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Australia (132 & 205/2) defeat England (172 & 164) by 8 wickets to win 1st Ashes Test and take 1-0 in 5-match series

Which team will win the first Ashes Test?

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Australian commies like Gilly had to patiently endure Vaughan subtle trolling throughout the match. Very nice of Gilly and Warner. They had the last laugh.
 
just tuned in.....wow...2 day match....

unbelieveable


i was just checking England's record in Aus in recent times.

Since 2000, one series win....

A couple of whitewashes

- few and sporadic draws and wins.....


And yet India get bagged as Home track bullies - cannot play outside India.....cannot face fast bowling....Cannot play bounce

Yet - we've won two series back to back in Aus - an amazing achievement....i guess only SAF have matched since the 2000's...
 
What the duck is this.

Head played out of his head and Aus get a dominating win.

Seriously, this Aus team had no business winning this match. England will be deflated after this loss even if it is the first Test.
 
Champ_Pal said:
What the duck is this.

Head played out of his head and Aus get a dominating win.

Seriously, this Aus team had no business winning this match. England will be deflated after this loss even if it is the first Test.
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When i saw Lyon and that debutant tailender batted pitch looked like eased out. It was not a sub 200 all out pitch at all. England contrived to do that against the least threatening bowler of the trio (Hazlewood, Cummins, Starc) without their main cast. It will haunt guys like Root forever.
 
Test finished inside 2 days!!

The result shows that Australia won by a commanding 8 wickets.

The harsh reality is, England at one point, had a healthy lead of 105 runs in the second innings with 9 wickets remaining.

Australia bowled in the right areas. However, it still does not justify losing 9 wickets for just 99 runs. English batsmen only have themselves to blame.

Because of the pacy and bouncy nature of the Aussie pitches, games can change in one session or in the blink of an eye

Travis Head is a headache for many teams!
He may not be as consistent as Steve Smith but he has got the ability to score runs when the team really needs them and more often than not he will succeed. Head showed that the pitch was not as unplayable as England made it look.

Bazball crap only works on flat pitches. In the end that 40-run first innings lead, in a seemingly low scoring game, counted for little
 
Another away Ashes whitewash could be looming for England unless they change their batting approach.
 
Travis Head has done enough to be mentioned alongside Adam Gilchrist as a match winner for Australia in recent times
 
RidiculousMan said:
This is why I don't rate these glass made pacers. They come in bowl great in 1st innings and then go missing in the next.

Same with Bumrah. No wonder he doesn't have a 10fer
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Bumrah has bowled well in second innings many times. His chief issue is when india has spinners, in 4th innings captain rarely allows him to bowl as indian spinners dominate
 
Ben stokes has become a philosopher haha

“It’s the two sides of sport, winning and losing. The emotions are completely different. There’s the highs of winning, and you’ve got to let that go and then move on to the next one, just as you do when you have these emotions. You’ve got to feel it all and then get rid of it.”
 
Head admitted he had come into the match with concerns about his ability to thrive in Tests, four months after his last attempt. “I trained all four days, which is unheard of, just to find a bit of rhythm and get into things,” he said. “I was worried about: ‘Am I capable of doing it still?’ We’ve had such a big layoff off Test cricket, your mind takes you to: ‘OK, I’m facing probably one of the better attacks I’ve ever faced. High quality, high pace, high speed. Am I still cut out for this?’ Losing the toss wasn’t ideal because you take your mind to last year, batting on that on day four or five was extremely difficult against high-quality fast bowling. So I was worried about that. It’s worked out all right, because we finished on day two.” :ROFLMAO:
 
jnaveen1980 said:
Ben stokes has become a philosopher haha

“It’s the two sides of sport, winning and losing. The emotions are completely different. There’s the highs of winning, and you’ve got to let that go and then move on to the next one, just as you do when you have these emotions. You’ve got to feel it all and then get rid of it.”
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Sounds like :saqi
 
I just saw the highlights. Fantastic axe cutting by both Labu and Head. They were thrown off with moving all over the crease. England had no answer
 
England's Bazball approach is not going to work on Australian pitches. The sooner they realize this the better.
 
Head wagon wheel shows he scored just 16 runs down the ground. Mostly square of the wicket. Ideal way to play aggressive cricket.
 
