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

[Incorrect]

Thing is, where the f**k do England even go from here?

The middle order is probably not as bad as it's looked, they just refuse to pick and stick. Malan, Root, Pope, Stokes, Bairstow and Buttler are all at least up to international cricket. Foakes always looked pretty good too They need to pick a 3-7 and stand by it.

The openers are all garbage. Quite literally. I do t follow the County stiff much anymore but social pages are throwing out Malan as an option so clearly there mustn't be a lot back home. Can a guy like Ollie Pope open? Or maybe Foakes?

Root can't be captain after this series. He's not up to it. Stokes is a great option for line and seems like the guy who relishes that stuff too.

The attack is ok. But Broad and Anderson are a thousand and Wood is very breakable. Still, plenty of decent bowlers in England. They desperately need a spinner. There's wraps.on Parkinson, why not chuck him in and give him 15 matches? Can't be worse than Leach/Bess/Crane...

Silverwood I think will be made to swim back to England after this tour is done, or take his chances with people smugglers, and rightly so. He is the sole selector and while they don't have much on the bench in terms of who can step in and play international test cricket, the shit tactics must surely be at least half his fault and not solely on Root.

 

[icewind]

I guess, or Davey Warner in the UK… nah they’d have only made 35 then

Yep, and we somehow still managed to retain the ashes.

 

[Mr Spock!]

English top 4 run scorers 2021

Root 1708
Burns 530
Extras 412
Bairstow 391

 

[King-Gutho94]

English top 4 run scorers 2021

Root 1708
Burns 530
Extras 412
Bairstow 391

Marnus only played 5 tests this year and scored 526 runs

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

Tongue our balls long and raw, England. You got Boland bombed right off the pitch.

 

[hineyrulz]

 

[JJ]

Marnus only played 5 tests this year and scored 526 runs

And was dropped 527 times

Root has been amazing

 

[Smug Panther]

And was dropped 527 times

Root has been amazing

A mental midget who struggles to convert 50's

 

[JJ]

is it true Aust hasn’t won a series overseas since 2016? Needs fixing

 

[hineyrulz]

 

[King-Gutho94]

is it true Aust hasn’t won a series overseas since 2016? Needs fixing

Yeah we beat New Zealand 2-0 in February 2016. Mccullum's last series.

Since then
Lost to Sri Lanka in 16, India in 17, South Africa & Pakistan in UAE in 18.

Drew with Bangladesh in 17 and England in 19.

We have only played one true away series since sandpaper gate. Which was 2019 ashes.

2018 series against Pakistan was in UAE obivously so its probably still considered neutral.

 

[JJ]

Yeah we beat New Zealand 2-0 in February 2016. Mccullum's last series.

Since then
Lost to Sri Lanka in 16, India in 17, South Africa & Pakistan in UAE in 18.

Drew with Bangladesh in 17 and England in 19.

We have only played one true away series since sandpaper gate. Which was 2019 ashes.

2018 series against Pakistan was in UAE obivously so its probably still considered neutral.

Need to come to NZ again only place you can win it seems

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Lucky to be playing tests at all after the f**kheads at CA agreed to 5 max per summer.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Need to come to NZ again only place you can win it seems

NZ are forever Australia's bitches in test cricket .

We are going there for more T20s in February.

That series could well have been different if the umpire didn't stuff up when he called a no ball to voges when he got bowled to a legal delivery when he was on 10.

They couldn't change it because the umpire called it during the delivery. He ended up getting 235. Pretty costly mistake.

And Voges wouldn't have the 2nd best batting average in test cricket

 

[JJ]

NZ are forever Australia's bitches in test cricket .

We are going there for more T20s in February.

That series could well have been different if the umpire didn't stuff up when he called a no ball to voges when he got bowled to a legal delivery when he was on 10.

They couldn't change it because the umpire called it during the delivery. He ended up getting 235. Pretty costly mistake.

And Voges wouldn't have the 2nd best batting average in test cricket

Yep we’ve had some bad decisions against us, but sadly we haven’t responded well and folded

current team is good, but who knows

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Aust vs NZ should be more often. I’ll be f**ked if it wouldn’t be great.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Aust vs NZ should be more often. I’ll be f**ked if it wouldn’t be great.

Certainly over there would be interesting atm with our fragile batting.

But NZ were here 2 years ago and shat the bed they didn't even come close.

They weren't as abysmal as England. But they were very ordinary.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Yep we’ve had some bad decisions against us, but sadly we haven’t responded well and folded

current team is good, but who knows

And btw If voges had been given out when he should have in that innings.

His Test career average drops from 61 to 52.

 

[mozza91]

Genuine miracles occur when we play NZ. A pitch can go from a minefield to a road within minutes dependent on who is batting.

 

[JamesRustle]

So Hobart to have a better crowd aggregate than Melbourne.