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The Ashes 2023


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  1. 1. Who will triumph?


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  • Poll closed on 07/07/23 at 04:00 PM

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Posted
Just now, vvvslaxman said:

Anyway credit to Cummins to play with calm and colleected approach.

He is like Captain America, nice and easy going on the outside but tough as steel.

Posted
35 minutes ago, Majestic said:

It's heavily tilted towards spinners. That's my point.

 

Not evenly balanced wickets. 

 

South Africa and New Zealand are heavily tilted towards pacers and Australia for tall fast pacers.

 

and England towards swing bowlers

Posted (edited)
3 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

At the end of the day Australia's aggression towards the end against Root won the game. They were totally out until that point. That turned the game around.

Cummins was still very conservative till the end.  Played every ball on its merit.  Not for a moment, it appeared that he was trying to go bazzball.  Proper cricketing shots on loose balls.  

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Posted
1 minute ago, Stan AF said:

There's a reason why the wisdom accumulated over centuries of test cricket stands above reckless declarations.

 

Ironically they won this match because of positive approach they took for the first time in a desperation. If Cummins had batted defensively things would ahve been difficult.

Posted
1 minute ago, Frustrated said:

Cummins was still very conservative till the end.  Played every ball on its merit.  Not for a moment, it appeared that he was trying to go bazzball.  Proper cricketing shots on loose balls.  

 

Yea. But that kick start by Cummins pushed all the fielders to the boundary.

Posted
Just now, Austin 3:!6 said:

Our defeat now in WTC finals doesn't look that bad now.  

It is still bad. We have to understand the difference. In this match England was on the top of the game best part of the test match. IN that match Australia was on top for the best part. We were never in the game except first session on day 1. 

Posted
1 minute ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

Ironically they won this match because of positive approach they took for the first time in a desperation. If Cummins had batted defensively things would ahve been difficult.

I was talking about English nonsensical declaration on day 1

Posted
1 minute ago, Lord said:

 

and England towards swing bowlers

Ajaz Patel picked 10-fers. We can deny as much as we want but Indian wickets are the least sporting, heavily inclined towards spinners.

 

They should produce a good batting wicket with assistance for spinners on day 4 and day 5. Adding to this, if they can put a tinge of grass on Day 1 for the pacers, the matches will be really sporting and well balanced for every one. It shouldn't be that Joe Root is picking 5-fer and Anderson/Broad barely bowling 5-6 overs for no wickets.

Posted
Just now, Stan AF said:

I was talking about English nonsensical declaration on day 1

 

Yea. That kind of surprised English commies too. But they didn't show it overtly lol

Posted
1 minute ago, vvvslaxman said:

It is still bad. We have to understand the difference. In this match England was on the top of the game best part of the test match. IN that match Australia was on top for the best part. We were never in the game except first session on day 1. 

 

I know...was being sarcastic. But that's the excuse our players, board and media will give.

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