West Australian XI vs England

[S.Kennedy]

Broad going for a bit I see.

 

[Dan]

Eh, not bowling brilliantly so far but Philippe is throwing the bat at everything.

Carder looks organised. Count me a fan.

 

[Daemon]

He's smashing anything pitched up so they're dropping a tad too short and straight. Not going to get wickets like that.

 

[Starfighter]

Nice economical start by the English.

 

[S.Kennedy]

I'm just looking at the scorecard but England are absolutely buggered for this Ashes if they are struggling to dislodge the Western Australian reserves and getting wacked by an opener at a Gilchrist strike-rate!

 

[Daemon]

Got to keep plugging away outside off, is it really that hard to grasp the simplest and most effective concept in cricket? From the 10-15 overs (didn't see Anderson) I saw each of the English bowlers have first gone full searching for swing, been dispatched and then tried bowling short. Overton/Woakes in particular are just banging it in senselessy.

 

[Starfighter]

I was looking forward to seeing Woakes get belted, but I didn't think it's be quite that dramatic.

 

[Spark]

Got to keep plugging away outside off, is it really that hard to grasp the simplest and most effective concept in cricket? From the 10-15 overs (didn't see Anderson) I saw each of the English bowlers have first gone full searching for swing, been dispatched and then tried bowling short. Overton/Woakes in particular are just banging it in senselessy.

Sounds like they saw the WACA bounce/imagined the WACA bounce and lost their heads? It's pretty common.

 

[Bijed]

Well, the one upside to this only being a 2-day match is that this embarrassment will end sooner and the bowlers can go away sooner and get their heads straight

 

[Moonsorrow999]

Lol, aren't they playing like a barely 2nd XI? Good start.

 

[harsh.ag]

Ballance scoring runs in the warm up is the best thing from an Aus perspective.

 

[Starfighter]

I'd say Vince making runs is even better from an Australian perspective.

 

[theegyptian]

Seems like you guys might be reading too much into this game.

 

[Spark]

I mean, it's a no-win situation, really. You play well: congrats, you tonked a grade side. You don't play well: wtf are you doing not tonking a grade team?

Not completely pointless, but uncomfortably close to it.

 

[MW1304]

Hey we usually suck monstrously at the WACA, so this is a demonstrable improvement regardless of opposition.

 

[Tom Flint]

Yeah aus will score 400+ in every first innings i bet. We just have to try do the same lol

 

[S.Kennedy]

I can see how this Ashes will go actually. Two early wickets for England then a momentously long period in the field, Australia making immense 500 plus totals, Anderson and Broad toiling away there and knackering themselves out.

 

[Pothas]

Think we will do better than expected, which is not saying much as everyone seems to think it will be an absolute thrashing.

 

[S.Kennedy]

The other tour matches are at least first-class so hopefully that means we will not see any retriees and thirteen men teams.

 

[Tom Flint]

Theyve just loaded their batting with guys who are guns in aussie conditions but useless anywhere else. Smash every home series and lose every away series.