The Ashes 2021/22

[wasteyouryouth]

Lyon getting the Leach treatment.

 

[ddrap14]

Good fightback. I am enjoying this. Not to jinx them though!

oh

 

[ddrap14]

Never want to see this. A great innings too. Feel sorry for YJB

Edit: is he really playing through this? What a warrior. Standing ovation from the SCG, and deservedly so

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Buttler popping one up to covers. Shock horror.

Nice to see we are making a good start on the duck record this year.

 

[ddrap14]

The best batsmen this year are (checks notes) Usman Khawaja, Dean Elgar and Jonny Bairstow???

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

Is this the game for the non-performers?

 

[ddrap14]

I simply have to give Jonny Bairstow that. Incredible knock in the face of such adversity, and it clearly means so much to him.

But could he have waited two more balls and written his name into Ashes folklore like someone else did 20 years ago?

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Spoiler: All the haters watch

 

[harishankar]

Well deserved century for Bairstow.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Bairstow guarantees himself another 80 tests.

 

[Ed Smith]

Never doubted him you know...

 

[blockerdave]

When I woke up this morning and us 240-odd for 6, I absolutely did not expect all the runs to be from Stokes, Bairstow and Wood!!

 

[Ed Smith]

When I woke up this morning and us 240-odd for 6, I absolutely did not expect all the runs to be from Stokes, Bairstow and Wood!!

See that's almost exactly what I would expect at this point

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

Joe Root had the worst game when YJB had his best one in this series.

Maybe Root & Bairstow exchanged their souls.

 

[GuyIncognito]

Why Broad and Bairstow haven't played every game is beyond me.