Test The Ashes Second Test December 4-8 1430hrs @ The Gabba

[TY24]

As a shit league cricketer I get how Stokes feels: It's a monumental relief when a self preservation instinct gets you off the mark with a boundary

I'd just be stoked to actually get some bat on one

 

[TY24]

 

[Corkintheocean]

good shot dickhead

Thick as mince this England side

 

[Australian Randall]

Having spent the last day watching some real test cricket from years gone by its really shone a light on how shit the test game is now.
I hope we win obviously but I'm not invested in it.

 

[Around the Wicket]

There's a bit of a quality technique gulf bw Root and the rest of the English bats

I’d actually like to see Root score a few 100s this summer, only real * on his record

 

[Plugger35]

The Great White Shark is in the house.

He's past Wasim now!

Did Wasim ever carry a bowling unit the way this guy has over the last couple of Tests?

(Maybe against us in 1989/90).

Wasim never had the luxury of bowling against Bazballers that threw their wickets away flashing at wide deliveries.

 

[ams4crows]

If we can have the 6 for 200 that probably a par result after losing the toss

 

[Around the Wicket]

Having spent the last day watching some real test cricket from years gone by its really shone a light on how shit the test game is now.
I hope we win obviously but I'm not invested in it.

What are the reasons you class it as shit now?

 

[TY24]

The Great White Shark is in the house.



Wasim never had the luxury of bowling against Bazballers that threw their wickets away flashing at wide deliveries.

I'd wager Wasim didn't bowl the majority of his career on drop in highways

 

[Kapow!!!]

I’d actually like to see Root score a few 100s this summer, only real * on his record

He looks in serious control right now. I feel once he passes 100 it's going to turn into quite the knock

 

[Gough]

I’d actually like to see Root score a few 100s this summer, only real * on his record

You'd have to be pretty churlish to want to deny him one.

 

[PhatBoy]

I'd wager Wasim didn't bowl the majority of his career on drop in highways

You think that’s what Starc has bowled on? Have you been asleep for the last half a decade?

He has absolutely shown he can take wickets on some roads: his record in Sri Lanka proves that.

But as our good friend Eddie Smith likes to point out, his record with a red ball is something like a 30 average from memory so his record has benefitted hugely from the pink, and the recent past has been a gold mine for bowlers in general the world over.

 

[Around the Wicket]

I'd wager Wasim didn't bowl the majority of his career on drop in highways

Pakistan in the 90’s / early 2000’s?

 

[Sonny Hayes]

Webster would have caught it

 

[Kapow!!!]

Stokes has quite the wagon wheel going here...

 

[Bucking Beads]

Last thing we need is to give Ben Stokes some luck. **** he's a bad starter

 

[MarcMaverick]

Pakistan in the 90’s / early 2000’s?

Him and Waqar Younis.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Just not a blokey bloke but neither are most the side now aday.

His love of New York is mental.

 

[SportsCentre]

yeh nah, let's have glaring red Westpac advertising at eye level

 

[MarcMaverick]

Rat out of a flower bin.

 

[MarcMaverick]

yeh nah, let's have glaring red Westpac advertising at eye level

Ztyupid.

 

[peternorth]

Need a wicket

 

[Swanny69]

In all seriousness he’s so much better a test bowler than he was 3-4 yrs ago its crazy .. Hadlee career trajectory on steroids ..

 

[ams4crows]

For the love of God close the gap between gully and third slip that's twice now

 

[Donakebab]

Having spent the last day watching some real test cricket from years gone by its really shone a light on how shit the test game is now.
I hope we win obviously but I'm not invested in it.

Was footy also at its best in the 80s and 90s?