England needed that!
@No-Quarter Was pretty naive of England not to come out and try to just play Starc out. Without Hazelwood and Cummins they were vulnerable behind him. Give him his first five overs, take some shine off the ball and attack the others.
However, their bowlers are bowling well enough to get them back in the game.
You just wonder whether the extra work they'll have to put in might cost them when you get to the fifth test.
31/4 - maybe they won't have to work so hard!!! 
@nzzp said in Ashes 2025/6:
Frankly, I'd prefer to watch a T20 series eh
It’s a nice change seeing the batters under the pump through quality bowling, rather than being under the pump because they keep slogging themselves out.
Starting to think extending myself to fourth and fifth day tickets at the Gabba may not have been a wise idea.
Khawaja is living a charmed life, surely there must be someone under the age of 35 somewhere in Sheffield Shield who could do no worse.
@Donsteppa Pretty thin record over the past couple of years. Not much beyond the double hundred vs SL.
Australia have only batted an over less, but have half the runs. They still have 4 wickets in hand but massive pressure on Carey now. Mitchell Starc will be pissed though. Is this his moment for a maiden test ton?
I'm back. Go England.
How many times have Australia cheated or moaned like buggery about something they would have done no question in the reverse circumstance?
:beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:
@Cyclops said in Ashes 2025/6:
Australia have only batted an over less, but have half the runs. They still have 4 wickets in hand but massive pressure on Carey now. Mitchell Starc will be pissed though. Is this his moment for a maiden test ton?
Bugger, fell just 88 runs short
So 121 for 7 ...
Every time I come back there's another wicket.
Where are these teams ranked in Test Cricket?
And why are we really worried about how ...
... oh 8 down ...
...two awful team go against each other who play each other every second week?
@Dodge said in Ashes 2025/6:
Jesus, still 17 overs to go in the day, England could be all out twice!
Great post ...
9!
@mariner4life said in Ashes 2025/6:
At this rate Australia will bat for more than an hour today.
Maybe even more two hours? Not much more, though!
@booboo said in Ashes 2025/6:
Can nobody bat in Test matches any more?
A lot of soft dismissals.
Crowd got their money's worth!
@antipodean said in Ashes 2025/6:
@booboo said in Ashes 2025/6:
Can nobody bat in Test matches any more?
A lot of soft dismissals.
Crowd got their money's worth!
Huh.
My favourite day watching v cricket in recent memory was the Sunday as Baz and his minions desperately held on to try and deny India an inevitable win.
There was no chance of winning.
It was desperately holding on for a draw. Hour upon hour.
It was ball after ball of not getting out.
Baz made three-hundy. And we didn't lose.
We get to here and 19 dudes lose their wickets in 360 mns?
Can not one batsman out of supposedly the two best teams in world cricket not bat for more that two hours?
Well that must have been an interesting days cricket. Looking forward to the highlights somewhat - well at least the second half.
@booboo said in Ashes 2025/6:
@antipodean said in Ashes 2025/6:
@booboo said in Ashes 2025/6:
Can nobody bat in Test matches any more?
A lot of soft dismissals.
Crowd got their money's worth!
Huh.
There's no tension on day one compared to the back end of a second innings, so wickets entertains the crowd.
well i woke up and England were already all out, which was a pretty depressing start to the day, so at 10am, i'll take that as a first day's cricket. Just goes to show what a wicket with a bit in it can deliver and how hard it is to bat against top class fast bowling on it.
Archer, Wood, Carse and Atkinson were brilliant, and Stokes gets 5. Madness
Disgraceful cricket from both sides.
Yes, spicy wicket obviously but thr shot selections were appalling.
As a bowler I love this, but...
I wish Ollie Robinson was playing. That guy was great value in the 2023 Ashes on and off the field.
Just watched the highlights, wickets are almost a perfect split of great aggressive fast bowling and utterly stupid shot selection. Getting caught on the boundary day 1 of a test match is quite the thing..
@Virgil said in Ashes 2025/6:
Just watched the highlights, wickets are almost a perfect split of great aggressive fast bowling and utterly stupid shot selection. Getting caught on the boundary day 1 of a test match is quite the thing..
Especially as they're so short
@MN5 There's been 74 Ashes series played since 1882.
Eight of that team played this century and in the past 14 series. It's really picking a team from the last 30 years plus Bradman, Lillee and Botham.
Beyond those three and, probably Warnie, I'm not sure anyone is locked in, though there's probably two or three would get in once you started doing a proper comparison with the old-timers.
@Chris-B said in Ashes 2025/6:
@MN5 There's been 74 Ashes series played since 1882.
Eight of that team played this century and in the past 14 series. It's really picking a team from the last 30 years plus Bradman, Lillee and Botham.
Beyond those three and, probably Warnie, I'm not sure anyone is locked in, though there's probably two or three would get in once you started doing a proper comparison with the old-timers.
Definite recency bias.
He certainly loves his all rounders and has somehow shoehorned three of them in there, all have had huge Ashes moments ( Beefys being the most memorable ) but also some pretty dud series.
Adam Gilchrist wouldn't be happy batting behind them, also how does Joe Root get in this team based on Ashes history ?