Ashes 2019
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This is enthralling stuff.
Crowd have been riding every ball for the last 90 minutes!
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Lab comes on and snags a big wicket. Excellent bowling change by Paine.
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And they get the final LBW.
Oz retain the Ashes and go 2-1 up in the series.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Ashes 2019:
Oz retain the Ashes and go 2-1 up in the series.
How is this possible?
I read in all the English newspapers that Ben Stokes could and would defeat Oz on his own, single-handedly....
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@Victor-Meldrew that’s “Sir” Ben Stokes to you
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@junior said in Ashes 2019:
@Victor-Meldrew that’s “Sir” Ben Stokes to you
If it goes 2-2 they'll probably do that.
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@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2019:
@Snowy 2001 when S Waugh was still captain
Right, odd number years of course, when held in England.
Ansett actually folded 2002 but doesn't change the fact - bloody long time ago.
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@Snowy said in Ashes 2019:
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2019:
@Snowy 2001 when S Waugh was still captain
Right, odd number years of course, when held in England.
Ansett actually folded 2002 but doesn't change the fact - bloody long time ago.
September 2001? I always remember a One news bulletin where the first half hour was only two stories; 9/11 and the Air NZ/Ansett debacle unfolding.... fun times! Helen Clark having to fly home on an air force plane because of angry ground workers in Melbourne... (Edit: looks like they did indeed briefly rise from the ashes a month later, then Ansett Mark II finally fell to bits in March '02)
2005 saw lots of news stories of 16 year old keen Aussie cricketers in shock that the Baggy Green had lost the Ashes for the first time in their lifetime. Been mostly to and fro since...
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@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2019:
Edit: looks like they did indeed briefly rise from the ashes a month later, then Ansett Mark II finally fell to bits in March '02
Yeah it was a token gesture I think. Can't remember all of the facts, just I had a load of ex Ansett guys flying with me in 2002.
As for the Ashes - a large yellow band there in that era for sure.
I'd like to see one of those for the Bledisloe.
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@barbarian said in Ashes 2019:
Nice to get the job done. I reckon if England got away with the draw we'd struggle to back up in the 5th test.
The decision to bowl Marnus was a beauty from Paine.
Agreed. I would have been very nervous heading into a decider.
The fact that it took until the last hour is a measure of the pitch and the lack of menace from Lyon. Not his best series after being given fairly friendly conditions.
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So it transpires that Australia can in fact win tests without resorting to boorish, aggressive, head-butting-the-line on-field behaviour. Who knew?
Well done to Tim Paine et al.
Smith obviously a big factor in the performances, but Cummins and Hazelwood have been outstanding too imo.
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@Billy-Webb The BBC did a resume of why England failed to regain the urn and they cited Smith, batting collapses, the weather, too much attention to one day cricket but ended up saying that at the moment Australia are just a better team.
Hard to argue.
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My concern going into the series was our bowlers getting out-Duked. Broad is still bowling bloody well - to left-handers - but when Anderson broke, and Smith started grinding the others into the deck, just plain discipline helped us win the vital sessions.
I am still mindful of the loss from having bowled England out for 67... that makes me shake my head given we had easy opportunities to take it.
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@NTA said in Ashes 2019:
My concern going into the series was our bowlers getting out-Duked. Broad is still bowling bloody well - to left-handers - but when Anderson broke, and Smith started grinding the others into the deck, just plain discipline helped us win the vital sessions.
I am still mindful of the loss from having bowled England out for 67... that makes me shake my head given we had easy opportunities to take it.
Test match mentality.
Edit: Warner "That's the way I play" aside.
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@NTA The loss of Anderson was a big blow to England. Whether he would've troubled Smith more than the others have we will never know, but England have missed having him available. As you say, Broad has really stepped it up and Archer has been good at moments. An attack of those two, plus Anderson... but woulda shoulda.
For my money, Paine benefited immensely from having a reliable pair like Cummins and Hazelwood at his disposal. While Lyon and Starc and Siddle could blow hot and cold, he had 2 guys to turn to who I can't recall having one poor spell.
