The Ashes (2019)

[Vijy]

3 minutes ago, Nikola said:

15 years ago aus had better players in domestic circuit than what they have now in international cricket.

yes, people like hodge, law, love, etc. were better than some of the current hacks in their team.

[Kronadler]

10 minutes ago, Vijy said:

warner has always been more of a home track bully, and they have struggled to find a partner for him. if not for smith (and rain), this team would lose the ashes by 4-0 or something like that. the Oz attack is a very fine one, but the batting is falling to pieces. hard to believe that only about 10-15 yrs ago there was a lineup of: langer, hayden, ponting, clarke/waugh, martyn, lehmann, gilly

Credit to this team regardless. Half hour ago I had no hopes whatsoever. Our great paper tigers would have folded by now and been at the bar with Ass3.

[Nikola]

Head dropped by roy.

[Kronadler]

Looks like nobody wants to get "Head". lol

[Kronadler]

What is Head trying to do here. Get the run rate up? Crazy.

[Nikola]

Aus should attack bit more and eng would go all defensive field asap.

Edited August 18, 2019 by Nikola

[Vijy]

8 minutes ago, Kronadler said:

Looks like nobody wants to get "Head". lol

but they all want some "archer" (the raunchy tv series)

[Kronadler]

Ok, is there a whiff here?

[Nikola]

Good innings by Labuschagne.

[Kronadler]

Well done Kid, despite that brutal hit you copped. Much deserved 50.

[Kronadler]

Funny how these Poms talk about great English debuts...the sheer comical irony of it. Archer/Pietersen/Stokes. Clowns.

[Kronadler]

F'ing cheats. That was not out.

[Vijy]

9 minutes ago, Kronadler said:

Funny how these Poms talk about great English debuts...the sheer comical irony of it. Archer/Pietersen/Stokes. Clowns.

as per their deluded thinking, half the world is still theirs... the sun never sets on the british empire and all that. the head of state for NZ, aus, canada, and some of the caribbean island is elizabeth ii. so they like to pretend that all of these players are british, even though they are not

[Nikola]

Wade gone.

[Vijy]

leach has outbowled lyon this match. should played instead of the insipid moeen in the first match.

[Kronadler]

What a clueless player Tim Paine is! And he is Aussie captain. SMH.

[Vijy]

Just now, Kronadler said:

What a clueless player Tim Paine is! And he is Aussie captain. SMH.

at least he isn't a cheat. but he is clearly sub-par as far as batting goes. aus have too many keepers in the team. wade & paine, while warner and lambu-whatsit can keep part-time.

[Kronadler]

4 minutes ago, Kronadler said:

What a clueless player Tim Paine is! And he is Aussie captain. SMH.

Disgusting. He just turned down a call for a single from Head.

[Kronadler]

4 minutes ago, Vijy said:

at least he isn't a cheat

I know Smith and Warner paid for it with year long bans. What about Root! Claiming catches he never took.

[Nikola]

Paine gone. Archer gets another.