Ashes 2019
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And the fat lady is gargling her mouthwash...
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Congrats to Aus, you won two days out of the five but you won those convincingly. Smith just incredible.
For England going forwards, Moeen gets the arse and I wonder if we will persist with both Butler and Bairstow? Archer in for Anderson. Not sure there's much else in the cupboard after that.
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Great win for Australia. They will take a lot of confidence for the rest of the series from turning around a first innings deficit.
England look like they still have a long post-CWC hangover. They did to perform well at Lord's or they could be starring down the barrel of a home series Ashes whitewash.
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The worry for England is how quickly they fell apart in the field in both innings - once a partnership built up, they seemed to become clueless and desperate very fast. When Head was dismissed yesterday, Australia's lead was only 100 but Denly was kept on to bowl full tosses to Wade.
I watched until 3 down last night and it was looking ominous. Even when surviving for a few overs, there were plenty of scares and both Cummins and Siddle were very good. Made Lyon's job much easier and he bowled them to the victory - it is his job to do it but it still had to be done.
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@rotated said in Ashes 2019:
Glenn McGrath's solution to the run of bad umpiring decisions this test was novel - a return to home umpiring.
Just googled Joel Wilson - loads of results with "blind umpire" popped up...
McGrath might have a point. No home umpire would dare to be as bad as Wilson has been in this Test
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Great win from Oz - Davey might have caught fire in the WC but the Ashes are all about Smith. Any bets on how many centuries he'll get this series!? Lots of areas for improvement for both teams but imo Oz have the clear headstart, especially thinking about the seamers they can rotate in.
Very keen to see if Archer will be right for the next test, and who is waiting in the wings in terms of English spin bowlers? Any young guns or even halfway useful guys they can bring in? Because current options are shithouse.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Ashes 2019:
@rotated said in Ashes 2019:
Glenn McGrath's solution to the run of bad umpiring decisions this test was novel - a return to home umpiring.
Just googled Joel Wilson - loads of results with "blind umpire" popped up...
McGrath might have a point. No home umpire would dare to be as bad as Wilson has been in this Test
at least he's just rubbish, rather than biased. I do not want to go to home umpires again; it's not that they are biased, it's that people think they are biased.
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@Paekakboyz Probably Leach for the spin bowling instead of Moeen. Orthodox slow left arm and a useful bat if the Ireland test is indicative.
Archer is a great talent but hasn't had to bowl 20 overs a day in test cricket yet - will be interesting to see how he goes. Australia look to have 5 pace bowlers who they can trust which is going be a great advantage for them.
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@NTA said in Ashes 2019:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2019:
Far too many "well done Australia" posts here for my liking.
We need @Virgil to log on for some aussie hate or to mention the Beldisloe results of the last few years.
Found a picture of your homie
My main man Stokesy. Nominated for NZer of the year didn't ya know ?
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Ashes 2019:
@rotated said in Ashes 2019:
Glenn McGrath's solution to the run of bad umpiring decisions this test was novel - a return to home umpiring.
Just googled Joel Wilson - loads of results with "blind umpire" popped up...
McGrath might have a point. No home umpire would dare to be as bad as Wilson has been in this Test
The umpires had a shocker, probably kept the match closer than it really was as Aus stuffed up their revues getting to 122/8.
But McGrath's solution is just plain stupid. The answer is for each side to have 2 reviews each, or unlimited revues if they dont waste them. As is the actual status quo.
The umpires mistakes only become costly after one of the teams has already made 2 mistakes .
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This test was the best advertisement for the DRS I've ever seen.
The final day was a case in point. In the first session Joe Root got two genuine howlers - an LBW call that was missing leg by a foot, and another LBW where he middled the ball onto his front pad. Thankfully overturned on review.
Similarly the call on Day 1 against Steve Smith, where Aleem fired him LBW when the ball was clearly missing off stump.
In a game where one umpire had an absolute nightmare and the other wasn't great either, it's great to get to the end of the test and not point to decisions/non-decisions as a factor in the end result.
