The Ashes 2023

[rollingstoned]

Lol @ the disdain. Revrse scoops the fellow who tormented us for a six. 

[sage]

Are England actually playing Bazball? Not been able to watch today. 4.75 RPO

[vivek04]

we were not the deserved finalist. England could have given a hard fight to the aussies.

[vvvslaxman]

Damn what a player Root is. Unlike Smithy he is good to watch as well.

[vvvslaxman]

Green has bowled just 3 overs. 3 seamers + 1 spinner.   India went in with 4 seamers at the oval. lol. 2 of them were has beens. One has  a poor record in England.

[vvvslaxman]

Boland is getting massacred 6.22 an over.

[vvvslaxman]

Sanju samson must be wondering "Why didn't he play like this for us when we got bowled out for double digits"

[nevada]

2 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Boland is getting massacred 6.22 an over.

Is it the same Boland that our batsman made look like the second coming of McGrath?

[vvvslaxman]

Just now, nevada said:

Is it the same Boland that our batsman made look like the second coming of McGrath?

 

In right conditions even Deepak chahar can make them look like clown. No bowler should be judged based on how they do well against us. To be fair though Boland ripped through England last time. But this is a different ENgland side with different mindset. Boland has to find a way.

[vvvslaxman]

England is a bit better this time tactically. They have so many funky placements and bowlers bowl to the plan. So Australia's patiencee will be tested.

[putrevus]

Running between the wickets is so important along with rotation of strike. Johnny has 47 runs only scored 6 boundaries at nearly 100 sr  , rest of them are singles and doubles.

 

Pujara when he bats completely stops the innings.

[vvvslaxman]

8 minutes ago, vivek04 said:

we were not the deserved finalist. England could have given a hard fight to the aussies.

 

Next cycle we are not making it. We are not going to make the final for the foreseeable future. We had dream bowling unit alongwith AshJad. Once they leave alongwith Bumrah we will become mid-table team.

[vvvslaxman]

If they offer you Smith and Root who will you pick for Tests?

[vvvslaxman]

Peach from Hazlewood.  Root tried to come down. But back of the length stuff beat him all ends up.

[vvvslaxman]

Lyon is getting cartered all over. They are unable to plug one end. England is going after bowling from both ends.

[vvvslaxman]

Labu took a blow at short leg. 

[putrevus]

Johnny has turned into Bradman.He is simply unstoppable.

[putrevus]

Indian batsmen for last 10 years have been playing not to lose rather than playing to win.

 

They have become so circumspect under pressure.

[Stan AF]

Joe root making his merry way into another 100

[vvvslaxman]

Just now, putrevus said:

Johnny has turned into Bradman.He is simply unstoppable.

 

He has made this side stronger. He was missing for a while. But England was facing easier oppositions like Pakistan,NZ