*Official* First Test (Edgbaston, Birmingham) 16–20 June

[Jfry]

Carey currently averaging 166 in England in test cricket, and 51@101 in ODI's

 

[TheJediBrah]

How is Will Somerville's Aussie Test career going

 

[Spikey]

Jeff can dress as he pleases mate.

Anyone got links to some extended highlights please? Saw none of it last night but seems another great day’s play. 3-60 to 5/311 with Smith and Marnus not contributing is some come back. Game shaping up beautifully

Cheers. Got a feeling it might be geo’ed. it will have a look

The stuff that Sky posts on Twitter and their YouTube channel gets geo blocked but the ECB highlights are not get blocked (maybe anywhere) and uploaded fairly quickly typically: https://www.youtube.com/@officialenglandcricket/videos - these are typically the longest highlights video posted too.

Wide World of Sports is posting some really good stuff too though: https://www.youtube.com/@WWOS/videos - every boundary from day 1, the full first over of day 1, highlight videos for Usman but also Carey's innings.

For highlights during the day's play, the offerings aren't as solid and I reckon that's where we miss Sky's clips. The England cricket twitter (https://twitter.com/englandcricket) and the WWoS twitter (https://twitter.com/wwos_) will typically posts the wickets as they come through though. the CA website has got short 'news' package style highlights and only retweet videos posted by WWoS so they're useless here

 

[halba]

Carey currently averaging 166 in England in test cricket, and 51@101 in ODI's

He's a pace pitch batting specialist.

 

[NZTailender]

Congratulations to Usman and what a journey his career has been. Can be included in the company of of our best openers now. I think criticisms of Usman have been a little unfair over the years but possibly based in the belief that he should've been the batsman he has now become. The same can be said about his frequent omissions from the test team. Sometimes too harsh and too long if initially deserved.

I can only hope that he can keep playing at this level for another 2 or 3 years and give time as well as inspiration to the likes of Renshaw and Harris (whom I know isn't rated but remains there because of a lack of candidates) or until someone new comes along. The advance of Usman and Travis Head has in some way covered for Smith and Labuschagne stepping down from their respective God modes.

Stuart Broad is an arsehole.

Who has had the better second coming as an opener after seemingly failed middle order career? Katich or Khawaja? Usman looks the obvious choice.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Who has had the better second coming as an opener after seemingly failed middle order career? Katich or Khawaja? Usman looks the obvious choice.

Funny how most of Australia's good openers over the last few decades were middle order players promoted up the order.

Langer (technically), Katich, Watson, Warner, Usman, Joe Burns, probably a bunch more too.

 

[GotSpin]

Funny how most of Australia's good openers over the last few decades were middle order players promoted up the order.

Langer (technically), Katich, Watson, Warner, Usman, Joe Burns, probably a bunch more too.

Mentioning joe burns really made you fail the quiz

 

[GotSpin]

Real recap here

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[TheJediBrah]

Mentioning joe burns really made you fail the quiz

I was so focused on middle order players i forgot they had to be good to qualify

 

[Shri]

will bazball work without clouderson and broad

 

[Shady Slim]

Nah Langer definitely didn't like Khawaja and picking Harris for those couple of seasons instead was an atrocious call

yeah ultimately the real issue with how uzzie was treated wasn't his dropping from number three but the persistent refusal to recall him as an opener and trying a laundry list of absolute puds the english wheel of opener mediocrity would be proud of.

i think though i could be wrong that @Spikey was one of the first here to be consistently calling for an uzzie recall as an opener and is very much vindicated

edit:

posted that before i read spikey coming in to rightly claim his victory lap

 

[The_CricketUmpire]

Funny how most of Australia's good openers over the last few decades were middle order players promoted up the order.

Langer (technically), Katich, Watson, Warner, Usman, Joe Burns, probably a bunch more too.

Only Taylor and Hayden spent their entire career in the openers role

 

[Shri]

why is sam curran not playing the ashes

 

[TheJediBrah]

why is sam curran not playing the ashes

There's a limit of 2 draco malfoys per team. He needs either Root or Broad to be rested

 

[TheJediBrah]

English squad could throw a Harry Potter themed party and no one would need to dress up. But most would have to go as Ron Weasley

 

[Shri]

English squad could throw a Harry Potter themed party and no one would need to dress up. But most would have to go as Ron Weasley

bairstow is ron

 

[Croadymeister]

I thought both of Bairstow's missed chances were about as straightforward as it gets off a spinner.

In fairness, he's hardly kept recently apart from a couple of matches for Yorkshire but Foakes would have gobbled both chances up.

Nasser was speaking about it after play and said he still thought Bairstow was the right pick as who would we drop to fit Foakes in.

But I think that's the wrong way of looking at things. You pick your best keeper batsmen and that's Foakes.

You then pick the best batsmen and if you have 1 too many, then someone misses out.

Keeping is too important a position to compromise with selection, and we were taught that lesson today.

Yeah the worrying thing is that Stokes & McCullum don't seem to see a specialist Wicketkeeper as important enough. Find it so frustrating that Aussies never seem to get punished heavily for mistakes like we do. England will do well to wrestle momentum back after some schoolboy errors.

 

[Shady Slim]

Yeah the worrying thing is that Stokes & McCullum don't seem to see a specialist Wicketkeeper as important enough. Find it so frustrating that Aussies never seem to get punished heavily for mistakes like we do. England will do well to wrestle momentum back after some schoolboy errors.

tbf, when you're on a highway like this it goes a long way to ensuring the other team gets let off the hook for their mistakes when two batsmen charge past a straight one to let us roar right back in to the game - that kind of, ah temperance which usman has that bairstow and moeen didn't's why he's on 126* and they didn't kick on

 

[TheJediBrah]

when two batsmen charge past a straight one to let us roar right back in to the game - that kind of, ah temperance which usman has that bairstow and moeen didn't's why he's on 126* and they didn't kick on

That's also why England made 390 in 78 overs though. You take the good with the bad

 

[Shady Slim]

That's also why England made 390 in 78 overs though. You take the good with the bad

oh absolutely, more to the point of "why does it seem like oz don't get punished for their risks as much as england do" i'm just saying large part of that is the greater the risk the greater the downside if it doesn't come off