Test The Ashes Third Test December 17-21 1000hrs @ The Adelaide Oval

[Pakenhamsaint]

Getting an extra 50 runs yesterday would have been handy

 

[Crow54]

126 is stll a lot of runs to get.

Plenty of time. They just need to keep plugging away.

 

[Peter Bixley]

Lyon is basically done for the series and that's a blow, but we still have a new ball against a tail and a world class seam attack.

Todd Murphy is a better spinner than England have in their stocks on this tour and will likely come in for Boxing Day.

The king of modern day batsmen will very likely be back.

Just get the job done today. That is all that matters right now.

 

[Portmagpies36]

Getting an extra 50 runs yesterday would have been handy

That morning session yesterday was woeful

 

[Substance]

126 is stll a lot of runs to get.

It is, but once this ball gets overs into it, without Lyon, could be trouble. Need to strike soon after lunch. Aus still 90% for mine.

 

[sherb]

Getting an extra 50 runs yesterday would have been handy

Yeah, let's hope that woeful lower order collapse (6-38) doesn't come back to bite us on the arse.

In reality, England should have been chasing 500+.

 

[aabp1978]

It is, but once this ball gets overs into it, without Lyon, could be trouble. Need to strike soon after lunch. Aus still 90% for mine.

Would say 60:40. this isn’t a traditional day 5 pitch, and we are a bowler down, with one coming back from an injury, one a warning away from not bowling again, and one honest trier..

 

[Cyber_punk]

Yeah, let's hope that woeful lower order collapse (6-38) doesn't come back to bite us on the arse.

In reality, England should have been chasing 500+.

Was just wondering the other day if the Stokes-Archer partnership in their first innings was a turning point. England should have been out for 200

 

[Peter Bixley]

Would say 60:40. this isn’t a traditional day 5 pitch, and we are a bowler down, with one coming back from an injury, one a warning away from not bowling again, and one honest trier..

And Cameron Gr.....ok, point taken.

 

[SparklingAle69]

We've got this.

 

[Zgope1]

bit too much panic in here for my liking. Cummins and Boland fresh out of lunch. have the field set properly, these two don't have the runs in them that Smith did. the Lyon injury hurts but we're up for the battle

 

[eddiesmith]

And Cameron Gr.....ok, point taken.

I thought he was the honest trier and he forgot about statistically Australia’s greatest ever bowler.

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Would say 60:40. this isn’t a traditional day 5 pitch, and we are a bowler down, with one coming back from an injury, one a warning away from not bowling again, and one honest trier..

Green can bowl his overs as a respite to the frontline bowlers, Same with Head. 3-4 overs from each than a Starc or Cummins comes on again. They get a 20-25 min break from bowling. They just have to push through it, last day the urn in our grasp.

 

[brutus76]

a yorker or two wouldn't hurt you know

 

[satty]

Can we just attack the base of the stumps with few yorkers and then set them up with Good length deliveries.

 

[Peter Bixley]

Green can bowl his overs as a respite to the frontline bowlers, Same with Head. 3-4 overs from each than a Starc or Cummins comes on again. They get a 20-25 min break from bowling. They just have to push through it, last day the urn in our grasp.

Seems sensible. Just get the urn. The last two tests can wait.

 

[Jimthegreat]

Let's hope this session is better with smarter captaincy.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Now they’ve run out food, because they didn’t expect humans to turn up today.

 

[Neese]

Let's see what we've got.

 

[Peter Bixley]

Kerry reckons the pitch will now start to show some up-and-down. Hmm...

 

[Pistol Night]

Now they’ve run out food, because they didn’t expect humans to turn up today.

Just the Barmy Army?

 

[Westend]

Let's hope this session is better with smarter captaincy.

Still would rather smudge as captain

Pats a great player and most likely we will win today but in all honesty tactically in the field smudge is better for me

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

If these two get the runs down to <75, they win.

 

[Bedi]

126 is stll a lot of runs to get.

would be nothing short of a miracle if they pulled it off

 

[Topkent]

Don't like Test Cricket? Big Bash is underway jog on.

What a dumb response, test cricket is supposed to be a battle between bat and ball, this wickets been so shit it's basically been a long form one day international with blokes getting out to stupid shots