2019 ASHES: 2nd Test Australia v England, Lords Aug 14-18

[herbert henry1908]

Officially ruled out

 

[King hit]

Who comes in for Smithy? Patterson is on tour isn't he

 

[Hutty1986]

And there you go. And there go our slim chances.

 

[herbert henry1908]

Lodging an application for a sub batsmen

 

[herbert henry1908]

Who comes in for Smithy? Patterson is on tour isn't he

No. It’ll be Harris or Labuschagne.

 

[herbert henry1908]

The big problem will be the third test

 

[jargan83]

Australia to lodge a application for concussion substitute.

Steve Smith will take no further part in the Test match.

Edit: Didn’t refresh thread, heard it in the telecast.

 

[_snafu_]

Well that is shit news about Smith.

 

[Bazal]

No. It’ll be Harris or Labuschagne.

LabretChain is the sub we're applying for

 

[aussies1st]

Gutted, hopefully he can come back at some stage in this series

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

 

[King hit]

No. It’ll be Harris or Labuschagne.

Guessing they would go for Labushagne because they are always after all rounders. Harris has some hundreds in his recent games.

 

[Hutty1986]

Like replacing a BMW with a f**king pushbike

 

[jargan83]

Did they leave the news late to potentially surprise England a little bit in terms of how they approach the day?

Poms would have a sniff with Smith out I reckon.

 

[Eelectrica]

I'd have gone with Harris. I get that Lab has been playing county cricket recently, but surely Harris is the better batsman.

 

[Bazal]

Did they leave the news late to potentially surprise England a little bit in terms of how they approach the day?

Poms would have a sniff with Smith out I reckon.

Just delayed concussion apparently. Woke up woozy as f**k this morning and they did all the tests again and he flunked is what's being talked about in various places.

 

[undertaker]

The bastard on this thread (before I blocked him) who is the Souf$$ fan laughed yesterday when I mentioned Labuschagne as a concussion substitute for Steve Smith (middle order batsman who can also bowl spin like Smith). Smith was clearly concussed when he came back out to back, as his dismissal was very uncharacteristic of him, almost as if he was in a sleepwalk and didnt see the ball. Theres just no way a batsman is going to recover from that within the space of 24 hours.

 

[Eelectrica]

They could play Harris at 3. Not much difference between opening and 3 anyway. Just comes in for over 2 or 3 instead of 1.

 

[herbert henry1908]

Did they leave the news late to potentially surprise England a little bit in terms of how they approach the day?

Poms would have a sniff with Smith out I reckon.

I don’t think the poms have the guts to declare when they need to. Their best chance is we bowl them out when the lead is around 200.

 

[jargan83]

Just delayed concussion apparently. Woke up woozy as f**k this morning and they did all the tests again and he flunked is what's being talked about in various places.

Given you’d think he would have woken up hours before play and they would have assessed him before play, especially with the rain delay is there scope to delay the actual announcement of the news in terms of gamesmanship?

Let me put my tin foil hat away...