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

[TigerCraig]

As long as the foot is behind the vertical line when it lands, it's ok.

Return crease only applies to back foot

 

[Peter Bixley]

England think fielding practice is beneath them.

That session summed up the series - destructive batting, careless batting, loose England bowling, dropped England catches.

 

[getthefooty]

Been dropped 5x
Definetly not chanceless but all 5 were essentially from poor shots as well

Jacks, Jacks, Carse, who else? Second Jacks chance and Carse were probably a <2% chance of being taken.

 

[Joffaboy]

The guy is on 150, he can lean on his bat if he wants too.

Maybe in T20 slaphappy, but you support your partner.
Always a run, he is a dozy fat South Australian trying to get out when the team is still a 100 behind on first innings.
That is selfish.

 

[swanssince2002]

Cant watch it sadly but assumed the dropped catches to get Head out were absolute dollies...

 

[TigerCraig]

Mark Waugh was a lazy player

Needed to get out before the feature races.

Happy to bat through the 1000m maidens.

 

[sherb]

I've lost count. Serves them right for not having a specialist fielding coach.

The specialist spin coach is working a treat for them however.

 

[Forward Press]

Cant watch it sadly but assumed the dropped catches to get Head out were absolute dollies...

One was an absolute sitter (Will Jacks on the boundary) but the rest were tough chances.

 

[brutus76]

Congrats to all in attendance in your variances of pink

LOOKS BLOODY AMAZING on TV

 

[freo_leo29]

Cant watch it sadly but assumed the dropped catches to get Head out were absolute dollies...

Only one

The rest were all half chances at best

 

[PhatBoy]

England think fielding practice is beneath them.

That session summed up the series - destructive batting, careless batting, loose England bowling, dropped England catches.

Well they don’t: ABC commentators literally yesterday were talking about how before play Jacob Bethel(?) took a number of screamers in their warm up fielding drills.

What they are doing however, clearly isn’t working because their fielding has been absolutely f**king terrible come game time, while Australia’s has been outstanding.

 

[Peter Bixley]

Maybe in T20 slaphappy, but you support your partner.
Always a run, he is a dozy fat South Australian trying to get out when the team is still a 100 behind on first innings.
That is selfish.

Agree. Smith gets to the crease and everyone is saying he needs to get Head to switch back on. Sharp running is part of breaking the malaise.

 

[010203]

It helps that his entire renaissance has been since 2021 and the bazball road era.

Ahh yes, Root is the only player to have made runs on pitches that could be described as roads. Smith took advantage of batting on flat decks here, as he should have during that 2013-18 period.

 

[HalloweenJack]

Question for those more knowledgeable than myself. In the final over before lunch Jacks' foot was regularly crossing the vertical line of the bowling crease. I recall Carl Rackemann doing this on several occasions and getting no-balled. Can someone please confirm the rule around this circumstance?

If I recall the laws correctly, it is a no ball if the foot is grounded. If the foot is not touching the crease it's OK. I'm speaking about the back foot.

 

[icyflakes]

The specialist spin coach is working a treat for them however.

The difference is Baz has a spinner mate who he can get on the payroil

 

[Peter Bixley]

Well they don’t: ABC commentators literally yesterday were talking about how before play Jacob Bethel(?) took a number of screamers in their warm up fielding drills.

What they are doing however, clearly isn’t working because their fielding has been absolutely f**king terrible come game time, while Australia’s has been outstanding.

Obviously they don't, but you're argumentative, so you take comments that are exaggerated for comic effect in the most literal sense.

 

[010203]

[PLAYERCARD]Toby Greene[/PLAYERCARD] is one of my favourite non Brisbane Lions players and that Giants doco after the Origin is going to be worth watching.

 

[Juddernaut08]

From this position the target should be to score 600 and bat only once

Lots to play out before we start thinking 600. New ball is just round the corner, and we'd already be 5 down if England could hold their catches.

 

[Around the Wicket]

He would have. Best catcher I have ever seen.

Bar the 5 or 6 Tests before getting moved on, dropped about 10 catches

 

[MarcMaverick]

Nav point Lunch(Day 3) Reached.

 

[PhatBoy]

Obviously they don't, but you're argumentative, so you take comments that are exaggerated for comic effect in the most literal sense.

Fair enough.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Not to let Jacks off the hook and coming from someone who retired from cricket after under 10s: do they do directional talk in the field?

Like a few words to let him know that he was well clear of the rope, just settle and swallow it?

 

[Around the Wicket]

Not to let Jacks off the hook and coming from someone who retired from cricket after under 10s: do they do directional talk in the field?

Like a few words to let him know that he was well clear of the rope, just settle and swallow it?

I don’t even know why he’s selected, rubbish offies that offer nothing, just pick a specialist spinner

 

[Carn The Berries]

Well they don’t: ABC commentators literally yesterday were talking about how before play Jacob Bethel(?) took a number of screamers in their warm up fielding drills.

What they are doing however, clearly isn’t working because their fielding has been absolutely f**king terrible come game time, while Australia’s has been outstanding.

Hitting catches as part of the warm-up is hardly evidence of the Poms caring about fielding practice. They were doing what literally every park cricketer does before an innings, and I'd hardly say most of them give a toss about fielding practice.

 

[cats_09]

Cant watch it sadly but assumed the dropped catches to get Head out were absolute dollies...

This one was