Australian Cricket Thread - No.3 🏏

[BlueGum]

Mooney 50?

 

[thylacine60]

maybe ensuring they only bat once.........

 

[thylacine60]

420/8 declared........

 

[BlueGum]

great ball perry

 

[thylacine60]

declare ffs!!

 

[Gethelred]

Having rewatched the men's WCF, I have come to the unsurprising conclusion that NZ waz robbed.

Is there any way to watch a replay of the women's test? I've seen some highlights, but it's not the same as watching the games.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

So there’s an official 4 day, one off test between the Poms & the Irish.

At Lords, Day One, full house, Poms win the toss and bat......and after 75 minutes are 6/42!!!

 

[Dadda Dave]

So there’s an official 4 day, one off test between the Poms & the Irish.

At Lords, Day One, full house, Poms win the toss and bat......and after 75 minutes are 6/42!!!

That's gold ..

 

[Stig O'Hara]

7/43......

 

[Blues_1864]

Winning a World Cup would ordinarily deliver 5 minutes of cricketing sunshine...

 

[Stig O'Hara]

8/58........half an hour til lunch.

 

[Blues_1864]

Even the umpires can't keep England afloat

 

[Stig O'Hara]

9/67!!!

 

[Robbo's my hero]

9/67!!!

I’m enjoying this. I’m stuck watching Grand Designs.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Poms all out for 85, before Lunch on the first day!!!

I larfed.

 

[Blues_1864]

"On a surprisingly green surface, England captain Joe Root reasoned if his side could negotiate a tricky first session the pitch should flatten out and offer the best batting conditions of the game."

 

[Robbo's my hero]

Ireland 2/85 after 25 overs.

 

[Robbo's my hero]

2/127 at tea.

 

[Blues_1864]

2/127 at tea.

Talk about uncharted territory! Made a mess of it in the evening though, and England are still in the game, which is pretty amazing. Irish need to get amongst it this morning, because if England can find 300 in the second innings, they probably win .

 

[Robbo's my hero]

Jack Leach, the night watchman, has scored more than England’s first innings. 89*!

 

[Gethelred]

I'm going to say this, though; the balls that got Root and Bairstow in the first dig were absolute peaches. Root got a ball that swung out and seamed back in to hit the top of middle, Bairstow got a ball after they spent 2 overs dragging him across that angled back in to hit the top of off. There are plenty of blokes who'd be out to those two.

Adair, in my opinion, looks like someone who - if they'd grown up in Australia or South Africa - would be an absolute gun. Better than medium pace, able to get early and late swing as well as substantial movement off the seam, and Murtagh is as metronomic as anyone I've ever seen.

 

[Gethelred]

Commentary going on about Broad's batting, how he's fallen off a cliff.

Give any competent Australian cricket coach 6 weeks, they could cure him of his short ball phobia. Hell, ask Amla to work with him. If Broad wanted to know bow to curb his blatant fear of the short stuff, he could; that he hasn't demonstrates how difficult it is to leave the England XI once you have been selected.

 

[Gethelred]

Jeez, that's a good shot from Curran. Back a length just outside off, and he puts him through extra cover off the back foot, doesn't truly back away but gives himself room and stayed balanced through the shot. It isn't in any textbooks, but it's gone along the ground all the way to the boundary.

Bit of jazz in a classical venue.

 

[Gethelred]

Is there a reason - beyond the commercial - that the boundary is more than 10m inside the fence of the straight boundary? I mean, this is test cricket...

 

[Stig O'Hara]

So Ireland, chasing 182, have been steamrolled for 38.

Yep, 38.