Loving Broad ****housery at the end of every over. Stares back at Carey to ask if it’s ok to leave At least it work up the lords crowd a bit. If England win that might just be the moment that got England motivated to win it. Much like Xhaka getting the crowd going at Anfield, that moment might have just got things going for us here
Broad is at his best when he’s fired up. He feeds off the crowd with bat and ball so he’ll be loving this anyway. It’s getting the crowd up and on englands side and getting them fired up which is then helping stokes as well.
England now not playing bazzball at all. yeah stokes has done what stokes does but they have refused about 20 runs here so far. it's basically 1 an over at the moment. 72 to win or 4 wickets. the new ball will slowly be creeping up here and honestly there's nothing coming bar Robinson to survive the new ball even.at 1 ball.and over. 9 overs to get 72.
I genuinely think that while the ball will come off the bat better we only need look at England leaking runs v tail yesterday then new ball ploughing through us with swing. they will hammer in with new ball imo broad is struggling now never.mind trout and Anderson facing it. Robinson might be crucial here. but stokes must stay there and get another 40 min
game over. stokes goes swinging. edge Australia were waiting for. Best bet now is swing away and see how many you can get 70 is far too.much for the tail really.
and goner. putting ball right at 3 fielders. same stupidity as last day. that's the sole place not to ****ing hit the ball Robinson. ah well.
!00% agree, and said so further up the thread. May have been even more than 20 runs. It just meant that all of England's runs were going to have to come from Stokes' boundaries. By the law of averages, at least a few of them would come off the wrong part of the bat, and eventually be caught: whereas had they tickled and padded singles at 3 or 4 an over the Aussies would have had to bring the field in to stop it and had less catchers on the boundary to catch the airborne shots. All over now though, as Robinson just threw his wicket away, and Broad is wafting for all he's worth. Indeed, out he goes. And with him the Ashes.
The worry for test cricket as the rest of the series is that going to see 6 men out on boundary and short pitched bowling all day going forward. Batsmen either leaving it or playing few pulls before top edging one to get out. Might make for a very boring rest of series from a bat v ball perspective.
Would it have been 3 or 4 an over though? Broad wasn’t going to be able to survive 5 balls an over or tick the ball over picking up singles as field would be all in. Given how Broad has batted in the last 5/6 years he’s not even close to being s number 8 and in most teams would be a number 11
Even Broad could get 1 or 2 an over on a dead pitch with an old ball. They turned down at least five Broad singles.
yet he did survive 2 overs at it. all he had to do was keep bat and gloves away from the ball and block the yorkers.
