fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Broad hat trick in the first half hour today
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Ashes predictions
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Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
^ About the only way England's getting a lead.
S.Kennedy
International Vice-Captain
Thing is about this England, I'd say commencing with Cook's captaincy, is when they are bad they are bad. They do not seem capable for being only slightly ****, or battling onto the end and being sucker-punched. They are either great - and England have had their triumphs such as India '12 and South Africa '15 or absolutely terrible. There is no middle ground. And when they are terrible it is usually curtains. Even during the 90s nadir they could pick up a test in a losing cause. 1993 - 2003 they picked up a test in every Ashes against much better Australian sides than the present, or the 2013-14 lot! This England seem to only require the slightest nudge to collapse like a bag of spuds.
TNT
Banned
No chance you might be underestimating this Australian side.
Burgey
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Once again, the great ones get it right.
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Right, let us evaluate these:
2/6 pretty crap really.
Genuinely thought it would be a whitewash, but Melbourne was on my side.
Too easy for Smith. Root's ****s probably gave it to Malan. Did anyone expect Malan to do well, let alone be top scorer for England?
Nope. Close run on the former, well off on the latter.
Broad did have that knee issue that was brought up but it didn't stop him playing so I don't think that counts.
2/6 pretty crap really.
Got banned twice. Well done on this prediction.
YorksLanka
International Debutant
Congrats to Australia on a resounding series win..I predicted an England 3-2 win and have genuinely surprised at how poor England have been. I have also been very surprised at the batting ability of the Marsh brothers! Well done to them and hope all Aussie fans enjoying their victory.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
Close
Yes, close
Close, Yes
Root out memes himself to get this wrong. Paine prediction was based on England always allowing crud batsmen to have great series, so given how Mitch Marsh went I'm giving myself half a point.
Gremlin
U19 Vice-Captain
Bottom of the class award to Gremlin
Gob
International Coach
Cheers mate. Think I'm very intelligent and have a very good understanding of the game
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I had high hopes of this one but it turned out to be one of my worst ever.
Things improved with this one
But I was soon back to my normal standard
oblongballs
U19 Debutant
Well there we are. England's highest run maker.
Of all the people tried in England's middle order in recent times, he is the one to stick with.
stephen
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yeah I think Malan was the best English bat by a fair margin. Root really needs to work on his conversion issues. Getting out in the 70s every time doesn't really help his team build a platform in Australia. It's OK in England where 300 is often a winning total but that's not the case in many countries.
quincywagstaff
International Debutant
I thought it would be closer than it was as I thought Australia had significant issues in the batting and keeping areas but even though Handscomb was completely out of form and Bancroft declined after a promising debut, it didn’t really matter because of how listless England were.
Thought England were gone after how meekly they capitulated with the bat in the 2nd innings in Brisbane. Smith said the Vince run-out was the turning point of the series but in truth I think it was the bowling of Australia on the 3rd evening that defined the series. Sans on the bland Melbourne pitch, Australia pretty much had it over mentally on England’s batsmen from that point on.
Thought England were gone after how meekly they capitulated with the bat in the 2nd innings in Brisbane. Smith said the Vince run-out was the turning point of the series but in truth I think it was the bowling of Australia on the 3rd evening that defined the series. Sans on the bland Melbourne pitch, Australia pretty much had it over mentally on England’s batsmen from that point on.
oblongballs
U19 Debutant
It would be great if Root started making more centuries but the issue is, he is doing his bit and more often than not gets to 50. The others around him need to start doing the same too.