*Official* Second Test (Lord's, London) 28 June–2 July

[GIMH]

Yep what a hero he is too

Could barely walk yet still gave his all did Lyon

Haha this is fair

 

[TheJediBrah]

Aussie media normally don't criticise their team, Aussie public will support them

Uh . . . you're obviously aware of Sandpaper-gate and you still think this?

 

[Fuller Pilch]

The problem for Australia was replacing Tim 'paragon of virtue' Paine with Alex 'nefarious cad' Carey.

 

[DriveClub]

Boycotts tears

This is the funniest thing I've seen in a while, especially piers' fake outrage and boycotts tears is delicious

 

[DriveClub]

are the Barmy army actually banned from Lord's? doesn't do much to help the reputation in England of cricket being a game for aristocrats

Amen such a snobby place to play cricket, don't understand everyone's fetish with lords

 

[MRNC5.0]

Or Marcus Harris for his exaggerated laughing and pointing at the silly man in the silly tie in the long room.

That was Renshaw, the tall gangly one. Harris is the small hamster faced one.

 

[slowfinger]

The problem for Australia was replacing Tim 'paragon of virtue' Paine with Alex 'nefarious cad' Carey.

more like Tim 'beta ****' Paine for Alex 'alpha chad' Carey in both on field behaviour and off

 

[slowfinger]

but in all seriousness, even though i despise Lords and its higher than thou nature, the whole spirit of cricket and gentlemanly conduct thing I believe is vitally important for our sport. It's what makes it different from say, football. IDK, but i would hate to see a world full of ravichandran ashwins

 

[sphynx]

Yeah and how would the Aussies cope with their bowling attack decimated of Cummins and Starc which is the equivalent of Wood & Archer for us. That's not forgetting the fact we have other options unable to stay fit either

Quite well.

Boland, Nesser and Morris would all currently be playing test cricket for England if they could.

 

[Burgey]

Yeah and how would the Aussies cope with their bowling attack decimated of Cummins and Starc which is the equivalent of Wood & Archer for us. That's not forgetting the fact we have other options unable to stay fit either

They just won a test after losing on day 2 the guy who bowls the most overs for them in every match. They did it after leaving out a bloke who has a test average of about 18 for Starc.

As for comparing Mark Wood to Pat Cummins, I mean, come on.

 

[Burgey]

but in all seriousness, even though i despise Lords and its higher than thou nature, the whole spirit of cricket and gentlemanly conduct thing I believe is vitally important for our sport. It's what makes it different from say, football. IDK, but i would hate to see a world full of ravichandran ashwins

We all would mate, we all would.

 

[Croadymeister]

They just won a test after losing on day 2 the guy who bowls the most overs for them in every match. They did it after leaving out a bloke who has a test average of about 18 for Starc.

As for comparing Mark Wood to Pat Cummins, I mean, come on.

You have significantly more depth than us

 

[Prince EWS]

 

[Burgey]

 

[duffer]

This pic has Harris troll face meme potential. Iconic snap

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Why is he even here btw?

 

[Adders]

but in all seriousness, even though i despise Lords and its higher than thou nature, the whole spirit of cricket and gentlemanly conduct thing I believe is vitally important for our sport. It's what makes it different from say, football. IDK, but i would hate to see a world full of ravichandran ashwins

I really strongly disagree with this......why do people want to put cricket on a higher moral or ethical plane to other sports? It's no more a gentleman's sport than any other imo and I've got no idea why people would want it to be?

Edit: and everything about Lords shows me why this way of thinking is wrong and holding our game back.

 

[Spark]

There's also a huge difference between what happened out there on Sunday, which everyone agrees was an entirely legitimate dismissal within the rules of the game, and setting off fireworks outside the opposition team's hotel at 4am, which is what happens in football.

 

[Daemon]

Uh . . . you're obviously aware of Sandpaper-gate and you still think this?

They only made noise because they were caught blatantly cheating. Whenever there’s the faintest of plausible deniability they’ll back them. Case in point: how you react to anyone claiming the bowlers knew about sandpapergate.

 

[Daemon]

Yes. Nazis did it to a minority group inside their own country at first. The British did it away from home.

Yeah lol, Nazis were a bunch of HTBs

 

[Spark]

They only made noise because they were caught blatantly cheating. Whenever there’s the faintest of plausible deniability they’ll back them. Case in point: how you react to anyone claiming the bowlers knew about sandpapergate.

Cummins might be an exception tbh. There's a section of Australian media which haaaates him and would happily throw him under the bus at first opportunity. Otherwise this is obviously true.