The Ashes Thread.

[buriramboy]

Root should stand down as captain and concentrate on his batting and catching.

[Jack meoff]

Or another career.

[NamPikToot]

or thats it

[Saint Willy]

End of Day 2

6/171 the led is now 283

[David48atTD]

THE ASHES ...

Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
You know the nearer to Day 4
The more you're slip slidin' away

I know a man named Smith
He came from my home town
He wore his passion for cricket
Like a thorny crown

He said about Archer
I'll never live in fear
England's chances of regaining the Ashes
He said that will disappear

Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away
You know the next time England has to bat
The more the Ashes are slip slidin' away

[Headworx]

67 is a pretty good score.

Oh wait, this isn't the Golf thread

[baldrick]

sixty fcukin seven

[Jordon]

Woakes & Stokes have been crap... The Convicts are now bossing the game. Archer needs 3 or 4 wickets today to get us back ontop or the series is gone...

The convicts got bowled out for 67.

[Jordon]

I don't think the batting line ups are weak per se, they just struggle in the test arena which is a tougher examination of technique and patience.

Great theory. Woeful not just weak.

[Jordon]

For the series, an English (& Wales) win would be great. If the Convicts turn this around then the series is over and will ramp down a bit in interest.

Aussies 4 nil
English convicts cant bat

[kmart]

^Yep. I think a cobbled-together, half-pissed TD 'team' (1st eleven) couldn't have done much worse, tbh.

I would imagine the England dressing room is divided along the bowlers v "batsmen" right now. The bowlers certainly looked tired and well pissed-off having to resume yesterday evening..

[panama hat]

sixty fcukin seven

A thing of beauty . . . but not going to gloat yet as Aus seems to screw everything up these last few years - netball, Bledisloe, cricket etc...

[Saint Willy]

True dat, and there's 2 more tests after this one too...

[harrybarracuda]

True dat, and there's 2 more tests after this one too...

But if the convicts cruise home as expected, they are dead rubbers.

At least a chance for England to blood some new players I suppose, because the current bunch seriously don't cut it.

[Saint Willy]

It aint won yet...

[Bettyboo]

Yeah, our terrible display yesterday, and good play by the Convicts, has pretty much ruined the series.

Why the fuk have the selectors stuck with Roy at the top of the order instead of Bairstow? Obviously, the whole team was in one-day mode, and our one-day success has changed the mindset in a way that is not conducive to test match batting. F'ki'n terrible. We, as I've said since the start of the series, are in dire need of 3 batsmen.

The pitch/conditions yesterday were fine, we were just massively outplayed.

When's the rain coming???

[Jordon]

4 nil will be great to watch. English convicts back in their place at the bottom of world cricket like they were for 16 years

[Saint Willy]

You can have the fairy pants ODI World Cup title , we'll have the real cricket trophy.

[klong toey]

What a bunch of Bankers ,most of the English batsman i hesitate to use the word batsman in their case would not make a Sunday seconds team on their recent form.
But in that time old English tradition lets keep picking them because one day they will make 10 runs against Thailand.

[Jordon]

The kiwi needs to bat 3 for the poms. He has a good technique at least. Dud Root 4. Bluey to open. Won't fix all their problems but better than current order.

Smith 3 for Aussies, Lasagne at 4, Usman to open.

4 nil.

Poms back to beer Changs and wife beaters

[NamPikToot]

There's more than the Ashes on this too - the points count toward the cricket test world cup - so Eng are fuking up twice

[Saint Willy]

There's more than the Ashes on this too - the points count toward the cricket test world cup - so Eng are fuking up twice

There is no Word Test Cup for cricket.

[panama hat]

and our one-day success has changed the mindset in a way that is not conducive to test match batting

I thought the limited 50 was an abomination . . . because it did change test cricket, but games have to evolve . . . but I simply can't get used to the 20-slugfest . . .

[David48atTD]

^^ Mate, from the other cricketing thread ...

the new ICC World Test Cup

turn the volume down

[Saint Willy]

Champions League, not World Cup. And it was been canceled twice already, so dont hold you breathe.