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

[passmark]

No cricket on Ny day is a waste.

Yes.

I mean I’m lying on my sofa hungover for no reason now!

 

[Around the Wicket]

If England win and it ends 3-2 which I'm predicting personally it'll be that what if thoughts spreading.. Australia do it as well.. Ashes the touring side should come couple months prior and play some lead up cricket against the state / county sides.

 

[passmark]

If England win and it ends 3-2 which I'm predicting personally it'll be that what if thoughts spreading.. Australia do it as well.. Ashes the touring side should come couple months prior and play some lead up cricket against the state / county sides.

The shoulda couldas will all be Poms so it doesn’t matter.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

If England win and it ends 3-2 which I'm predicting personally it'll be that what if thoughts spreading.. Australia do it as well.. Ashes the touring side should come couple months prior and play some lead up cricket against the state / county sides.

Or they could have played thier best bowler

 

[Gough]

If England win and it ends 3-2 which I'm predicting personally it'll be that what if thoughts spreading.. Australia do it as well.. Ashes the touring side should come couple months prior and play some lead up cricket against the state / county sides.

4-1 makes it a thrashing, 3-2 and that narrative can change into a few bad sessions cost England the Ashes, not quite a moral victory but they can go home with some positives which a loss in Sydney would rob them of.

 

[kickazz]

4-1 makes it a thrashing, 3-2 and that narrative can change into a few bad sessions cost England the Ashes, not quite a moral victory but they can go home with some positives which a loss in Sydney would rob them of.

2023 Ashes we were a ball change away from 3-1. Instead we got 2-2.

Every Test matters.

 

[passmark]

I hope they do put the series loss down to a bad session or two or bad luck

They’ll keep papering over cracks with that narrative.

 

[Gough]

I hope they do put the series loss down to a bad session or two or bad luck

They’ll keep papering over cracks with that narrative.

Equally you could argue 4-1 might paper over a few of ours.

 

[MarcMaverick]

2023 Ashes we were a ball change away from 3-1. Instead we got 2-2.

Every Test matters.

Especially with the WTC, there are no more "dead rubbers".

 

[passmark]

Equally you could argue 4-1 might paper over a few of ours.

you could argue that but not in any way equally.

 

[Jack Lord]

No cricket on Ny day is a waste.

Back in the time when cricketers were tough enough to play with hangovers they started today.

 

[Cmarsh]

2023 Ashes we were a ball change away from 3-1. Instead we got 2-2.

Every Test matters.

That BS ball change the umps gifted the English in the 5th test was the most under talked about incident in recent Ashes history.

 

[jannissary]

Cam Green to be more hated than telemarketer by Day 5

deservedly so

 

[CakeEater]

Head
Weatherald
SMith
Green
Inglis
Carey
Webster
Starc
Richo
Murphy
Boland

Outs- labs, khawaja, neser
Ins- inglis, murphy, webster

 

[Around the Wicket]

deservedly so

his batting stats are still decent.. would only take a good run to be 40+ in no time.



Doesn't suck in any format.. even Smith has a format he sucks at (T20)

 

[icyflakes]

Fake a sore back

You have to faint-fall on the couch while screaming I AM WOUNDED - may have been me today when I was supposed to be doing my backcountry ski tour exercise prep.

 

[cats_09]

 

[cats_09]

Very good chance he is having those conversations but he is not going to tell the public if he is having them.

Maybe they have been, though the attached article is still a little ambiguous about things

Usman Khawaja appears set to break his silence over his Test future as speculation mounts the batting great may announce his retirement before the Sydney Test.

There is no confirmation at this stage that Khawaja will talk on Friday, but there is a growing expectation he may address media before taking the field for Sunday’s New Year’s Test...

...It’s not certain Khawaja will retire.

At no point has he intimated he saw Sydney as his final stop.

 

[troybe]

I remember Michael Bevans famous last ball four game was NY Day

Makes me feel old thread but happy

 

[Gough]

Look at the thin edge on that bat.

 

[Pistol Night]

Look at the thin edge on that bat.

Crazy compared to the railway sleepers they use today

 

[Around the Wicket]

Crazy compared to the railway sleepers they use today

Warners results when he used that banned bat should be removed.

 

[jannissary]

Crazy compared to the railway sleepers they use today

i have a look at the last bat i bought compared to the shit they produce nowadays and it’s crazy

 

[Pistol Night]

Warners results when he used that banned bat should be removed.

I remember it was near on impossible to clear the MCG fence back in the 80s. Now a gentle chip sends them 10 rows back. Imagine Viv Richards with these cannons

 

[cats_09]

Can anyone please explain why -