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

[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?

 

[Gethelred]

Root is one of the best ever at that glide through backward point/third slip, but it is also how he goes out in Australia to Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins.

 

[MarcMaverick]

Slow over rate.

 

[Gethelred]

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.

You are welcome to stop watching or posting about it at any time.

 

[MarcMaverick]

Ben Stokes is the second Kiwi I know thats played for England.

 

[kozi]

Can't wait for Stokes to get castled by a straight one and then make it look like he's just copped the greatest ball in the history of cricket

He spent a full day last week rehearsing the pink ball and lights excuse in front of a mirror

 

[Donakebab]

Ooof flognuts got lucky there. Good signs.

 

[norway blue]

Lucky there.

 

[k31th]

amazing Stokes got away with that... cracking delivery from Neser

 

[Gethelred]

Neser getting movement in the air is promising.

 

[Bucking Beads]

So I've booked tickets that are in the sun for the first session and a half. Oh well. The beers will have to get me through that shit show

 

[Bucking Beads]

amazing Stokes got away with that... cracking delivery from Neser

Stokes has had way too much luck already today