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Australia reach 343/7 (lead of 196) at Stumps on Day 2 in the 1st Test vs England

Ruthless cricket by Aussies. Almost 350 runs scored at over 4 rpo and S Smith didn't even join the party. Typical bullying by them today, English pulverized to submission in just 2 days of the opening test. Mentally they must be so deflated.

Lead spinner, 11 overs, 95/1, you simply can't allow that to happen down under. Before he was introduced to the attack, the Aussies were stifled, then a 17 runs over and they rode the momentum from there.
 
Always a big fan of Australian brand of cricket. When they are on top they go for the kill.

Yeah if they sense fear in opposition they just go for complete domination. Only way to stop them is to dry up runs in Test matches.. and play to their ego, Else very hard to contain them on Australian featherbeds.
 
Top knock from mini AB could this be the making of him. That beamer tho don't think I've seen one more nastier than that. Scary stuff lucky he had the glove in the way.
 
There's still plenty in the wicket wouldn't be at all surprised if England get rickrolled once again in no time. Haven't seen a more lively Gabba pitch in a long, long time. The outfield looks sluggish as well so will be that much harder.
 
Could have done without the Head innings.

A chastening day for an England fan.
The assault on Leach was ruthless and effective. He has hardly bowled since India and it shows.

With Stokes clearly not match fit to bowl, this put pressure on the main three. They were lionhearted, bowling sixty overs between them at under three an over in a humid 30 Celsius. But they will be very sore tomorrow while the Australian trio are fresh as daisies due to the England collapse.

Now we need a massive rearguard action in a team with no defensive players. Oh my Cook and my Trott long ago….
 
Current RR: 4.09
• Min. Ov. Rem: 14.1
• Last 10 ov (RR): 59/1 (5.90)


This says it all about English Bowling effort.

I thought the bowling effort was very good. Full marks for effort.

Remember that they have had very little match practice and so not many overs in their legs.

Stokes isn’t match fit, Leach totally undercooked, and Robinson went down with cramp later on.

They are not being supported by good catching either.
 
A 156-run partnership from David Warner and Marnus Labuschagne and a Travis Head century has pushed Australia into a commanding position on day two of the first Ashes Test in Brisbane.

Australia finished the day on 343/7, 196 runs ahead with Head and Mitchell Starc at the crease.

Following the rain at the backend of day one, Australia began their innings at the start of day two, with the first session prolonged by half an hour. Looking to make early inroads, England struck through Ollie Robinson, with the tall quick removing Marcus Harris for three.

After a lean run against England on the 2019 tour, there was an air of déjà vu to Harris' dismissal, with Robinson finding a hint of seam movement, and drawing an outside edge to Dawid Malan in the slip cordon

Marnus Labuschagne joined David Warner and prevented an early double blow, seeing off his first eight deliveries before opening his account with a boundary through the gully region. Three balls later, Labuschagne doubled the dose with a drive down the ground.

Ben Stokes took over from Mark Wood, and looked to have removed Warner with a peach, disturbing the left-hander's off stump. Stokes was subdued in his celebration, and his intuitions proved true, as he had overstepped for a no-ball.

Warner made the most of the reprieve, moving into the thirties, when Joe Root turned to the spin of Jack Leach to break the 51-run stand.

Leach's first over went for a solitary run, though the batting pair liked what they saw, exploding with a glut of boundaries.

Warner whacked two sixes in the space of three balls down the ground, and in the finger-spinner's next over, Labuschagne joined in with one of his own over mid-on.

Leach was taken out of the attack, though the Aussie onslaught continued, as the pair in the middle ticked over a one-hundred run partnership. Labuschagne passed fifty before lunch, with his partner reaching the mark after the break, and after a second life, when Rory Burns dropped him behind the wicket.

Australia's pair continued, moving past England's score halfway through the second session, though Leach hit back to break the stand, undoing Labuschagne with extra bounce off the Gabba surface.

Steve Smith opened his account with a mistimed whip through mid-on, continuing the team's attack of Leach, who despite the wicket was given no time to find rhythm at the bowling crease. Even with the wicket, Leach's economy was still close to eight an over.

As the day progressed though, England started to play their way back. Smith edged to 'keeper Jos Buttler for a dozen off the bowling of Mark Wood who was justly rewarded for being one of England's best, and Warner, struggling to find a rhythm after tea, met his end. Misjudging a fuller Robinson delivery, the left-hander, caught in two minds, popped a catch to Ben Stokes. Warner departed for 94 - just the second time Warner has been dismissed in the nineties in Test cricket.

With his tail up, Robinson struck again with his very next ball, hitting the top of Cameron Green's off-stump as the No.6 shouldered arms. Alex Carey, in his debut innings, negotiated the hat-trick ball. With wickets tumbling at the other end, Carey, making his debut, did well to bide his time.

The two batters put on a quick 41-run partnership in 55 balls, with Head once again doing the bulk of the scoring. He smashed Ben Stokes for three boundaries in an over and deposited Joe Root into the stands.

