*Official* Fifth Test (The Oval, London) 27-31 July

[Shri]

one thing i can say through this series is that i have only had problems with specific english players and have called them out. gimh and a few others have always made it personal, complained to mods etc.

i can see why anderson is weak willed as a cricketer tbh. must be the stiff upper lip thing eng is proud of

 

[mackembhoy]

As well as his batting output, Crawley's slip catching has been so much better this series than his previous (awful) baseline.

Yeah he's really made us all taste it hard.

I'm delighted but also **** him.

 

[Uppercut]

NGL I'm enjoying this a lot. Actual England fans must be cackling into their crumpets.

 

[Molehill]

Uppercut thinks he knows physics because he just watched Oppenheimer the other night.

I think it's clear the collective gut of Cricketweb agrees it's cheating

To be fair, the Aussies were up to some horrific stuff in the last Ashes. I mean what kind of ball makes Boland unplayable?

 

[Spark]

Smith taking the Sehwag approach to this ball it seems

 

[flibbertyjibber]

This Smith stat about runs in 3rd and 4th innings, I wonder if it is down to him just being tired at the end of a game. They say he hardly sleeps before day 1 of a test and is up half the night shadow batting in his room, does he do this every night and so is shattered by day 4/5?

Also be interesting to see his dropped catch percentage on days 4 and 5 compared to 1, 2 and 3.

 

[Gob]

I mean yeah it's just another file in the very large drawer of reasons Joel Wilson should not be umpiring international cricket games.

I think Dharmablahblah picked the ball. Saw a video where Joel was going through different balls trying to pick up the right ball and Dharm just swooped in and picked one randomly

 

[Shri]

as if this mini collpase isn't bad enough we now also have DK on comms

 

[mackembhoy]

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NGL I'm enjoying this a lot. Actual England fans must be cackling into their crumpets.

I finished my crumpets moments before the first wicket actually. Otherwise I'd have certainly been doing that.

 

[Silver Silva]

To be fair, the Aussies were up to some horrific stuff in the last Ashes. I mean what kind of ball makes Boland unplayable?

Well if you're an Aussie , you'd say the same thing about Woakes based on how he fared in Australia

 

[Gnske]

I think Dharmablahblah picked the ball. Saw a video where Joel was going through different balls trying to pick up the right ball and Dharm just swooped in and picked one randomly

Alpha. Makes the wrong decision without even thinking about thinking. That's the Kumar we love.

Joel has much to learn about being an elite ICC umpire.

 

[91Jmay]

Just bowl dry against Smith get the others out

 

[Spark]

This Smith stat about runs in 3rd and 4th innings, I wonder if it is down to him just being tired at the end of a game. They say he hardly sleeps before day 1 of a test and is up half the night shadow batting in his room, does he do this every night and so is shattered by day 4/5?

Also be interesting to see his dropped catch percentage on days 4 and 5 compared to 1, 2 and 3.

This is generally what people say yeah, his concentration and mental sharpness drops steadily as a game goes on.

 

[Shri]

I think Dharmablahblah picked the ball. Saw a video where Joel was going through different balls trying to pick up the right ball and Dharm just swooped in and picked one randomly

wafg he must hate aus as much as he hates nz

 

[Molehill]

Well if you're an Aussie , you'd say the same thing about Woakes based on how he fared in Australia

Not sure if you've missed the last 6 pages of this thread.......but I think they are.

 

[quincywagstaff]

Coincidentally, conditions seem less bowler-friendly now that Anderson has come on.

 

[GIMH]

one thing i can say through this series is that i have only had problems with specific english players and have called them out. gimh and a few others have always made it personal, complained to mods etc.

i can see why anderson is weak willed as a cricketer tbh. must be the stiff upper lip thing eng is proud of

Idiot

 

[Shri]

This is generally what people say yeah, his concentration and mental sharpness drops steadily as a game goes on.

it must be ehausting to keep up all the quirks for so long.

 

[91Jmay]

Man Aussies been lucky with play and misses

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

Uppercut thinks he knows physics because he just watched Oppenheimer the other night.

I think it's clear the collective gut of Cricketweb agrees it's cheating

It's not cheating it's just really poor officiating having an undue influence on the game. Some things never change through history.