Test The Ashes Fifth Test January 4-8 1000hrs @ The SCG

[satty]

Brook has a triple hundred in a Test to his credit.

Doesn't come across as someone with the patience to score big.

 

[grumbleguts]

Starc is doing nothing, get rid of him ffs, why is he even there.

 

[Topkent]

What about the dozen times we've seen the bowler beat the bat? Listen, maybe test cricket isn't for you. What time's the clown cricket on tonight? You can put your buckethead on and settle in for that

Woah they beat the bat a handful of times in a day peak test cricket.
I ****ing hate t20 bet you'd love it tho it's all about the batters doing what they want and bowlers are irrelevant seems to be your favourite type of cricket

 

[Crankyhawk]

I didn't realise until just now that England won the toss 4/5 this series.

tbh I believe that the visiting team should be given the choice - ie do away with the toss completely - this will eliminate gaming by home team groundskeepers

 

[Dixie Flatline]

Boland finding some demons in the pitch.

 

[Plugger35]

David Mitchell's written a book about his love for cricket.

Him and Robert Webb did one of my favourite comedy sketches about cricket by two guys that don't know much about cricket.

 

[SportsCentre]

The Richies retiring after this test?
Another reason to take the SCG test away

 

[PhatBoy]

Seems like joe root is the last remaining batter who has the temperment and the skills to score a double or triple hundred in a test match.

Apart from the guy who was the fourth wicket to fall in this innings who scored one a little over a year ago against Pakistan

 

[Del35196]

Square leg umpire will be at fine leg soon

 

[badgrill]

Woah they beat the bat a handful of times in a day peak test cricket.
I ****ing hate t20 bet you'd love it tho it's all about the batters doing what they want and bowlers are irrelevant seems to be your favourite type of cricket

You really don't come across as all that patient tbf mate

 

[gtrxuone]

England going well here
Time for a mozz,lol

 

[Bucking Beads]

If our batsmen don't fill their boots here they will need to be booted out that door.

 

[the_interloper]

Green might be a handful in these conditions, the ball seems to be zipping about (trying to be positive haha)

 

[Del35196]

Come on Green time to bring up a run a ball century

 

[Crankyhawk]

yay finally had one days worth of cricket. Only one hour behind.. (allowing for loss of one session due to rain)
so we should be negative 15 overs on over rate
(a ****ing disgrace)

 

[Dixie Flatline]

Vaughan up and about

 

[Costanza_]

Him and Robert Webb did one of my favourite comedy sketches about cricket by two guys that don't know much about cricket.

Hah yeah great scene. "I could have won the Ashes... but I bowled a wiiiiide" gets a frequent run in our house.

 

[Crankyhawk]

Apart from the guy who was the fourth wicket to fall in this innings who scored one a little over a year ago against Pakistan

pocket size grounds where any slog = 6 is a little different to full size ground

 

[PhatBoy]

Woah they beat the bat a handful of times in a day peak test cricket.
I ****ing hate t20 bet you'd love it tho it's all about the batters doing what they want and bowlers are irrelevant seems to be your favourite type of cricket

Mate don’t f**king watch it if it’s causing you this much stress.

A team is on a really normal score for a test match and one player has crossed triple figures, two in total have passed 50, and it’s happened against a team missing 3 of their best 5 bowlers.

If that’s your biggest issue you don’t have a lot to be concerned about.

 

[Dixie Flatline]

Green might be a handful in these conditions, the ball seems to be zipping about (trying to be positive haha)

It could well be zipping to the boundary off his bowling pretty quickly

 

[hawkman]

With the amount of playing and missing going on, we probably nick a lot of them and are bowled out for 200

 

[Bedi]

Woah they beat the bat a handful of times in a day peak test cricket.
I ****ing hate t20 bet you'd love it tho it's all about the batters doing what they want and bowlers are irrelevant seems to be your favourite type of cricket

For a 12 year old twerp (which i assume you are) i'm astounded you dont watch the Big Bash

 

[danielnajdek]

With the amount of playing and missing going on, we probably nick a lot of them and are bowled out for 200

That's how it usually goes in Tests.

 

[Dump Truck]

Man, I find the cricket ads absolutely embarrassing this year. They were never great, but this season’s are unimaginably abysmal. Westpac are the biggest culprits. Whoever came up with the idea of our cricket stars barging into people’s homes or offices and yelling like dimwitted arseholes really should be fired immediately. It’s just dire.

KFC is slightly more bearable, but it weirdly continues the trend of our cricketers being presented as annoying rude pricks who steal and/or knock food out of spectators’ hands. It’s… not funny or clever or cool. At all.

The one Toyota ad I always see mercifully moves away from showing our cricketers as absolute psychopaths, but manages to be just as viscerally annoying. And not only annoying but deeply embarrassing for everyone involved. It just makes me feel sorry for poor Glen McGrath.

These ads are so aggressively awful that I’m actually surprised it’s not a bigger deal.

We peaked with "It's a big ad"

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Green now hearing things