***Official*** 2nd Test at Adelaide

[Starfighter]

Ashes must be a Stokes no-go zone - Pietersen - ESPNcricinfo

In a wide-ranging interview, Pietersen says he is not bitter, and that he is "in such a cool space"

"The issue with Ben Stokes isn't about Ben Stokes. It's about Andrew Strauss. He's the one who's going to make this call about if and when Stokes returns. The CPS might make it for him but if they don't, this is on Strauss.

Yeah sure KP, we believe you're not bitter. We believe you.

 

[Starfighter]

Not when considering the average IQ of CW

Which is, going by the politics subforum, about 43.

Actually, the IQ's pretty good. The (non-)self awareness factor on the other hand, that's frightening.

 

[Cow]

He made the forum so toxic that multiple long-standing posters left the forum out of sheer disgust and we eventually had to permanently ban him before he made the whole place unreadable. A "great" poster.

what a awful man.

I'm glad I wasn't around to suffer that

 

[Spark]

what a awful man.

I'm glad I wasn't around to suffer that

I remember when BMac made his triple, which should have been a great moment of celebration, he made the tour thread horrible for a day by aggressively rounding on anyone who dared suggest it wasn't leagues above Laxman's 281.

 

[Spikey]

He made the forum so toxic that multiple long-standing posters left the forum out of sheer disgust and we eventually had to permanently ban him before he made the whole place unreadable. A "great" poster.

leave watson out of this ok spark

 

[OverratedSanity]

I remember when BMac made his triple, which should have been a great moment of celebration, he made the tour thread horrible for a day by aggressively rounding on anyone who dared suggest it wasn't leagues above Laxman's 281.

Also that time when the NZ-Pak test was postponed by a day after Phil Hughes' death and he kept going on about how they should've played and turned a somber thread into a shitfight. Bless him, I miss the guy.

 

[Spikey]

i miss phil hughes

 

[mintykip]

Cool, so we've had our session of looking absolutely lethal when the conditions suit us, now back to bowling innocuously for the rest of the series.

 

[Gob]

i miss phil hughes

Who doesn't

 

[stephen]

The ball was moving a lot tonight. These were the conditions Australia missed out on bowling in last night. TBF I suspect the conditions helped the English bowlers more than they would have the Australians.

One gets the feeling that all that short pitched rubbish we were serving up to the tail enders has key England back in with a tiny glimmer of hope.

We're still 99% in the box seat, one bad season notwithstanding. But if we'd skittled them an hour earlier Warner might be raising his bat tonight instead of being back in the pavilion.

 

[Cow]

would Hughes be in the current team?

 

[harsh.ag]

would Hughes be in the current team?

How could you drop Handscomb for Hughes. Unthinkable.

 

[stephen]

would Hughes be in the current team?

Almost certainly. Was the same age as Smith and was the most adaptable young batsman I ever saw. Despite his technical flaws he still found ways of making runs. And now I'm sad.

 

[stephen]

How could you drop Handscomb for Hughes. Unthinkable.

I think he'd be opening again with Warner.

 

[Spark]

Hughes would probably be 1st or 2nd picked by now.

 

[Cow]

Almost certainly. Was the same age as Smith and was the most adaptable young batsman I ever saw. Despite his technical flaws he still found ways of making runs. And now I'm sad.

He was useless in both the Ashes series I saw him bat.

 

[OverratedSanity]

He was useless in both the Ashes series I saw him bat.

Had a great knock in the Agar test. Think he got dropped immediately after which was a bit BS.

 

[Starfighter]

The ball was moving a lot tonight. These were the conditions Australia missed out on bowling in last night. TBF I suspect the conditions helped the English bowlers more than they would have the Australians.

Yeah, I'm not sure conditions were that different. Only Anderson is capable of getting that exaggerated movement, and only he got it. Yes Broad moved it more than Starc or Haze but I don't think either is releasing the ball in a way that gets them maximum swing at the moment, for some reason. Considering the way the English wickets fell today I think we'd merely be talking about batting a bit earlier, but the same amount of runs, if play had continued

One gets the feeling that all that short pitched rubbish we were serving up to the tail enders has key England back in with a tiny glimmer of hope.

We're still 99% in the box seat, one bad season notwithstanding. But if we'd skittled them an hour earlier Warner might be raising his bat tonight instead of being back in the pavilion.

Very much a case of trying to get macho rather than playing good cricket. That eighth wicket partnership might have been broken much earlier by bowling the same way we did to the top order.

 

[Cow]

Had a great knock in the Agar test. Think he got dropped immediately after which was a bit BS.

struggled with the short ball and would eventually just slash something to gully if I remember. Was way too loose outside off... which I guess was also where he scored. I think it's a jump to say he would be successful now without knowing if he could've solved the technical issues that teams had noticed since his debut

 

[GIMH]

He was useless in both the Ashes series I saw him bat.

09 and 10-11 yes. 2013 Ashes his dropping was somewhat harsh as he was from memory the best Aussie bat in the first Test (of the actual bats ie not Ashton Agar)