2019 ASHES: 4th Test Australia v England, Old Trafford Sept 4-9

[WaznTheGreat]

"What marks this team as different to the others?"

Lol. How tempted would you be to just say 'me, merkin'

LOL

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Would absolutely buy Smudger’s bath water.

Legends take showers good sir,only Knights and Eels players take baths

 

[Eelectrica]

Awesome thing to wale up too. Man England took it to the wire it sounds like.

Thank you Mr Smith i can sleep propeely again.

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

f**k. Can't get to sleep now. Too excited, too good

Get this - Smith has scored 30% of our runs this series. He's missed 3/8 innings though. Thirty f**king percent and he hasn't batted for one and half tests

 

[Slackboy72]

Ladies and gentlemen,18 years since we last regained the Ashes on English soil,what was different this year from those previous 18? Matt Wade being in the team

History is made when you have fighters like Wadey hanging around pissing people off

Get some half decent umpires and you take poor review decisions out of the equation.

But seriously:

• We won most tosses.
• The Duke has a bigger seam this year making our bowlers more competitive.
• Steve Smith is mining a once in a generation vein of form.
• Anderson was injured early on and Stokes and Archer fought niggles.
• Joe Root is a pretty mediocre captain.

Let there be no doubt that our batting line up was poor outside of Smith and Labuschagne.
Their bowling outside of Broad was largely mediocre.
It's absolutely true that Steve Smith was the difference but it would be 4-0 without Ben Stokes.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Awesome thing to wale up too. Man England took it to the wire it sounds like.

Thank you Mr Smith i can sleep propeely again.

Niceeeeeeee

 

[Dave's mate]

It really was a great performance. To come up with that after what happened at Headingley is special. I thought we were gone after losing that.

The second best bat in the history of the sport came back in. No idea why people were worried

 

[mave]

This is a pretty good effort after the dissapointment of last test .
Still did it the hard way to get 20 wickets.

 

[JJ]

Ashes retained... incredible stuff from Smith

 

[Pete Cash]

As chief bedwetter i always thought we had that. Even during the first session when england dug in a little bit i was pretty confident we would win. It was a bit like the sharks game. I never think the Raiders will win but i was just really calm during that game.

Now luckily i fell asleep halfway through session two or id have probably started wetting the bed at a few of those partnerships but hey we won.

Im extremely chuffed tbh

 

[hineyrulz]

f**k yeah!!! EAD mighty mighty Chokerlund!!!


Now to smash these merkins at the oval to show how dominant we really are.

 

[hineyrulz]

Can't forget Goochy,he was my fav

HT loves a bit of Gooch.

 

[hineyrulz]

Ellen is the most insipid and weak leader I have seen for a while. He looks mentally shot.

 

[JJ]

Bringing back Hazlewood has been a difference

Essentially Smith has been better than everyone and with Labia, Cummins and Hazlewood has outperformed Stokes, Burns, Root, Archer and Broad

But the teams are even except for Smith...

 

[blaza88z]

Have to give credit to Paine, we all potted him (myself included and it was warranted) but his captaincy on Day 5 in this test was pretty good, he also made some runs.

 

[Sphagnum]

Have to give credit to Paine, we all potted him (myself included and it was warranted) but his captaincy on Day 5 in this test was pretty good, he also made some runs.

I don't agree with they. Didn't attack enough with his field. Kept bowling Lyon when the ball was clearly reversing and Lyon was hitting the right line/length once every 2 overs.

Australia won despite his unimaginative captaincy imo.

He has done a great job of rebuilding the Australian image over the last 2 years after Bancroft destroyed it but his time has surely come to an end.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Ashes retained. Boo that England.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

We got de ashes.

 

[Eelectrica]

Test cricket is still best cricket and England sucks.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Starc, Hazelwood and Cummins should have been the pace attack from the get go instead they insisted on picking Mr Glass and The Tofu muncher.