| England's Ashes squad announced on 14:07 - Aug 5 with 1315 views | sainthelens |
Gutless, fckn gutless. |  | |  |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 14:13 - Aug 5 with 1305 views | theloneranger |
England's much vaunted middle order 😂😂 |  |
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| England's Ashes squad announced on 14:31 - Aug 5 with 1288 views | pikeypaul |
Well done Australia apart from Thursday morning they have totally outplayed us.
There will be 2 or 3 changes for Lord’s |  |
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| England's Ashes squad announced on 14:38 - Aug 5 with 1283 views | 34dfgdf54 |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 14:31 - Aug 5 by pikeypaul |
Well done Australia apart from Thursday morning they have totally outplayed us.
There will be 2 or 3 changes for Lord’s |
Still work to do yet... |  | | |
| (No subject) (n/t) on 15:12 - Aug 5 with 1256 views | Jonathans_coat |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 14:13 - Aug 5 by theloneranger |
England's much vaunted middle order 😂😂 |
Both teams batsmen have been largely poor.
Steve Smith the difference between the sides. [Post edited 5 Aug 2019 15:13]
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| England's Ashes squad announced on 15:18 - Aug 5 with 1247 views | 34dfgdf54 |
Brilliant start at what is normally a fortress for England, huge confidence boost aswell considering where they were day 1.
Steve Smith  | | | |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 15:37 - Aug 5 with 1233 views | Banosswan |
Woakes to open! |  |
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| England's Ashes squad announced on 15:47 - Aug 5 with 1216 views | sainthelens |
Pretty much shambolic. | | | |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 17:22 - Aug 5 with 1181 views | exiledclaseboy |
Well that went well. 
My 2-2 prediction is still on. Two evenly matched sides, both with flaws. Lords next. Hmm. |  |
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| England's Ashes squad announced on 18:30 - Aug 5 with 1151 views | union_jack |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 17:22 - Aug 5 by exiledclaseboy |
Well that went well.
My 2-2 prediction is still on. Two evenly matched sides, both with flaws. Lords next. Hmm. |
Evenly matched?
Not on yesterday and today’s showing. England are going to need to grow a pair in the batting especially.
Also, look what Lyon did. Ali certainly couldn’t match that.
Disclaimer: I’ve only seen the wickets on the news. But the score line says it all really. |  |
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| England's Ashes squad announced on 19:38 - Aug 5 with 1126 views | exiledclaseboy |
Ok chaps. We’ll see how the series pans out over five games and if I turn out to be off the mark I’ll be happy to front up on here and say so. | |
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| England's Ashes squad announced on 19:40 - Aug 5 with 1122 views | CountyJim |
What a load of s hite ! We literally gave up on Smith putting everyone on boundary we can't bat to save a match said it before get Boycott to advise he knew how to save a game you basically don't hit the ball unless you got to batsmen these days can't leave a ball they want to smash it |  | | |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 21:45 - Aug 5 with 1094 views | dickythorpe |
Test cricket though lads, "TEST" cricket.
Plenty of options for England.
I think if Glammy get up to Div 1 , Salter will be looked at. |  | | |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 21:54 - Aug 5 with 1084 views | bluey_the_blue |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 21:45 - Aug 5 by dickythorpe |
Test cricket though lads, "TEST" cricket.
Plenty of options for England.
I think if Glammy get up to Div 1 , Salter will be looked at. |
"Test cricket though lads, "TEST" cricket.
Plenty of options for England.
I think if he moves to whichever county in England is favoured at the moment , Salter will be looked at."
Fixed your post. |  | | |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 12:26 - Aug 6 with 1014 views | squarebear |
The two things I find disappointing :
1. Calf injuries. I goosed my calf muscles just under two years ago. I've had many many physio sessions, I use a roller on them, I bought an ultrasound. They get better but when I push it (eg. Try and do a 5K in sub-25 mins) I inevitably reinjure them. So when Anderson suffered his injury in that Lancashire game I was convinced, despite the best efforts of his medical team, he'd not be ready for this series. He must've known he wasn't 100%.
2. Joe Root's captaincy. Ok, he's young, and he should get better, but is there no one in the England set-up who challenges his decisions, his strategies, his field settings? They have enough bleedin' breaks. Why aren't there a band of experienced cricket experts offering him words of advice?
Christ, it's all so easy from where I'm watching ;) | | | |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 12:28 - Aug 6 with 1009 views | WarwickHunt |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 18:31 - Aug 5 by bluey_the_blue |
Evenly matched?
From 90 run lead to 250 run loss would indicate otherwise.
England have too many bish bash bosh players lacking the desire or technical ability to do what Smith did. Best bowler Anderson? Old and injured. New pace bowler hope is someone brought into England setup for white ball cricket. Spin? Yay, Denly and Ali. That'll literally scare nobody whatsoever. A captain who resisted playing no 3 because he wanted to play no 4 for how long? Yay, ignore the glaring problem position, doesn't want to be exposed early to new ball - except even at 4, he still would be.
