Excellent, more easy runs to be had, Jacks, 22-1-135-1 sounds good to me.
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*Official* First Test (Edgbaston, Birmingham) 16–20 June
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CartyDurham
International Captain
That’s great
Anthony Clayden
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England was at home, with the best of the conditions, with a not well prepared opposition.
Australia has already thrown into doubt England's spinner, we have put heavy workload on their bowlers whilst leaving our far less loaded. This in a packed 5 test series with small breaks between games.
As an Australian support, please bring Robinson to Australia in the next Ashes tour.
I wouldn't say Australia weren't prepared - you'd had a high intensity test with India and lots of your players had played county cricket.
Robinson is a really good bowler, he's probably a bit of knob - if he's fit he'll be on the Ashes tour.
Molehill
Cricketer Of The Year
England are without their number 1 spinner, wonder how Aussies would have gone without Lyon?
It's also worth pointing out that most of the best performers in that Test (Cummins, Lyon, Khawaja, Root) had played the least amount of recent cricket.
Burgey
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We’d have brought Murphy in and he’d probably have taken as many wickets but for less runs. It’s not Australia’s fault England has neglected developing spinners. In fact, good on them for not developing fingers spinners, they’re a blight on the game
Molehill
Cricketer Of The Year
I saw a chart recently showing the percentage of wickets taken in County Cricket by spinners dating back to the 1970's. You can imagine what direction that line takes and it's got steeper in the last decade.
England really need Rehan Ahmed to develop into a decent spinner over the next 5 years because **** knows who else could be considered.
Molehill
Cricketer Of The Year
About 4th choice spinner at his County, not played a FC Match for a year.
Sounds like just the player England are looking for.
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Good from Brettig here
www.smh.com.au
‘You’re stone cold!’ How the Australians stared down Bazball and won
Behind the scenes of Australia’s remarkable first Test victory, including how the tourists’ tactics were hatched and – day by day, hour by hour – how their epic reckoning with England’s Bazball unfolded.
CartyDurham
International Captain
Exactly. England were more like the tourists. Root, pope, stokes, had played zero red ball cricket for over 10 months
england do have a tendancy to improve as a English summer goes on, they did it last summer by example
australia smith and labuschagne had played county cricket, and the final, which the above three haven’t
that was really their second test of the summer and they were pushed to the limit to get over the line
I know the majority are supporting anyone but England but they need to be careful as they will improve for that run out
this is far from over
i know what’s coming , ah but labuschagne and smith didn’t contribute and so on. Let’s wait and see
CartyDurham
International Captain
As I keep saying Test match cricket is in trouble in England. The youth do not care a jot about it and they love white ball
bazball is attempting to get more youth into the game in England . Using phrases and buzzwords is what that is about
Shady Slim
International Coach
version without a paywall https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www...red-down-bazball-and-won-20230622-p5diug.htmlGood from Brettig here
‘You’re stone cold!’ How the Australians stared down Bazball and won
Behind the scenes of Australia’s remarkable first Test victory, including how the tourists’ tactics were hatched and – day by day, hour by hour – how their epic reckoning with England’s Bazball unfolded.
RossTaylorsBox
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You just have to get Ollie Pope on TikTok saying cricket is poggers, that'll bring the youth in.
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People are ignoring the obvious
The one thing that doesn’t look like improving is Stokes’ knee and it has left the attack completely unbalanced as his absence is increasing the workload on others exponentially
England will not win a war of attrition and that’s what Australia will make it into on flat decks
Not true!
All 3 were on the NZ tour finishing 28 Feb and all 3 played in the Ireland Test just before the Ashes
If they hadn't played for 10 months they would have missed 9 of the 13 Bazball tests
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Cheers for posting without the paywall.
The article makes some good points about the Aussies preparation- I'm sure they had spent alot of time looking at how to counter our approach - I wouldn't expect anything less.
What I would say is that the tone of the article implies that this was some sort of expertly planned and executed win.
It was a very close game and for large parts of it we looked the more likely winner. Even on the last day, it wasn't until the Aussies got to single figures that the game looked done.
I don't think Australia dealt with our approach particularly well. Our run rate was always well above the norm for test matches and most of our batsmen scored quickly and freely.
The Cummins/Lyon partnership was exceptional -
and in the end it was the deciding factor but the game could have gone either way.Also I think the session that we batted under dark skies was massive. We lost 2 wickets and it was the only time in the game were batting looked tough.
We were unlucky that we were batting at that time and that we happened to be up against the new ball. I think this an overlooked factor in the game - and no amount of planning can take that into account.
The bottom line is you won the test but its over egging the pudding to say it was some sort of masterclass of planning and that you tamed Bazball.
CartyDurham
International Captain
mr pedantic I seeNot true!
All 3 were on the NZ tour finishing 28 Feb and all 3 played in the Ireland Test just before the Ashes
If they hadn't played for 10 months they would have missed 9 of the 13 Bazball tests
i accept that however the point is still relevant. They have had no red ball cricket this English summer.
that’s a fact whereas the Aussies have in county cricket and a test v India
bit of nuance needed I feel .
Ill learn everything has to be literal on here