Will England come back to win the Ashes 3-2?

[sage]

Only done once before by Bradman in 36/37 series

[Majestic]

No

[wazza]

i thin 2 - 2 because last one will be completely flat if they win the next one. 

[sage]

1 hour ago, wazza said:

i thin 2 - 2 because last one will be completely flat if they win the next one. 

Stokes has promised Bazball will never have a draw 

[Suhaan]

5 hours ago, sage said:

Stokes has promised Bazball will never have a draw 

Shastri has promised Boozball for team India if he is again appointed replacing dravid

Edited July 10, 2023 by Suhaan

[nevada]

I don't think they will even keep the series alive till the 5th test. 

[rageaddict]

7 hours ago, wazza said:

i thin 2 - 2 because last one will be completely flat if they win the next one. 

 

Australia won the last Ashes so if the series result is a draw, Australia will retain it. 

 

England will have to win the series for an Ashes victory while Australia need only a draw, lot of Aussie fans were happy when it was raining as a draw would have meant Australia will retain the Ashes.

 

England would probably prepare the most result oriented pitches or their approach will be to win at all costs, draw or flat pitches in any of the upcoming two matches goes against their interests 

Edited July 10, 2023 by rageaddict

[wazza]

8 minutes ago, rageaddict said:

 

Australia won the last Ashes so if the series result is a draw, Australia will retain it. 

 

England will have to win the series for an Ashes victory while Australia need only a draw, lot of Aussie fans were happy when it was raining as a draw would have meant Australia will retain the Ashes.

 

England would probably prepare the most result oriented pitches or their approach will be to win at all costs, draw or flat pitches in any of the upcoming two matches goes against their interests 

They will lose 3-2 then 

[wazza]

Remember @rageaddict

No stokes for next game. Injured unless he magically returns. 

[vvvslaxman]

England has fixed their combination. Also batting has become deeper. Robinson injury ridden bowler will be gone. England will have full battery of bowlers at their disposal. Stokes will also have had enough request. On the other hand semi fit Hazlewood will replace Boland.  Labu and Smith have to show up. If it is green top i back England

[Lord]

3 hours ago, wazza said:

Remember @rageaddict

No stokes for next game. Injured unless he magically returns. 

 

enough time to recover

[vvvslaxman]

5 hours ago, wazza said:

Remember @rageaddict

No stokes for next game. Injured unless he magically returns. 

 

10 days gap to recover. He should be alright.

[Serpico]

4 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

England has fixed their combination. Also batting has become deeper. Robinson injury ridden bowler will be gone. England will have full battery of bowlers at their disposal. Stokes will also have had enough request. On the other hand semi fit Hazlewood will replace Boland.  Labu and Smith have to show up. If it is green top i back England

How did they fix combination? Mo ali at 3 is not even a band aid fix. If pope is back they will need to drop ali/woakes. And they still don't have a competent keeper 

 

Stokes must win the toss again and wood must bowl at full throttle with andu/broad giving good support to win next match 

[Serpico]

I want to see it happen but they will need a lot of luck. Smith will not gift wickets to Ali in every innings

 

Johnny cannot be keeper anymore, just let him open in place of duckett/crawley and get foakes in

[express bowling]

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Edited July 12, 2023 by express bowling

[Vijy]

On 7/10/2023 at 12:33 PM, Serpico said:

I want to see it happen but they will need a lot of luck. Smith will not gift wickets to Ali in every innings

 

Johnny cannot be keeper anymore, just let him open in place of duckett/crawley and get foakes in

duckett is very good; and crawley is very good at servicing key, BMac, stokes, etc. so they won't let him go.

 

Smith is mostly done for the series. real onus is on Labu to raise his game.

[Serpico]

2 hours ago, Vijy said:

duckett is very good; and crawley is very good at servicing key, BMac, stokes, etc. so they won't let him go.

 

Smith is mostly done for the series. real onus is on Labu to raise his game.

How are you saying Smith is done for the series though? He had a brain fade in last innings, won't have it every match. 

 

Labu is actually struggling and his luck has run it's course 

[Serpico]

So apparently foakes is not there in the squad for 4th test either. What did the dude do to McCullum lol

[Vijy]

On 7/12/2023 at 1:08 PM, Serpico said:

How are you saying Smith is done for the series though? He had a brain fade in last innings, won't have it every match. 

 

Labu is actually struggling and his luck has run it's course 

because he is only at 30% of his peak ability. the irony, of course, is that smith at 30% is the equal of root at average ability. if Peak Smith of '19 was playing, it would be comfortably 3-0 in favor of ozzies.

Edited July 20, 2023 by Vijy

[sage]

England making the impossible likely...