2019 ASHES: 5th Test Australia v England, The Oval Sept 12-16

[Eelectrica]

Jimmy Anderson blames the pitches, not the lame duck English batting order and the only English bowlers worth feeding being Broad and Stokes.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricke...s/news-story/67bac26ef247fb8aeeac689fb25f7925

Not sure too many of our batsmen would agree its been Australia like conditions given how the bowlers have owned the batsmen.
Of course if England won and Jimmy played and got bag full of wickets they would have been the best pitches ever.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Jimmy Anderson blames the pitches, not the lame duck English batting order and the only English bowlers worth feeding being Broad and Stokes.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricke...s/news-story/67bac26ef247fb8aeeac689fb25f7925

Jimmy is a f**king moron.

 

[TheParraboy]

Important we go for a 3-1 win for a number of reasons

First and foremost that Stokes innings in the 3rd test (where both us and the umpires stuffed up massively to lose the test rather than poms winning it) will get played mercifully over and over in the years ahead. We go 3-1 up as opposed to 2-2, then I believe it will have a lot less exposure and significance, and most will say it "should have been 4-0"

The 24 points on offer in the Test championship

Humiliate the f..ckers when they are down, dont dare let this be a drawn series like "back in in 1972 when Chappelli was captain"

 

[herbert henry1908]

Important we go for a 3-1 win for a number of reasons

First and foremost that Stokes innings in the 3rd test (where both us and the umpires stuffed up massively to lose the test rather than poms winning it) will get played mercifully over and over in the years ahead. We go 3-1 up as opposed to 2-2, then I believe it will have a lot less exposure and significance, and most will say it "should have been 4-0"

The 24 points on offer in the Test championship

Humiliate the f..ckers when they are down, dont dare let this be a drawn series like "back in in 1972 when Chappelli was captain"

You make a good point about seeing less of Stokes’ innings, if for no other reason than my mental health.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Jimmy Anderson blames the pitches, not the lame duck English batting order and the only English bowlers worth feeding being Broad and Stokes.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricke...s/news-story/67bac26ef247fb8aeeac689fb25f7925

I blame the boos, Boris and Brexit.

 

[Bazal]

Speaking of mental health relating to the cricket, how close are we on sinking Wade to the bottom of the Hebrides Trench?

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Stokes' innings has gone in to that box where the Souths 2013 Prelim vs Manly, Metaliica's Reload and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Ashtray were buried.

 

[Hutty1986]

Stokes' innings has gone in to that box where the Souths 2013 Prelim vs Manly, Metaliica's Reload and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Ashtray were buried.

Ditto. I didn't watch a minute of it and never will. f**k that noise!

 

[Twizzle]

Speaking of mental health relating to the cricket, how close are we on sinking Wade to the bottom of the Hebrides Trench?

not deep enough

 

[herbert henry1908]

*heads proceed to explode*

 

[lockyno1]

That will do me

 

[Bazal]

*heads proceed to explode*

Rightly so too.

Marsh is Plod, but OK maybe they wanted an e tra bowler to give the quicks a bit less work. That makes a kind of sense.

But Travis Head, for all his flaws, has been our third best bat this series even with a lean tour and was our best while Smith was out. Is he a star? No. Should Harris, Warner, or Wade have been dropped well before him? Absolutely

 

[herbert henry1908]

How about a middle order of Wade, Marsh & Paine?!

Lolololololol

 

[herbert henry1908]

Only positive is this makes it more likely Cummins will play

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Justin Nanger finally gets his f**khead Western Australian mate in the team.

A joke

 

[Eelectrica]

Harris or Warner are probably they ones who should have been dropped. Basically we've got two reliable batsmen and the rest are kinda sorta scraping by with a handy innings here and there.

Crazy thing is the bar has been set so low, it wouldn't take much from Marsh to do better than any of our underperforming batsmen.... or he'll just join the club.

Even Wade for all his faults this last test did help arrest the slide the second innings with Smith. If Wade goes early there's every chance it's Tasmania all over again where Smith remained not out and watched a procession at the other end with us bowled out for about 80.

That said, when it's summer back here guys like Burns, Patterson and Pucovski should be gunning for Wades spot and taking it. I believe they're all more talented.

Harris hasn't done much of anything and Warner looks completely shot. I don't see him turning it around this quickly. I'd love nothing more than to be proven wrong and have Warner make an impact that actually helps win the game, or at least not lose.

 

[Matt23]

Nepotism Gnome strikes again, and he finally gets Shitchell a game, 4 tests later then he'd have liked

 

[herbert henry1908]

This will likely be the best batting deck of the series, nice one off test for Marsh to get. A half century probably buys him the whole of the coming summer.

 

[Matt23]

A half century probably buys him the whole of the coming summer.

He'll probably jag a streaky century, and he'll be in the team for the next 18 months to 2 year's, yay.

 

[mozza91]

The Big Bison to unleash on the Poms!

I'm predicting 25 runs, no wickets but a ginormous set of levers!!!