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Why are we ****ed if where relying on marnus? He averaged 50+ last ashes in a low scoring series and is averaging 73 in county this season.
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Official - Road to Ashes 2023
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TheJediBrah
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Because his luck has got to run out sometime, and I still maintain that he's not really that good
Burgey
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It'll be ok though, because that's basically the situation with eveyone in England's line up too.
Molehill
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If you can't score runs in the sunshine at Hove then you really are out of form. No excuses for Smith in this game.
Still don't know why he's batting 5 for Sussex, should be at 3 if Pujara needs to be at 4.
Molehill
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Because Sussex have a set in stone top 3 of Haines, Orr and Alsop and they will continue to be the 3 long after Smith has had his little jaunt with County Cricket.
Sussex somewhat surprisingly opting to bowl (it's normally at its flattest on Day 2), but it still looks good for batting. The annoying thing from a Sussex perspective is that McAndrew would be of far more use to this team than Smith.
ataraxia
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I know you're baiting and all, but ffs
Molehill
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No I mean it. Sussex have scored 400 odd in their last 4 matches with Smith either not playing or not contributing. Scoring runs has not generally been an issue. What they desperately need is more help for Robinson with the ball, hence why McAndrew is actually more use to this team than Smith is.
Anyway, about to see Robinson bowl his first ball to Labuschagne this Summer (5 slips and a leg slip), probably won't be the last.
Haha, and one ball is all it took as he gets him plum lbw. Didn't even bother to look at the umpire.
So they pay a small fortune to have the #3 ranked Test Batsman in the World to bat below Alsop who averages 30.62 in FC cricket lol
mackembhoy
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Robinson gets Laubuschagne for 1 LBW.
Marnus was away to square leg before he turned around to see the finger up.
Hard to tell from the stream as Sussex camera is a on a funky angle. Looked decent enough.
Molehill
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This is Sussex, there's no 'small fortune' available even for Smith. I suspect it was more a 'mutually acceptable' amount seeing as Smith clearly wanted to come to England early anyway.
Alsop scored 180 no in the last match...and clearly I'm not the only one thinking this about Smith (who's just put one down at 2nd slip).
Whisper It, But Are Sussex A Worse Side With Steve Smith In The XI? (wisden.com)
We were also crap going into the 86/87 series. One of our own journalists famously said this England team has 3 main issues, 'they can't bat, they can't bowl and they can't field.'
We didn't win a single warm up game from memory and we had the likes of Bill Athey and Jack Richarfs playing - it was a massive shock at the time.
As for the Aussies last winning a test in England in 2019, so what - it's winning the series that count.
I think there is a gap between the sides, but with home advantage that gap will be nowhere near as large as you think it will be.
What's for certain is the gap between the sides is much less than in some previous home series when we've beat you.
I think it will be a close series. I think we can win but equally you're more than capable of beating us.
That's why it's such a highly anticipated series.
Should be banned for dissent ?
Well even Haines took 2-22. Haha, you said it would be easy to bat at Hove and you were surprised Sussex decided to bowl first (then Glamorgan 8-83 at lunch)
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Molehill
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It's a bright sunny day, normally perfect for batting at Hove, and yet the ball is swinging. Two wickets were bowled not playing a shot, everything else has either been lbw or caught behind. Glamorgan have not batted well, it's probably more a 100-3 than an 80-8 kind of morning. But then Robinson just seems a bit too good for most Div 2 batsmen.