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

[010203]

Smith has his collar up which means Marnus has to as well.

 

[philreich]

Must be a decent pitch - Duckett is still there.

 

[Run n Spread]

Some swing but will lessen as ball gets old. No.seam so.far. should have gone the spinner.
Looks green but not doing a lot.

 

[Bedi]

Hopefully England bat all day,we want a 5 day test.

Agreed, but just so long they're plenty of wickets down.

 

[dogs105]

Thanks for the important revelation that that ball hit him outside of the line...

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Duckett can't defend

Needs to slog

 

[Gethelred]

The Barmy Army are great value. By and large great people also.

They're also rather loud and don't really pay much attention to the cricket. There's plenty there to be irritated by.

 

[Bedi]

First near chance of the morning

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Lol Gimli rides a wave of luck not even Mick Fanning could manage

 

[cats_09]

Thanks for the important revelation that that ball hit him outside of the line...

I still wouldn't have minded if the umpire gave him out for not using his bat

 

[010203]

Mid pitch conference
Duckett to Crawley (possibly)
“Things are going a bit slowly here, time to ramp this scoring rate up”

 

[eddiesmith]

Is it every bowler's worst ground?

Sir Scott Boland, 17 wickets @ 8

 

[Gethelred]

This much carry on a Sydney deck?

This is bouncier than Brisbane was.

 

[Foreign Legion]

Zero crowd atmosphere

 

[MarcMaverick]

Geez Crats is wasteful.

 

[Jack Lord]

Eh. A very underwhelming feel leading into this test.

It seems like our blokes have checked out and England are probably not that fussed either. There hasn't even been any decent chirp.

The short tests have been poison for the contest IMO.

Yep. I listened to a thousand ashes podcasts in the lead up to the previous tests. This week barely nothing.

The Australians are ambling between overs. They don't feel on.

Hopefully this test can grow into something. It's been an ordinary Ashes.

 

[HBF]

Time for a spell Mitch.

 

[Drakescoffeecake]

Pressure is off and Duckett starts performing, does he support Port Power?

 

[010203]

That was arsey from Duckett.

 

[dogs105]

I still wouldn't have minded if the umpire gave him out for not using his bat

Like the good old days!

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Sir Scott Boland, 17 wickets @ 8

So yes

 

[MarcMaverick]

Duckett is murdering Starc here

 

[Bedi]

Zero crowd atmosphere

Not unusual. Even the MCG is deathly quiet the first half hour with 90K in attendance. Almost a bit eerie

 

[k31th]

if it'd been a Zinger box, Head would have reacted faster and got to that one

 

[Moonwatcher]

BOOM