Australia 🇦🇺 v England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 2nd Test, Adelaide, D/N

[TheRey]

Play starts 4am, BT Sport 1

No official thread for it so thought I'd start one for the first time

Seems like Cummings and Hazlewood out for the Cons with Smith captain.

Wood rested, Broad and Anderson back in the squad for us.

Chance for us to get on the board without their main two bowlers?

 

[jcrossan]

It's the hope i can't stand

 

[TheRey]

Getting hopeful now, know it'll have been taken away by 7am mind

 

[Captain Slackbladder]

Cummings covid contact was apparently in a restaurant nearby waiting on a test result.....id imagine said person will not be popular with Pat

 

[TheRey]

Cummings covid contact was apparently in a restaurant nearby waiting on a test result.....id imagine said person will not be popular with Pat

Starc and Lyon were in the same restaurant too but sat outside so can play. Guess we can't be too greedy

 

[Sharpshooter]

England marginal favourites now would you say?

I know everyone expects England to lose 5-0, but if they can't win this test, then they won't win any of them.

 

[TheRey]

Aus win the toss and bat first. Looks an absolute road

Anderson for Wood, Broad for Leach

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

I think it rhymes with “clucking rollocks”

 

[DonaldDownTheWing]

Just got up to, made a brew and saw the toss. 200-1 at tea.

 

[TheRey]

What do we reckon then, lads? I'm going 315-4 at the close

 

[Jack Torrance]

5 right arm bowlers of a similar pace. Bizarre team selection

 

[TheRey]

Wad
Can ring my bell any time like

 

[DonaldDownTheWing]

What do we reckon then, lads? I'm going 315-4 at the close

Hope I don’t jinx it, but Harris looks as vulnerable as most of our batters.

We’ll get him early and feel positive and Warner will ride his luck for a few deliveries. Then Labuschagne will start leaving every ball and suck the life out of us.

 

[TheRey]

COME ON BOYS

 

[Liverpool Beachball]

Come on jimmy

 

[TheRey]

Play that ya bassa

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

Nice bit of "reputational laundering" by the convicts with Smith.

Possibly the weakest Aussie attack we've faced for years.

Big score for them, we crumble under pressure. Get them out for less than 300 then game on. Broad to get Warner out for buttons.

 

[Liverpool Beachball]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1471334470930374661

 

[TheRey]

 

[DonaldDownTheWing]

Surely out.
Oh maybe not, hits a lot higher than I thought.