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Watched it this afternoon condensed by ffwding between balls. Got a bit worried in that 10 to 15 over period when England were batting and the run rate crept up from run a ball to 1.5 per ball but that injury to afridi sort of condemned Pakistan. Amazing performance considering how they started the tournament.

England were just consistent throughout with both bat and ball and squeezed the batters in the first 10 overs when bowling.

Hopefully the upcoming tests will be as entertaining as this summer has been.
 
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The injury to Afridi definitely played a part but based on the entire tournament very worthy winners in the end. Fitting final overall given the various scenarios that could have been.
 
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Moeen Ali complaining about the ODI series being "horrible". https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/63623703
Apart from his poor choice of words he has a point, as an Englishman living in Melbourne I am cricketed out. I'd probably not be as fatigued but the Ashes really wore me out. Out of this 3 game series only one is on a weekend. Ours here is a Tuesday and ticket prices are daft. Cheapest ticket for the WC final was $300 but I couldn't be bothered going to that either. MCG is 3 stops on the train.
 
Vandle said:
Moeen Ali complaining about the ODI series being "horrible". https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/63623703
Apart from his poor choice of words he has a point, as an Englishman living in Melbourne I am cricketed out. I'd probably not be as fatigued but the Ashes really wore me out. Out of this 3 game series only one is on a weekend. Ours here is a Tuesday and ticket prices are daft. Cheapest ticket for the WC final was $300 but I couldn't be bothered going to that either. MCG is 3 stops on the train.
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and England are playing Pakistan right after.
 
Nice scoreboard to wake up to. Both openers scoring blazing centuries. I hope Crawley can get another 200+.

Also great to see Steve Smith hitting some form again for Australia, I hope we can have an ashes where Root and Smith are both at the peak of their careers at the same time.

Edit: lol heard the death rattle as I was typing this.
 
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Was pleasantly surprised to see the score when I checked this morning! When have you ever seen a first innings rattling along at 6+ an over!
 
Given how good we are at limited overs cricket it shouldn't be a surprise that they've decided the best way to win tests is to pretend they're ODI's. This is mental though :p
 
England just broke the record for most runs in day 1 of a test match. Record for most runs on any day is 588, if we played the full 90 overs that record would have been shattered too.

Get to 750, declare, give ourselves 10 sessions to get 20 wickets.
 
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It's mental to think that it's not that long ago that a score of 250 in an ODI was considered quite good and now England are going at over 6 runs an over in a test match.
 
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It's mental to think that it's not that long ago that a score of 250 in an ODI was considered quite good and now England are going at over 6 runs an over in a test match.
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Even just being aggressive as an opener. I remember Mal Loye playing for England around 06/07, and everyone found it amazing he slog swept seamers for 6 in the first overs. Nowadays it’s the norm. Cricket has really changed.
 
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SoliD said:
Was pleasantly surprised to see the score when I checked this morning! When have you ever seen a first innings rattling along at 6+ an over!
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Got up this morning wondering if the game was even taking place, put TV on and it said 140-0 or thereabouts about 90mins after the scheduled start time and I half-assumed it must have been delayed/called off and they were showing highlights of a previous test, because we wouldn't be at 140 long before it was even Lunch time.
 
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Mason- said:
Even just being aggressive as an opener. I remember Mal Loye playing for England around 06/07, and everyone found it amazing he slog swept seamers for 6 in the first overs. Nowadays it’s the norm. Cricket has really changed.
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I'll admit to not watching a huge amount of cricket these days but whilst I saw the progress from 5-6 runs an over to 7-8 runs per over in ODI's, I can't say I noticed a big change in the way teams have batted in tests. The way England have batted under McCullum just seems a huge leap from the norm. The couple of run chases in the summer were something else but today was just bonkers - over 500 runs at a shade under 7 runs per over! I remember when anything over 3 runs an over was considered quick.
 
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