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Ashes 4th Test | Aug 6 | England thrash Australia by an innings and 78 runs

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That was the shot of a man who knows his time is up.

Sorry for the guy.
 
How many deliveries will actually hit the stumps on this pitch?

Lol only option to survive looks like leaving as many times as possible, maybe ball will bounce over the stumps in some instances.
 
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The inevitable cricket Australia blood shed is providing me with some comfort.
 
Man Of Steel said:
What in God's name is happening out there? :facepalm: :o WTH??? How can Aussies be so spineless as to lose 6 wickets to this mediocre English attack? This is incompetency at its best, such a shame, I had high hopes from Kangaroos :facepalm:
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Not really a mediocre attack,these are perfect conditions for English bowlers
 
Junaids said:
If I were Pup I'd actually declare now, at 5-21, and try to bowl out England before the green grass dies.

The risk is that if they make 47 all out like in South Africa the opposition then gets to bat after the grass has died.
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Gone are those days when Captains used to take risk for the "Sticky Dog" - I guess, there are about 3 Matches I can recall instantly teams declaring at 60/8, 70/7. 80/8........ sort of score - 2 involving WI with AUS & ENG, another one probably a Ashes Test.

But, I don't think it's only about wicket - half of the wickets are gifted from "over aggressiveness", Aussies are going too hard to the ball & that catch deserves a wicket on any surface.

Anyway, ENG took a risk of bowling first on a Sunny (English sunny that is) morning at Trentbridge & Aussies are feeding them. I don't think if Aussies declares now, ENG 'll be any where close to this mess - there is a bit of movement, but it's not unplayable. Besides, the length Mitchel brother bowls, is not the Trentbridge length. 7 down now & the wicket has hardly anything on this one ...
 
Sun is out.

What purpose it serves hanging around there? Thats counter-productive!
 
It'd be really funny if England "bye" their 1st innings and bowl out Australia again :))
 
Aussies need to find a way past Extras defences, he's the only batsman to put up a fight this morning.
 
This really proves just how bad batting techniques have become since First Class cricket became neglected and Tests started to be played on flat tracks.

I used to go to Trent Bridge from Manchester in the 1980s to watch Clive Rice and Richard Hadlee bowl on much, much greener tracks than this. And while Hadlee and Rice took a lot of cheap wickets, the opposition would usually score between 150 and 280 in an innings.

But this lot don't have the defensive techniques to leave the balls outside off-stump. They are just waving their bat endlessly in the corridor of uncertainty.

Modern batting must be the weakest since the 19th century.
 
UAE pitches for our series will be deader than the dodo at this rate :))
 
India were 8/4 last year in Manchester :P
Thanks to Dhoni's 71, we went past 100.
What an achievement that was :amla
 
The feeling will take some time to sink in.

But I must say that OZ batting needs a close review.
 
Man Of Steel said:
If this isn't bootlicking, then what is?
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A) Are you saying the fact that Johnson that Johnson is batting earlier than he would have been bowling if they'd fielded first is not funny?

B) It's not.

C) Even if it is, where's the posts in the first Ashes test thread which is what you were shedding so many tears over?

D) I'm surprised you have time to cry about this game when you're so busy finding evidence that the moon is a spaceship that is one or two billion years older than the Earth.

Run along and leave this discussion to people who understand cricket.
 
Man Of Steel said:
No Englishmen are mediocre, a good performance against even more mediocre side doesn't make them perfect.
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Not sure they can be called mediocre when by current standards they're probably only behind South Africa (of which Steyn is the largest contributor) definitively with their attack and possibly NZ or Aus.
 
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This is so bad that it loops around to being completely hilarious
 
Junaids said:
This really proves just how bad batting techniques have become since First Class cricket became neglected and Tests started to be played on flat tracks.

I used to go to Trent Bridge from Manchester in the 1980s to watch Clive Rice and Richard Hadlee bowl on much, much greener tracks than this. And while Hadlee and Rice took a lot of cheap wickets, the opposition would usually score between 150 and 280 in an innings.

But this lot don't have the defensive techniques to leave the balls outside off-stump. They are just waving their bat endlessly in the corridor of uncertainty.

Modern batting must be the weakest since the 19th century.
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That Clarke dismissal was one of the worst shots you'll ever see.

Not a surprise that the lower order are playing defensive shots and they're the ones who are hanging around
 
I miss 30 minutes and half of Australia's team is back in the pavilion
 
And another one !

Nottinghamshire police on Twitter - "We're receiving reports of Aussies in trouble..."
 
Crowd giving the Aussies a standing ovation for reaching their 50 :))
 
Junaids said:
If I were Pup I'd actually declare now, at 5-21, and try to bowl out England before the green grass dies.

The risk is that if they make 47 all out like in South Africa the opposition then gets to bat after the grass has died.
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I think I should get not POTW but POT Century for this post.

What's the point of getting 50 or 55 all out when you could have declared at 21-5 and had a pop at England while the pitch still had some green on it?
 
By the way, dear Pakistani friends, just make sure that you don't even think of picking Hafeez and Shehzad as your openers there in 11 months time.
 
Junaids said:
I think I should get not POTW but POT Century for this post.

What's the point of getting 50 or 55 all out when you could have declared at 21-5 and had a pop at England while the pitch still had some green on it?
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Does it matter?

No way of winning regardless
 
Junaids said:
By the way, dear Pakistani friends, just make sure that you don't even think of picking Hafeez and Shehzad as your openers there in 11 months time.
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Yeah i can see Younis Khan tearing apart Broad and co :akhtar
 
Junaids said:
By the way, dear Pakistani friends, just make sure that you don't even think of picking Hafeez and Shehzad as your openers there in 11 months time.
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It doesn't matter who we pick, none of our players can play decent swing bowling.
 
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