5th Test at The Oval, London

[flibbertyjibber]

Root in the nervous 70's as he now has 6974 runs, 26 to go for the 7000

He will get a score today. Does it regularly once series is over.

 

[Daemon]

R00t l00king g00d

 

[Spark]

Root looks on so far. Would be nice if we challenged his forward defence more than once every over though

 

[Lillian Thomson]

49-1 looks a bit odd this series. More like the odds on England batting a day and a half.

 

[Spark]

Marcus Harris showing the same outstanding fielding standards as usual then

 

[the big bambino]

Harris misses another straight one.

 

[Spark]

Finally, a good over

 

[quincywagstaff]

One of Australia's rare poor hours in the field this series. Apart from Headingley on the final day they've kept things tight all series and they seemed to lose that discipline here.

Siddle obvious culprit but even Cummins & Hazlewood weren't quite at their top level that hour.

 

[aussie tragic]

Bit surprising that Root and Smith are both approaching 7000 test runs, however Root only has 570 runs vs Australia, while Smith has 2700 vs England

 

[morgieb]

Siddle's start proving the haters right.

Should be his last Test, though I'd say that even if he bowled really well here.

 

[Spark]

One of Australia's rare poor hours in the field this series. Apart from Headingley on the final day they've kept things tight all series and they seemed to lose that discipline here.

Siddle obvious culprit but even Cummins & Hazlewood weren't quite at their top level that hour.

All of them seem to have gotten a little surprised/carried away with the apparent bounce on offer

 

[quincywagstaff]

Stop the presses, Warne says something positive about Starc.

 

[aussie tragic]

So Warne says Australia should have batted s it's going to turn and should never of played Siddle and Marsh together as are the same bowler...he even said Starc should have played above Siddle (ok he said Pattinson or Starc should have played)

Why couldn't Paine or Selectors see that

 

[Groundking]

Bit surprising that Root and Smith are both approaching 7000 test runs, however Root only has 570 runs vs Australia, while Smith has 2700 vs England

Root has 1630 runs against Australia...

 

[Spark]

Root would have scored almost 570 runs in 2015 alone

 

[MW1304]

Was he looking at 'in Australia'? Weird.

 

[Spark]

Was he looking at 'in Australia'? Weird.

That'd make more sense

 

[Gob]

What a stupid as move to bowl first...All they ever had to do was to play the team from the last game and be normal

Langer you ****

 

[aussie tragic]

Root has 1630 runs against Australia...

Oops, statguru failure as 'away' was ticked

 

[morgieb]

What a stupid as move to bowl first...All they ever had to do was to play the team from the last game and be normal

Langer you ****

That's probably my big problem with Paine, it feels like he gets needlessly funky when the normal approach was the right one.