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Been reading reactions about the free hit incident, that it's silly to penalise the bowler after he gets the batsman bowled. But the thing is, the very penalty for a bowler bowling a no ball is that all the avenues of the bowler legally dismissing a batsman is taken away from him the next ball...

Warney honoured in this year's Reddit places canvas. For those who don't know it, it's basically a feature where Reddit allows global Reddit users to draw whatever they like on a blank canvas by placing small pixels of colours on it. Happens every few years and it's happening since April 1 this...

Under the Southern cross I stand...:australia::australia::australia:

Unless Shane Warne's ghost made Cummins declare the innings abruptly, this is looking like a very risky declaration. I love Australia's attacking brand of cricket but they can't piss away a series draw or a potential win here. I get the rationale that they want to make Pakistan think that they...

C'mon Strayaaa!!!

We would've finished two tests within these five days in India.

Nice day for Australia. I expected Aus to either win/draw this series and win in Sri Lanka, they're a far better side than what they were during their Asian tours a few years ago.

This can't be real. A lot of 70s and 80s cricket stars have passed away recently, but it hits really close when one of the stars you grew up watching and admiring is gone too soon. Feels like a part of your childhood is gone. Shane's lifestyle always seemed like he was here for a good time...

Pakistan's pitches don't usually turn as much as India's or Sri Lanka's or Bangladeshi pitches. You might get a turner but it will usually be a touch slow and good for batting. Reverse swing is probably a much greater factor in Pakistan than anywhere else in the subcontinent as their outfields...

Langer has received a lot of bad press during his stint as the Australian coach, at least until his fortunes changed after winning the World T20 and the Ashes. But one thing I admire about him (& Cummins) is that he recognises the importance of the subcontinent tours and said this Australian...

Cricinfo shows Australia indeed topping the rankings table with 119 points. NZ is in 2nd place with 117 points and India is at 3rd with 116 points.

Looking back at James Anderson's career, it's a bit of a black mark that his worst record amongst all teams is against Australia, England's biggest rivals. He has rarely been as effective in the Ashes as he has been throughout his career against other teams in world cricket, except perhaps the...

A word of appreciation for Mark Wood. Seemed like the only player in the England touring squad, along with Broad maybe, who wanted to fight it out till the last test match whenever he played. The English often say they make them tough in the north unlike the posh southerners, England would be...

Reminder that when everyone in England was wondering whether he would have one last Ashes tour in him at 39 years of age, Jimmy Anderson said what pushed him to tour Australia once more was his desire of not wanting the 2018 4-0 Ashes loss being his lasting memory of Australia during his playing...

Is any sporting rivalry in the world as hyped up, but yet consistently produces one sided predictable results as every Ashes series in Australia? India Pakistan in world cups used to be those, but even Pakistan have broken the streak this year. England prepares meticulously every 4 years on how...

I like how Australia, unlike the previous matches, teased England with a ray of hope of winning a test in Australia for the first time in a decade before the usual service resumed.

5 English fans in the stadium making a lot of noise atm..

Root's last chance to score a century and help England win a test in Australia for the first time in his career. He'd have to wait for another chance for some more years if he fails again in the 2nd innings.

England will probably lose this, but this game shows how flawed their strategy of taking a battery of medium fast seamers to Australia in the last few Ashes was. They have to build their pace attack for the next Ashes around Wood, Jofra and Stone, and perhaps include Robinson if he's not...

The Ashes has finally become interesting after 4 test matches.

That's very much true. No tweet yet from Rohit, Pujara, Rahane, Ashwin, Saha, etc., on Kohli's retirement. There seems to be a serious backroom split in Indian cricket that has been somewhat kept under the covers.

From isolating alone in a room at Sydney and binge watching Netflix series while the team was battling it out in the BG trophy about an year ago, to forcing Virat to abdicate his captaincy from T20, ODI and finally Test captaincy as well and becoming the all format captain of India, absolute...

Devastated. He didn't deserve to stay as the LOI captain, but he was a much much better Test captain. He had been building a great legacy in Test cricket and I thought he would go on to beat Smith's record of most wins as captain. He had no reason to retire actually, unless he felt unwelcome to...

I think we are not far from the day when we would see more transparency in how DRS and Hawkeye technology works. Like you could have a future where once a team reviews a decision, you could have a live coverage from inside the truck on how the decisions are made. Of course, we will have no...

Lol I was kidding with that meme.

One thing I'm happy about the series is how all or most of the black players in the team had a very good series, and destroyed all the talk about how "quota" players were destroying South African cricket.

I'm not really sure, but I heard Kohli talking about Supersport something something from the stump mic in the second day before this sh*t happened on the 3rd day, but couldn't hear properly because Nicholas and Pollock were rambling about something else in commentary.

Kohli standing up for the Australian cricket team for the injustices meted out to them in South Africa by Supersport and CSA by making himself the villain. He is not the hero Australia wants, but it desperately needs. P.S.: Hope you beat the infection and recover soon.

Iyer won't succeed outside asia. Will have Vihari ahead of Iyer. Rest the same.

I don't think we need to have this debate again, but for the record, Starc generally bowls well except against India. India is sort of his bogey team in a way. Rahane has been stinking up the shop against all teams in the past 2 years.