3rd Test at Headingley, Leeds

[spit]

Great knock but will always be known as Ben Chokes after being smashed in the T20 WC final.


T20s > one man & his dog watching tests

 

[Spikey]

oooooooh

just thought i'd get out in front of it instead of reacting a hour later like they usually do

 

[Burgey]

Lmao this is sweet. Your tears are delicious and expose your hypocrisy about the umpiring at Sydney 08. Cry more. **** australia. Jai hind.

**** umpiring is **** umpiring. This is the standard of rubbish you expect from Precam who’s still burning about that very test.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Work in 5 hours. Doubt I'm sleeping tho.

 

[ajdude]

there's no-one getting more satisfaction from paine's failure than me, but i'm pretty worried there's gonna be some very dire abuse coming his way

yeah he's a person and he doesn't deserve some of the things morgieb has said about him

 

[vcs]

Not to take anything away from Stokes, but he genuinely should/could have been out nearly a dozen times in that last partnership. Not even including the lbw and dropped catch(es), he outside/top-edged more shots than he middled.

Not sure how to weight it in regard to Stokes brilliance v Australian **** ups, probably about 50/50

Fortune favours the brave and all that. Yeah a couple of strokes of luck and a few just clearing the straight boundary, but you'd be absolutely churlish to begrudge him that given some of the shots he played under intense pressure.

The switch hit
The straight club for four
The winning boundary
The sweep off Hazlewood
The ramp off Cummins

 

[NUFAN]

I thought this pitch was difficult for left handed bats.

Stokes is just brilliant, top 3 cricketer in the world.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I was convinced towards the end that 4 overthrows off Warner’s bat were going to be decisive.

 

[cnerd123]

Fortune favours the brave and all that. Yeah a couple of strokes of luck and a few just clearing the straight boundary, but you'd be absolutely churlish to begrudge him that given some of the shots he played under intense pressure.

The switch hit
The straight club for four
The winning boundary
The sweep off Hazlewood
The ramp off Cummins

plus maintaining his composure throughout that innings, farming the strike with Leach brilliantly, running all those hard twos.

Stokes was ****ing immense. Deserved every bit of luck he got. Australia choked and choked hard.

 

[Cabinet96]

What a ****ing player Stokes is man. Guy played a **** shot in the first innings and since then has thrown everything into saving the match with ball and bat.

I posted this when he was on 2.

 

[Spikey]

fourth test team

warner
usman
labuschagne
smith
head
patterson
paine
cummins
starc
somerville
haze

thoughts

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Paine's crimes against Australian cricket are worse than Smith's were. Give him 12.

 

[OverratedSanity]

**** umpiring is **** umpiring. This is the standard of rubbish you expect from Precam who’s still burning about that very test.

Pshh this coming from the guy who says India's tailenders were the ones at fault and thus India shouldn't cry about it.

Funny stuff. Incredible waahs all round.

 

[vcs]

Seeing all these "Uranus likes this" under every post is giving me a childish giggle.

 

[Spikey]

yeah he's a person and he doesn't deserve some of the things morgieb has said about him

the mods to warn him in 17 hours time


i'm pushing my luck here

 

[TheJediBrah]

I thought this pitch was difficult for left handed bats.

I said this earlier, but if Aus' spinner was a left-armer or leggie (a good one) bowling into that rough Stokes would have had no chance. With Lyon just spinning it away the rough isn't anywhere near as dangerous

 

[vcs]

plus maintaining his composure throughout that innings, farming the strike with Leach brilliantly, running all those hard twos.

Stokes was ****ing immense. Deserved every bit of luck he got. Australia choked and choked hard.

Absolutely. Guy is a colossus.

 

[cnerd123]

the mods to warn him in 17 hours time


i'm pushing my luck here

morgie's only saying what Spark's thinking right now tbf

 

[NUFAN]

Tim Paine actually always talks so well. Seems a ripper of a bloke, someone who id definitely buy an extra set of inners from at the kookaburra store.

 

[Burgey]

Fortune favours the brave and all that. Yeah a couple of strokes of luck and a few just clearing the straight boundary, but you'd be absolutely churlish to begrudge him that given some of the shots he played under intense pressure.

The switch hit
The straight club for four
The winning boundary
The sweep off Hazlewood
The ramp off Cummins

Yeah I think it’s the best knock I’ve seen. Was superb. Just a freak performance from a top class cricketer .