Not to mention bringing on a spinner and giving him singles all over the shopBailey must think all his birthdays have come at once. Must score to preserve his place, has edged a few early and they decide to put three men back on the legside and bang it halfway down.
Goddamn.
Perhaps he's trying to spite us by keeping him in our side.So cook is setting the field to George's reputation with no regard to match situation or George playing for his career.
Maybe. Bastard.Perhaps he's trying to spite us by keeping him in our side.
Haha yeah it's crazy.Yesterday Chappelli was going on about how in a 5 test series your basic goal as a batsman is 300 runs. Means you haven't failed, at least. Everyone except Bailey got there for Australia this series, nobody for England. I guess there's still an innings to go though, and Stokes missed a test. Still pretty remarkable, can't say I can remember a series anything like that.
Cricket is a funny game, but this is one heck of a predictable series.
Little doubt Australia will set England 400+ and they'll fall well short yet again.
still one more innings...Tbh I was thinking the only thing missing from this tour is a comically low score like 70 or something, we've always managed to scrape into triple figures. Going to sleep at 3 for nothing, thought we might be in with a shot. Alas.
Whilst I wont pretend to be unhappy about it, whole series seems slightly surrealStayed up and watched the first session - grimmest display yet - has to be the most dramatic fall from grace ever by an international sports team - we should tear up all the central contracts and start again
I'd consider chasing 400+ and making less than 3 figures falling well short.You reckon?
Given that the experienced players have patently lost interest, we'll need the kids to get us into 3 figures.
It's up/down there, yeah. It's just been almost surreally poor all round. Just when you think it can't get worse, it somehow does.Oh don't get me wrong guys, not taking anything away from the bowlers but there is no excusing this.
If our footballers played half as bad as this when wearing the three lions they would be absolutely crucified for years. And I'm no sympathiser of them. This is completely unacceptable.
Appalling. The nadir of my life of following sport.
Chunky lad, isn't he? Played a nice coupla cuts whilst he was there tho.Ballance breathing heavily already. Wtf?
Steady.It's a controversial statement but I'm going to go there... I don't think Bairstow is all that good.
Quite. I mean, didn't he openly admit he'd never actually seen Beer turn his arm over when he picked him? Warne's Twitter feed all the evidence he needed.Andrew Hilditch was unfairly maligned?
Oh shut up Brayshaw, he was useless.
One of the more redundant words ever typed, tbh. We could bat thrice and not score 311.Australia probably already have enough. But no doubt they'll push on and on and hopefully bat England completely out of it.
Think it shows how badly Finn's been in the nets, more than anything else. I mean, the boy was first choice three years ago and is now the only member of the original party not to get a test this time around.Boyd stinks. Finn would do a vastly better job, at least he would ask questions from time to time.