3rd Ashes Test: England v Australia at Birmingham on Jul 29-Aug 2, 2015

[Pete Cash]

Haha bad luck Cook

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Does Adam Voges have hands,loves a stomach catch that kid

 

[BlueAndGoldPride]

Another quick one here would be nice

 

[LeedsRhinos]

2-1 to the Ingerlund coming up, Aussies going to lose another series in England, 4th in a row! :crazy:

 

[Pete Cash]

We lost a million series in a row in India. So why not England.

 

[BlueAndGoldPride]

Brain explosion from Bell there.

 

[TheParraboy]

We batted poorly

Other than Warner (and Clarke is just out of form), most of the dissmisals were off wide deliveries which could have been left alone (except Nevilles leave)

Need to get the poms out well under 200 tomorrow, someone needs a demon spell of bowling

Poms clearly in front after day 1. But things can change easily after day 2. Up to us

 

[BlueAndGoldPride]

Would take an epic collapse from the Poms here for us to get back in the game but it has happened before

 

[JJ]

That kinda sums up Bell to a tee...

 

[Canard]

3 day test at most?

Weren't most of the Australian media, players etc complaining about not having traditional English pitches??

 

[JJ]

3 day test at most?

Weren't most of the Australian media, players etc complaining about not having traditional English pitches??

Not over yet, but yep, the Poms were stupid in their pitch prep - sideways movement is something most don't cope well with and Aussies are no exceptions - Smith for one is clearly a fine player, but his technique looks suspect against sideways movement from the pitch - same with Warner

 

[jargan83]

Bog average effort with the bat by Australia with some very dumb shots. Id like to say hopefully the lead doesn't get out to 100 but with 7 wickets left England are very well placed. Early wickets will be needed tonight.

 

[Twizzle]

gotta give the poms credit here, they bowled well on a responsive pitch

 

[TheParraboy]

3 day test at most?

Weren't most of the Australian media, players etc complaining about not having traditional English pitches??

Werent blokes on here complaining about winning the toss makes you win the game?

 

[Pete Cash]

Not over yet, but yep, the Poms were stupid in their pitch prep - sideways movement is something most don't cope well with and Aussies are no exceptions - Smith for one is clearly a fine player, but his technique looks suspect against sideways movement from the pitch - same with Warner

No batsman is comfortable with the ball moving about. It's why English batsmen traditionally don't average as highly as Australian.

I think that our guys could do better. Less pushes at the ball. Play a bit later etc. Smith could rein in his movement a bit and bat more on off stump.

See Smiths technique isn't always like the one he used at lords. He only started using that big movement against India to ironically take knicking off out of the equation because he had been knicking the odd ball. So he thought hmmm these Indians don't move the ball a lot so how about I make my off stump my middle stump then bowlers would be bowling to where I'm strongest.

On seaming wickets where he might need a few overs to get started he really should bat a bit more traditionally. At least at first because he wants to leave as much as possible.

 

[Tommy Smith]

This test is still not over.

Australia could quite easily roll England for 200.

What a crucial first session coming up.

 

[Rabbits20]

We need to get Root out quickly in the first session he is the big wicket.

Then you never know what can happen!

 

[The Charlatan]

LOL... Lyon swans in and steals two wickets. Legend.

 

[Rabbits20]

Hazlewood has been expensive with the ball.

I thought he would bowl a tighter line on off stump but he strayed onto the pads too much which was disappointing.

Where's Wato when you need a hat-trick:lol::lol:

 

[Canard]

This test is still not over.

Australia could quite easily roll England for 200.

What a crucial first session coming up.

Fo shizzle, England can collapse like no other team.

This first session will be crucial IMO.