*Official* Second Test at the Adelaide Oval

[NUFAN]

[ ] Les Burdett and his team have done a great job

Wont happen as another guy does the business these days.

 

[Spikey]

Wont happen as another guy does the business these days.

doesnt mean it wont be said

 

[howardj]

can confirm that the air is pregnant with anticipation

 

[benchmark00]

Wont happen as another guy does the business these days.

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[social]

Oz has gone from persecuting our indigenous people to trotting them out for every bs ceremony

Guess a happy medium is too much to ask for

 

[steds]

ECB are not an attacking board so I doubt they will play 2 spinners

This guy knows where it's at.

 

[wiff]

[ ] Old Scoreboard
[ ] Mix of the old and the new
[ ] Short boundaries square
[ ] Slats used to get on the piss with the uni students when he was at the academy

Jim Maxwell has opened strongly, with Skull backing up for one

 

[Woodster]

Ok on the positive flip side, hopefully pick one or two up with the new ball, and then aim to strangle them with the spin twins. If it is the usual good batting deck we're going to have to be metronomical in order to keep the run rate in check against the likes of Rogers, Watson, Clarke, etc,. Stokes will probably be the most expensive, and understandably so, but the other four should give us some semblance of control and hopefully Stokes will have the happy knack of picking up the odd wicket, a la Finn last time over here.

 

[Dan]

Not sure why everyone thinks England won't bowl last. They'll skittle Australia for 250, bat for 3 days and make 700, then bowl them out again to win by an innings #GIMHthoughts

 

[NUFAN]

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[Cabinet96]

Not sure why everyone thinks England won't bowl last. They'll skittle Australia for 250, bat for 3 days and make 700, then bowl them out again to win by an innings #GIMHthoughts

Well we haven't won a test in Australia any other way in the last decade.

 

[Dan]

Side note - maybe the English selectors reckon Stokes is just as likely to make runs as Ballance? I mean, the latter's hardly had a glittering start to his England career.

 

[NUFAN]

Oz has gone from persecuting our indigenous people to trotting them out for every bs ceremony

Guess a happy medium is too much to ask for

Yeah, my thoughts are that it really isn't necessary and doesn't add to the game at all. There are other times when the elders are thanked which makes more sense.

 

[howardj]

at first blush, the pitch looks on the slow side and benign

 

[Cabinet96]

Steady as Eddie.

Rain? Wut.

 

[GIMH]

Oh for ****'s sake get a climate

 

[grecian]

Side note - maybe the English selectors reckon Stokes is just as likely to make runs as Ballance? I mean, the latter's hardly had a glittering start to his England career.

Not even in the same class as a batsman, I'd go for the Zim over the Kiwi any day of the week.

APPEAL!!!!!, obstructing the fielder or summat.

FFS, get a climate.

 

[GIMH]

Not sure why everyone thinks England won't bowl last. They'll skittle Australia for 250, bat for 3 days and make 700, then bowl them out again to win by an innings #GIMHthoughts

Whoa I don't remember writing this but

 

[Spikey]

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Is it just us, or have Cricket Australia done something gigantically inappropriate with this tweet? pic.twitter.com/byKNkrAVAe

 

[hendrix]

Oz has gone from persecuting our indigenous people to trotting them out for every bs ceremony

Guess a happy medium is too much to ask for

Yeah, my thoughts are that it really isn't necessary and doesn't add to the game at all. There are other times when the elders are thanked which makes more sense.

Slightly more entertaining than anthems at every game for a five test series, so I'm really not too bothered.