Carey soon departed for 12, mistiming a pull straight into the hands of Ollie Pope, giving Chris Woakes his first wicket of the game.

Joined by skipper Pat Cummins at the crease, Head continued to bat with intent and put the pressure back on England after the wicket. He brought up a run-a-ball half-century in style by swatting Wood to the boundary.

Jack Leach took the brunt of the punishment after Head reached the milestone as the Aussie duo at the crease accumulated 25 runs in the next two overs of the left-arm spinner.

With Leach leaking runs at an economy rate of close to 9, Root decided to bring himself on to bowl and the move paid immediate dividends as Cummins was caught at leg slip trying to guide the ball on the pads to the fine leg region.


Head continued to punish the loose deliveries and soon brought up his third Test century in just 85 balls. Head needed just 34 deliveries to get to his second milestone of the day, becoming the first batter to score a hundred at the Gabba in a single session of men's Tests.

Mitchell Starc and Head took Australia safely to stumps at 343/7, with a massive lead of 196.
 
No, the rules were changed last year so that it's mandatory for the third umpire to check every delivery. It's pathetic umpiring and the third umpire needs to be taken to task for this.

This video explains why the umpire isn't to blame that much:

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No, the rules were changed last year so that it's mandatory for the third umpire to check every delivery. It's pathetic umpiring and the third umpire needs to be taken to task for this.

The technology to allow third umpire to check the frontfoot had gone down before match started.
This test is being played under the previous playing conditions where only wicket-taking deliveries are checked.
 
I thought the bowling effort was very good. Full marks for effort.

Remember that they have had very little match practice and so not many overs in their legs.

Stokes isn’t match fit, Leach totally undercooked, and Robinson went down with cramp later on.

They are not being supported by good catching either.

Error has been made in selections. Broad should have played. Leach had a horror day, but given that Aussies have 2 Lefties in top 5 and Starc and Hazlewood also later, Dom bess should have been picked.

No excuses. Poor execution and strategy overall. England need to regroup.
 
England have made too many mistakes in selection and things have unfolded badly on the field. Heavy defeat coming but they can come back in the series for sure. There have been a few positive signs and there are some reasons to have hope. Just need to not mentally crumble.
 
Question to English fans ? Will Root survive captaincy if England lose like 4-0 or 5-0 ?
Or will he be still persisted?
 
Question to English fans ? Will Root survive captaincy if England lose like 4-0 or 5-0 ?
Or will he be still persisted?

50-50.

On one hand — no he surely wouldn’t.

On the other hand — who else is there.
 
Error has been made in selections. Broad should have played. Leach had a horror day, but given that Aussies have 2 Lefties in top 5 and Starc and Hazlewood also later, Dom bess should have been picked.

No excuses. Poor execution and strategy overall. England need to regroup.

Bess should never be picked. He is not remotely test class.

I agree on Broad. With benefit of hindsight it should have been Broad, Robbo, Wood and Woakes, with Stokes and Root chipping in.
 
yeah that is true.Where are traditional English test batters?

There aren’t any! Since 2015 the ECB have been putting everything into finally winning the 50 over World Cup (which they did achieve to be fair) and more 20 over World Cups (which hasn’t happened yet). Test cricket has unfortunately taken a back seat.
 
Bess should never be picked. He is not remotely test class.

I agree on Broad. With benefit of hindsight it should have been Broad, Robbo, Wood and Woakes, with Stokes and Root chipping in.

yeah this was a decent attack. Root will do no worse than Leach. He was absolutely marmalised.
It was a planned attack though which paid off.
 
Bess should never be picked. He is not remotely test class.

I agree on Broad. With benefit of hindsight it should have been Broad, Robbo, Wood and Woakes, with Stokes and Root chipping in.

Is Bess on the tour? Lol

God help us.
 
Everything wrong with English test cricket in the last couple years, if not more, has come to the fore: poor bowling outside of home conditions, poor fielding, poor captaincy and ultimately poor batting. All the intent, preparation, professionalism and skill shown by the white ball team in the last 7 years has been entirely absent in the latter years of Cook and the entirety of Root's tenure.

I'll say it again, a no contest series.
 
Extinct due to T20.

There aren’t any! Since 2015 the ECB have been putting everything into finally winning the 50 over World Cup (which they did achieve to be fair) and more 20 over World Cups (which hasn’t happened yet). Test cricket has unfortunately taken a back seat.

Well the English fans must fume at ECB then. Australia won a T20 WC out of nothing.
England are neither here nor there. ODIs they are good but on pitches with some help they struggle there as well.
Grim chances for them to reach WTC final again this cycle if they continue like this.
But lets see if they can regroup and make a comeback.
 
yeah that is true.Where are traditional English test batters?

In all honesty, England never did much better when they did have traditional English batters but yes, this is surely the worst home and away test batting line up England have ever had. If being useless at home wasn't bad enough, they will be dissected in Australia.
 
Everything wrong with English test cricket in the last couple years, if not more, has come to the fore: poor bowling outside of home conditions, poor fielding, poor captaincy and ultimately poor batting. All the intent, preparation, professionalism and skill shown by the white ball team in the last 7 years has been entirely absent in the latter years of Cook and the entirety of Root's tenure.

