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

[danielnajdek]

Geez Starc and Boland are bowling so well atm.

 

[Some Idiot]

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 absolutely 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.

Bring back the Channel 9 Summer of cricket

 

[icyflakes]

Did the Aussies discuss a groin attack plan at lunch? Crazy amount of nut shots

 

[Plugger35]

Jacks copping one in the Jatz.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Jacks copping one in the Jatz.

Wheres Ben Stokes when you need him

 

[Gough]

Bring back the Channel 9 Summer of cricket

I hope not, it's only been in the last couple of years that I've got used to turning to channel 7 for the cricket.

 

[Bedi]

There were people gagging for this pitch as well can you believe

You're hard to please. Today's had a bit of everything. As did the first hour yesterday.

 

[Dixie Flatline]

England get through the second new ball and 500 is on the cards.

 

[sherb]

Boland appealing for the bowlers' definition of LBW (ie it just has to hit the batsman on or near the pads).

Unfortunately for him the umpire based his decision on the actual LBW definition.

 

[Costanza_]

Because you are actually Mark Corrigan and you’re incredibly perceptive (it was actually Jez that said that)

Mark would 100% be a test cricket tragic.

 

[Topkent]

You're hard to please. Today's had a bit of everything. As did the first hour yesterday.

Like **** it has today's had **** all but a bunch of easy as batting for the English with a couple tough overs at the start of the day. If Smith didn't play such a stupid shot there would have been two wickets for the day. Joe roots on his way to a double hundred how anyone could enjoy watching this shit is beyond me

 

[k31th]

holding on by the skin of their teeth here...

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

England get through the second new ball and 500 is on the cards.

There almost in a position where they can't lose now. Anything upwards of 450 is plenty to play with even on this flat deck.

 

[troybe]

Imagine getting hit in the aggots by Thommo. Euthanise me now

 

[Headless]

Nice shot for no runs.

 

[Westend]

Like ** it has today's had ** all but a bunch of easy as batting for the English with a couple tough overs at the start of the day. If Smith didn't play such a stupid shot there would have been two wickets for the day. Joe roots on his way to a double hundred how anyone could enjoy watching this shit is beyond me

Can you at least give some credit to Root..this is a very good innings.

 

[sherb]

Imagine getting hit in the aggots by Thommo. Euthanise me now

On the plus side, it's given Bumble a story to dine out on for over 50 years.

 

[smasha]

Spin has not been effective at the SCG for years-Vettori.

He's Plugger35in us.

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Like ** it has today's had ** all but a bunch of easy as batting for the English with a couple tough overs at the start of the day. If Smith didn't play such a stupid shot there would have been two wickets for the day. Joe roots on his way to a double hundred how anyone could enjoy watching this shit is beyond me

Root once he's set like this will bat until we get him out with some good bowling. He always looks at ease in this situation. Could very well be once he's 250 when it's too late.

 

[PhatBoy]

Mark would 100% be a test cricket tragic.

Absolutely and be the type to sit at county games filling out scorecards himself

 

[Bedi]

Like ** it has today's had ** all but a bunch of easy as batting for the English with a couple tough overs at the start of the day. If Smith didn't play such a stupid shot there would have been two wickets for the day. Joe roots on his way to a double hundred how anyone could enjoy watching this shit is beyond me

and if there wasn't a mm margin no ball and and a baffling missed catch it would've been 8 for. Just because we're not dominating doesn't mean it's not a good game to watch.

 

[MJG14]

Boland with a decent spell here but no reward.

 

[TasSixer]

see off these two then they'll start bazballing

 

[satty]

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.

 

[Gough]

Mark would 100% be a test cricket tragic.

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