3rd Ashes Test - Headingley

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Scotty 1978 said:
I think Smith is still banned from being captain
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Thanks. Didn’t know that. I don’t think they can drop Paine, it took a once every 30 odd year innings to win by stokes

They should drop Lyon for choking on a simple run out
 
How did he manage to slip and still reverse it for six?

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Watch highlights as Ben Stokes hits a sensational century to secure a one-wicket win for England and keep the Ashes alive going into the fourth Test at Old Trafford.
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Sheer strength and who was in the background going orrrrrrr with aggers?
Big Dave 53 said:
Who called the stupid review that pitched outside leg stump? That cost them too.
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The bowler was insistent and all the field. He had no choice but go for it. Thank god as it was obvious outside leg
 
stephen cartwright said:
How did he manage to slip and still reverse it for six?

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Highlights: Sensational Stokes keeps England's Ashes hopes alive

Watch highlights as Ben Stokes hits a sensational century to secure a one-wicket win for England and keep the Ashes alive going into the fourth Test at Old Trafford.
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Sheer strength and who was in the background going orrrrrrr with aggers?

The bowler was insistent and all the field. He had no choice but go for it. Thank god as it was obvious outside leg
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They lost the plot in truth - all sorts of errors. The run out miss - shocker! Shows how brilliant Roy and Buttler did in the World Cup with that final run out. Stay calm and execute the skills.
 
Just got home. Wow! Still feels surreal. We had footy on the two main tellies in the club and the cricket on the small one. It was amazing the way the crowd grew around the small screen with each boundary Stokes hit. When we were left with 21 left there was nobody watching the footy at all. I was so engrossed (and f*cking nervous too) myself I didn't think about taking my phone out to catch the moment on camera.
 
percy said:
Missed the end of the match (long story), Watched the final few overs on Cricinfo. Caught the highlights on Channel 5 then read all the way through this thread. This thread was far more entertaining than anything I've seen all day.Give yourseleves a massive pat on the back one and all. Thank you.]
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I agree fully with this. We’ve had a few absolutely classic threads on the cricket forum during crucial matches over the last 13 or so years the cricket forum has been around.

Considering it was going to be for a month back in the day, we are not doing to shabby.

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Big Dave 53 said:
They lost the plot in truth - all sorts of errors. The run out miss - shocker! Shows how brilliant Roy and Buttler did in the World Cup with that final run out. Stay calm and execute the skills.
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Pressure got to them. They were strutting around assuming it was in the bag, especially Warner in the way he turned towards the crowd at every given moment.

Lyon choked big time on that run out. No one else to blame but that fumble
 
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On Saturday 18th July 1981, I started my 2 weeks holiday from my first job at Smith and Gillinder in South Shields, nothing remarkable happened that weekend, The Specials were number one with Ghost Town, the riots in Toxteth, Brixton and Bristol a couple of weeks earlier had shocked the country but would later prove to be a regular summer occurrence in inner cities throughout the 80’s.
Charles and Di were getting married 10 days later, we were staying at home because we’d had to cancel the 2 weeks holiday At Wallis’s for family reasons, Sunderland were rumoured to be on the verge of signing a hot prospect from St Johnstone by the name of McCoist - and England were getting humped in the 3rd test after the Aussies had batted for the first two days and were on the verge of regaining the Ashes - I remember buying 2 things that weekend, the debut Wah album, Nah Poo The Art Of Bluff from Image Records and a Wrangler Jacket from Clarke’s on Frederick St - nothing remarkable at all
Over the next 4 days a miracle occurred at Headingley, England, or should I say Botham and Willis, fought their way back into the test match , Botham with an amazing 149 gave Willis something to bowl at
The man from Sunderland duly obliged and England won a test match from an impossible position, and went on to win the series, as the Aussies never really recovered from Headingley
For me that victory was the turning point of a summer which would probably be long forgotten but “Botham’s Ashes” made that summer of 1981 the most memorable summer of my life and one that I will never forget
In my mind, today was an even greater achievement than 1981 and I hope that people will remember today as vividly as I remember that that game in 1981
 
EcosseMackem said:
On Saturday 18th July 1981, I started my 2 weeks holiday from my first job at Smith and Gillinder in South Shields, nothing remarkable happened that weekend, The Specials were number one with Ghost Town, the riots in Toxteth, Brixton and Bristol a couple of weeks earlier had shocked the country but would later prove to be a regular summer occurrence in inner cities throughout the 80’s.
Charles and Di were getting married 10 days later, we were staying at home because we’d had to cancel the 2 weeks holiday At Wallis’s for family reasons, Sunderland were rumoured to be on the verge of signing a hot prospect from St Johnstone by the name of McCoist - and England were getting humped in the 3rd test after the Aussies had batted for the first two days and were on the verge of regaining the Ashes - I remember buying 2 things that weekend, the debut Wah album, Nah Poo The Art Of Bluff from Image Records and a Wrangler Jacket from Clarke’s on Frederick St - nothing remarkable at all
Over the next 4 days a miracle occurred at Headingley, England, or should I say Botham and Willis, fought their way back into the test match , Botham with an amazing 149 gave Willis something to bowl at
The man from Sunderland duly obliged and England won a test match from an impossible position, and went on to win the series, as the Aussies never really recovered from Headingley
For me that victory was the turning point of a summer which would probably be long forgotten but “Botham’s Ashes” made that summer of 1981 the most memorable summer of my life and one that I will never forget
In my mind, today was an even greater achievement than 1981 and I hope that people will remember today as vividly as I remember that that game in 1981
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Brilliant stuff this. I can remember sitting in the front room of my mams (rip) and shouting out, Willis has took another one as she cleaned the windows.

We went on holiday to the Isle of Wight when Charles and di were hitched and I caught the tail end of edgbaston and botham bowling ballistic missles to skittle them

Today was comparable in test match terms and I hope I’m still around for the next time in thirty odd years, as this is rare.
 
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