The Ashes (2019)

[adi B]

Just now, Nikola said:

Aus missed starc to bowl at tailenders.

Yes ,call him wayward ,call him all bad names but Australia need to complete that bowling attack .a left armers is always needed and starc is a world best tail cleaner !

Now I see England's tail up and they should win 3-1 in the end .

Tbh England are the better team man to man in these conditions ,I dont know how they are struggling atm against not that good Australian side 

[Insidious]

4 minutes ago, nitinbwj said:

Last hour of this match was entertaining and thrilling than all the matches India has played so far against WI i their tour..what a yawning series..

Yeah! Let also blame Rat and Bewda for this.

[Vijy]

Just now, Insidious said:

Yeah! Let also blame Rat and Bewda for this.

I also blame them for climate change and the fact that I was late to work on Friday. damn those ominiscient, omnipotent gits.

[adi B]

12 minutes ago, Geoff Boycott said:

Remember England were dead and buried after 2 days. I'll take a bit of good fortune in that situation. The umpire made a bad call but umpires are part of the game. It won't be the last. 

Congratulations mate ,I think you have the better team than Australia and now will romp Australia in the last 2 games.

Just surprised how the 50-50 calls mostly go England's way 

[adi B]

5 minutes ago, putrevus said:

Why should umpires go scott free after making terrible decisions.NZ should have won the world cup and Aussies Ashes.But freaking umpires ruined them.Joe Wilson should be kicked out , players gets booted if they fail why can't umpires be booted out.

Exactly ,ICC should have definitely stripped off adharmsena, especially after the match when he was boasting he committed a mistake but would do it again ,I mean wtf !!

[TheWall]

9 minutes ago, nitinbwj said:

Last hour of this match was entertaining and thrilling than all the matches India has played so far against WI i their tour..what a yawning series..

Yes. Let's cancel the WI tour....

[Nikhil_cric]

Freakish knock under those circumstances. Take a bow , sir Ben stokes.

[adi B]

8 minutes ago, Geoff Boycott said:

You idiot lol

Cant listen to criticism? Then eff off from here !

[putrevus]

Credit Aussies they have not mentioned one word about umpires.Both in commentary box and also all the players.

[Geoff Boycott]

2 minutes ago, adi B said:

Cant listen to criticism? Then eff off from here !

Criticism? If you truly believe umpires can be bought in an Ashes series you are an idiot. Are umpires sometimes influence by the crowd or feel pressure. Then yes. England were lucky. 

I've no problem with that. 

[adi B]

Just now, Geoff Boycott said:

Criticism? If you truly believe umpires can be bought in an Ashes series you are an idiot. Are umpires sometimes influence by the crowd or feel pressure. Then yes. England were lucky. 

I've no problem with that. 

Blah blah blah ,cut on your BS and rhetorics. We know how the ICC works ,how much influence the big 3 have.

I ,even as an Indian would agree that sometimes even we armtwist the ICC to favour us in someway or other so quit playing this game that everything is so fair and umpires are under no influence and all lol .

This is not how the world or the ICC works! If you dont believe that England board have a great influence then please believe that way ,I am not here to change your stance. 

Now i am not hating or anything, I accept that even our board does some slimy work backdoors 

[putrevus]

Some morons were calling Pandya better allrounder than Ben Stokes. Stokes has technique to survive without scoring a lot and also has ability to hit sixes.

[Deleted_User_1]

this shows how valuable Smith is to the Aussies. If he comes back next match, expect another matchwinning performance.

[mishra]

28 minutes ago, adi B said:

Kushal perera's 151 and sri Lanka's 1 wkt win earlier this year against saf was much more impressive .

England won this at home with the help of umpires against tired bowlers on a relatively flat pitch .

Sri Lanka achieving that target was out of the world 

Yes, Remember hearing that. But here, it was clear, Leach wont last one complete over. He faced just 17 balls, scored just 1 run. Statistically, I doubt a partnership of over 50 runs as last wicket can be that carefully crafted. That 1 run was for to make the score draw. Essentially Leach was surviving  1 ball an over

[mishra]

3 minutes ago, putrevus said:

Some morons were calling Pandya better allrounder than Ben Stokes. Stokes has technique to survive without scoring a lot and also has ability to hit sixes.

Nikaal le dil ki bhandaas 

[Nikola]

4 minutes ago, putrevus said:

Some morons were calling Pandya better allrounder than Ben Stokes. Stokes has technique to survive without scoring a lot and also has ability to hit sixes.

It's insult if you put stokes and pandya in same line. Stokes can be easily compared with kohli and i will say he is bigger clutch than him as well.

Edited August 25, 2019 by Nikola

[vvvslaxman]

Good week for   Archer, Rahane, Stokes lol 

 

 

 

 

[Cricwala]

55 minutes ago, Nikola said:

Aus need to kick tim paine right now.

I think he will be relieved off captaincy after this series, as Wade has taken his batting to a new level and should slot in as keeper. Lyon could be a good candidate for captaincy.....Australia won't muck around with sentimentality in making whatever changes are required for the good of their team

[mishra]

30 minutes ago, adi B said:

Exactly ,ICC should have definitely stripped off adharmsena, especially after the match when he was boasting he committed a mistake but would do it again ,I mean wtf !!

Look,  There was massive crowd, Ashes was on the line, Every player was making mistake. Leach running, stokes sending back, missfielding, diving to catch, using DRS.

 

Umpires are humans too. I felt ball may be partly kissing the leg stump or may be missing till i saw replay. I am not a huge fan of ball tracking but I don’t feel Anything wrong with the decision. Wrong as in umpires “integrity “. They are humans too

Edited August 25, 2019 by mishra

[Geoff Boycott]

14 minutes ago, adi B said:

Blah blah blah ,cut on your BS and rhetorics. We know how the ICC works ,how much influence the big 3 have.

I ,even as an Indian would agree that sometimes even we armtwist the ICC to favour us in someway or other so quit playing this game that everything is so fair and umpires are under no influence and all lol .

This is not how the world or the ICC works! If you dont believe that England board have a great influence then please believe that way ,I am not here to change your stance. 

Now i am not hating or anything, I accept that even our board does some slimy work backdoors 

So its all in your head

Buy yourself a tin hat for Christmas.