3rd Ashes Test: Australia v England at Perth, Dec 14-18 2017

[Rabbits20]

Holy f**k what an over.

You guys deserved the luck...

Playing with positivity and the right attitude and a good scoring rate and those little things go your way and the tide changes.....

An early wicket tomorrow and England may be bowled out for 400 but I see England getting close to that 450 mark.....

Then you never know...... get a couple of wickets early and the pressure all goes onto Smith..... we do not want to find ourselves 3/130 or 4/180 in reply to 450 and having to rely on the Darsh'............

 

[blaza88z]

if England get 400+, it would be incredibly difficult for them to lose, a draw would be best case scenario for us, I know they have lost before but that was against a stacked side with Warne, McGrath, Hayden, Ponting etc..

This is a side with the 2 Marsh brothers holding up the middle order

 

[Rabbits20]

Lol Joe Root....comes out here as the gun bat, sits and watches while Stoneman and Typo score the runs

Root still has 2 fifty' in 5 innings and if England can snag this test I'd pencil Root in for a century for Boxing Day Test...

 

[_snafu_]

Poor fielding from these useless merkins. Who is our fielding coach?

 

[OVP]

The great Mitch Marsh to get a wicket before the new ball

I can smell it

That's his career. Well done TPB !!

 

[Timbo]

I still do not know why we picked Mitchell Marsh.

 

[Cherry_poppins]

I still do not know why we picked Mitchell Marsh.

Because he bowls

Pie chucking merkin

 

[WaznTheGreat]

England 3-2

 

[Twizzle]

nice to see a fight from the poms so at least now we can have a game on our hands, wonder how long the fight will last tho

last time we both made over 500 in the first innings we bowled them out for f**k all in the second innings and won

 

[TheParraboy]

nice to see a fight from the poms so at least now we can have a game on our hands, wonder how long the fight will last tho

last time we both made over 500 in the first innings we bowled them out for f**k all in the second innings and won

And we have a far superior side this time around to do that again

All hail Marsh and Marsh

 

[Iafeta]

Can you get out caught if a hand is not holding the bat?

Looks likes Healy might have answered my question....

No, that'd be not out.

Didn't see the incident but my word Aleem Derp is always in the thick of the action with iffy decisions.

 

[Iafeta]

So... Mitch marsh comes in, drops a sitter, and bowled a handful of military medium overs. For his sake I hope he's learned how to bat at test level. Poor Handscum must feel bad being dropped for the very definition of an unproven plodder.

 

[JJ]

England 3-2

Are you playing them in football soon?

 

[JJ]

So... Mitch marsh comes in, drops a sitter, and bowled a handful of military medium overs. For his sake I hope he's learned how to bat at test level. Poor Handscum must feel bad being dropped for the very definition of an unproven plodder.

meh, they are both shit tbh - all Handscomb has done recently is talk shit - no idea how he score runs last year

 

[AlwaysGreen]

JJ out and about, either the bullies from Australia must be struggling or there's no tennis on.

Interestingly didn't see him in the 1st and 2nd test threads.

 

[hineyrulz]

My predictions are usually spot on unlike your wrong ones nearly every time.....

Yeah Nah!!

 

[Incorrect]

I prefer Dickens Cider....

 

[JJ]

JJ out and about, either the bullies from Australia must be struggling or there's no tennis on.

Interestingly didn't see him in the 1st and 2nd test threads.

I'm in Europe, so posting intermittently - glad you miseed me - but if you look harder you'll find me posting in the first to tests - had some nice things to say about Steve Smith as I recall - but don't let the truth get in the way of a good story

 

[Meth]

meh, they are both shit tbh - all Handscomb has done recently is talk shit - no idea how he score runs last year

He started meteorically, but he hasn't performed badly as such since. The first and second Tests are probably the first time he hasn't managed to post decent scores. Well, I suppose the series in India earlier in the year were a failure overall.

He's out of the team because the selectors were obviously desperate to get Mitchell Marsh back in- or, less cynically, for a 5th bowling option that wasn't Smith.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Sad thing is, Smith looks most likely.