1st Test, Edgbaston, Birmingham

[wrongun]

Also Chris Woakes is the greatest cricketer in the history of the world. Change my mind.

Change my mind is so 2018.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

List of Ashes series won from behind:

1888
1897/98
1901/02
1907/08
1909
1911/12
1930
1936/37
1954/55
1981
1997
2005

I reckon this series will be a draw. Hoping for a 1-1.

 

[Starfighter]

The stage is set for an annoying hacky innings from Broad here, maybe even a fifty.

 

[wrongun]

Warner still very much among the living.

Referring to his 2015 nickname.need to get Woakes early.

 

[morgieb]

He should be batting at 3 ffs

Nah his style is one that I think can only really work down the order.

 

[Starfighter]

I reckon this series will be a draw. Hoping for a 1-1.

2-2 would be a bit more interesting. I'd like a drawn series partly because we will retain, partly because it hasn't happened for a while and partly because neither team deserves it.

 

[Starfighter]

That was a rubbish bit of cricket. Adjust the field while the bowler is walking back, not after.

 

[Dan]

Chris Woakes looks on as Jonny Bairstow chases after another wide one and gets caught [2019, colorized]

 

[wrongun]

TBT to the time when some Poms thought Woakes should open the batting.

 

[trundler]

Straight to leg gully lmao

 

[Stowford Mess]

50 run lead would be huge considering Australia’s top 3.

 

[wrongun]

Cummins bowl fuller you ***y beast

 

[Fuller Pilch]

2-2 would be a bit more interesting. I'd like a drawn series partly because we will retain, partly because it hasn't happened for a while and partly because neither team deserves it.

Yet, but 1-1 gives both of them fewer points in the World Test Championship.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Cummins looks cooked. Has Broad started applying himself better of late?

 

[wrongun]

Sky really couldn’t find anyone better than Ian Botham for this test?

 

[Stowford Mess]

Given the respective batting frailties, rain is the only chance a test ends in a draw.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

50 run lead would be huge considering Australia’s top 3.

What? Warner and Khawaja are quality. Their top 3 is weaker than NZ and India's but still pretty decent.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

And possibly the Saffas

 

[NotMcKenzie]

Further immaturity on display in Birmingham

 

[Stowford Mess]

What? Warner and Khawaja are quality. Their top 3 is weaker than NZ and India's but still pretty decent.

Khawaja only scores runs on Australian and UAE roads. Warner’s record in England is pretty bad.