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

[Plugger35]

Quite impressed with Jacks, he didn't look anything like being a good test batsman when he played for the Hobart Hurricanes.

 

[sherb]

Quite impressed with Jacks, he didn't look anything like being a good test batsman when he played for the Hobart Hurricanes.

20/20 isn't the format to display your long form credentials in fairness.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Getting closer to Warner back in the box

I don't know if Warner can be worse than Matty Hayden TBH.

 

[NetworkNerd]

England paying $10 is juicy!

 

[The King!]

Doggett will get a wicket

 

[Scorpus]

Tactically it looks like we are going through the motions again

 

[satty]

It will be ok

Just need to be patient

The wickets will come

The headingley PTSD is real . That fear won't go away until Stokes is sent back to the sheds.

 

[Golumless]

Jacks looks a decent bat.

 

[Coasters7]

Tactically it looks like we are going through the motions again

Not really much we can do other than try to limit runs until we get the new ball and the lights come on. Pitch looks slow and flat.

Positive is we’re either chasing 150-200 during the day or less than 100 starting tonight.

 

[norway blue]

Leave it Jacks.

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

The headingley PTSD is real . That fear won't go away until Stokes is sent back to the sheds.

Tonking 4s and 6s in Australia is much harder to do than Headingley. He can try at some point but he will hole out eventually.

 

[The Lobbster]

Jacks has missed that pull shot 5 times

 

[peternorth]

need a wicket

 

[The King!]

Just waiting for Jacks to get himself out imo

 

[Jimthegreat]

How long is a wicket going to take. It's getting close to half a day.

 

[Plugger35]

20/20 isn't the format to display your long form credentials in fairness.

That's true but even in that format he struggled to score and looked out of his depth but he seems to have improved since then.

 

[FreoRicci]

This is the tactic England should’ve always been using.
But the top 4 apart from Root just don’t have the basics and fundamentals to do so

 

[greatwhiteshark]

Pointless bowling and fields being set here. Just go back to bowling hitting off stump with a regulation field. It’s the best way to get a wicket.

 

[FreoRicci]

How long new ball? Lights coming on soon. Stokes will need to start swinging for his 150 soon

 

[CakeEater]

tough chance but he needs to take that

 

[Peter Bixley]

Tonking 4s and 6s in Australia is much harder to do than Headingley. He can try at some point but he will hole out eventually.

Spot on. Headingley has ludicrously short straight boundaries. He would have been out about six times had it been the Gabba.

 

[Coasters7]

This is the tactic England should’ve always been using.
But the top 4 apart from Root just don’t have the basics and fundamentals to do so

The tactic of playing to the conditions and match situation? Who’d have thought.

Funny thing is, this is where Bazball would actually be handy. Try to hit 150 quick runs and get us in tonight would be the best way to get a win. Feel like chasing anything up to, and possibly over, 350 is doable in the day.

 

[Golumless]

That's a tough chance.

 

[sherb]

There will be a few England top order batsmen sitting there now regretting not toughing it out until stumps last night.

 

[neko]

Can't really figure out how quick that got to him on slo-mo. I think he should be glad he didn't hurt his hands.