2019 ASHES: 1st Test Australia v England, Edgbaston Aug 1-5

[blaza88z]

good catch

 

[blaza88z]

I wouldve left my helmet on if I had a head of hair like that

 

[jargan83]

Wadey on to bowl

 

[lockyno1]

Admiral onto bowl! Watch out England

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

Need someone to do something here

Get Bancroft to pull out the sandpaper for old time sake, anything

 

[Hutty1986]

Smiffy busts his arse to scrape us to 284...now poms to comfortably get a matchwinning lead and their numpty opener is somehow leading the way.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

This Aus bowling attack is shit

 

[mozza91]

The f**k? This Burns plodder would have to be one of the shittest players to ever score a hundred against us.

 

[hineyrulz]

Burns getting an Ashes 100 is like a make a wish foundation FFS!!

 

[JJ]

The f**k? This Burns plodder would have to be one of the shittest players to ever score a hundred against us.

Yet he wouldn’t be the shittiest player in your top 6

 

[Tommy Smith]

Yet he wouldn’t be the shittiest player in your top 6

He'd be Australia's 2nd best bat in English conditions.

That's how abominable Australia's batting line up is for this Ashes.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Burns played.....dare I say it.......excellent......

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Ellen Root now has 42 fifties vs 16 hundreds.

Burns scoring a hundred gives hope to all plodders out there.

 

[JJ]

Burns scoring a hundred gives hope to all plodders out there.

Australian bats will be heartened

 

[mozza91]

Yet he wouldn’t be the shittiest player in your top 6

True. I’d take him over Bancroft and Wade in a heartbeat.

 

[TheParraboy]

Pretty even test match provided we can get some early wickets early day 3
Cant get them get ahead by more than 100 hopefully

Rain forecast for days 4 and 5.


Congrat to Rory Burns

 

[JJ]

Pretty even test match provided we can get some early wickets early day 3
Cant get them get ahead by more than 100 hopefully

Rain forecast for days 4 and 5.


Congrat to Rory Burns

LOL - pretty even test match as long as things turn on their head immediately... bit like the Warriors saying at half time, it's pretty even as long as we score 5 quick tries after half time

They might, but at this stage there's nothing even about it

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Batting last on a deteriorating pitch will even things out.

England on top atm though.

 

[CoolCat]

I'd say that if one of our batsmen can get a big partnership with Smith than we're in a great position bowling on a worn out pitch with cloud cover on the last two days.
But we will need to start well tomorrow.

 

[Front-Rower]

We probably have 100 less runs if he did- Siddle scores 44 and put on 80+

So what? He is there to bowl not score big runs

If the top 3 did their job we should have been closer to 400 not 8-122.

But it's okay, second innings specialist Dave will save the day...