Ashes 5th test - Sydney

[smoker]

Wicket for borthwick

I think we've been spoilt for the last 15 years with Hussain, Vaughan and Strauss having been exceptional captains. Cook is a wonderful opening batsman but out of his depth in comparison with the previous 3 captains.

I don't think there is much room for leaders in the current set up. It's all about the plan.[DOUBLEPOST=1388885132][/DOUBLEPOST]Fuck off johnson

 

[mackembhoy]

Ahh for ffs I change the channel and the durham lads get wickets

edit: ahahahahahha fuck off johnson you paedo looking twat awful batting

 

[Steesafc]

Looked like Stokes called him a twat there

 

[Maravilla]

Looked like Stokes called him a twat there

"Have that ya twat" I think was what he said

 

[Steesafc]

The

"Have that ya twat" I think was what he said

I like Stokes mind. Hes got the fight in him you just wish the more senior members of the squad would show. The one gem found amongst a steaming pile of shite.

 

[Bob Fleming]

Got to tickets for today but can't be arsed to go in yet. Sat in a pub outside drinking full strength beer instead of the mid strength piss they serve inside[DOUBLEPOST=1388887626][/DOUBLEPOST]

Looked like Stokes called him a twat there

I don't think anyone epitomises 'twat' more than Johnson.

 

[smoker]

3 wickets for sb, Gan on son

 

[mackembhoy]

What a catch scotty [DOUBLEPOST=1388888155][/DOUBLEPOST]

3 wickets for sb, Gan on son

average into the 20s now

 

[Maravilla]

Got to tickets for today but can't be arsed to go in yet. Sat in a pub outside drinking full strength beer instead of the mid strength piss they serve inside[DOUBLEPOST=1388887626][/DOUBLEPOST]
I don't think anyone epitomises 'twat' more than Johnson.

Warner?

 

[mackembhoy]

And he's into the teens now [DOUBLEPOST=1388888332][/DOUBLEPOST]Scotty borthwick averaging 18 with the ball

That wicket also means the durham lads have 12 of the 19 wickets in this test.

 

[smoker]

And he's into the teens now [DOUBLEPOST=1388888332][/DOUBLEPOST]Scotty borthwick averaging 18 with the ball

That wicket also means the durham lads have 12 of the 19 wickets in this test.

Would anyone doubt Onions could have done a better job than Rankin?[DOUBLEPOST=1388890017][/DOUBLEPOST]Oh fuck off Cook.

 

[mackembhoy]

Would anyone doubt Onions could have done a better job than Rankin?[DOUBLEPOST=1388890017][/DOUBLEPOST]Oh fuck off Cook.

He would have done better than jimmy let alone rankin. Onions balls it in the right areas consistently something which our bowlers haven't done.

And cook really needs to take a long hard look at himself has he has been pathetic in every aspect this series.

 

[Doberman]

Someone needs to be checking Alastair Cook's recent betting patterns.

Not that I'm suggesting he's got a hefty wedge on an Aussie whitewash like. Wouldn't dream of suggesting that!

 

[mackembhoy]

Can we please get a petition going on twitter for strauss to removed from commentary til his mates no longer play for England.

 

[Twisted]

Can someone explain to me why a batsman who bowls very occasionally is given the ball ahead of someone who is selected as a specialist spinner?

The bowling so far this morning has been dreadful.

shows up the stupidity of not picking root again[DOUBLEPOST=1388890999][/DOUBLEPOST]

Can we please get a petition going on twitter for strauss to removed from commentary til his mates no longer play for England.

i'd happily just expand that permanently. he is just another dour drab monotone fucker, a poor man's atherton who is in turn a poor man's nasser. the three of them together fuck me...[DOUBLEPOST=1388891092][/DOUBLEPOST]

I think we've been spoilt for the last 15 years with Hussain, Vaughan and Strauss having been exceptional captains. Cook is a wonderful opening batsman but out of his depth in comparison with the previous 3 captains.

strauss was in no way a better captain than cook, field placements where every bit as defensive, static and unimaginative. difference was our batsmen scored runs and our bowlers took wickets and our fielders caught balls that came near them.

 

[mackembhoy]

shows up the stupidity of not picking root again[DOUBLEPOST=1388890999][/DOUBLEPOST]

i'd happily just expand that permanently. he is just another dour drab monotone fucker, a poor man's atherton who is in turn a poor man's nasser. the three of them together fuck me...

I don't really mind nas or athers. Strauss is horrific but sky really shouldn't have hired him as a commentator when he is so close to this England side plus he has one of the msot boring f***ing voices.

 

[Twisted]

I don't really mind nas or athers. Strauss is horrific but sky really shouldn't have hired him as a commentator when he is so close to this England side plus he has one of the msot boring f***ing voices.

i don't mind athers, i quite like nasser but they need the right people to work with. maybe i'm being harsh on strauss as he hasn't had so much time to build a rapport with them, but he is just total pish compared to either of them and they're too samey to need another one

 

[mackembhoy]

i don't mind athers, i quite like nasser but they need the right people to work with. maybe i'm being harsh on strauss as he hasn't had so much time to build a rapport with them, but he is just total pish compared to either of them and they're too samey to need another one

What I want to know is why mikey holding doesn't do the ashes down under would love to hear his take on this debacle.

Him and bumble together is always a great listen.

 

[Twisted]

And he's into the teens now [DOUBLEPOST=1388888332][/DOUBLEPOST]Scotty borthwick averaging 18 with the ball

That wicket also means the durham lads have 12 of the 19 wickets in this test.

well chuffed for the lad - just another point about the lad, he has made his debut as our only main spinner -
[letting rogers ease through the 90s to get his hundred off pietersen, what the fuck was that about?]
making his debut as a leg spinner and the lad doesn't even get to bowl much passed lunch on day 3 and he still takes 3-27 or 37 whatever it was.... tail end whilst theyre having a slog or not the boy done good. getting roger's wicket will have been special for him. shame for him and stokes it has come in this shambles of a series.

much like collingwood's 'career highlight' coming in the disaster of adelaide...

second point : stokes was the leading wicket taker in their first, the leading run scorer in our first and borthwick leading wicket taker in their second.

 

[mackembhoy]

Oh fuck off man bell[DOUBLEPOST=1388891951][/DOUBLEPOST]

well chuffed for the lad - just another point about the lad, he has made his debut as our only main spinner -
[letting rogers ease through the 90s to get his hundred off pietersen, what the fuck was that about?]
making his debut as a leg spinner and the lad doesn't even get to bowl much passed lunch on day 3 and he still takes 3-27 or 37 whatever it was.... tail end whilst theyre having a slog or not the boy done good. getting roger's wicket will have been special for him. shame for him and stokes it has come in this shambles of a series.

much like collingwood's 'career highlight' coming in the disaster of adelaide...

yep no arguements there very bizarre and yet stokes has came in and been the only positive of the series. Englands second highest run scorer(carberrys 2nd now by 1 run) and wicket taker and then scotty has done something no leggy has done since the 90s and take more than 1 wicket in an innings.