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FIRST ASHES TEST: Edgbaston
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Rustie Trombone
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Well, what a shit weekend it's been.
TMS on at work tomorrow and let's see if we can salvage a draw.
TMS on at work tomorrow and let's see if we can salvage a draw.
Julio_Schwarz
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Aussies missed a trick there by not declaring earlier.
Onlyfoolsrushin
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Well done to Roy and Burns. They need to do that tomorrow morning and get through the first session.
Captain Smith has done the business today.
Very sorry I was driving.
How many times have the failed to bat out a full day to lose in the last 6 years?
In modern test cricket the game is often over after 4 days. You don't get that many draws in non rain effected games.
sonson
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Had forgotten Hazelwood. Wasn’t counting Anderson as I doubt he’s going to be involved. Root and Stokes aren’t there for me yet in the echelons of the best in respect to temperament. Fair play about the others though I was off there. Annoyingly they’re Aussies.
Root is definitely an excellent test cricket. Averaging nearly 50 in 80 odd games
Wayne The Punk
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Shane Warne, go fuck yourself, Steve Smith, "what he has been through in the past year," just lazing around the cheating bastard?
Chappers
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Just bat in spells and see where it gets us. Spell 1 just completed.
sonson
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Oh aye but I don’t think that changes the reality and difficulty of the situation. England don’t have the batting capacity to bat for long enough in either innings and haven’t for years. Even when we won in Australia it was almost entirely Cook that allowed us to occupy the crease fo any length of time.
Aye but I think the captaincy has hobbled him badly
toosb
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I posted this the other day on Twitter. It's f***ing ridiculous. You'd think he'd been ill. He's a f***ing cheat.
Silly Point
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Get that cheating bastard off my screen.
Bri
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Have to say well done to Smith a tremendous player. Now we'll see if they're more than a one man team but I'm never confident with England defending for a day. Hope they at least make a fight of itand lay down a marker for future Tests saying in effect "you might beat us but we're going to make it as difficult as possible", I don't have any faith they will though.
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Regardless of what you think of him, he’s an incredible player.
Both Burns and Root dug in very well first innings. I agree that those 2 apart we haven't really got any real grafters but saying that Stokes is in very good form and he has matured into a good test batsman who can adapt to the match situation.
JohnSmithUK
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Next target, drinks at around 12:00 tomorrow.
Silly Point
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Yeah never mind not knowing if you wanted to do it again because of your tarnished reputation. As long as the elbow brace was off you're ready to do it again
toosb
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First match of an inevitably tight series. But I think 350 was enough to be safe.
sonson
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It is quite depressing aye. Certainly the art of opening at least seems to have died a death.Jason Roys footwork
Mad how far being a slogger can get you in todays game.
I think tomorrow will be exciting still, Aussie aren’t sufficiently dangerous for this to be a fair accompli or England so bad that a collapse is inevitable.
But the fact is England haven’t batted out a full day for ages, they’re batting to save a match at a ground which is traditionally a guaranteed win in a series where Aussie only have to draw to keep the Ashes, and our batsmen aren’t famed for their patience or fortitude, so it’s not looking likely.
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