*Official* Road to the 2025-26 Ashes

[Son Of Coco]

the 5-0 was fair game,ish, but the 4-0s are more asterisked than a Joe Kinnear press conference and you DAMN WELL KNOW IT

I agree. Given the effort England put in, Australia should have been granted 8-0 victories in both.

 

[Son Of Coco]

You ain't won away since 01. Least we have managed that.

You managed to squeeze all your games won since 2002 into one series. It's quite an effort.

 

[TheJediBrah]

You also have to factor in the possibility of him not being available due to a felony assault. You can never tell with Ben when or when not he'll decide to beat someone up

When he sees homophobia he can't help leaping into action. He's actually a hero

 

[TheJediBrah]

Well Khawaja, Marnus, Smith, Head, Cummins, Hazlewood, Starc and Lyon are hardly a bad lot

Incredibly overrated bunch tbh.

Starc, Lyon, Khawaja, Marnus, Head are average Test cricketers

Smith, Cummins and haze are class. But none of the others would make the 06/07 side

 

[Burgey]

That's three more than the current England side tbf.

 

[GIMH]

That's three more than the current England side tbf.

Joe Root is better than everyone from that batting line up barring maybe Ponting, and the jury is still out there. Stokes gets in ahead of Symonds too.

 

[Burgey]

Joe Root is better than everyone from that batting line up barring maybe Ponting

Not in Australia he isn’t

 

[Qlder]

England better hope Stokes makes it. He's the only player from the current team to have scored a century in Australia

 

[GIMH]

Not in Australia he isn’t

Small sample size, he’s a far superior batsman to every single one of them, it’s not even a debate.

 

[Gob]

Not in Australia he isn’t

Haha yeah Joe root in Australia lol. Put a tomato on good length outside off and the bloke would nick it

 

[Gob]

Small sample size, he’s a far superior batsman to every single one of them, it’s not even a debate.

What 14 tests sample size now? no

 

[GIMH]

I will enjoy his multi-ton series next year so much, because what will Burgey and his minions cling to then to try and talk down the greatest batsman in the world?

 

[Gob]

I will enjoy his multi-ton series next year so much, because what will Burgey and his minions cling to then to try and talk down the greatest batsman in the world?

Mocking hashim amla and his culture before the hero david warner intervened

 

[GIMH]

What 14 tests sample size now? no

Well I posted on this somewhere else yesterday. There’s no arguing that he was turd in the 13-14 series.

He had a decent tour in 17-18. In 21-22, he was still one of the highest scoring bats in the series despite disappointing so that context is important along with all of the external factors that heavily asterisk that joke series.

So three series. One in which he was being shunted up and down the order. One in which he went fairly well
albeit no ton. And then the bizarro tour of 21-22.

So I would say with context that yes, the sample size is not definitive. He’ll shut the debate down next year anyway.

 

[Burgey]

Mocking hashim amla and his culture before the hero david warner intervened

Certainly has questions to answer

 

[Gob]

Nah he edges persistent corridor bowling when there is extra B which is what C um/ Haze offer

Will average less than 40 next time

 

[GIMH]

Nah he edges persistent corridor bowling when there is extra B which is what C um/ Haze offer

Will average less than 40 next time

It’s been proven that Cummins can’t handle Bazball, so he’s a non entity in terms of next year’s series. Will probably be hiding at second change by then.

Bet you a tenner he does not average below 40

 

[GIMH]

I mean going back to the post I made that seemed to amuse Burgey, imagine actually arguing any of Langer, Hayden, Martyn, Hussey, Clarke or Symonds are better bats than Joe Root. I can’t fathom such stupidity

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Nah he edges persistent corridor bowling when there is extra B which is what C um/ Haze offer

Will average less than 40 next time

He struggled in India and Australia will be far tougher than India for him. He might not even average over 30. Runs in Pakistan don’t mean you’re good enough to score in Australia.

 

[GIMH]

He struggled in India and Australia will be far tougher than India for him. He might not even average over 30. Runs in Pakistan don’t mean you’re good enough to score in Australia.

He might not average over 10, or 20, or 30 or 500. Nobody knows. When you make these statements about Root, which you do a lot, it doesn’t add validity to them.

He had a few poor Tests in India, then turned it round. Prior to this Test he was averaging 90 since then. Obviously it will have dropped slightly.

He’s by some distance the best batsman in the world currently. Now that your ‘his average is going to drop under Bazball’ schtick has been exposed as complete folly you’re desperately clinging to something else. Go stand in the corner with Burgey while the rest of us appreciate a modern great.