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Can't get this to go the right way up, but me and Sir Garfield outside the Bridgetown Oval recently.
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Made a good start but delayed by the rain. A draw not the end of the world, but would be great to take the advantage.
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Thanks Marky.
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Serious slow defensive play needed tomorrow. Even if they get to the end of the day getting 100 but not losing wickets, it's a plus. Smith was fabulous today, love him or hate him. Think the better side may take this game/series.
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Has one player ever been that much better than anyone else on the field than Smith in this series?
He is on another level to everyone else. Yes England only won the test when he was out with concussion but he he is also the only reason Australia won the first test.
He is on another level to everyone else. Yes England only won the test when he was out with concussion but he he is also the only reason Australia won the first test.
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Wouldn't it be nice to have some stereotypical Mancunian weather for the next 3 days.
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Nah he's been number one for me, great great cricketer. Shown the English how batting should be done. Yes the last spell of the last test was excellent but let's not forgot the shoddy batting before, not up to test standard.101Walterton wrote: ↑05 Sep 2019, 5:05pmHas one player ever been that much better than anyone else on the field than Smith in this series?
He is on another level to everyone else. Yes England only won the test when he was out with concussion but he he is also the only reason Australia won the first test.
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It was inevitable. Even if we had scraped a draw and won the last test, it wouldn't have felt deserved. A mixture of the Aussies having too much class and England players treating each game as a one date. The batting over the 4 games has mostly been atrocious. Bowling a little more positive however, great to see Archer working well in the attack and Broad showing why he's still very much worthy of a place in the team.
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I don’t think the Aussies had too much class they just had Smith. Take him out of the equation and they would have lost the series.no coincidence they lost the game he didn’t play.BitterTom wrote: ↑09 Sep 2019, 1:06pmIt was inevitable. Even if we had scraped a draw and won the last test, it wouldn't have felt deserved. A mixture of the Aussies having too much class and England players treating each game as a one date. The batting over the 4 games has mostly been atrocious. Bowling a little more positive however, great to see Archer working well in the attack and Broad showing why he's still very much worthy of a place in the team.
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Nah worded it wrong in my tiredness. Would have been interesting to see how it would have panned out if Smith didn't play but to be fair their bowling wasn't too bad.101Walterton wrote: ↑09 Sep 2019, 5:39pmI don’t think the Aussies had too much class they just had Smith. Take him out of the equation and they would have lost the series.no coincidence they lost the game he didn’t play.BitterTom wrote: ↑09 Sep 2019, 1:06pmIt was inevitable. Even if we had scraped a draw and won the last test, it wouldn't have felt deserved. A mixture of the Aussies having too much class and England players treating each game as a one date. The batting over the 4 games has mostly been atrocious. Bowling a little more positive however, great to see Archer working well in the attack and Broad showing why he's still very much worthy of a place in the team.
Or was it just our poor batting?
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It is no coincidence the one game (he plays in) that we get Smith out in one innings before he gets going we win.
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England squad for two Tests in New Zealand:Joe Root (Yorkshire) captain, Jofra Archer (Sussex), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Rory Burns (Surrey), Jos Buttler (Lancashire), Zak Crawley (Kent), Sam Curran (Surrey), Joe Denly (Kent), Jack Leach (Somerset), Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire), Matthew Parkinson (Lancashire), Ollie Pope (Surrey), Dominic Sibley (Warwickshire), Ben Stokes (Durham), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire).
No Bairstow and think that's a good call to be honest. May do him some good, and keep him fresh for the one days. Happy to see new faces as well, and a welcome return of Ollie Pope, would have loved to see him in the Ashes. Foakes deserved a spot as well, would have made sense in my eyes to swap him with Bairstow.
No Bairstow and think that's a good call to be honest. May do him some good, and keep him fresh for the one days. Happy to see new faces as well, and a welcome return of Ollie Pope, would have loved to see him in the Ashes. Foakes deserved a spot as well, would have made sense in my eyes to swap him with Bairstow.
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Bumping this as I can't get this piece of perfection out of my head.
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