Road to the 2015 Ashes in England

[weldone]

Yeah, uhh, what happens when the pitch isn't green on Day 4?

Hopefully England is batting in the 2nd innings with a 200 deficit and 2 wickets down.

 

[Spark]

Roady roady road.

 

[NUFAN]

That's just the practice pitch, the Test pitch is 2 to the right.

 

[Dan]

They clearly watered it with Fosters to kill everything, and keep the Australians away for good measure. An inventive plan, I suppose.

 

[Tangles]

Can't believe this 4 seamers **** again. It rarely works. The 4th guy doesn't bowl much if the first 3 take wickets and if they struggle so does he.

Anyone advocating Clarke bowl more than a random over is trying to wreck his back.

 

[Cabinet96]

someone start last man standing

for newbies: http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/ash...thread-ashes-last-man-standing-2013-14-a.html

I would but I can't be trusted.

 

[Spikey]

I trust you

 

[LegionOfBrad]

Its gonna be a road. A slow sludgy low run rate road. For the record i'm 5 miles for Sofia Gardens and it's been blowing a gale all day. There will be some cloud cover first up tomorrow but if that fools either Captain into having a bowl they're idiots unless it's as black as night.

I have tickets for day 4. Hopefully we won't have been smashed by then.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

 

[TheJediBrah]

I love the logic that if you add two sub-par part-time spinners together, it magically equals a decent full-time spinner.

It doesn't. But maybe 2 part-time spinners and another quick can magically equal Nathan Lyon.

Australia don't have a decent full-time spinner. Even Fawad would probably get spanked

 

[Furball]

Lyon is decent ffs.

 

[Furball]

I know it's been posted before, but I've been watching this non stop for the last 10 mins or so.

Can't wait. See you ****s tomorrow.

 

[Red]

oh dear god it really is happening

WTF is Taylor doing with his fashion?

 

[adub]

I know it's been posted before, but I've been watching this non stop for the last 10 mins or so.

Can't wait. See you ****s tomorrow.

yessssss! hurry up and toss the coin ****s.

 

[Spikey]

lalor scared the **** out of me with this tweet

Peter Lalor@plalor
Not sure about this listed team

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Can that be the team please.

I think that has to be the worst scorecard ever printed before a match, the chances of that side being chosen are about the same as KP being in the England side.

 

[Burgey]

To be fair I think it's highly debatable whether Australia's best Test XI includes Nathan Lyon, or a spinner at all.

As popular as Lyon is, he's been average at best. And while it's better to have stuck with him for a while than it was in the immediate post-Warne era of picking a different spinner each game, The selectors need to be wary of going to far in the other direction and continually selecting an average off-spin bowler if you've got better fast bowlers that aren't playing.

Voges and Clarke could probably do almost as good a job as bowlers than Lyon anyway tbh

Lyon is more than decent for an offie who doesn't chuck at test level.WPNCOS

 

[weldone]

Lyon is more than decent for an offie who doesn't chuck at test level.WPNCOS

wtf is WPNCOS?

 

[morgieb]

wtf is WPNCOS?

Worlds premier non-chucking off-spinner

 

[weldone]

Worlds premier non-chucking off-spinner

Who would have thought Burgey was talking about Ravi Ashwin there!