The Ashes | 2025-26 | 5 tests | Nov 21 to Jan 08 | Discussion Thread

[vvvslaxman]

[putrevus]

3 hours ago, Gollum said:

100%

 

16 consecutive test wins, on 2 separate instances. 

 

34 unbeaten WC games (1999-2011).

 

Insanity, will never be repeated by another country. 

Indian team  if they did not screwup with pitch on Nov 19 would have gone undefeated in three different ICC tournaments .That would have been very impressive too.

[jf1gp_1]

Whom do people support Aussies or English ? 

[vvvslaxman]

25 minutes ago, jf1gp_1 said:

Whom do people support Aussies or English ? 

Aussies ofcourse. They never say things like "Series against INdia is warmup for Ashes"

[AKane]

3 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

Aussies ofcourse. They never say things like "Series against INdia is warmup for Ashes"

Turns out series against India was a burnout for Ashes.

[Gollum]

3 hours ago, jf1gp_1 said:

Whom do people support Aussies or English ? 

Aussies

 

3 teams I can never support unless they are playing each other: Pak, BD, Eng

[jf1gp_1]

3 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Aussies

 

3 teams I can never support unless they are playing each other: Pak, BD, Eng

For me England is not even on same planet when it comes to Pak and BD. Pak vs BD is usually interesting cause I want both to lose. 

[Gollum]

 

[Lord]

22 minutes ago, Gollum said:

 

Bazball era lead by greatest AR chokes

[diga]

3 hours ago, Gollum said:

 

Gilly played & was part of both waugh and pontings alltime great teams

Edited December 25, 2025 by diga

[Laaloo]

Predicting a big hundred from Root today now that the series is over and cummins and Lyon are out and starc is overworked.

[Nikhil_cric]

13 hours ago, jf1gp_1 said:

Whom do people support Aussies or English ? 

Shouldn't even be a question. I don't think any Indian would support England over Australia. 

 

 

[Gollum]

40 minutes ago, Laaloo said:

Predicting a big hundred from Root today now that the series is over and cummins and Lyon are out and starc is overworked.

2 DRS reprieves, 3 dropped catches to go with. 

[Gollum]

Boxing day test in MCG has to be the greatest cricket tradition ever. 

[Suhaan]

26 minutes ago, Nikhil_cric said:

Shouldn't even be a question. I don't think any Indian would support England over Australia. 

 

 

But Aastraya pledge in the name of 

 

Edited December 25, 2025 by Suhaan

[putrevus]

This is what BCCI is missing, they also need to have some set dates for test cricket in traditional venues.Every year. Pongal test in Chennai, Diwali test in Delhi and then Dussera test in Eden Gardens.

 

No matter what , they need to have some test series during these holidays. 

[AKane]

21 minutes ago, putrevus said:

This is what BCCI is missing, they also need to have some set dates for test cricket in traditional venues.Every year. Pongal test in Chennai, Diwali test in Delhi and then Dussera test in Eden Gardens.

 

No matter what , they need to have some test series during these holidays. 

This is the land of the IPL.

[jf1gp_1]

36 minutes ago, putrevus said:

This is what BCCI is missing, they also need to have some set dates for test cricket in traditional venues.Every year. Pongal test in Chennai, Diwali test in Delhi and then Dussera test in Eden Gardens.

 

No matter what , they need to have some test series during these holidays. 

Diwali test in Delhi will end at toss.

[vvvslaxman]

9 minutes ago, jf1gp_1 said:

Diwali test in Delhi will end at toss.

Leave it to Jay shah. We will have Navratri Test,  Ganesh Chathurthi test,  Karva chaut test..

[vvvslaxman]

So on boxing day they box the gifts , left overs and give it to workers that worked on christmas day.   South Africa also has boxing day test occasionally. But they celebrate it as Day of Good will. They renamed it to Foster national unity  in order to move away from colonial association. But they still call the test boxing day test.