4th Ashes Test: England v Australia at Nottingham on Aug 6-10, 2015

[69-05-41]

Farke off Farke. Time to retire and take all of your BFF's with you.

 

[_snafu_]

Anderson would be spewing.

 

[Brutus]

What a f**king ridiculous shot.

 

[some11]

This is the best collapse I've ever seen.

 

[BunniesMan]

Mitchell Johnson walks out to bat at 11:39am

 

[Timbo]

WHAT THE f**k WAS THAT SHOT FROM CLARKE. It was two metres wide, LEAVE IT THE f**k ALONE!

 

[saint.nick]

This Australian team is so f**king impulsive...

 

[Bazal]

In a nutshell, the crap pitches that have engulfed both test/ODI and Sheffield Shield in Australia for at least the last 10 years has led to an over-confident attitude in many batsmen who have done well when making the test team, only to be brutally exposed in conditions where there's movement in the air and seam. As a team, we were exposed in the Hobart test in 2011 vs New Zealand in very similar conditions to this Trent Bridge test, and also the ODI in Brisbane in 2013, where Sri Lanka skittled us for 70-something.

Warner is one of the nuffies. I was never sold on him as a test batsman, and it has been the media that have hyped him up for his T20 big-hitting prowess when in reality he would be nothing without his thick-bladed bat and if he had to regularly play in these conditions (in other words, he's been made to look better than he really is).

Warner is good enough. The whole line up is good enough, they seemingly just don't know how or don't want to actually settle in to an innings. Case in point, that shot from Clarke. Anywhere else in the world, it's four. But in England, it's slower and it swings, you can't throw your hands at it like that.

Michael DiVenuto has a lot of explaining to do IMO

A few of us questioned the decision on here, and were told Voges was in form blah blah blah. He was 35 and had not played test cricket for a season. He's bog average.

I was one of them, don't worry.

 

[Twizzle]

terrible shot from Clarkey

 

[JW]

At least we won't have to worry about declaring. Both teams will get a share of he conditions before lunch.

 

[mave]

There could have been2 sets of stumps and the ball still didnt need to be played

 

[_snafu_]

At least our run rate is healthy.

 

[Canard]

I'm furious with Clarke there.

He really needed to dig in and see of at least 20 overs.

But to play that shot.

What a impatient clown

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Marcus Stoinis would have score more than the 0 that S Marsh got

 

[undertaker]

Agreed, our batsman are brought up concrete belters. We struggle when it spins as well. Lazy bunch of front foot plodders.

Only our team management could be so geniused in the last tour of India (2013) to play only one frontline spinner on a Chennai pitch that was akin to Roland Garros, where India played 3 frontline spinners and didn't bowl a fast bowler until the 76th over....and yet we thought we could try to beat India with 3 fast bowlers on that track:lol: No wonder why we lost 4-0

 

[tomdl]

Even Twatto would have dug in more than Clarke did...

 

[_snafu_]

If only Quiney was out there.

 

[Pete Cash]

Smith made the ball he got look really good. He needs to move less in England. Rogers and Warner get a pass IMO but the rest wtf

 

[tomdl]

Commentators still trying to justify Clarke's shit.

 

[undertaker]

Now that Australia is in the tail, it wouldn't do them any harm to try and have a bit of a tonk to try and soften the ball up, instead of this niggly little forward pushes to a swinging ball