*Official* Australia v England post-Ashes ODI series

[MW1304]

Plunkett's a huge loss though, will probably make the difference.

 

[Burgey]

hey burgey is the fire in balmain sorted out

What fire? Was out at Parra watching Greenies all day.

Went for a swim at Dawn Fraser earlier this evening but no smoke to be seen.

 

[Stapel]

Plunkett's a huge loss though, will probably make the difference.

England not helped by Root not having his day with the ball. Nine required from him, not? Or do Eng have more bowling options?

 

[theegyptian]

Plunkett is increasingly injury prone and bowling only low to mid 130s when I've seen him in last 8 months. Shame because he's been very good in the last couple of years and he offers that bit down the order too. Gonna be pretty hit or miss whether he makes world cup at his advanced age imo.

 

[MW1304]

England not helped by Root not having his day with the ball. Nine required from him, not? Or do Eng have more bowling options?

Yeah has to do the nine, absolutely no other options.

 

[Spikey]

What fire? Was out at Parra watching Greenies all day.

Went for a swim at Dawn Fraser earlier this evening but no smoke to be seen.

a place went up on Darling Street today

 

[Burgey]

Cheers. Hadn’t heard that

 

[TheJediBrah]

Getting a bit nervous here, I put a grand on England at $2.20, it was just too good to resist

 

[Burgey]

I see it was the optometrist’s. About 200metres from here. Was up in Woolies earlier but didn’t even notice.

I should have ducked out to the scg actually, on my way back from the pool and the shops

 

[TheJediBrah]

hmm I'm not sure he caught that tbh

edit: nup that's dropped straight into the ground

 

[Burgey]

Think it bounced

 

[Spikey]

between this and a couple of other cases, I feel like the 'soft signal' is really "did the fielder celebrate confidently ? If Yes, give soft signal as out. Otherwise give soft signal as not out"

 

[Compton]

Soft signal schmoft shmignal.

Not out.

 

[TheJediBrah]

This is awkward af, if that gets given out **** could hit the fan

 

[Spikey]

oh no TPC is gonna kill a ****

 

[Compton]

I’m not sure I really see the purpose of a soft signal tbh.

All it does is shift the onus from the third umpire - who can watch 1000 replays from different angles - to the field umpire, who obviously has no ****ing clue what carries.

 

[MW1304]

Haha that's bad. Top view was inconclusive, sure, but the side angle was clear enough.

 

[ajdude]

hahaha that’s bullshit. hey i was thinking this during the melbourne test with the khawaja catch, is the ‘soft signal’ in the rules anywhere or is it just something that’s meandered its way into the game?

 

[TheJediBrah]

This whole "soft signal" thing just makes no sense in the context of contentious catches. The field umpire clearly has no idea what's happened so why would their opinion be taken into consideration?

 

[Spark]

I like how that was given by looking for ages at replays where the ball wasn't even visible