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

[vvvslaxman]

My sadistic mind wants it rains tomorrow after England loses.

[Gollum]

Even if you take mid 2015 as cutoff, Aus still has the best W/L in test cricket, comfortably better than India in what was supposed to be our golden run. How do these *ers dominate every single era. Even when they were at their weakest (80s) they drew in India, won away Ashes 4-0 (Alderman's series with 40+ wickets, Mark Taylor also scored 800+ runs), won a WC in the SC when no one gave them a chance of making the SF !!!!!!

Edited December 20, 2025 by Gollum

[rkt.india]

2 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Wish we had genuine spinners when they chsed down 370 against us. 

Our genuine spinners hardly make use of rough patches.

[Suhaan]

Just now, vvvslaxman said:

Wish we had genuine spinners when they chsed down 370 against us. 

I bet ,noone from our setup watches these games and analyses

Old days we had ,Ganguly and Weight who seriously spent fair time to make things difficult for opposition,used to watch other games as well

Current setup is narcissist echo chamber

[vvvslaxman]

Just now, rkt.india said:

Our genuine spinners hardly make use of rough patches.

 

Because we play darters overseas.

[ungboysj]

England made a mistake batting first in previous games 

They are best 4th innings chasers

[vvvslaxman]

1 minute ago, Gollum said:

Even if you take mid 2015 as cutoff, Aus still has the best W/L in test cricket, comfortably better than India in what was supposed to be our golden run. How do these *ers dominate every single era. Even when they were at their weakest (80s) they drew in India, won away Ashes, won a WC in the SC !!!!!!

Thank you to 0-5  dream run by small  man.

[vvvslaxman]

They are batting till 8.   Archer provided a template how to bat here. Yet these idiots come here and play all kind of reverse sweeps

[vvvslaxman]

oh my god they are still play reverse sweep like it is a cover drive

[Lord]

lmao Jacks

[vvvslaxman]

They are playing like this because they can deflect the criticism on to bazball.  THey can say "If only we didn't play bazball we would have won"

[Lord]

Just now, vvvslaxman said:

They are playing like this because they can deflect the criticism on to bazball.  THey can say "If only we didn't play bazball we would have won"

 

But they hyped Bazball. 

 

No one is forcing them to play like that lol

[vvvslaxman]

Just now, Lord said:

 

But they hyped Bazball. 

 

No one is forcing them to play like that lol

 

They play like this because they don't know how to bat properly 

[vvvslaxman]

They might gift a wicket here to Travis head.

[vvvslaxman]

[vvvslaxman]

Just get Cummins and finish it off.

[Lord]

even Head is getting turn

[vvvslaxman]

Nitin is having an excellent test match. He loses it only when he does umpiring for MI lol

[Gollum]

3 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Nitin is having an excellent test match. He loses it only when he does umpiring for MI lol

We must hype up our umpires more, especially when they do well. I remember during lockdown, in an Eng-WI test in Eng, both Pom umpires combined to give 7-8 decisions in favor of Eng in just 1 session, most of which were overturned by DRS. Yet the commies kept bigging up those guys. 

Edited December 20, 2025 by Gollum

[vvvslaxman]

So Nithya menon is the only 3rd Indian umpire to enter into 12 member Panel.   venkatraghavan,  Sundaram Ravi and now Nitin menon. By the way he is a mallu born in Indore.