England changed mentality to win at 50 overs. They changed what they were looking for in the players. They need to do the same at Test level. They need batsmen able to craft and construct innings.
The side right now looks like a hybrid.
Lump on Aussies to win the series, christ, they didn't even pick Starc! [Post edited 5 Aug 2019 19:41]
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Or Hazlewood, or Labuschagne... |  | | |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 17:15 - Aug 6 with 972 views | dickythorpe |
Poor Joe Denly is not really meant to be in a Test team is he? Great county player but amazed he was selected over some of the youngsters. | | | |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 17:48 - Aug 6 with 964 views | jackharris |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 17:22 - Aug 5 by exiledclaseboy |
Well that went well.
My 2-2 prediction is still on. Two evenly matched sides, both with flaws. Lords next. Hmm. |
I agree, two very evenly matched teams. Losing Anderson was a massive factor in what happened in the first Test. I am predicting a 3-2 series win for England. England winning at Old Trafford, Headingly and The Oval. So possibly 2-0 down after Lords, but then an amazing come-back. |  |
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| England's Ashes squad announced on 02:11 - Aug 7 with 924 views | Joe_bradshaw |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 10:59 - Aug 1 by Joe_bradshaw |
Two teams better at bowling than batting. The team whose batsmen show grit, determination and a battling mentality will win the ashes.
That’s likely to be Australia. |
I refer all you honourable gentlemen to the answer I gave before the first test.
Nothing I can see has changed... |  |
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| England's Ashes squad announced on 13:20 - Aug 10 with 812 views | theloneranger |
England X11 for 2nd Test @ Lords ... Moeen Ali dropped, Leach in and Anderson out injured.
Joe Root (capt), Jofra Archer, Jonny Bairstow, Stuart Broad, Rory Burns, Jos Buttler, Sam Curran, Joe Denly, Jack Leach, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes [Post edited 10 Aug 2019 13:45]
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| England's Ashes squad announced on 13:24 - Aug 10 with 811 views | WarwickHunt |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 13:20 - Aug 10 by theloneranger |
England X11 for 2nd Test @ Lords ... Moeen Ali dropped, Leach in and Anderson out injured.
Joe Root (capt), Jofra Archer, Jonny Bairstow, Stuart Broad, Rory Burns, Jos Buttler, Sam Curran, Joe Denly, Jack Leach, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes [Post edited 10 Aug 2019 13:45]
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Moeen's probably relieved.
Foakes and Ollie Pope must have been in with a shout.
Woakes, Stokes and Foakes would have been fun. | | | |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 10:39 - Aug 15 with 735 views | theloneranger |
Day 2
"Australia win the toss and bowl. Tim Paine says the shortened game and the pitch being covered yesterday were factored into his decision.
Joe Root says he would probably have bowled as well. So interesting from both captains. "We need a big first innings total now," Root says. He confirms that Sam Curran misses out"
England 1 Rory Burns, 2 Jason Roy, 3 Joe Root (capt), 4 Joe Denly, 5 Jos Buttler, 6 Ben Stokes, 7 Jonny Bairstow (wk), 8 Chris Woakes, 9 Jofra Archer, 10 Stuart Broad, 11 Jack Leach
Australia 1 David Warner, 2 Cameron Bancroft, 3 Usman Khawaja, 4 Steven Smith, 5 Travis Head, 6 Matthew Wade, 7 Tim Paine (capt & wk), 8 Pat Cummins, 9 Peter Siddle, 10 Josh Hazlewood, 11 Nathan Lyon [Post edited 15 Aug 2019 10:41]
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| England's Ashes squad announced on 10:57 - Aug 15 with 722 views | union_jack |
| England's Ashes squad announced on 10:39 - Aug 15 by theloneranger |
Day 2
"Australia win the toss and bowl. Tim Paine says the shortened game and the pitch being covered yesterday were factored into his decision.
Joe Root says he would probably have bowled as well. So interesting from both captains. "We need a big first innings total now," Root says. He confirms that Sam Curran misses out"
England 1 Rory Burns, 2 Jason Roy, 3 Joe Root (capt), 4 Joe Denly, 5 Jos Buttler, 6 Ben Stokes, 7 Jonny Bairstow (wk), 8 Chris Woakes, 9 Jofra Archer, 10 Stuart Broad, 11 Jack Leach
Australia 1 David Warner, 2 Cameron Bancroft, 3 Usman Khawaja, 4 Steven Smith, 5 Travis Head, 6 Matthew Wade, 7 Tim Paine (capt & wk), 8 Pat Cummins, 9 Peter Siddle, 10 Josh Hazlewood, 11 Nathan Lyon [Post edited 15 Aug 2019 10:41]
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All the players wearing red caps for the Ruth Strauss Foundation. Absolutely wonderful!👠| |
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