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  • HeartfeltdawnHeartfeltdawn Frets: 21788
    RandallFlagg said:
    Good knocks from Burns & Root, everyone needs to score from here on in, no collapse required.
    Oh well. 



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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    Uh-oh. 
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  • crunchmancrunchman Frets: 10961
    Sad news.  Abdul Qadir has died.
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 12794
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    crunchman said:
    Sad news.  Abdul Qadir has died.
    just heard that as well - pre S Warne I recall he had a bag full of tricks - RIP
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    edited September 2019
    Good knocks from Burns & Root, everyone needs to score from here on in, no collapse required.
    Oh well. 
    There's still 15 wickets between Aus and a win with 2 days to go.

    That really has to be it for Jason Roy now. His confidence will be knocked and he needs to get back to 50 over cricket and stay focussed on that. The Test selectors need to drop him for his own good.


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  • HeartfeltdawnHeartfeltdawn Frets: 21788
    crunchman said:
    Sad news.  Abdul Qadir has died.
    An absolute inspiration. One of the few leggies around when I was a kid learning to bowl spin. This is a lovely article from 2010 on his time in league cricket in Australia. 

    https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/20587660/abdul-qadir-australian-summer





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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 12794
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    Tomorrow morning and the first 6 overs before the new ball arrives will be crucial

    Aussies will fight tooth n nail for an extra wicket or two before the new ball arrives, to then polish of the tail - We need to survive those 6 overs and the next 10/15 overs with no more wickets down, to hopefully bat as long as possible for a drawn game - The Ashes will come down to the first hour or so tomorrow morning
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    edited September 2019
    As consolation for the unsettling end to the days play yesterday I watched Moeen Ali smash an unbeaten 121 against Sussex to send Worcestershire to the T20 Blast semi finals. He should play for England you know. 


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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    edited September 2019
    This made me LOL, don't know it you can play it:


    "Warner you fucking cheat"


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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    edited September 2019
    Rory Burns looks like a 1930s cad "I say old boy that was fwightful boawling"


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  • crunchmancrunchman Frets: 10961
    Bairstow bowled.

    What a surprise!
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    One ODI specialist departs, in comes another in Buttler....

    any romantic dreams of Headlingley, Game of Thrones style heroics with the bat are being replaced with the cold chilly Manchester reality of the Ashes fluttering away on the breeze


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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    crunchman said:
    Bairstow bowled.

    What a surprise!
    That was a beauty from Starc, lovely swing.


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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    edited September 2019
    I don't think Aus will enforce the follow on. Rooty looks to have the weight of the world on his shoulders though.

    doesn't look like Archer will be batting for long...


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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 12794
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    Bowl boring and wide and restrict the flow of runs the Aussies can get - Bowl and bat this game into a boring draw

    However Archer needs to up his game - Bottom lip appears to have be shown in the 1st innings - So needs to get some pride back in his performance 
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    That was a beauty from Jofra Archer rearranged Travis Head's furniture, middle pole splayed. Nice aggressive build up as well with a bit of chatter between them. Good stuff.


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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    edited September 2019
    Aus 4-44 but Smith remains as usual


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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    Leach on. No no-balls, Jack. 
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    RandallFlagg said:
    That was a beauty from Jofra Archer rearranged Travis Head's furniture, middle pole splayed. Nice aggressive build up as well with a bit of chatter between them. Good stuff.
    Glad Jofra responded so well - I know on Wed the weather wasn't ideal to bowl in, but he appeared to have bottom lip issues - So good response - And yes some good banter on both accounts with the 4 before hand and then the wicket

    Liked Broads goodbye wish as well a touch earlier
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    What the hell are England going to do when Broad retires or is injured? The Aussie 3 seamer attack is so much stronger than England's


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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    RandallFlagg said:
    What the hell are England going to do when Broad retires or is injured? The Aussie 3 seamer attack is so much stronger than England's
    Maybe Jofra's got some mates... 
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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    382 to get.

    Call me a cynic but I don't think we'll get them. 
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    Chuck the replica urn off the top the Party stand, if we can't have nor can they. So there.


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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
     :p 

     0-1. Burns out third ball. 
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    Golden duck for Root.

    0-2.
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 12794
    edited September 2019 tFB Trader
    after 44-4 bowling the was poor apart from Archer

    Not to take wickets is fine - But to concede so many runs so quickly is poor - England should have avoided having to bat tonight. by stopping the Aussies scoring enough, in order that they could declare - Poor bowling and poor tactics and poor captaincy

    Bowl wide - Bowl high -bowl legside - anything but near the bat

    Now 2 wickets down 
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    edited September 2019
    If I had a day 5 ticket I'm not sure I could face going to see the losing moment.


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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    Our bowling attack isn't good enough. Overton hasn't brought anything, Leach got some tap snd Stokes didn't bowl.

    Wil we have one of those far-reaching reviews now? 
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  • earwighoneyearwighoney Frets: 3380
    edited September 2019
    scrumhalf said:
    Our bowling attack isn't good enough. Overton hasn't brought anything, Leach got some tap snd Stokes didn't bowl.

    Wil we have one of those far-reaching reviews now? 
    Over the year the bowling attack has been very reliant on new ball swing with Anderson in the attack and without him, there are some decent bowlers but I'm not sure selection has been the best (IMO, Scott Curran should have been picked ahead of Overton) and the captaincy has been very poor in the field, added to a few dropped catches and the bowling attack has been tired out. 

    IMO, the bowling has been largely let down by the batting.

    As for captaincy, Joe Root is a truly awful decision maker in the field but I find it hard to hold it against him as there seems to be a culture of bad decision making in English cricket from the top down, be it selection (Ed Smith) or Colin Graves at the very top (scheduling, The 100 etc). 
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  • VimFuegoVimFuego Frets: 14862
    looks like England are going full out to finish off the test tonight, guess they want a day off tomorrow.

    I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.

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