Savak said:
England's Bazball approach is not going to work on Australian pitches. The sooner they realize this the better.
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That is not bazball approach lol Only Brook tried that. Others succumbed due to lack of feet movement. In the 2nd innings pitch was flat. Last Perth test had 5 degree seam movement. That was way more difficult and they had Hazlewood and CUmmins as well. But these guys had much better batting conditions and were up against Starc/ debutant/Boland..The totally squandered it.
 
Fantastic performance from Head and Starc to get a 1-0 lead in Ashes. England good days are yet to come.
 
England over the last few years have had the flattest of batting conditions to aid their so called Bazball. It's not coincidence their batsmen have scored a lot of runs at home. Everything they come up against challenging conditions they fall short. Aussies just have to make green wickets and they can win this 5-0 .
 
Well played Travis Head but I have to say you don’t have loyal fans across the world like some other cricketers have. Maybe @Devadwal , you wanna join his fan club. Atleast I will expect some loyalty from his fans somewhere. :inti
 
Ab Fan said:
Well played Travis Head but I have to say you don’t have loyal fans across the world like some other cricketers have. Maybe @Devadwal , you wanna join his fan club. Atleast I will expect some loyalty from his fans somewhere. :inti
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Seems like Smith threw the idea Head gleefully accepted it. Brought his ODI/T20 game in. In Tests you anyway have attacking field set. He bullied them by exposing the stumps. With 5 fast bowlers that shouldn't have happened. Having said that Head just accelerated the demise. I don't think anyone including debutant opener, Labu had any issues. Even without head they woudl have won probably in 45 overs or so. Pitch totally eased out.
 
Dissapointing from Eng to not capitalize on Aus missing their main attack. Eng was 100+ ahead with 9 wickets in hands, but gave up.

Hope Eng puts up some fight and it's not regular one way flogging in Aus.
 
Buffet said:
Dissapointing from Eng to not capitalize on Aus missing their main attack. Eng was 100+ ahead with 9 wickets in hands, but gave up.

Hope Eng puts up some fight and it's not regular one way flogging in Aus.
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There are a quiet a few technically weak batsmen starting from Crawley in this set up. Nobody has that attitude of Alistair cook who was immensely patient.
 
They should kick out Khawaja and bring in Mitch Marsh. He can offer more. Terrific fielder. Can chip in a over or two. In Amazing hitting form.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
There are a quiet a few technically weak batsmen starting from Crawley in this set up. Nobody has that attitude of Alistair cook who was immensely patient.
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Root needs to step up. He should be able to go big few times despite being a suspect on bouncy surfaces in Aus. He is a fantastic player, it's make or break time for him.
 
England can bounce back in the next test. Self inflicted mistakes, rather than Aussy superiority cost them this match.

A lead of 100 with 9 wickets in hand majority of the time is a match winning position.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
They should kick out Khawaja and bring in Mitch Marsh. He can offer more. Terrific fielder. Can chip in a over or two. In Amazing hitting form.
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I was surprised they stuck with Usman till this Ashes, should have retired him after the India series last year.
 
Buffet said:
Root needs to step up. He should be able to go big few times despite being a suspect on bouncy surfaces in Aus. He is a fantastic player, it's make or break time for him.
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He had much less challenging conditions in the 2nd innings. He just had to see off Starc. He could have handled others. Starc is not even the best of the trio in Tests. Not like he is out of form. He is ranked no.2 or something
 
jnaveen1980 said:
He had much less challenging conditions in the 2nd innings. He just had to see off Starc. He could have handled others. Starc is not even the best of the trio in Tests. Not like he is out of form. He is ranked no.2 or something
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Yah, Root should be able to go big few times. He is in form and Aus missing bowlers. Hope it comes in early part of the series. It would be meanigless if series is lost by the 3rd test and some big scores come.
 
Same race but skillset spart, English players just do not have the mental toughness or discipline of Aussie players. English players just too excitable.

England might dominate one or two sessions (or even an entire day) of a test match and then lose it completely in the 3rd.

Whereas Aussie players, even if they have one or two really bad session or a whole bad day, have got this remarkable ability, discipline and belief to stage a comeback from any situation.
 
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