1st Test at Brisbane, 8th-12th of December 2021

[Calm_profit]

Australia had the good chance to win the series in England but Paine at the Oval did the awful job by bowling first.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Is there a neutral commentator in the box?

 

[Gnske]

Brisbane is positively CUMMINg

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

A beauty!

 

[Starfighter]

Shame after all that hard work.

 

[Shady Slim]

hameed going to have a michael carberry series where he's one of the few batsmen in the side to show any gumption but doesn't make any enormous scores and so gets undeservedly dropped after even though he was probably the best bat on the tour, while all the big names flop and get away with it tbh

 

[Burgey]

Jesus.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

These ****ers are worse than the Windies.

 

[Starfighter]

Australia had the good chance to win the series in England but Paine at the Oval did the awful job by bowling first.

Up there with Hussain at Brisbane that call. They must have been incredibly stupid considering that Cook had done the same thing four years prior and got absolutely thumped.

 

[Burgey]

Australia had the good chance to win the series in England but Paine at the Oval did the awful job by bowling first.

Aus lost that last test purely because they basically spent the entire period after the fourth test on the squirt.

 

[Aritro]

Gah, was hoping to see Hameed get a good score. He batted well.

 

[Anil]

looks like it's been a solid start by england...

 

[Gnske]

Yeah Buttler, hard hands at a short of a length ball. Smart.

 

[Shady Slim]

pope playing that block-in-to-the-covers-one-to-get-off-strike is what the australian bats do so well in australian conditions and a shot that overseas bats often don't play here... good work by him to start working that shot because it eases pressure on the batting team and ticks the score over

 

[Spark]

Yeah Buttler, hard hands at a short of a length ball. Smart.

the australian way tbh

 

[Meridio]

Ah so Josh Buttler is batting.

 

[Gnske]

the australian way tbh

Please let us have this moment of glory before our batsman horribly embarass themselves too.

 

[Shady Slim]

copeland on the big screen is good for cricket wonks and adds proper insight and it's cool to see that instead of mindless knob-slobbing about the old days

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

That's gotta hurt

 

[Shady Slim]

back elbow not a place you normally see blokes get hit tbqh