3rd Ashes Test - Headingley

[dangermows]

Yep. Only Root and Bairstow got decent balls. Decent, not unplayable.

The other four - absolute shite.

Terrible thing is we are exposing Root to those sort of deliveries by having hopeless openers and having him to high up the order.

 

[Comeback_Kenwyne]

For those poor bastards that went through it - is this what it was like in the 90s?

No. This lot are way more gutless. The 90s lads were battling hard against the best team cricket has ever seen.

The strengths were reversed too. This is a way worse batting unit than the 90s. Problem with the 90s was mediocre bowlers. We have outstanding bowlers now.

 

[Fletch73]

Sure someone said yesterday that we've lost 3 of the last 4 Ashes Headingly tests by an innings. Heading that way again.

Is there a reason other than money for the ECB picking Headingly (ENG shit record) over Trent Bridge (AUS shit record)?

 

[Lord Alfred]

Are we playing a Yorkshire team tomorrow?

Wombles.

 

[dangermows]

You'll get to see a David Warner double-ton.

No chance of that. He's in very poor form and seems to struggle here. Scratchy as hell day and rather fortunate.

 

[Steak Pie]

Abject session of cricket from England. Everything on the line and a superb position to get back in the series, and they have blown up in one of the worst fashions I've ever seen.

You sometimes get rolled over, that's just the nature of test cricket, but this lot have thrown it away playing shots that anyone who's ever heard of Headlingly knows you don't play. Need something special now.

 

[Snappy]

Of all the teams to collapse to, in all the test series possible, we do it at home to these convict bastards. From top to bottom English test cricket needs an overhaul. Because it's not just embarrassing now it's genuinely filling me with rage. ECB has it's pants down and is enjoying being pegged on a world stage.

 

[Steak Pie]

For those poor bastards that went through it - is this what it was like in the 90s?

Very much so.

 

[Mainze]

50 up.

Have they booked the open top bus yet?

 

[Comeback_Kenwyne]

No chance of that. He's in very poor form and seems to struggle here. Scratchy as hell day and rather fortunate.

Aye, but it was hard to bat yesterday. Today it's f***ing flat as a pancake, our batters are just shite. Warner's caught how many today - four? He's got his dander up and is going to smash us into the ground later on a good batting day.

You know what, for once, I actually think they should tell Buttler to swing from the hip after Lunch (if he makes it there). What have we got to lose now?!

We need some momentum. May as well. If we can get parity we can cling on in the game.

 

[Jap Stammer]

I've turned it off.

I can find much better ways of depressing the f@@k out of myself than this.

 

[Mainze]

For those poor bastards that went through it - is this what it was like in the 90s?

It’s worse, Australia had a decent team then.

 

[Fletch73]

For those poor bastards that went through it - is this what it was like in the 90s?

In terms of collapses, yes. The pace attacks we faced then, though, were spectacular.

 

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[Bri]

That Root played neither forward not back.

A sign of being out of form and having no confidence.

 

[SAFC 2012]

This is f***ing embarrassing

 

[safcpelaw]

In terms of collapses, yes. The pace attacks we faced then, though, were spectacular.

Imagine this lineup against the 80s/90s windies attack

 

[HeroHurley]

The worst possible time to put that sort of performance in. Brain dead every single one of them.

 

[Herberthall]

4/7 Australia now, is that right?

 

[SAFC 2012]

Remember when we were good