The Ashes (2019)

[Insidious]

1 hour ago, TheWall said:

Pommy fan whining.....

Lol. I am actually rooting for the Aussies. 

 

[Insidious]

58 minutes ago, bahubali said:

Patti son dint play in last 8 years where were you....BTW Broad also dint play in WC...but what a nonsense logic is this...India played WC just after 2 months of excruciating ipl they played ct17 final also after that how come they manage to reach in WC SF and CT final.

Has broad bowled badly? I was referring to bad spell bowled by stokes and woakes yesterday, where they gone more than 6 runs per over. Stokes is all-rounder and he is bound to get tired after a gruelling world cup. Same also applies to woakes. There is a reason why pandya  and Bumrah was rested against WI in Odis and t20s.

 

[Nikola]

Aus #4 batsman this series. (Top scorer in all 6 innings for aus)

 

Smith 144

Smith 142

Smith 92

Labuschagne 59

Labuschagne 74

Labuschagne 52*

 

Edited August 23, 2019 by Nikola

[Frustrated]

Aussies marching on to another easy victory.   Smith not being missed at all.  They retain the ashes, with this Win.  Congrats to them in advance. 

[bahubali]

2 hours ago, Insidious said:

Has broad bowled badly? I was referring to bad spell bowled by stokes and woakes yesterday, where they gone more than 6 runs per over. Stokes is all-rounder and he is bound to get tired after a gruelling world cup. Same also applies to woakes. There is a reason why pandya  and Bumrah was rested against WI in Odis and t20s.

 

So according to your logic Archer and pat Cummins should have balled shits. But they are the 2 best bowler of this series. Leave it man you have some weird logic to justify things.

Edited August 23, 2019 by bahubali

[Ankit_sharma03]

Labuschagne has been a big gain for Aus this series 

[Insidious]

5 hours ago, bahubali said:

So according to your logic Archer and pat Cummins should have balled shits. But they are the 2 best bowler of this series. Leave it man you have some weird logic to justify things.

Archer didn't played the first test. Even in this test he is down on pace.

[bahubali]

3 hours ago, Insidious said:

Archer didn't played the first test. Even in this test he is down on pace.

First inning took 6 wkts, what are you smoking previous test he took 7 wkts in both. Stop giving excuses. Look at Cummins best bowler from Aus so far.All you have excuses even stokes and wokes won't cry this much as you are.

[rkt.india]

Labuschagne is the new star for Aus.  

[New guy]

11 hours ago, Insidious said:

Has broad bowled badly? I was referring to bad spell bowled by stokes and woakes yesterday, where they gone more than 6 runs per over. Stokes is all-rounder and he is bound to get tired after a gruelling world cup. Same also applies to woakes. There is a reason why pandya  and Bumrah was rested against WI in Odis and t20s.

 

No one asked England to select woakes and stokes if they were tired. Bits and pieces all rounders are never consistently successful in tests. This is not Lois

[rkt.india]

13 hours ago, bahubali said:

What about AUs dint have their best batter Smith ,a single man batting team still humiliating eng. Also if that's your logic why do we boast our victory against AUs which was without Warner and Smith.

did you read the post I replied to?  Dont get your panties in twist after reading just one sentence. and yeah Aus dismissed for 179 without Smith in first innings.  So, they are winning this game on the back of their bowling and not batting.  They are not missing any of their top pacers.  We did on England tour, 2 of them.  Regarding Warner, he is very much an FTB, so, would have made zilch difference on those challenging pitches.

Edited August 24, 2019 by rkt.india

[rkt.india]

13 hours ago, Vk1 said:

England seems to be such a weak team.. how the duck did we manage to lose to them so badly 

because we had to face Anderson and we missed two of our best pacers.  Aus didn't.

[Stan AF]

Tim Paine is going to do what multiple WC winners Ponting & Clarke couldn't. Cricket is a crazy sport and a great leveler.

[express bowling]

18 hours ago, Stan AF said:

Of the 24 overs bowled in this session, Josh Hazlewood has bowled 11 and taken 3 This is what dropping a player does.

 

But Gavaskar keeps on saying in every test match that Rahane's confidence was destroyed because he was dropped from 2 tests in SA in early 2018.

 

That Rahane has played in 56 of the last 58 tests, in which he was fit, seems to have no effect on boosting his confidence.     

 

(  That he has averaged 30.9 in the last 28 tests is all due to that teeny weeny drop. An astrologer must have told him on 1.11.16 that he was going to be dropped from 2 tests in January 2018, and he was shattered     )

[SK_IH]

32 minutes ago, Stan AF said:

Tim Paine is going to do what multiple WC winners Ponting & Clarke couldn't. Cricket is a crazy sport and a great leveler.

You guys were over rating England too much before the series. It's a pedestrian side overall.

[Stan AF]

10 minutes ago, SK_IH said:

You guys were over rating England too much before the series. It's a pedestrian side overall.

Anderson's injury has helped Australia.

[rkt.india]

41 minutes ago, express bowling said:

 

But Gavaskar keeps on saying in every test match that Rahane's confidence was destroyed because he was dropped from 2 tests in SA in early 2018.

 

That Rahane has played in 56 of the last 58 tests, in which he was fit, seems to have no effect on boosting his confidence.     

 

(  That he has averaged 30.9 in the last 28 tests is all due to that teeny weeny drop. An astrologer must have told him on 1.11.16 that he was going to be dropped from 2 tests in January 2018, and he was shattered     )

but when was Hazlewood dropped anyway?  

[SrinjayDutta]

16 hours ago, Vk1 said:

England seems to be such a weak team.. how the duck did we manage to lose to them so badly 

Simple. We lost tosses.

[SK_IH]

29 minutes ago, Stan AF said:

Anderson's injury has helped Australia.

Even in Anderson's presence Aus had better personnel. Ironically England is riding on the coattails of Anderson's replacement to stay alive in Ashes.

Just because England defeated India last year does not imply it is invincible at home. 

 

[R!TTER]

4 hours ago, rkt.india said:

because we had to face Anderson and we missed two of our best pacers.  Aus didn't.

That logic falls flat when you consider that Oz rolled them under 70 on the 2nd day, didn't you & many others claimed that we faced much worse (batting) conditions last year?The fact is Oz bowling lineup is a notch above ours, we also spilled stupid number of chances last year & let England get off the hook 4 times IIRC, thanks to Brat 

 

17 hours ago, Vk1 said:

England seems to be such a weak team.. how the duck did we manage to lose to them so badly 

Ever since that 2011 horror tour England seems to have had all the luck against us, especially in England. Conversely since 2001 we've had slightly better luck against Oz especially down under, at home we've rarely needed luck to beat them.