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

[ams4crows]

Too scared to bat a few overs so we're gonna slow the game down spread the field and run our only premier bowler into the ground and let them put on another 60 runs

 

[Bucking Beads]

What run figure would you put on not having to bat for 30 minutes under lights?

Whats the average first innings score in test matches at the Gabba. I'd imagine England will still be well under that.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

An utter classic day of Ashes Test cricket.

It’s ebbed & flowed.

As it should always do.

 

[Maddo11]

Obviously we're missing some key players, but this team is definitely built around relying on the odd heroic performance and not performing as a unit.

Props to Starc for carrying again, imagine taking 6/70 and not bowling the oppo out

 

[TY24]

Hell, Hayden just tweeted and said the nudie run is still on.

That’s Grace though, not Matthew.

Not creepy at all

 

[MarcMaverick]

Hell, Hayden just tweeted and said the nudie run is still on.

That’s Grace though, not Matthew.

TBH, I'd rather her commentating than Haydos. Couldn't be worse, could she?

 

[greatwhiteshark]

This pitch is becoming easier to bat on, which is strange on the first day of a day/night test. Leaving all the fielders out on boundary doesn’t seem like a great plan for the last wicket either.

Quite a common trend in modern times, if you bring all the fielders up they can smash yiu all over the place with big bats and short boundaries.
But I am for a deep mid on and mid off bowl full and straight with catches in place behind the wicket.

 

[010203]

It'd be funny if England get to 350 now. Well played Root and Starc. 4 ducks in a score of more than 300. You'd rather bowl England out for 280 and have an awkward 20 minutes or so of batting than risk them getting 350+.

 

[Jeremy Jordan]

What a yuck finish to the day.

 

[jb04]

One day Starc won't get a million wickets and we'll be in real strife.

 

[TY24]

An utter classic day of Ashes Test cricket.

It’s ebbed & flowed.

As it should always do.

It's never as good or as bad as the folk on here make it out to be

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Seriously have a cover in and it’s over 30 runs ago fair dinkum you coward batsmen

 

[saint_]

England could do the funniest thing ever bat out another 6 overs tomorrow costing penalty points.

 

[DaRick]

Well, on the plus side, it's possible for tailenders who average 7 to swipe sixes at night-time.

But we helped them do it.

Kudos to Root...came in with the side under severe pressure, under circumstances where he's previously failed, and scored a ton. Well done.

 

[dogs105]

It'd be funny if England get to 350 now. Well played Root and Starc. 4 ducks in a score of more than 300. You'd rather bowl England out for 280 and have an awkward 20 minutes or so of batting than risk them getting 350+.

* 265

 

[LukeParkerno1]

One day Starc won't get a million wickets and we'll be in real strife.

Luckily we won’t have Doggett again with Pat back soon

 

[Jimthegreat]

I think it’s more than a captaincy thing because this has happened for years, and I’ve seen other countries do it too.

Clearly someone in the coaching or analytics thinks that buying tail wickets is better than bowling the same way you got the previous 7-9 wickets. Beats me.

Yes, happened under Paine, Cummins, Smith, Langer, McDonald. These blokes are paid 100's of thousand of dollars not to see things that us mugs on the couch can see as obvious. Frustrating day, poor captaincy, poor bowling, bar Starc, poor team selection. Whatever could be poor, bar Starc, was poor. Now a 61 run 10th wicket partnership when we could've had them out for 270. Having the field out for Archer, watching balls fall into places 50m from the fielder because they were all on the fence.

 

[ABAB]

One day Starc won't get a million wickets and we'll be in real strife.

Hopefully Cummins and Hazlewood will be back then.

 

[Young Redleg]

That was so ****ing annoying. I wouldn't trust this current batting line up with my life to surpass a 330+ score

 

[Bucking Beads]

If we can get Grace Hayden to do a nude run then I'm all for it.

 

[Visions]

Ponting thinks England's ahead too, funny that.

Hard to disagree. That last wicket partnership has put them there.

 

[SC_Power]

Archer already in the top 100 #11 test innings of all time

6 more and he moves into top 50

 

[Jimthegreat]

Next Test, Cummins, Richardson, Lyon in. Boland, Doggett, and Neser out.

 

[Southerntakeover]

Whats the average first innings score in test matches at the Gabba. I'd imagine England will still be well under that.

Then look up day / night game

 

[ams4crows]

That would have to be close to the worst closing half hour of a day of all time in the field wouldn't it.

Edgbaston where stokes won it and we dropped a catch missed a run out and burnt all our reviews so didn't have one when he was plumb lbw