The England Cricket Thread

Sankari · 8 Sep 2019 at 18:16

Hooray.

Participant · 8 Sep 2019 at 18:17

Well done Oz. Clearly the better team but some good fights along the way.

Cob · 8 Sep 2019 at 18:17

Sigh

They've deserved it. Our main-men haven't turned up.

Pigeon_Killer · 8 Sep 2019 at 18:18

Time for mass changes in the final test, starting with a new captain.

Congratulations Australia.

robfosters · 8 Sep 2019 at 18:21

Well done to the one man team

Yes I’m bitter

Monkeymatt · 8 Sep 2019 at 18:22

Well done Australia. Smith and Labuschange been very good with the bat and then some very good bowling. For years they've been slowly building this fast bowling crop, finally they've got them all 5 fit at the same time and it's been too much for us.

I wouldn't be so eager to completely dismantle this England team having seen some serious fight these past few games.

Kelt · 8 Sep 2019 at 18:24

Sankari · 8 Sep 2019 at 18:27

robfosters said:
Well done to the one man team

Yes I’m bitter

Australia: 'It's OK, we've got Smith!

England: 'It's OK, we've got Archer!'

*Archer drops Smith on 70*

Smith:

Participant · 8 Sep 2019 at 18:27

Monkeymatt said:
I wouldn't be so eager to completely dismantle this England team

Echo that.

CGrieves · 8 Sep 2019 at 19:06

Ah well, I can just to back to watching this repeatedly

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/cricket/49620456

omnomnom · 8 Sep 2019 at 20:05

Monkeymatt said:
Well done Australia. Smith and Labuschange been very good with the bat and then some very good bowling. For years they've been slowly building this fast bowling crop, finally they've got them all 5 fit at the same time and it's been too much for us.

I wouldn't be so eager to completely dismantle this England team having seen some serious fight these past few games.

From the tail enders and Stokes yes...from the rest? Absolute tripe.

Skynet5 · 8 Sep 2019 at 20:32

5 amazing bowlers and the world's best batsman that can play anywhere.

Australia deserved to win.

England need to make some changes, but nothing too dramatic. There was nothing we could have done to win this series with Australia as they are. Perhaps woakes might have helped. Couple of top orders that could be replaced maybe...

Monkeymatt · 8 Sep 2019 at 21:22

omnomnom said:
From the tail enders and Stokes yes...from the rest? Absolute tripe.

So we're going to forget Root's 77 and Denly's 50 in the previous game that gave Stokes atleast something to work with? As well as Burn's 81 and Root's 71 in the first innings of this test to put us up to a reasonable total? As well as another fifty from Denly in the 2nd to try and bat out a draw?

Despite Australia having a fantastic bowling attack, 4 of the top 6 run scorers in the series are English and 3 of the top 6 wicket takers are also English. England were not awful, they just didn't have a Steve Smith. Lets not be so quick to get rid of every one of our players just because they are unable to average 134 against some seriously good bowlers!

There is also plenty of ifs, buts and maybes. For example if both Archer and Anderson had been fully fit for the entire series and we had a bowling attack of Anderson, Broad and Archer for all of the first four tests, would we have won the series? Maybe.

The only changes I'd make would be bringing dropping Roy to bring in a new opener(Sibley?), putting Denly down to 3 and sticking Root back at 4. And maybe dropping Bairstow for Foakes.

Cob · 9 Sep 2019 at 12:10

Squad unchanged for the 5th test.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Feek · 9 Sep 2019 at 12:37

One of the highlights of the last match for me was the crowd cheering every single ball that was thrown to Lyon.

adidan · 9 Sep 2019 at 12:42

So all we can salvage is to be able to say Aus didn't win the Ashes, they just retain them.

Yeah they're going back to Aus but it's important for my discussions with my Aussie best mate that we at least draw

Sankari · 10 Sep 2019 at 10:52

adidan said:
So all we can salvage is to be able to say Aus didn't win the Ashes, they just retain them.

Yeah they're going back to Aus but it's important for my discussions with my Aussie best mate that we at least draw

Still one more Test to play.

Cob · 11 Sep 2019 at 20:06

Forecast is awesome for the whole test. Hot and sunny.

Cob · 12 Sep 2019 at 10:47

Aussies win the toss and put England in.

Curran and Woakes in for Roy and Overton. Stokes can't bowl, so seems like a sensible couple of swaps.

Cob · 12 Sep 2019 at 10:51

Siddle and Marsh in for Starc and Head.

Warner keeps his place. **** me.