***Official*** 2nd Test at Adelaide

[Pup Clarke]

Bairstow at 8 is stupid af, currently he seems the best bat in side after root, get him at 3 or 5 and if the rest of the line-up memes about , so be it..

Completely agree. Not having Foakes keep in the warm ups was bizarre. If you have any chance to release some pressure off of Bairstow (just play as a batsman) then you do it

 

[Tangles]

Who dropped a catch of Cummins?

 

[Pothas]

Aussie bowling lineup is just relentless. Cummins as 3rd seamer barely bowls a bad ball and doesn't let up on his pace all innings. Was amazed he could do it when he was a lightning fast 17/18 year old and still am after all the injuries and how little first class cricket he's played over the years. Lyon is obviously just fantastic at this stage.

Yep those two are the difference. Cummins comfortably the best player in the series so far.

 

[Cabinet96]

He should definitely be swapping places with Moeen.

They could maybe bring Foakes for someone but that is about it really. I would imagine we will see players like Lawrence and Clarke next summer (Or maybe in New Zealand) but this is no time to be drafting those sorts of guys in from outside the squad. Any talk of Wood is madness.

Can't drum up munch enthusiasm right now but there is still a chance nicking a Test like they did in the good old days.

Give Foakes the gloves and make Bairstow bat at 3 instead of Vince? I don't know if that's too much of a jump, but there really isn't anyone in the squad I'd prefer to be batting there.

 

[SeamUp]

When England have gone for a policy of between 5-10 chances and averaging in the 20s then Stoneman, Vince and Malan all have to be looking over their shoulders. Too add to matters their most experienced batsmen may well be coming to his end.

In recent memory going back to players who struggled hasn't really worked well ie Compton, Vince, Ballance so I don't see a point in going back to Ballance but they may have no other choice.

There is a 2-day game in Perth ? They will have to seriously look at this game as a shoot-out. Jennings is another player they may have to go back too. But can you see him being better than Cook or Stoneman? It may be a shoot-out between Jennings, Vince and Ballance for #3 .I I would probably go for Jennings but it could be any of those 3.

Gubbins would be a left field pick with him missing so much County Championship.

Foakes is a must to enable Bairstow to possibly relinquish the gloves.

It may be too soon for Dan Lawrence but I would seriously start considering him be first reserve batsman from Perth.

Cook
Stoneman
Jennings
Root
Bairstow
Foakes
Ali
Woakes
Overton/Wood/Curran
Broad
Anderson

 

[SeamUp]

Well done Australia. Things starting to shape up.

 

[Spark]

Well done Oz. Worth the win across the five days.

Shaun Marsh the obvious MOTM; he was the difference between the sides in an otherwise fairly even match (IMO)

How Starc got five there is beyond me, would not get in as 12th man if I did a composite XI from this test, but Cummins was superb, and Hazlewood too this morning. Probably the 862537th time I’ve ever said this but all the Aussie bowling performances are a real point in favour of actually watching games over scorecard analysis

Premature for the 5-0 shouts for me, the previous whitewashes were obvious at this stage after shellshocked displays from England. That’s not the case here, and if it was Melbourne next I’d fancy us to win. Unfortunately Perth is not a kind place for England, but let’s see. I don’t think we are rolling over like 06 or 13, but the truth is we just aren’t good enough at batting.

I was thinking in the drive home that this could be like the 2013 series in England, with the scorecard exaggerating the difference between the sides.

 

[TheJediBrah]

The leading wicket taker for the series has been at most the fifth best bowler by my judgement. Cricket sucks balls sometimes.

I wonder if Cummins will always be that guy who bowls the best but never takes wickets

 

[GIMH]

I’d consider asking both Ramprakash and Collingwood to play.

 

[Tangles]

Haven't watched everything but Stoneman has looked the part IMO.

 

[Gnske]

When England have gone for a policy of between 5-10 chances and averaging in the 20s then Stoneman, Vince and Malan all have to be looking over their shoulders. Too add to matters their most experienced batsmen may well be coming to his end.

In recent memory going back to players who struggled hasn't really worked well ie Compton, Vince, Ballance so I don't see a point in going back to Ballance but they may have no other choice.

There is a 2-day game in Perth ? They will have to seriously look at this game as a shoot-out. Jennings is another player they may have to go back too. But can you see him being better than Cook or Stoneman? It may be a shoot-out between Jennings, Vince and Ballance for #3 .I I would probably go for Jennings but it could be any of those 3.

Gubbins would be a left field pick with him missing so much County Championship.

Foakes is a must to enable Bairstow to possibly relinquish the gloves.

It may be too soon for Dan Lawrence but I would seriously start considering him be first reserve batsman from Perth.

Cook
Stoneman
Jennings
Root
Bairstow
Foakes
Ali
Woakes
Overton/Wood/Curran
Broad
Anderson

Yeah, after Jennings' body of work during the English summer, I can go for that idea.

 

[Daemon]

Yeah I'd only be thinking of binning Vince and Malan, despite the latter actually showing some ticker. Stoneman's fine.

 

[SeamUp]

Yeah, after Jennings' body of work during the English summer, I can go for that idea.

Yeah there isn't much to choose from

Plus they've made Jennings Lions captain and he top scored in their only game. He is ripe for another re-call on their recent policy.

But I dislike Ballance so much so its either a case of he is in the squad already so we pick him or there will be a little shoot-out.

 

[Pothas]

Yeah I'd only be thinking of binning Vince and Malan, despite the latter actually showing some ticker. Stoneman's fine.

Does actually have to make a proper score at some point though.

 

[Spark]

Eh, Malan looks like he's in trouble tbh against both Cummins and Lyon.

EDIT: Not that I'd drop him when Vince looks so loose outside off stump

 

[Daemon]

Does actually have to make a proper score at some point though.

He's facing an average of 80 balls per innings this series, I'd take it at this point. Beggars can't be choosers etc.

 

[Pothas]

He's facing an average of 80 balls per innings this series, I'll take it at this point. Beggars can't be choosers etc.

Oh yeah I would not even think about dropping him at this stage and he looks a lot better than most openers tried in the last few years.

 

[StephenZA]

Congrats to Aus, good performance. Eng continue to disappoint. Root turning into that player that looks great but never converts for his team when he needs to, maybe needs to bat 4. Is there nobody else to play at 3? I don't think Bairstow is the guy you want at 3.

Also disappointed in Moeen, thought he would perform better than he has in both departments.

 

[Zinzan]

It may be a shoot-out between Jennings, Vince and Ballance for #3 .I I would probably go for Jennings but it could be any of those 3.

Or Root could just bite the bullet and cover that crucial & problematic no.3 spot.

 

[Spark]

Or Root could just bite the bullet and cover that crucial & problematic no.3 spot.

I'd be kind of tempted to put Ali in there tbh.