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

[LukeParkerno1]

Getting a bit worried we might need to send down 20 overs of nude nuts from Head and Labu to get back to something resembling parity.

Hastag Marnus warming up for his mediums lol

 

[balmainforever]

5 minutes an over is deplorable.

 

[kozi]

135.7kph bouncer kept at the stumps. Seriously this is bloody impressive

That one take sealed his spot in the team for the next 10 years

 

[Around the Wicket]

2-98 in the 2nd should be a England session again

 

[balmainforever]

Just got home. Flat deck? Average bowling? Or poms just playing decently?

I reckon bowling too short and too much of the same thing.

 

[Plugger35]

We haven’t bowled a yorker since 1995

The Aussie bowlers need Wasim Akram to give them some tips.

 

[Burtonsgottago]

Nice shots of Brisbane at sunset<Nice shots of Adelaide at sunset

Doesn’t compare

 

[Struggle]

Might get the second new ball under lights tomorrow night at this rate

 

[Stottzy]

Just got home. Flat deck? Average bowling? Or poms just playing decently?

Root batting with a lot of patience. Not throwing his wicket away.

 

[Around the Wicket]

The bowlers need Wasim to give them some tips.

I don’t think they’d get away with what that old Pakistani team use to do with the ball

 

[Lunchtime]

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.

Starc is good. Wasim is better. Wasim in another league. Anyone who thinks that Starc is better than Wasim has a poor feel for the game and is poor at assessing players.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Brisbane along the river at night is the money shot

Can't say I've ever deep thrusted into the Brisbane River but each to their own.

 

[TigerCraig]

Just got home. Flat deck? Average bowling? Or poms just playing decently?

D) All of the above

 

[Lunchtime]

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.

Exactly. Wasim bowled to batsman who put a price on their wicket and didn't throw their wicket away. Just easy wickets for Starc.

 

[Bradesmaen]

Starc is good. Wasim is better. Wasim in another league. Anyone who thinks that Starc is better than Wasim has a poor feel for the game and is poor at assessing players.

Wasim was one of the greatest of all time. Starc is a good player who isn't even the best in his generation.

 

[Scorpus]

Funniest timeline is a massive collapse at the other end leaving Root stranded in the 90s not out

 

[Plugger35]

Why am I watching an interview on Ch7 with Chris Fagan talking about the Brisbane Lions? I thought I was watching test cricket.

 

[Ohitsthatguy]

Welp, this session decides the match

 

[Peter Bixley]

Just got home. Flat deck? Average bowling? Or poms just playing decently?

Root has played well. The others were just able to throw their hands at tame bowling (apart from Starc). Boland quite tidy in fairness.

Getting Cummins and Hazlewood back sooner rather than later would probably see off England. The extra bounce and pace would expose their technical deficiencies on Australian wickets.

 

[HitTheNailOnTheHead]

Bailey is an idiot and becomes a bigger one with each passing Test.

Gave a word salad explanation.

“Very much it’s a one-Test decision. Nath will play in Adelaide,” Bailey said.
“It’s just how you think you’re going to structure up the resources and how it’s going to be used when it gets dark, when you think you’re going to be using seam bowlers, how many bowlers get used in a day, when you think the new ball is going to be available, that sort of stuff.”
Bailey added there were “a number of factors” at play.
“I wouldn’t like to be going down a path where you’re saying it’s purely the wickets or purely the way the game’s been played and certain games not going as deep into days four and five,” he said.
“It’s probably just highlighted with Gaz because there’s been years where he has (bowled a lot) and his ability to bowl long spells, go at two an over and do that sort of stuff. It just hasn’t quite panned out that way.”

Lyon’s reaction to being dropped revealed

Selection chair George Bailey has detailed what the veteran spinner told him when he was axed and when Pat Cummins would play in the Ashes series.

thenightly.com.au

 

[MarcMaverick]

Gave a word salad explanation.

Lyon’s reaction to being dropped revealed

Selection chair George Bailey has detailed what the veteran spinner told him when he was axed and when Pat Cummins would play in the Ashes series.

thenightly.com.au

He learnt from the best.

 

[SC_Power]

Why am I watching an interview on Ch7 with Chris Fagan talking about the Brisbane Lions? I thought I was watching test cricket.

Be thankful it’s not Nick Daicos.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Funniest timeline is a massive collapse at the other end leaving Root stranded in the 90s not out

Please!!!

 

[Bucking Beads]

Why am I watching an interview on Ch7 with Chris Fagan talking about the Brisbane Lions? I thought I was watching test cricket.

We're kings of the jungle that's why! You'll understand when you win something ya peasant.

 

[Gough]

How many grams of coke had been consumed by the people who decided that Westpac ad was an awesome idea.