The Cricket Thread

[Deutsch Wolf]

With Robinson and Anderson at one end against a new ball we weren't making many more.

 

[Sniffer]

It will have to be their highest run chase against England since 1948 if Australia are to win.

Only done it on five occasions and apart from the above one at Headingley, the rest were all in Australia and 90 plus years ago.

 

[WsWolf]

Nice little cameo from Robinson there. Think we might be 30 runs like but we'll see.

 

[Mel Evo]

Jimmy can run those extra 30 up for us no worries...

 

[Jinky]

Nice little cameo from Robinson there. Think we might be 30 runs like but we'll see.

Good knock but another cheap wicket, IMO.

 

[jd1981]

It will have to be their highest run chase against England since 1948 if Australia are to win.

Only done it on five occasions and apart from the above one at Headingley, the rest were all in Australia and 90 plus years ago.

280 in chasing 282 in 2005 at Edgbaston and 300 in chasing 314 in 2015 didn’t win either but scored higher.

 

[Mel Evo]

See. There's four

 

[Mel Evo]

It will have to be their highest run chase against England since 1948 if Australia are to win.

Only done it on five occasions and apart from the above one at Headingley, the rest were all in Australia and 90 plus years ago.

This makes sense. I'm sure the reason will be 'because it's a nonsense' but, given that precedent, it's a bit weird that the winviz thing is making Aus favourites by 10% points right now.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

If they score like they did first up and we lose an appreciable amount of overs tomorrow then it's hit and miss whether they'd get 270+.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

First time Jimmy has made double figures since March 2021

 

[jd1981]

281 to win I’d make England slight favourites

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I think the 1% on the draw is because winviz doesn’t take the weather forecast into account.

 

[Sniffer]

This makes sense. I'm sure the reason will be 'because it's a nonsense' but, given that precedent, it's a bit weird that the winviz thing is making Aus favourites by 10% points right now.

England knocking off large totals over the last 4 years would have skewed the data going into the system.

 

[sycophantia]

Wonder if Australia will start at a glacial pace?
They have plenty of time, rain depending. Gunna be tight. Been fun though.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

4th innings chases over 250 are tough. This is right in the balance. Bodes well for a cracking series.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Mo is the big question mark, if he can't bowl much then that takes a lot of the threat out of the equation.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

We could well be relying on Root as the spin option if Mo is as badly blistered as it looked.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Bit late responding but…

There's no way of knowing that by playing in a more circumspect manner would have given us more runs in this innings.

This is true. But just when we getting in a position of strength we constantly reopened the door. Tracking Lyon and missing, reverse sweeping off middle stump and smashing it straight to mid wicket were just stupid.

On top of that if we scored at 80-90 per session the chances of winning the game would have meant that draw was favourite.

I’d rather the draw be the favourite than Australia. And it doesn’t need to be 90 a session! There is a middle ground!

Fortunately we’ve managed to get ourselves up to 280 so it was worked more than it was looking likely to. But at the same time if the tail have managed to do that then the pitch is still a pretty flat one and taking 10 wickets in under 280 is a bit of a challenge (particularly with no elite spinner)

It’s stil in the balance but I think we’ve gone from favourites to 50/50 at best from our own making.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I think you need to prepare to be disappointed. We aren’t going to change the way we play.

 

[Mel Evo]

FFS.