mark Wood.
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| Ashes 2023 on 16:39 - Jul 6 with 2011 views | daveB |
Another great test match this, shifts one way to the other, England been so good since tea
Wood obviously made a big difference, Woakes been very good as well [Post edited 6 Jul 2023 16:41]
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| Ashes 2023 on 16:48 - Jul 6 with 1982 views | w7r |
Wow, Mark Wood.
Back in it. |  | | |
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| Ashes 2023 on 16:48 - Jul 6 with 1977 views | flynnbo |
That's what sheer pace coupled with skill brings you. |  | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 17:35 - Jul 6 with 1925 views | Hoopstar |
Alex Carey once again showing the worth of playing an ACTUAL wicket keeper. No way that Bairstow catches that Duckett chance.
Poor shot from Brook to get out. We need a big innings from Root again. | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 22:23 - Jul 6 with 1763 views | R_from_afar |
| Ashes 2023 on 16:48 - Jul 6 by flynnbo |
That's what sheer pace coupled with skill brings you. |
Apparently, he bowled the fastest spell in test history, averaging 90.1 MPH!  |  |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| Ashes 2023 on 23:26 - Jul 6 with 1709 views | Guppy22 |
| Ashes 2023 on 17:35 - Jul 6 by Hoopstar |
Alex Carey once again showing the worth of playing an ACTUAL wicket keeper. No way that Bairstow catches that Duckett chance.
Poor shot from Brook to get out. We need a big innings from Root again. |
Totally agree, Foakes in the England team and he takes the majority of the catches Bairstow has dropped as well as the stumping in the first test, that’s been the telling difference the fielding and especially the wicket keeping |  | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 03:50 - Jul 7 with 1644 views | Benny_the_Ball |
Catches win prizes. What do catches win? |  | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 11:01 - Jul 7 with 1528 views | Nov77 |
Root gone second ball, terrible shot. Need another miracle innings from stokes now. | |
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| Ashes 2023 on 11:02 - Jul 7 with 1526 views | Monkey_Roots |
Jesus. |  | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 11:13 - Jul 7 with 1508 views | flynnbo |
| Ashes 2023 on 23:26 - Jul 6 by Guppy22 |
Totally agree, Foakes in the England team and he takes the majority of the catches Bairstow has dropped as well as the stumping in the first test, that’s been the telling difference the fielding and especially the wicket keeping |
In addition, there are the byes and leg byes. | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 11:28 - Jul 7 with 1486 views | Ranger_1969 |
| Ashes 2023 on 11:13 - Jul 7 by flynnbo |
In addition, there are the byes and leg byes. |
Awful shot from Bairstow - has to be dropped now surely? | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 11:34 - Jul 7 with 1478 views | TheChef |
| Ashes 2023 on 11:28 - Jul 7 by Ranger_1969 |
Awful shot from Bairstow - has to be dropped now surely? |
Of course he should, but they won't do it as that would be to admit they got that selection wrong.
Series gone so won't make any difference anyway. |  |
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| Ashes 2023 on 12:54 - Jul 7 with 1356 views | daveB |
we do make life hard for ourselves, recover well then Moen Ali plays a shot like that, absolutely stupid | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 13:13 - Jul 7 with 1301 views | TheChef |
Sloppy, complacent and dumb.
Fair play to Aus who have prepped as best they can and not put a foot wrong. | |
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| Ashes 2023 on 13:30 - Jul 7 with 1256 views | Nov77 |
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| Ashes 2023 on 13:39 - Jul 7 with 2980 views | TheChef |
| Ashes 2023 on 13:30 - Jul 7 by Nov77 |
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Especially when you do it once, get it away with it, but still do it again and get out. | |
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| Ashes 2023 on 14:33 - Jul 7 with 2871 views | daveB |
Stokes is incredible, another brilliant innings | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 15:02 - Jul 7 with 2800 views | denhamhoop2 |
| Ashes 2023 on 14:33 - Jul 7 by daveB |
Stokes is incredible, another brilliant innings |
Actually think he is a better player when not fully fit seems to make him just think much smarter the problem is sooner or later he will try and bowl England to victory and it will finish his knee off for good. Think he may have got past Botham as my favourite ever England player and that is some accolade | | | |
| Ashes 2023 on 21:29 - Jul 7 with 2652 views | terryb |
Away from the test match, I see that in the T20 the south rules!
Essex, Somerset & Surrey in the semi finals & Hampshire almost certain to join them. | | | |
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