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

Mr Angry

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Too me Voges deserved a chance..did not take....

S Marsh just wtf.

Time to give a young bloke a chance...probably two.

But they will be stubborn...

Me

Rogers
Warner
new bloke young
Smith
Clarke
new bloke young or persist with M Marsh, still young.

keeper bowlers

also rogers needs a replacement plan.....Has done himself proud..but time before the pink ball to step back..
 

WaznTheGreat

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ODI cricket is different to test cricket...

The Australian team are good on roads ... any sideways movement and you're complete shit...

Warner and Smith are good players, but don't seem able to adjust - both have record that flatter them tbh...

That means there shit,everyone is good on roads
 

Pete Cash

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We shoudnt take anything from England they have been the better side. I mean probably not bowl us out for 60 good but very strong. They have bowled really well and caught great (mostly).
 

JJ

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That means there shit,everyone is good on roads

Your bowling attack is better than most on the bouncy roads on Australia, so you'll get results

Pete, yes, no doubt Smith and Warner will do well against us in Australian conditions - but assuming Boult and Southee are fit, and traditional NZ wickets are produced, I see us winning pretty well at home...
 

Pete Cash

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It really depends on the whims of cricket Australia how road like the pitches are. Lethal against England, flat as the street against India.
 

Mr Spock!

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ABC Grandstand - Clarke to retire after Ashes

Has been told there is no place for him after the Oval test.
 

shiznit

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I reckon Southee & Boult will go okay in Australia too...

Adelaide will be interesting.... Being the first ever day/night test... The evening dew might create abit of swing...
 

JJ

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ABC Grandstand - Clarke to retire after Ashes

Has been told there is no place for him after the Oval test.

Should be no place for him at the Oval - but what a shithouse squad it is batting -wise

I reckon Southee & Boult will go okay in Australia too...

Adelaide will be interesting.... Being the first ever day/night test... The evening dew might create abit of swing...

Starc will no doubt be a handful at night

Not convinced Southee will be as good in Aust conditions as he is elsehwere, but certainly Boult will, and Henry/Bracewell
 

JW

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http://www.cricket.com.au/news/mich...rts-australia-england-trent-bridge/2015-08-08

Clarke to retire at series end: reports

08 August 2015

Andrew Ramsey, Senior Writer, at Trent Bridge

The Australian cricket captain is reportedly set to announce his retirement from Test cricket as Australia ready to hand over the Ashes urn

Australia’s disastrous Ashes campaign appears to have claimed its first casualty with reports that captain Michael Clarke’s celebrated career has ended.

Clarke is understood to have told his teammates before play began at Trent Bridge this morning that his reign as skipper as over and, following his retirement from one-day cricket after this year’s World Cup win, he is also walking away from the Test game.
He was seen to be shaking his hands with his teammates at a rare team meeting an hour before play was to resume on the third day at Trent Bridge.

This was widely interpreted as the 34-year-old breaking the news to the team, although some members of the squad were training in the nets at the time.

Cricket Australia has yet to confirm or deny the reports that began circulating around 10am in Nottingham.

While it remains unclear if Clarke will lead Australia into the final Test of the Ashes series, which England are set to win today needing just three Australia wickets for less than 90 runs to claim an unassailable 3-1 lead, it seems likely the transition to a new captain will come sooner rather than later.

News Limited newspapers have reported this morning that Clarke has been told that his future with the current Test team does not extend beyond this series which Australia was widely expected to win but have increasingly failed to meet expectations.

Clarke himself has been under increasing pressure given his repeated failures with the bat, failing to reach 50 in any of his eight innings in this campaign and averaging less than 20 runs per innings.

It means that in the past 12 months he has played nine Tests and made only score in excess of 50, that being the century he scored against India at Adelaide last December just weeks after the death of his close friend and former teammate Phillip Hughes.
 

Mr Spock!

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1981 Ashes, 3rd test at Headingley

http://howstat.com.au/cricket/Statistics/Matches/MatchScorecard.asp?MatchCode=0905

England were still 92 runs behind in their 2nd innings when their 7th wicket fell, and went on to win (courtesy of Botham's famous 149 not out, and Willis 8 wicket haul in Australia's run chase).

Australia currently trail by 90 runs with 3 wickets in hand.

Can they do it????

I don't think Voges is Botham.

Neither are any of our bowlers Willis.
 

undertaker

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I reckon Southee & Boult will go okay in Australia too...

Adelaide will be interesting.... Being the first ever day/night test... The evening dew might create abit of swing...

Adelaide generally isn't renown for dew, as it - like Perth - has a hot and dry Mediterranean climate in summer with low humidity, hence why it was always the favourite to host a day/night test of all the Australian test venues.

- Melbourne (Boxing Day) and Sydney (New Year's) tests occur after Christmas during the holiday period, hence Cricket Australia didn't want to tamper with the timeslots for them. Cricket Australia already made it clear that the day/night test candidates were for those tests that occur before the Christmas holidays which generally got lower crowds than the Melbourne and Sydney tests.

- Brisbane is very humid (that's where the evening dew would be a problem), not to mention the position of the floodlights at the ground made it very difficult for players to see the pink ball when day/night Sheffield Shield matches were held there.

- Perth is already 3 hours behind Sydney in timezone (day's play generally finishing around 9pm in Sydney/Melbourne), hence a match going past sunset in Perth will finish late on the East Coast, which is the reason why the days when day/night ODIs in Perth used to finish past midnight in Sydney and Melbourne have been gone for at least a decade (with the exception being the recent World Cup).

Hobart is the only other venue that'd be capable of hosting a day/night test, but wouldn't get much use of the floodlights given sunset is close to 9pm and a longer twilight period after sunset compared to the other cities that are closer to the equator.
 
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some11

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"There's been no lack of effort from this Australian squad"

Keep talking shit Healy.
 

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