GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
It's like before the series when he came out and said that the series over here this summer showed we were scared of them. You what mate?
But he's backing it up for now.
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*Official* First Test at The Gabba
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But he's backing it up for now.
flibbertyjibber
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If this was the win that sealed the ashes series win then it is a fair comment but seeing as though it is only the first match then it is a bit dopey. Then again look who said it, he is dopey.
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i took about as much effort taking and editing this video as jonathan trott took in learning to play the hook shot
i took about as much effort taking and editing this video as jonathan trott took in learning to play the hook shot
HeathDavisSpeed
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Cricket needs more players willing to talk in things other than "oh, we showed good character out there today bland bland wanky bollocks"
So good on Warner for actually saying what he's thinking and showing some ****ing personality. Long may it continue.
So good on Warner for actually saying what he's thinking and showing some ****ing personality. Long may it continue.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
There were a few calling for his head on SSN. But we've moved him back to six where he deserves more than one innings.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Yes I was going to add that it's not to say he shouldn't be shot for his dismissal
There's been some good bowling in this test but also some horrendous batting
Had an awful feeling earlier that this is what England are going to end up doing, it is the sort of thing that England would do in the past and it would end really badly.
Thought nothing of it at the time but it really is a shame that Ballance had such a bad time of it in the tour matches.
Jono
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Depends if you want your cricketers saying whatever the **** they want, or doing what is the right thing by the team I guess.
Cabinet96
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Yeah, every run Root got milked for made me think more and more that they'd be tempted to bring Stokes in. Especially as not all the Batsman are firing.
Doubt he'd get many runs at Perth, and will probably confound things by banging everything half way down and getting smashed.
Agent Nationaux
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500+ runs
400-499 runs
300-399 runs - Cabinet
200-299 runs
100-199 runs - AN
80-99 runs
60-79 runs
40-59 runs
20-39 runs
1-19 runs
Tie
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7 wickets
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400-499 runs
300-399 runs - Cabinet
200-299 runs
100-199 runs - AN
80-99 runs
60-79 runs
40-59 runs
20-39 runs
1-19 runs
Tie
8 wickets - GIMH
7 wickets
6 wickets
5 wickets
4 wickets
3 wickets
2 wickets
1 wicket
Draw
wpdavid
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Yeah, who'd have thought that Tremlett wouldn't be a threat based on his figures post-injury? Apparently everyone apart from our selectors afaics.
No idea whether Rankin will be an improvement. Or Finn come to that. But given what we've seen from Anderson for all but one of the last 5 and a half ashes matches, we seem to be relying on Broad to bowl them out on this tour, which may be a tad optimistic.
I know we've started series badly before, and we're kind of banking on some sort of Lazerene revival hereafter, but the fact is we don't usually do that. Not in UAE, or at home to SA, or away to NZ. India was the big exception. And, I suppose SL as well. Barring Johnson and Harris standing on stray balls before each of the next few tests, we're looking pretty much ****ed.
More than the results, which will probably continue to be abject, the worst aspect of all this is FiveLive's habit of finding the most ignorantly obnoxious crim to interview in the midst of it all. Yesterday it was some bloke from the local rag. Today it was some duffer who implied that Warner's ton was some sort of justice for being wronged by Joe Root in the English summer. I know from CW that they're not all like that, but this series looks like heading somewhere near the gutter in more ways than one.
And my only observation about our batting is has there ever been a more appropriately named batter than Trott, given that you can almost smell the brown stuff from your front room when he's facing Johnson?
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
And let's not forget it would be 4-1 but for the injustice of the bad light. No others were unfairly curtailedSo looks like it'll be 3-1 for the year, disappointing, but still a good lead.
Spark
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I think some of the talk completely absolving the bowlers all responsibility is a bit lax IMO. Certainly they can't take the blame for what happened post-lunch when Warner and Clarke teed off, but before lunch they really had us pinned down and could have applied a real squeeze, but they (+ Cook) let both Warner and Clarke get way too many easy singles and get the partnership cracking. I mean, we were going <2RPO for the session before Clarke came in and about 5RPO afterwards, mostly through singles.