Ashes-2023 England VS Australia 16 June-31 July

[T.J.Hooker II]

If the Ashes are drawn they should award them to another team at random, complete with ceremony and open top bus tour.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

 

[Paranoid Kendroid]

me on the day Michael Neser becomes a test regular:

(I will never be this much happy in my life)

 

[wasteyouryouth]

me on the day Michael Neser becomes a test regular:

more like this

 

[Aislabie]

The "retaining the Ashes" thing is a bit of a stupid concept in itself. If a team wins the Ashes and then the other team gets to their level and ties every series for 12 years, it'll go down as one team holding the Ashes for 12 years. It's just letting teams rest on their laurels.

This is such a weird take and I've been seeing it all over the place.

If you want a perpetual title you have to win it off the holders. It's true in all sports that have them.

 

[Bevab]

me on the day Michael Neser becomes a test regular:

(I will never be this much happy in my life)

I’ll never understand how Australia hit upon a strategy in the 2019 series of bowler rotation that served them so well and then they decided to ditch it in a home series against India and are now doing the exact same thing. It’s utterly mind boggling.

 

[Aislabie]

I’ll never understand how Australia hit upon a strategy in the 2019 series of bowler rotation that served them so well and then they decided to ditch it in a home series against India and are now doing the exact same thing. It’s utterly mind boggling.

So using blessed hindsight, something like:

1st Test - Cummins , Hazlewood, Boland, Lyon, Green
Rested - Starc, Neser, Murphy, Marsh

2nd Test - Cummins , Starc, Neser, Lyon, Green
Rested - Hazlewood, Boland, Murphy, Marsh

3rd Test - Hazlewood, Starc, Boland, Murphy, Marsh
Rested - Cummins, Neser
Injured - Lyon, Green

4th Test - Cummins , Hazlewood, Neser, Murphy, Marsh
Rested - Starc, Boland, Green
Injured - Lyon

5th Test - Cummins , Starc, Boland, Murphy, Green
Rested - Hazlewood, Neser, Marsh
Injured - Lyon

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Sloppy from England this afternoon

 

[DuneTiger]

That Harry Brook has immense talent, but jeez he needs to get some cricket brains...

 

[T.J.Hooker II]

If he's going to drive on the up at everything he's going to nick off when it does a bit. If he keeps getting past 50 before he nicks it's kind of working ok, though.

He's so good at knocking the ball around for singles though. I don't see any harm in concentrating on that at a point in the innings where they can't really afford another wicket.

 

[DuneTiger]

If he's going to drive on the up at everything he's going to nick off when it does a bit. If he keeps getting past 50 before he nicks it's kind of working ok, though.

He's so good at knocking the ball around for singles though. I don't see any harm in concentrating on that at a point in the innings where they can't really afford another wicket.

Exactly, and he already had a boundary for the over, could've easily made a few tons this series if he played smarter. That was a big hundred thrown away in my opinion.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Wood and Woakes have played the best two shots so far

 

[T.J.Hooker II]

Also - I rate Woakes with the bat. He's good enough to bat top order FC easily.

 

[pillowprocter]

This is such a weird take and I've been seeing it all over the place.

If you want a perpetual title you have to win it off the holders. It's true in all sports that have them.

Might be, but giving more importance to holding the title rather than winning the series sort of dilutes some of the excitement.

 

[Umair7]

I’ll never understand how Australia hit upon a strategy in the 2019 series of bowler rotation that served them so well and then they decided to ditch it in a home series against India and are now doing the exact same thing. It’s utterly mind boggling.

I never expected Cummins to be rotated in tests (he has missed just one Ashes game since his return & that was because of Covid) & some games in other series due to other reasons but not to get rest but we should have done a better job with Starc & Hazlewood even though they did a good job today.