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Johnson on fire, can't believe people were writing him off.
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Well at least England get a day off to get some extra net practice in now
wow, crazy fightback really been a very odd series so far close in the scoreline but the two tests have been as one sided as you can get this test smith and rogers finished 3/495 england bowled out twice for 415
Austalia 10/820, England 20/415
Black Sunday, the day that New England got well and truly hung, drawn and quartered
Well at least England get a day off to get some extra net practice in now
You were licking their boots a week ago jumping up and down in euphoria riding their bandwagon, weren't you?
Gut-less performance from England. How do you crash out for 100 when you're playing 8 proper batsmen?
They simply gave up.
Just like we gave up by the 4th and 5th tests in our tour.
When you give up, even the 1 or 2 good batsmen in your side have no motivation to play. By the end of England series, even Rahane and Vijay were playing like tailenders.
Ninth biggest win in terms of runs. Biggest run win ever since Australia beat Pakistan at Perth in 2004. Biggest win by runs by a touring team since 1980. Talk of an one sided test match.
The pitch disappointed me I have to say. The pitch on day 4 was more or less the same as day 2 which sums it up really.
If you keep giving Australia these type of pitches they will butcher you all day long.
They have aggressive batsmen who like to score quickly, and such pitches stimulates their appetite. Most importantly they have multiple bowlers bowling at 144 click an hour which can't be easy for opposition batsmen even on a flat deck. The aggressive approach from their bats gives them enough time to take 20 wickets.
I've seen these guys plunder the best attack in the world scoring 450+ runs in a single day, Australia don't play around they play brutal cricket. How naive of the curators not to live at least grass on the pitch to even things out as the English bowlers are much slower than their counterparts.
I hope there is moisture and a bit of green in the next test, and I know which side will crumble at the first sight of sideways movement.
Good game for us but the scoreline reads 1-1, a lot still to do
No we not only gave it up, England was simply great.
They were outstanding and we were simply crap.
The pitch disappointed me I have to say. The pitch on day 4 was more or less the same as day 2 which sums it up really.
If you keep giving Australia these type of pitches they will butcher you all day long.
They have aggressive batsmen who like to score quickly, and such pitches stimulates their appetite. Most importantly they have multiple bowlers bowling at 144 click an hour which can't be easy for opposition batsmen even on a flat deck. The aggressive approach from their bats gives them enough time to take 20 wickets.
I've seen these guys plunder the best attack in the world scoring 450+ runs in a single day, Australia don't play around they play brutal cricket. How naive of the curators not to live at least grass on the pitch to even things out as the English bowlers are much slower than their counterparts.
I hope there is moisture and a bit of green in the next test, and I know which side will crumble at the first sight of sideways movement.
I am so happy when pattas backfire.
Prepare swing track, seam track, rank turner - anything but these pattas must be humiliated.
I don't think England can recover from this psychological blow.
First thing they need to do is prepare a pukka swing track to get back in this series.
That's would be a good start.
405 Australia's margin of victory in this game, their third biggest in an Ashes Test, in terms of runs. This is also the ninth-biggest win for any team in Test history, with Australia holding five of the top nine spots.
That would probably be even worse as the only times Starc looks absolutely deadly is when it swings. Otherwise, he's mediocre.
England's problems are with their batting. You can't expect your lower order to save you every time when you collapse to 3-4 down for nothing on the board. Bell needs to go, Lyth looks below test standard, as does Ballance. With 3 passengers in your top order, you can't win anything.
CA is going to prepare some massive pattas against the Windies because they're scared of 3 day tests
First thing they need to do is prepare a pukka swing track to get back in this series.
There is no such thing as a "swing track". Some grounds have more orthodox swing than others due to microclimate effects. It is all due to rising moist air. The Australians were swinging the ball more than the Englishmen at Lord's. Anderson is the only orthodox swing bowler England have and he was gun-barrel straight there.
You mean a slow green wicket with lateral movement off the deck where the Aussies will get out lbw and won't be able to score fast.
But England won't get one of those, I think.
There is no such thing as a "swing track". Some grounds have more orthodox swing than others due to microclimate effects. It is all due to rising moist air. The Australians were swinging the ball more than the Englishmen at Lord's. Anderson is the only orthodox swing bowler England have and he was gun-barrel straight there.
You mean a slow green wicket with lateral movement off the deck where the Aussies will get out lbw and won't be able to score fast.
But England won't get one of those, I think.
The pitch disappointed me I have to say. The pitch on day 4 was more or less the same as day 2 which sums it up really.
If you keep giving Australia these type of pitches they will butcher you all day long.
They have aggressive batsmen who like to score quickly, and such pitches stimulates their appetite. Most importantly they have multiple bowlers bowling at 144 click an hour which can't be easy for opposition batsmen even on a flat deck. The aggressive approach from their bats gives them enough time to take 20 wickets.
I've seen these guys plunder the best attack in the world scoring 450+ runs in a single day, Australia don't play around they play brutal cricket. How naive of the curators not to live at least grass on the pitch to even things out as the English bowlers are much slower than their counterparts.
I hope there is moisture and a bit of green in the next test, and I know which side will crumble at the first sight of sideways movement.
The usually dry Lord's track was green last time when we played. So something like that.
You've already won the Ashes, don't worry about it. Englishmen aren't good enough to recover from this flogging.
If we win at birmingham it will mean we are in control of the series until then this is just a nice start to the fightback not job done.
Birmingham is England's fortress, just as Lord's is Australia's. The crowd will get after Johnson and he may go into Sloop mode again. Clarke knows this now and will try to protect him by bowling him at certain times.
Hopefully the Warks groundsman will make a seaming track, to muck the Aussies up with lateral movement which the Mitchell Brothers may be too fast to exploit. But I expect another flattie because that is all what we usually get now.