Off Topic The Ashes.

Ali or Rashid.

  • Ali

    Votes: 2 16.7%
  • Rashid

    Votes: 8 66.7%
  • Both

    Votes: 2 16.7%

  • Total voters
    12
Oh bollocks. The nightmare begins - win the toss, bat and 50-3. Not as if we're losing wickets to great balls either. WTF was Cook doing having a lash a Lyon just post drinks? Done the hard work and got himself in, had a bit of luck and then chucks it away playing a nothing shot against a pie-chucker by international standards. You may have noticed that I am ever so slightly annoyed by the morning session thus far.
 
First the England Womens football team and now the England cricket team,

Time to have a re think on your loyalties.

I was extremely supportive of the Lionesses, I thought they were excellent, if you read my posts I was lamenting the fact that our men's team didn't show the aptitude and enthusiasm of the ladies!
 
190-3 If we can get to 250 or more before we lose the next wicket we should end up with a half decent 1st innings score after all
 
If we can get 450 that would be a decent start, though I can see the Aussies racking up at least that on this wicket, so we need to make sure our bowlers are on song and don't give away silly runs.
 
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Tough to assess. I don't think the Aussies bowled that well today and cook and buttler threw their wickets away. If a couple of their batters get in it could be a very hard couple of days in the field for us. If we can stagger over 400 at least it may put a bit of pressure on their batters.