5TH ASHES TEST: England v Australia at The Oval Aug 21-25, 2013

[JJ]

It's a terrible advertisement for test cricket, but would we do anything different? I doubt it.

exactly, wicket is crap, no chance of a result, poor weather forecast, so many/most teams would bat time

 

[TheParraboy]

that's rubbish - seldom did it under Waugh, and that's when you were vulnerable - Flem's team nearly beat you because of the pig-headed aggressiveness and we had some luck with the weather - and then you had McGrath bowling 3 feet wide of off stump, hardly aggressive :sarcasm:, but certainly under Border, and previously, many occasions when you and everyone batted for draws... part of test cricket, always has been - win if you can, draw is the next option

we talking about dead rubbers?

We have lost many a test going for a win cause we had the series in the bag.

in a live series then you understand you do what you need to do to survive (not lose the test) but dead rubbers when you are clearly the better side to be a bunch of negative twats...please

 

[IanG]

Wasn't it at The Oval where a certain Bill Lawry played a rather slow innings that resulted in himbeing nicknamed "The Corps With Pads On"

 

[TheParraboy]

 

[IanG]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9_a2SpQDKA

 

[TheParraboy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9_a2SpQDKA

just for you IanG, enjoy


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMDt-lM2ulI

 

[IanG]

Very funny

Just finished watching Goodfellas

Doesn't looke like there'll be any play any time soon

 

[Xfactor1979]

doesnt look like we'll be watching any play in our waking hours tonight

 

[TheParraboy]

yup looks like no play today due to the rain, similar entertainment to the poms batting I guess

 

[JJ]

we talking about dead rubbers?

We have lost many a test going for a win cause we had the series in the bag.

in a live series then you understand you do what you need to do to survive (not lose the test) but dead rubbers when you are clearly the better side to be a bunch of negative twats...please

nobody said anything about dead tests, the inference pretty clearly was that Aust have bever played like this, and it's an English, or at least non-Australian thing to do... kind of like whinging, althought pretty obvious the Aussies have plenry of whinging in their repertoire too - I like Lehmann, but seriously not walking is now cheating... no doubt people will say that was obvious, and Australians always walk when it's obvious :crazy:

Your team's pretty ordinary, therefore the English at 3-0 up can do whatever the f**k they want

:lol: at Faulkner bagging the Poms

what exactly could England have gained by being aggressive? The forecast was obvious, the wicket obviously one that in the absence of recklessness or incompetence wasn't going to assist in a result (Watson and Smith scoring test centuries should be exhibit #1 here)

 

[TheParraboy]

Gotta laugh at the aussie hate...

If we were up 3-0 and played like the poms are now most, if not all of us would be crucifying the aussie team for playing like total f**cking idiots! (like we do when our middle order crumble) But oh no lets leave the boring pathetic poms alone cause they are real afraid our ordinary bats will win this test, :lol:

Its a dead rubber ffs, its their first innings ffs. They supposedly have a far superior batting lineup. All they are doing is ruining test cricket.

F**K YOU MERKINS, LETS BEND EM OVER DOWN UNDER

nobody said anything about dead tests, the inference pretty clearly was that Aust have bever played like this, and it's an English, or at least non-Australian thing to do... kind of like whinging, althought pretty obvious the Aussies have plenry of whinging in their repertoire too - I like Lehmann, but seriously not walking is now cheating... no doubt people will say that was obvious, and Australians always walk when it's obvious :crazy:

Your team's pretty ordinary, therefore the English at 3-0 up can do whatever the f**k they want

:lol: at Faulkner bagging the Poms

what exactly could England have gained by being aggressive? The forecast was obvious, the wicket obviously one that in the absence of recklessness or incompetence wasn't going to assist in a result (Watson and Smith scoring test centuries should be exhibit #1 here)

I made it clear.

I understand you were replying to twizzle, but then don't start the post with "nobody said anything about dead tests" .

Experience and practice if they ever have the need to chase down a large total when they are behind in a series or need to score to get to a large total at a quicker rate would have been a good idea

Playing an ordinary side, back themselves to grind Australia into the ground so we are further clueless on what we need to do in the return series would have been a good motivator

Considering the wicket, our average players getting tons, the most likely result is they get to our total with a minimum of fuss at a similar or even better R/R

Lastly Poms needed to do their little bit to make test cricket a bit more exciting (dead rubbers games) t20 sh*ts all over what the poms dished up the other day - pitifull (again reference to it being a dead rubber on a batting belter of a deck against an ordinary side)

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Mitch Starkers had a whinge about England not playing with intent this match. Starkers, take some wickets and win some tests and then come back and criticize a team that has snapped you for the third series in a row.

 

[Xfactor1979]

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/cric...gland-batsmen-for-go-slow-20130825-2sj88.html

^ James Faulkner labels England team boring

Unfortunately there's nothing to get excited about James Faulkner's game

 

[Twizzle]

that's rubbish - seldom did it under Waugh, and that's when you were vulnerable - Flem's team nearly beat you because of the pig-headed aggressiveness and we had some luck with the weather - and then you had McGrath bowling 3 feet wide of off stump, hardly aggressive :sarcasm:, but certainly under Border, and previously, many occasions when you and everyone batted for draws... part of test cricket, always has been - win if you can, draw is the next option

so you can name a few events in history, big deal

doesn't make it the norm

sometimes aggression has brought us undone but generally we just dont get into this boring crap that the poms dished out the other day

 

[Twizzle]

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/cric...gland-batsmen-for-go-slow-20130825-2sj88.html

^ James Faulkner labels England team boring

Unfortunately there's nothing to get excited about James Faulkner's game

saw the interview and he seemed to be pretty much baiting them, or as the cliché goes he was probably challenging them

you only had to watch him bat to see that, got his runs a decent rate

 

[Tommy Smith]

Lol who is James Faulkner?

What a f**king numpty.

Average bowler and average batsman. He's an Aussie version of Adam Hollioake at best.

And yet after 1 test match he wants to come out and criticise England? Look at the scoreboard you clown. 3 nil. And you're winless in 9 tests so perhaps you should focus on your own team.

I was happy with the way England batted. It's a TEST match and after Australia's 492 we couldn't win so the application for the draw was excellent.

Deary me another young egotistical Aussie cricketer with no record to back up his words. Poor kid probably thinks he's the next Keith Miller.

 

[IanG]

Well we has gone further than his old man did

 

[IanG]

 

[Xfactor1979]

got his runs a decent rate

And what a 23 that was! :lol:

the next Keith Miller.

He'd be lucky to be the next Glenn Maxwell :lol:

Anyway not hanging around for the fifth day of this tame draw tonight, its pretty obvious who the player of the series was: Glenn Maxwell for fielding for his 10 minute stint fielding as 12th on the fifth day!

Nah, Ian Bell, who's better than him and has been too good for Australia this series

 

[Twizzle]

watch the interview, its was pretty much tongue in cheek stuff, he was virtually laughing all the way through it

but carry on


its also his first ever test match, what do you want him to do, break records in his first game ?