3rd Ashes Test: Australia v England @ MCG Dec 26-30, 2021

[TheParraboy]

Concussion rule for Harris?

 

[Bazal]

That's a good split

 

[roofromoz]

This Johnny Watkins story... goes for a while.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

We're cooked if Marvellous Marcus is injured.

 

[TheParraboy]

Im backing Harris to get his double Quiney tonight..

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

The great talents of Xavier Doherty, Michael Beer, Marcus North and Doug Bollinger

Watson, Hughes, Katich, Ponting, Hussey, Clarke, Smith, Haddin, Johnson, Siddle, Harris, Hilfenhaus

That is not a squad that should be copping a belting by an innings three times from the soap dodgers

 

[TheParraboy]

Raise your bat Marcus..

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

A Lyon-Harris batting partnership makes for riveting viewing tomorrow morning. Good luck getting to sleep with the excitement.

 

[King-Gutho94]

With that boundary Harris has lifted his ashes batting average above Adam lyth

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Go back even further to the first Ashes in Australia that I watched as a little kid.

90/91 0-3
94/95 1-3
98/99 1-3

It's simply our birth right to flog these toffee nosed merkins on our own turf.

98/99 really should’ve been 4-1 Australia’s way too.
In the 90s they’d win the 5th test and all was right with English cricket.

Interesting stat - between Ashes 1989 to 2005, England only won 1 live test.

That was the 1st test in 1997.
89 6 tests
90/91 5 tests
93 6 tests
94/95 5 tests
97 6 tests
98/99 5 tests
01 5 tests
02/03 5 tests
Total 43 tests

Edit - when I say won 1 live test, meant with the series alive to be won.

In many series they’d jag a test win once the Ashes were already lost.

 

[hineyrulz]

With that boundary Harris has lifted his ashes batting average above Adam lyth

@Tommy Smith

 

[simmo1]

98/99 really should’ve been 4-1 Australia’s way too.
In the 90s they’d win the 5th test and all was right with English cricket.

Interesting stat - between Ashes 1989 to 2005, England only won 1 live test.

That was the 1st test in 1997.
89 6 tests
90/91 5 tests
93 6 tests
94/95 5 tests
97 6 tests
98/99 5 tests
01 5 tests
02/03 5 tests
Total 43 tests

The 98/99 English team punched well above their weight. They were a Slater century away from nabbing a drawn series in Sydney.

This is comfortably the worst English side I can remember.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

The 98/99 English team punched well above their weight. They were a Slater century away from nabbing a drawn series in Sydney.

This is comfortably the worst English side I can remember.

They were being flogged at the Gabba.
Should’ve been 3-0 going to Melbourne.

 

[King hit]

They were being flogged at the Gabba.
Should’ve been 3-0 going to Melbourne.

Only won a test on the back of Darren Gough (I think) and Steve Waugh f**king up

 

[AlwaysGreen]

14 ducks in 15 matches: England’s worst opening batters in Test history

Since the retirement of Sir Alastair Cook in 2018, England’s Test side has been desperately searching for a new opening combination – without luck.

www.news.com.au

On another note, how the f**k did Alistair Cook get a knighthood?

 

[Bazal]

On another note, how the f**k did Alistair Cook get a knighthood?

For services to jawlines

 

[some11]

Openers shmopeners. You can be two down for fk all and still recover. This is where england fail.

Root can't go on with his starts and no middle order player apart from Davvid has scored over 40 - you can't win with these stats.

You watch guys like Buttler bat long enough they look like they're looking for ways to get out. Bairstow today was particularly lolworthy. Got going then gloves one he had no idea what to do with.

 

[hineyrulz]

14 ducks in 15 matches: England’s worst opening batters in Test history

Since the retirement of Sir Alastair Cook in 2018, England’s Test side has been desperately searching for a new opening combination – without luck.

www.news.com.au

On another note, how the f**k did Alistair Cook get a knighthood?

 

[Twizzle]

gee Cam Green looks better every time he plays.

I'd be bowling him before Boland, he is a much better bowler.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Who in here, truly thinks Boland will ever play another test?
Honestly, he shouldn’t have played this one.
Good on him getting a test cap, a dream come true, and I’ll never get one myself but this is a poor selection and a publicity stunt from CA.