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*Official* Fourth Test (Old Trafford, Manchester) 19-23 July

Kraken

Kraken

State Captain
Just watching the highlights from where I fell asleep:

- 60/40 Englands day
- Imagine if woakes was good away from England eh?
- I’m not disputing Greens LBW as it hits a fair amount of the stump, but how does that get given out but the other ones (which were way more plumb) get given not out?
- head getting caught on the fence hurts, but that’s the price we take him at
- Marsh looked imperious, only a good nut was getting him out
 
GotSpin

GotSpin

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Kraken said:
Just watching the highlights from where I fell asleep:

- 60/40 Englands day
- Imagine if woakes was good away from England eh?
- I’m not disputing Greens LBW as it hits a fair amount of the stump, but how does that get given out but the other ones (which were way more plumb) get given not out?
- head getting caught on the fence hurts, but that’s the price we take him at
- Marsh looked imperious, only a good nut was getting him out
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The green lbw was a pretty poor decision live. Don’t think Joel Wilson knows what he’s doing anyway though
 
social

social

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Ashes81 said:
I'd agree with that.

Australia will be disappointed to be 8 down. So many players got starts but nobody went on to get a big score.

They really should have been around 320 for 5 or 6.

But unless the forecast changes, they won't be made to pay for that.
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Agreed

300/6 with weather closing in is a vastly different position to 300/8 against a new ball and a sunny day ahead
 
Kraken

Kraken

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GotSpin said:
The green lbw was a pretty poor decision live. Don’t think Joel Wilson knows what he’s doing anyway though
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Yeah exactly my point. If he was any good, that gets given not out and green is saved, and the others are correctly given out without England having to review
 
morgieb

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social said:
Agreed

300/6 with weather closing in is a vastly different position to 300/8 against a new ball and a sunny day ahead
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Yeah 2/100 at lunch you’d hope to be better than 8/300. It’s not a disaster for Australia but FMD it should’ve been a whole lot better. Like even if Sunday got better climate wise the Poms should be in a situation where they need to take a lot of risks to win. They still do but their path to victory is more plausible than it should be.
 
Spark

Spark

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I share the frustration with the wasted starts (again) but the batting hasn't really been the problem in this series IMO. The bowling has. If they bowl to the standard we actually expect them to bowl at then 300-320 is a perfectly acceptable first innings score on a pitch doing a little - not a lot, but a little. It doesn't look a great score in no small part because we don't quite trust the bowlers right now to restrict England to a subpar score regularly.
 
Spark

Spark

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GIMH said:
Didn’t see the Warner wicket until just now. He’s walking before YJB has caught it - bold given Jonny’s form with the gloves prior to today
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Ponting started to do this sort of thing very late in his career too - a small sign that his head wasn't 100% in it any more. He even walked for an LBW once.
 
GIMH

GIMH

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Spark said:
Ponting started to do this sort of thing very late in his career too - a small sign that his head wasn't 100% in it any more. He even walked for an LBW once.
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Haha who was the LBW against?

Think Gilchrist did that in 05. Possibly The Oval to Fred? He’d had his number so stands to the same reason
 
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