2019 ASHES: 3rd Test Australia v England, Leeds Aug 22-26

[Meapro Ham]

Tonight is the make or break day of this series. Who ever wins the day will win the series and the Ashes.

Nah. England still plenty of work to do to win the series even if they jag a win here. Aust still in the box seat at 1-1 with Smith to cone back.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Steve Smith cannot be expected to score a century every time to save us,we are absolutely done and dusted in this series if we lose tonight

 

[Meapro Ham]

So you guys want to give up at 1-1 with the guy has scored 5 hundreds in his last 7 ashes tests to come back into the side. Soft as.

Anyway it’ll be 2-0 so by about midnight tonight so it’s irrelevant.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

So you guys want to give up at 1-1 with the guy has scored 5 hundreds in his last 7 ashes tests to come back into the side. Soft as.

Anyway it’ll be 2-0 so by about midnight tonight so it’s irrelevant.

Absolutely,we haven't won in England in 18 years,these idiots can't be trusted in the remaining 2 Tests,it's now or never playa

 

[Eelectrica]

7 good balls is all we need. Take it one ball at time
If we add 2/20 to their score they're stuffed.
The closer Root gets to a hundred the more likely he is to get out.

I think that covers it.

 

[undertaker]

With the increasing workload our fast bowlers have had to take on, if I were in Justin Langer's situation, all the players in the lineup who are capable of bowling part-time:

Warner (leg spin)
Khawaja (medium pace)
Labuschagne (leg spin)
Head (off spin)
Wade (medium pace)

I'd have them practising their bowling in the nets this morning as backup, just incase one of Cummins/Pattinson/Hazlewood breaks down with injury during a match like what happened to James Anderson in the first test.

 

[herbert henry1908]

 

[blaza88z]

England 2.90 to win, not a bad bet

I hope we win and i'll be cheering for us but there's no doubt it was hard work yesterday, Pattinson is the key for mine, he needs to be half a metre fuller, too much back of a length back foot defensive shots for my liking

If they see off the Hazlewood/Cummins initial new ball spell, we're in trouble

 

[Meapro Ham]

Don’t waste your money

 

[JW]

How many times has a team batting 4th chasing 350+ looked like they might be in with a shot, only to come up short - often well short?

The fact is, chasing anything but a piss weak total in the 4th innings is a difficult task in Test Cricket - on any ground and against just about any opposition. Over 350? You’re almost certainly cooked.

The target we set is heaps, but if England manage to chase it down, then hats off to the arsey bastards. You’d be better off putting your money on a Broncs/Parra Grand Final and Darius getting the Churchill.

 

[Hutty1986]

So you guys want to give up at 1-1 with the guy has scored 5 hundreds in his last 7 ashes tests to come back into the side. Soft as.

Anyway it’ll be 2-0 so by about midnight tonight so it’s irrelevant.

Lol, nothing 'soft' about it, just being realistic. Smithy's going to fail at some point, and to lose after rolling a side for 67 and having them 2/15...
That's enough to derail a good side, let alone a team as limited as ours in the batting stakes. These two at the crease will likely decide it, and if Lyon can build pressure and actually take some wickets, it should be enough. But it'll come down to us getting a few before lunch. If not, poms can definitely chase this imo.

 

[Meapro Ham]

Lol, nothing 'soft' about it, just being realistic. Smithy's going to fail at some point, and to lose after rolling a side for 67 and having them 2/15...
That's enough to derail a good side, let alone a team as limited as ours in the batting stakes. These two at the crease will likely decide it, and if Lyon can build pressure and actually take some wickets, it should be enough. But it'll come down to us getting a few before lunch. If not, poms can definitely chase this imo.

You’re forgetting how rubbish the poms are. They have about 2 decent batsmen and same with their bowling. The rest are completely anonymous.

We have much better bowling and better batting too with Smith back. We would have taken 1-1 after 3 matches at the start of the series. We still only have to win one match to take the ashes if we lose tonight. We won’t lose tonight, however.

 

[herbert henry1908]

How many times has a team batting 4th chasing 350+ looked like they might be in with a shot, only to come up short - often well short?

The fact is, chasing anything but a piss weak total in the 4th innings is a difficult task in Test Cricket - on any ground and against just about any opposition. Over 350? You’re almost certainly cooked.

The target we set is heaps, but if England manage to chase it down, then hats off to the arsey bastards. You’d be better off putting your money on a Broncs/Parra Grand Final and Darius getting the Churchill.

one caveat. Typically you’re chasing late day 4 & day 5.

Hopefully we see some inconsistent bounce today.

 

[blaza88z]

You’re forgetting how rubbish the poms are. They have about 2 decent batsmen and same with their bowling. The rest are completely anonymous.

We have much better bowling and better batting too with Smith back. We would have taken 1-1 after 3 matches at the start of the series. We still only have to win one match to take the ashes if we lose tonight. We won’t lose tonight, however.

They are rubbish, they are cannon fodder.. outside of England.

You get them in England much like us here in Australia, they're very hard to beat.

 

[blaza88z]

How many times has a team batting 4th chasing 350+ looked like they might be in with a shot, only to come up short - often well short?

The fact is, chasing anything but a piss weak total in the 4th innings is a difficult task in Test Cricket - on any ground and against just about any opposition. Over 350? You’re almost certainly cooked.

The target we set is heaps, but if England manage to chase it down, then hats off to the arsey bastards. You’d be better off putting your money on a Broncs/Parra Grand Final and Darius getting the Churchill.

Historically, you're right, I didn't place that bet because there is every chance they lose Root or Stokes and that's all she wrote, these 2 are their best bats.

If they occupy the crease for any amount of time though, it's game on.

 

[JW]

one caveat. Typically you’re chasing late day 4 & day 5.

Hopefully we see some inconsistent bounce today.

Touche mate. But yeah, enough in the pitch as it is and hopefully a bit more variation today will set us up to knock them over.

 

[JW]

Historically, you're right, I didn't place that bet because there is every chance they lose Root or Stokes and that's all she wrote, these 2 are their best bats.

If they occupy the crease for any amount of time though, it's game on.

For sure. Can't see us wasting the new ball though, so I'd surprised if they both hang around long enough. As I said though, fair play if they can pull it off.

 

[undertaker]

How many times has a team batting 4th chasing 350+ looked like they might be in with a shot, only to come up short - often well short?

The fact is, chasing anything but a piss weak total in the 4th innings is a difficult task in Test Cricket - on any ground and against just about any opposition.

Australia has a notorious history of struggling to chase sub-200 4th innings targets: both in Australia and overseas.

 

[Bazal]

FFS England need their greatest chase EVER and merkins are throwing in the towel Lmao

 

[WaznTheGreat]

FFS England need their greatest chase EVER and merkins are throwing in the towel Lmao

Bruh,Australia are the Kings of giving up a record,South Africa chased down 438 against us in an ODI,England scored the highest ever ODI total against us with 481

Tonight is ripe for Australia giving up another record