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

[MarcMaverick]

That was an uncontested mark.

 

[Young Redleg]

Starc is carrying the bowling lineup almost the same way Bumrah did last summer

 

[Scorpus]

Terrible effort from England after the position they were in at dinner

 

[010203]

Starc is putting a compelling case for man of the series and we're only in the 2nd Test.

 

[kozi]

Best keeping performance since Ian Healy

 

[Around the Wicket]

Is spider cam a thing anyone enjoys? Surely we can scrap it. The footage was cool when Maxi hit it I guess

Na get nothing out of it

 

[ams4crows]

Haha Starc with 6 now!!

Shame Boland didn't bowl a maiden over imagine root on 98 watching this

 

[damicky]

Starccccccc

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

DRS sucking the life out of one of the best keeper catches you’ll ever see

The 3rd umpire should lose a review for that one

 

[TigerCraig]

Might get themselves out of the slow over rate penalty

 

[Some Idiot]

Is Carey our GOAT keeper now? Unbelievable glove work lately

 

[Pure_Ownage]

Why are they under pressure though?

They're 1-nil up in the series, and are about to bowl the poms out for 300 or so on a batting friendly pitch, despite some average bowling from some quarters.

They are under pressure because we are seeing the cracks in the team that have been there for some time and this is the highest pressure series there is-the media will be all over it.

 

[freo_leo29]

Those side dives used to Careys weakness too but since Warner has left the team Carey has been great at them

 

[Stig O'Hara]

The mighty Old Firm.

Mitchell Starc is golden.

 

[Around the Wicket]

Starc is putting a compelling case for man of the series and we're only in the 2nd Test.

It’ll be interesting to see if he can do it for 5 straight tests, quite a few summers he starts strong and then dies in the ass by the end of it

 

[Snarls Barkley]

Amazing given how low his standard was when he started.

I feel like being the white ball specialist keeper really dropped his standard, probably is hard with the lack of long term continuity because he barely got to play a Shield game during that time. Was definitely a worse keeper after 12 months in the white ball team than he was when he entered

Ever since getting the Test gig it has improved out of sight. Was very good in India too (although his batting was absolutely atrocious)

 

[Gethelred]

There is a heap of footage that is used from spider cam that you wouldn't think was coming from it. It gets down to ground level these days, so alot of those moving shots from ground level behind the wicket etc are from spider cam

I'd be perfectly fine with it ****ing off if keeping it meant we potentially lost a wicket we took fair and square.

 

[DamoESP]

There was a time many years ago when I used to think Starc was just a poor imitation of Mitch Johnson.

So glad he has proved me wrong.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Lucky that Root got his ton when he did as the English tail are folding like a deck of cards.

They weren't going to swing until he got the 100

 

[Xtreme]

One of the all time greatest centuries by one of the best Batsmen of the last 100 years, get around Sir Joe root

 

[ant22]

You normally only notice keepers when the make mistakes. This could well be the best innings of keeping I’ve seen. Some brilliant keeping to pace at the stumps and a couple of great catches

 

[rdhopkins2]

It’s the King Carey show tonight!

 

[Nel_cats]

Disappointing that they let the ordinary bowling carry on for too long and let Root get to 100.

There's also a big difference between root and the other english batters

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Over rate is diabolically shit.

 

[TY24]

I'd be bringing on Head and Marnus for a trundle until about 7.10

Do not want to be facing Jofra in these conditions.