The third two day ashes test ever but the second in four tests this year. Crazy.
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Ironic that Bazball came into it's own on such an unpredictable wicket.
yes when it's effectively a 20/20 or 1 day match it works. Most of the games we got ourselves into fairly good positions only to cock it up somehow. At least we have the 'not won a test in Australia since 1882' off our backs
England's promising start to the fifth Ashes Test against Australia was curtailed by bad light and rain on the opening day in Sydney.
Joe Root and Harry Brook had taken the tourists to 211-3 when the weather arrived to wipe out the evening session at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
The fourth-wicket pair added an unbroken 154, England's highest partnership of a series in which they are 3-1 down.
After captain Ben Stokes won the toss for the fourth time on the tour, England were in danger of wasting some friendly batting conditions when they slipped to 57-3.
Still scoring at 5 an over. Crowd were really annoyed about the bad light delay today.
I think we can win this.
Joe Root and Harry Brook had taken the tourists to 211-3 when the weather arrived to wipe out the evening session at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
The fourth-wicket pair added an unbroken 154, England's highest partnership of a series in which they are 3-1 down.
After captain Ben Stokes won the toss for the fourth time on the tour, England were in danger of wasting some friendly batting conditions when they slipped to 57-3.
Still scoring at 5 an over. Crowd were really annoyed about the bad light delay today.
I think we can win this.
Weather may not allow us to win. Commentators said the Sydney lost more days to rain than Manchester.
Embarrassing, England fielders must have dipped their hands in Teflon before day 3.
Not to mention Stokes' captaincy is non existent
Not to mention Stokes' captaincy is non existent
Aussie well on top again. 4-1to Aussie sums up our poor Ashes Tour. Bowling is now a major problem for us. Batting has potential , if a bit erratic at times. Major rethink to Test Cricket is required.
Major rethink to English Cricket full stop. County cricket returned to 4 day matches( Tues to Fri ), 50 overs game on a Sunday and a complete stop to these ridiculous slog or out tournaments.
It can't be a coincidence that all our fast bowlers get injured so often/frequently. Back in the days of Trueman, Statham, Loader, Higgs etc they played a test, then a county match, then a test etc. Always playing so their bodies were well oiled by use, no rest and rotation to allow their muscle structure to get out of tune. I cannot remember those players missing major parts of series. If you don't use it you lose it. Today's namby pamby approach is the cause of these injuries.
In his career Freddie bowled 19,330 overs in total , that is something like a thousand a year for his full career. And he was banned from test cricket for two of those and not selected for several others at the end of his career. Stuart Broad bowled about 7,000 overs and Mark Wood 6,400 in the more modern times. These figures are taken from their wikipedia pages. This means Wood bowled, so far, just a third as much as Trueman.
For comparison, I checked the figures for Denis Lillee. He bowled about 12,000 overs in his career.
In his career Freddie bowled 19,330 overs in total , that is something like a thousand a year for his full career. And he was banned from test cricket for two of those and not selected for several others at the end of his career. Stuart Broad bowled about 7,000 overs and Mark Wood 6,400 in the more modern times. These figures are taken from their wikipedia pages. This means Wood bowled, so far, just a third as much as Trueman.
For comparison, I checked the figures for Denis Lillee. He bowled about 12,000 overs in his career.
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Abductor injury, Bure. Surprised he even attempted to bat, must have been on some heavy pain killers!
Not sure what the rules are on runners these days, that would have been a better option
Fast bowler, injured.
No runners these days.Abductor injury, Bure. Surprised he even attempted to bat, must have been on some heavy pain killers!
Not sure what the rules are on runners these days, that would have been a better option
Banned in 2011 apparently. Strange decision, but certain players abused the rule.
I honestly don't think the bowlers are the problem. We knew ours wwere a bit injury prone and I agree something should be looked at as to why, is it like footballers now they they are overtuned? The real issue yet again is the batsmen can't bat for long enough meaning that our injury prone bowlers don't have scoreboard pressure to work with. That final test when we got 384 or whatever I said immediately, that's 100 short meanwhile the papers were saying it was a good score. We got them 5 down in the final innings chasing 160, if they had 260 to get it could have been another story. Agree with the comments about county championship. Additionally we had a few very poor umpire decisions in crucial moments in about 3 tests, just when we were getting level/ ahead. Anyhooo I wonder if any change will come from this latest failure!
England players off to India in preparation for world cup. Well all except Rashid and Ahmed who have not been given visas yet. They're British not Pakistani.
England beat Sri Lanka in second odi. England bowled six spinners in Sri Lanka innings. Not sure that will have ever happened before. Rashid, Ahmed, Dawson, Jacks, Bethell and finally 2/13 Root.
Root must surly be a batting all rounder on the Indian sub-continent
Perth won the big bash again, they were rubbish last year, but that is something like 6 times winners now!
Root has taken 73 test and 30 ODI wickets, so more than a part time journeyman.
Interesting 1 day match going on currently England scored 2 centuries, but SL are 156/4 and in with a decent shout