The Cricket Thread

[Wolftone]

Not been a great 10 minutes for Travis Head

More power to his elbow(s) literally

 

[Wolftone]

FFS that is so unlucky for Brook.

 

[Wolvensam]

Oh dear.

 

[Carrotdude]

So unlucky that

 

[WsWolf]

Shame as Brook was starting to motor. Big partnership this now.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Just write that one off. Will probably never happen again for the rest of his career.

 

[Mel Evo]

Whatever the ‘brand of cricket’ it ain’t great to be consistently losing wickets once they’re away to good starts on a batting track. Bit frustrating so far.

 

[Wolftone]

Whatever the ‘brand of cricket’ it ain’t great to be consistently losing wickets once they’re away to good starts on a batting track. Bit frustrating so far.

Correct. To my mind 400-450 is a par score on this wicket first up.

 

[WsWolf]

Correct. To my mind 400-450 is a par score on this wicket first up.

We won't get near that now.

 

[Wolftone]

Stokes gone, review wasted. Now we are in trouble.

 

[Wolvensam]

Bizarre review. You could hear it make contact even before Ultra Edge...

 

[Carrotdude]

It’s fine while we’re winning but Stokes is a pretty big problem in this team. Unless he can keep his knee together and pick up a couple of wickets

 

[Wolvensam]

Hopefully Root and Bairstow can get a decent rhythm going here. Would be nice to end the play on circa 300 and still at bat. As unlikely as that seems right now...

 

[jd1981]

Been listening most the day anything close to 300 in an opening of the ashes is at the least competitive.
We’re not in a terrible position regardless of what happens the rest of the innings

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

We're going to score way more than 110 if we bat that long That's like 2 and a bit an over. We wouldn't have done that 10 years ago.

 

[Wolvensam]

Been listening most the day anything close to 300 in an opening of the ashes is at the least competitive.
We’re not in a terrible position regardless of what happens the rest of the innings

To be fair, two of the five wickets were a jaffa and a freak out respectively. Three were chuck aways which is annoying, but the first Test was always going to be an interesting one: I think the press have really underplayed how good this Australian team is.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

To be fair, two of the five wickets were a jaffa and a freak out respectively. Three were chuck aways which is annoying, but the first Test was always going to be an interesting one: I think the press have really underplayed how good this Australian team is.

It's the best team they've brought here since 2005 for sure

 

[Wolvensam]

Yep: two of the best pace bowlers in the world in Cummins and Hazelwood, Green is a good all-rounder, Lyon is a fantastic spin bowler - and that's before you get to Labuschagne, Smith...

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Same stuff as last week: 52 overs in two sessions when Lyon has bowled 16 of them. Absolutely shit, do something about it.

(I know England are as bad for it)

 

[Wolftone]

All im bothered about is we get four days out of it. I'm going on Monday and it's costing an arm and a leg with flights, trains, hotel and tickets.