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

[Bucking Beads]

England have no improvement. This is their best side

They can still get better individually imo. We will see a Brooks ton for sure.

 

[Lunchtime]

The Ashes cricket, second Test 2025: England coach Marcus Trescothick's revelation about batting discussions ripped by Mark Waugh, Phil Jacques

 

[demondavey]

I thought that was a bit of a low blow from Baz. Broad showed so much more fight than the likes of Archer. He wasn't one to easily give up.

He has bigger issues than paying out on Broad. Getting Archer to actually arrive might be a start.

 

[philreich]

Another excellent performance by the weakest Australian team since 2011.

 

[BarryMorgan]

I saw Skull one Boxing day and he was massive.

I usually try not to look around when I’m using the urinal.

 

[AJ_2000]

Good old England, always shit.

Some old England.... Always England

 

[Neese]

What’s the medical term for getting a nut pruned? That’s what they have had.

Stokes still trying to get his nuts to descend after that hit.

 

[MarcMaverick]

England need more rounds of golf, surfing in the Coast and time in the Barossa. And the occasional cricket net session.

 

[Sea fog]

Id ask for a trade back to NZ

Just in time for Baz to return and coach his native land.

 

[JimmyBC]

Why do the media fluff up McCullum so much? reminds me of Hinkley he's achieved three 5ths of bugger all & they pump him up.

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

Say what you want about Broad, and we all hated the smarmy upper class git, but he was an absolute campaigner and gave it the kitchen sink. Very proud cricketer. Tough operator. Archer not fit to pour him a cordial.

Never gave no quarter to us and we hated him, but i respect him more than most poms

 

[Lunchtime]

England have basically handed the series to Australia on a platter. Garbage cricket.

 

[Neese]

There's no doubt He jerks himself off to all the hate tweets he gets...

Where's the vomit emoticon?

 

[demondavey]

Never gave no quarter to us and we hated him, but i respect him more than most poms

I reckon he had more ticker than Anderson

 

[MarcMaverick]

Why do the media fluff up McCullum so much? reminds me of Hinkley he's achieved three 5ths of bugger all & they pump him up.

Why not. Its fun.

 

[BarryMorgan]

Why do the media fluff up McCullum so much? reminds me of Hinkley he's achieved three 5ths of bugger all & they pump him up.

All the contrived saviour of the Spirit of Cricket stuff said about him in the latter part of his career still makes me sick. Bloke was an absolute campaigner of the highest order.

 

[Pistol Night]

Where's the vomit emoticon?

Just spew on your phone. Safer

 

[Tyberious Funk]

As a player, Brendon McCullum was a talented, but brainless cricketer. You can get away with that when you have 10 other guys doing the team things. But if you coach all 11 players to play brainless cricket.... you end up with the English cricket team.

 

[MarcMaverick]

Where's the vomit emoticon?

. Something like this?

 

[Visions]

Smith says, "Take that Poms!!!"

Small target costing Smith the quickest 100 in Test history.

 

[GreekLunatic]

Vaughan would be a good coach for this team

 

[Linda Lovelace]

It's a pretty logical concept, if you want to get the trophy back you have to win it back. If you can't do that, it stays with the holder.

Firstly, fetishizing an inanimate object - if you even get to take possession of that object, which you don't with the Ashes - at the expense of striving for victory is in no way a logical concept.

Secondly, there is nothing inherently logical or necessarily historical about having a trophy for a bilateral sports competition anyway.

The Border-Gavaskar trophy didn't exist until 1996. Was that the first time we played India in cricket?

 

[Pistol Night]

As a player, Brendon McCullum was a talented, but brainless cricketer. You can get away with that when you have 10 other guys doing the team things. But if you coach all 11 players to play brainless cricket.... you end up with the English cricket team.

Be like getting Ginni to coach Hawthorn

 

[demondavey]

Vaughan would be a good coach for this team

Spot on

 

[Pistol Night]

Vaughan would be a good coach for this team

You can tell hes livid with how their going