5th Ashes Test: Australia v England at the SCG, Jan 4-8 2018

[Eelectrica]

Haze picks up the final wicket. Deserved it.

 

[King hit]

Australia were just way to good in this series apart from that terrible Melbourne test. Funny how England can bat first and score 340 odd and end up losing by an innings and 123 runs.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

well done Straya.

4-0 is fairly comprehensive.

 

[Hutty1986]

Great series boys

 

[Eelectrica]

Australia were just way to good in this series apart from that terrible Melbourne test. Funny how England can bat first and score 340 odd and end up losing by an innings and 123 runs.

Yeah we have problems, but they just about need to rebuild their bowling attack. When they've scored runs their bowlers haven't backed it up.

 

[Twizzle]

Smudger has to be man of the series

 

[King hit]

Yeah we have problems, but they just about need to rebuild their bowling attack. When they've scored runs their bowlers haven't backed it up.

That truly was the difference. The quality of our bowling attack is light years ahead of anything the Poms dished up. England did put together some very good scores with the bat but never took advantage of it.

 

[Twizzle]

Paddy MOM, Oozie a bit stiff there but good on Paddy

 

[Bazal]

Cummins MOTM.

But he's not as good as Pattinson :roll:

 

[Twizzle]

Smudger's average 137, fmd

 

[King hit]

Cummins MOTM.

But he's not as good as Pattinson :roll:

The delusion of Victorians has no limits

 

[Bazal]

And in a shock selection, MOTS is Steve Smith...

 

[Bazal]

The delusion of Victorians has no limits

Was a Kiwi in this case.

 

[Twizzle]

winners are grinners

 

[Bazal]

I wonder if they're all thirsty? Where's Warnie?

 

[Sphagnum]

Man of the series: Tim Paine - kept that f**ken hopeless, dwarf fraud out of the team for all 5 test matches. A much bigger contribution than Smith and all the bowlers combined.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Great to get the so and so ashes back.

 

[Twizzle]

except for Oozie, he dont drink

 

[Sphagnum]

In 50 years he'll be telling his grandkids about how he averaged over 100 in the 17/18 Ashes in Australia.

He just won't mention that it was with the ball

He will be able to tell them the story about how he got the great Steve Smith out in the 80s on his home patch.

I guess thats something

 

[JJ]

Consistently excellent series from the Aussies - all 4 bowlers were wonderful, and Smith's playing a different game to everyone else... then the Marshes, Warner, Khawaja all contributed, and Paine was decent...

Bancroft and Hanscomb the only bats not to add much and Bird was poor on a crap deck, but along with Renshaw I reckon at least 2 of them will have devent success

Man, you add Bird, Pattinson (if he can stay healthy) plus Renshaw and it's a solid looking unit