3rd Test at Melbourne - December 26 - 30

[Spikey]

gonna be so mad when he edges one to 2nd slip and it's dropped

 

[cnerd123]

If i were Australian I'd be offended at this English team for being so ****

How did they let Marcus Harris score 62* ffs

 

[Hurricane2]

Yeah, this is either way too clever for you and me, or the dumbest thing ever at 4-150 when you've scored 180 and you're 0-2 down.

Feel very confident its the first one

the argument in favour of the tactic was warming jack leach into his spell and the tour
Playing the long game by bowling negatively while he found his confidence

 

[honestbharani]

Leach is actually in good rhythm here and getting some help from the pitch. Hope Root does not waste this spell. Need the bat pad on the on side whether he is bowling over or around the wicket.

 

[honestbharani]

If Robinson cant go much above 125 Ks, why doesn't he just bowl his offies here?

 

[Spark]

Leach is actually in good rhythm here and getting some help from the pitch. Hope Root does not waste this spell. Need the bat pad on the on side whether he is bowling over or around the wicket.

Yeah I don't hate the decision to bowl Leach. But that field and line was disgusting.

 

[Hurricane2]

Harris is going to score a rabbits foot ton. He has played and missed maybe 30 times

 

[Spark]

Incidentally, Head has done his "get to 20-odd completely unnoticed" thing again. Not a bad knack to have.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Harris is going to score a rabbits foot ton. He has played and missed maybe 30 times

Marcus 'Adam Voges' Harris

 

[honestbharani]

Much better field now for Leach.

 

[Spark]

Incidentally, Head has done his "get to 20-odd completely unnoticed" thing again. Not a bad knack to have.

He also almost did his "throw it away after getting to 20-odd completely unnoticed" thing again, which is a somewhat worse knack to have

 

[Spark]

Much better field now for Leach.

Wasted a pretty critical half hour of the game and 20 runs in doing so though.

That count as a missed stumping?

 

[Spikey]

lol what was that jos

 

[honestbharani]

Oh Jos...

 

[Gnske]

Buttler is a once in a generation fraud of a wicketkeeper.

 

[social]

Wtf isn’t Foakes keeping?

If fit, he’s arguably the world’s best plus he can bat

 

[OverratedSanity]

Does he even footwork

 

[Spark]

Wtf isn’t Foakes keeping?

If fit, he’s arguably the world’s best plus he can bat

I'm pretty sure he's not even in Australia any more

 

[tooextracool]

Need 6 quick wickets with a deficit of just 22 and of course we are bowling a finger spinner with defensive fields to two left handers on Day 2 of the test match. This is absolute idiocy, the sort of decision that when combined with the rest of the decisions made over the past year should see both Root and Silverwood get sacked at the end of this tour.

 

[Aritro]

Now now chaps, that was not an easy chance.