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2023 "Ashes" cricket Test Series England versus Australia
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Gav1967
·Australia's morning and healthy first innings lead. Let's see what the rest of the day has in store.
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·Seems like when it works it's praised as brave / radical Bazball, and when it doesn't it's playing inappropriate shots for test cricket.
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·😗
Started at 00:30 at work. Watched the Aussies finish their innings. Had a job to do and came back and England 4-35
Aussies in the driver's seat 😉
Started at 00:30 at work. Watched the Aussies finish their innings. Had a job to do and came back and England 4-35
Aussies in the driver's seat 😉
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·What the 🤬....Did they want Starc to put the ball in he's pocket before he saved himself from face planting...
Brilliant catch in my book and should have been out...
Brilliant catch in my book and should have been out...
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·Very odd
explanation
https://wisden.com/series-stories/a...OoTa7TVFLyqMi8yIZbLEjs4UAyIYU&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
explanation
https://wisden.com/series-stories/a...OoTa7TVFLyqMi8yIZbLEjs4UAyIYU&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
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neilfrancis
·No way Starc caught that cleanly. Good decision from 3rd Umpire, and the correct one. Starc was taking the piss claiming it, imo.
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Gav1967
·What the 🤬....Did they want Starc to put the ball in he's pocket before he saved himself from face planting...
Brilliant catch in my book and should have been out...
I'm not expecting to affect the result if I'm honest. Stokes and Bairstow might make Aus nervous but Aus to win at a canter I think.
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DrmexicoII
·Well that Bairstow dismissal was a bit, er, unconventional / cheeky / brilliant / unsportsmanlike (delete as appropriate). Seems to have made this Lords crowd very vocal and un-Lords like.
Strangely looks like it might have wound up Broad and Stokes - could be a turning point to swing the match back in England's favour? Stokes' over to take him to a century was incredible. Fascinating match
Strangely looks like it might have wound up Broad and Stokes - could be a turning point to swing the match back in England's favour? Stokes' over to take him to a century was incredible. Fascinating match
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Arancio601
·After the Starc ‘drop’ I thought it was good to see the rules continue to be followed to the letter 😉
Stokes is unbelievable when he is firing.
Stokes is unbelievable when he is firing.
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DrmexicoII
·After the Starc ‘drop’ I thought it was good to see the rules continue to be followed to the letter 😉
Stokes is unbelievable when he is firing.
Agree about the rules being followed. Difference seems to be that Duckett walked and it was the 3rd umpire who reversed it. This was the Aus team deliberately exploiting the rules to engineer a result. Both legal. One not necessarily in the spirit of the laws (depending on your POV).
Either way, it's made for an even more dramatic final day!
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·Agree about the rules being followed. Difference seems to be that Duckett walked and it was the 3rd umpire who reversed it. This was the Aus team deliberately exploiting the rules to engineer a result. Both legal. One not necessarily in the spirit of the laws (depending on your POV).
Either way, it's made for an even more dramatic final day!
Pleasingly the Australians didn’t complain about the Duckett reprieve
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··Oooo subtitles!As a pal of mine noted today, a team that has been caught with sandpaper in their pockets as recently as 2018 might want to display a bit more moral fibre than this this Aussie shower have today. If the idea is to make the rest of the series more enticing to watch they have certainly done that but they have also incited scenes never before seen at Lords, namely confrontations in the long room and members suspended. To quote the Hollies stand at Edgbaston from the last test: "Same old Aussies always cheating" this does nothing to dispel that notion.
Australia would have won anyway as on paper and on the pitch they are the better team. Why stoop to such a questionable way to do so? Up until now it was a relatively good natured competition, I doubt it will continue so now.
Australia would have won anyway as on paper and on the pitch they are the better team. Why stoop to such a questionable way to do so? Up until now it was a relatively good natured competition, I doubt it will continue so now.
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DrmexicoII
·At the end of the day there was only 40 odd runs between the teams. I do think Bairstow could have made a decent contribution to making up that deficit. Still think Australia are the better team over these 2 games but think it would've been closer without that controversial "stumping".
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·Ahh the rules 😗
Stay in your crease 😁
Stay in your crease 😁
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·As a pal of mine noted today, a team that has been caught with sandpaper in their pockets as recently as 2018 might want to display a bit more moral fibre than this this Aussie shower have today. If the idea is to make the rest of the series more enticing to watch they have certainly done that but they have also incited scenes never before seen at Lords, namely confrontations in the long room and members suspended. To quote the Hollies stand at Edgbaston from the last test: "Same old Aussies always cheating" this does nothing to dispel that notion.
Australia would have won anyway as on paper and on the pitch they are the better team. Why stoop to such a questionable way to do so? Up until now it was a relatively good natured competition, I doubt it will continue so now.
interesting take, given a similar scenario unfolded recently when Robinson dismissed Grandhomme in similar circumstances a year ago and Stokes ‘moral fibre, spirit of cricket’ response was to allow the dismissal.
Let’s not also forget that the MCC has apologised for the Lords members appalling behaviour and that the dismissal was legal (ridiculous but legal) in the same way Ducketts dismissal was ridiculous but legal.
That latter dismissal seemed not to invoke any fury from the English members, nor invoke any moralising from Stokes.
I’m not sure how a cheating incident a decade ago for which 2 team members were banned for a year plays out in a scenario in which no cheating occurred yesterday
As a mate said to me yesterday when posed a similar question to yours, ‘That’s mint, Murray’s mint!’
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Paul m
·Can’t beat a bit of controversy.bring on headingley.
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··Oooo subtitles!interesting take, given a similar scenario unfolded recently when Robinson dismissed Grandhomme in similar circumstances a year ago and Stokes ‘moral fibre, spirit of cricket’ response was to allow the dismissal.
Let’s not also forget that the MCC has apologised for the Lords members appalling behaviour and that the dismissal was legal (ridiculous but legal) in the same way Ducketts dismissal was ridiculous but legal.I
That latter dismissal seemed not to invoke any fury from the English members, nor invoke any moralising from Stokes.
I’m not sure how a cheating incident a decade ago for which 2 team members were banned for a year plays out in a scenario in which no cheating occurred yesterday
As a mate said to me yesterday when posed a similar question to yours, ‘That’s mint, Murray’s mint!’
The 2 banned members from Sandpapergate were on the pitch today as you may or may not know. Apropos of nothing, does the word decade mean something else in Aus? is it like the US gallon, smaller than that accepted in the old country? Just checking! 😉