I'll say it again, a no contest series.

Agree with all of this, aside from poor bowling.

The bowling is generally very good, and even when it’s average, the effort that they put in is 10/10 every time.

The rest of the team is awful though.
 
In all honesty, England never did much better when they did have traditional English batters but yes, this is surely the worst home and away test batting line up England have ever had. If being useless at home wasn't bad enough, they will be dissected in Australia.

Yeah I mean Burns as an opener is really telling. He would not have been selected as opener in India/Aus/NZ/SA etc tbh. Very weird technique, but he ain't churning it like Smith so he will be under scrutiny.
 
Englands suffering reminds me a bit about how Pakistan fared in Aus.

When they go after your spinner and you don't have an all rounder in the side, Aus can be a brutal place. In Pakistans case they just bowled Yasir into the ground, but Australia tore into Leach to an extent that England were essentially a bowler down.

I feel for Leach a bit. English players are often discared after a bad Ashes series.
 
Agree with all of this, aside from poor bowling.

The bowling is generally very good, and even when it’s average, the effort that they put in is 10/10 every time.

The rest of the team is awful though.

I mean bowling away. England have been poor in this regard whenever the ball has not had some swing or seam. Look at what Wasim and Waqar could do, look at what second tier Akhtar could do, look at what Shaheen does now. Look at McGrath even, possibly the best all conditions bowler of his time. England just haven't had anywhere close to that.

They haven't had a world class spinner since Swann and dropped Ali from a record wicket taking season. Surely the domestic circuit should have better than Bess and Leach.

Then let's look at the "pace" options. Wood and Archer are the only true quicks and both are extremely injury prone, with the latter's pace dropping significantly in recent times and that is his only world class attribute. Pope is Jimmy 2.0, which is great for certain conditions but we all know Jimmy has not been anywhere close to a great bowler in Aus, UAE or India, where you need special bowlers.

England need genuine pace without broken bodies and genuine spin...but as you mentioned a focus on limited overs has hindered that in the test game
 
Yeah I mean Burns as an opener is really telling. He would not have been selected as opener in India/Aus/NZ/SA etc tbh. Very weird technique, but he ain't churning it like Smith so he will be under scrutiny.

Agreed, the technique, or lack of, is atrocious. Where does he even play the ball?
 
Yeah I mean Burns as an opener is really telling. He would not have been selected as opener in India/Aus/NZ/SA etc tbh. Very weird technique, but he ain't churning it like Smith so he will be under scrutiny.

20 single digits including 8 ducks in his 50 odd innings so far. He probably scores run occasionally. But exposing the middle order frequently to new ball means England becomes susceptible to collapses.
 
Aussies have probably batted England out of the game.

Innings win is likely.

Yes, I’m thinking an Aussie lead of 250-300 and an innings loss for England at the start of the fourth day. It’s looking pretty much sealed up already.

Some of the better England batting lineups of old with the likes of Strauss, Cook, Trott, KP, and even Bell and Collingwood might have been able to come back from a deficit like this and get something from the game if they had played out of their skins (and at the Gabba they actually did pull it off once), but not this current team.
 
Question to English fans ? Will Root survive captaincy if England lose like 4-0 or 5-0 ?
Or will he be still persisted?

Iam Chappell said, "Joe Root is a good batsman, but he's not much of a captain. Pat Cummins will be miles ahead of Root as captain by the end of Ashes".
 
Not a good show from England with either bat or bowl.

Unless rain takes away one whole day, a loss is guaranteed for England.
 
Not a good show from England with either bat or bowl.

Unless rain takes away one whole day, a loss is guaranteed for England.

Two days of rain needed I think!

Australia could conceivably win this match on Day 3.
 
Englands fielding and catching poor as usual. wood and robinson bowled well, sadly rest of Attack was poor.

The whole no balls and no technology was a farce, but not a shock.

i said at start of Day england had to get warner early and they didnt.

inns defeat coming up here for england.
 
Misfielding and dropped catches also added to the day 2 hammering. Baby Boycott missed a dolly run-out, Burn dropped Warner at slip, and generally the fielding was not up to scratch.

Stokes is not match fit.

This series will be a drubbing on England.

I just hope England do not blame the Covid bubble etc.

Plus heads need to roll and be examined on why Broad was not playing.
 
20 single digits including 8 ducks in his 50 odd innings so far. He probably scores run occasionally. But exposing the middle order frequently to new ball means England becomes susceptible to collapses.

yeah not good enough. England need to find decent Test openers else they will be in trouble more often then not.
I sense Australians have caught onto his technique and weaknesses, and Australia is brutal place once you get exposed like that. From Crowds to Hotel Managers to Queensland Police to Local Bar man, everyone will remind you of that. Australian media, once they get hold of this will pile on as well.
 
This run out attempt ....

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This run out attempt ....

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Damn! Not sure if I have seen something like this before.

He could've thrown underarm.
 
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