To be fair Aussies had most of the things going against them and they still won. England need to play Mark Wood if he's fit.
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I still can’t get over Stokes by the way. I called him Brearley in a bucket hat yesterday. Where does he find this drive within himself in these moments? There’s nothing I’d seen in his batting this series that even hinted at what he did, even last night he was struggling with short balls.
They have team honours by winning the test championship and have only lost 2 out of 19 test matches. They are the best at the moment,.
England have played a bit too soft all series. All the fundamentals have been lacking, just between fielding and grounding their bats they would have found enough to have won these 2 tests.
They wouldn't have removed the bails in the first place.
What do you expect from a team that sandpapers the ball though.
Nice response, Pat
Pat is rattled.
So, the politicians answer then!
This is the rattled Ashes. Everyone’s heads are on Mars.
From here on in this is absolutely true.
Didn't the Aussies make a big fuss about resetting values and so on a couple of years ago? What a joke
Aussie cheats aside, such a shame England couldn't do it. 1-1 with a tight win apiece would've been great. As we are, Australia could be completely useless from here and there'd be a good chance of the weather getting them over the line.
I agree overall it’s a bit ridiculous as Australia would have won the game anyway. Now you’ve just riled everyone up.
Did they though? They lost Lyon, but England were without Leach, Wood, Archer, Stone and Ali from the off and Pope was injured during the game and forced to field. They're the better team, obviously, but injuries are just part of the game and they're hardly some plucky underdog. They also got Root out with a very dubious catch which could have been crucial.
They have the most talent, but I'm not sure they necessarily deserved to win after some of their gamesmanship. England still deserved to lose after some of their batting though and it's fine to admit both of those things can be true.
England haven't been too far off in both of these tests and nearly won both of them. They need to use the motivation from this test and learn from their mistakes and ensure they take advantage when they are on top.
No Foakes or Ahmed in the squad for the 3rd test.
Just going through the scorecards, England gave away 74 extras, Australia 39.
Makes sense.
I know England like to stick with their core but for as much heat as he’s getting right now, Carey’s keeping vs Bairstow’s keeping is a pretty decisive reason as to why Australia are 2-0 up.
Not sure I buy that. I'd have gone with Foakes from the first test myself but no issue with keeping it as it is for now. Bairstow at his home ground and he has a score coming.
Why is it always against England? God damn these lower quality countries always trying to cheat us
This is quite a reach.
It's not barely. There is absolutely no comparison.
Christ. We’re scraping the bottom of the barrel here. His ran out of crease playing a shot
Someone's got to make a false equivalency to make them look smart I suppose.
Very mean people defending cheating. To be expected, I guess, but still disappointing.
Just find it hypocritical that a guy who is also a cheat is calling others out for cheating. Weird, that.
That is nothing like what happened with Bairstow.
Do any players walk when they hit the ball?
He's full of shit... Saying it's a "fair dismal" and "good play"... Knowing full well he'd be raging if it was the other way around.
If we're being uncharitable, which it certainly seems we are, they also claimed two grounded catches in this game.
Looking around it does some like a lot of younger people think that it's fine because it's in the rules, so it's clever play.
Kinda sad in a way.
Kinda sad in a way.
Crazy that De Grandhomme run out is being used to put down England. That is nothing like what happened today
Hes injured
Just a bit of a nightmare if we wanna play this way. We all have to double check for dead ball constantly. Batsmen can never pass the ball to a fielder when it drops at their feet.