Australia opening the batting with Scott Boland.
Twenty wickets in a day. The third innings starting before the end of Day One. Crazy stuff.
@Chris-B said in Ashes 2025/6:
Boland eges the last one through gully for four.
Australia have the best script writers!
Quite the field setting too. Five slips and three in a leg side trap 
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2025/6:
@Chris-B said in Ashes 2025/6:
Boland eges the last one through gully for four.
Australia have the best script writers!
Quite the field setting too. Five slips and three in a leg side trap
Looked like Bethell might have dropped him?
@Chris-B said in Ashes 2025/6:
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2025/6:
@Chris-B said in Ashes 2025/6:
Boland eges the last one through gully for four.
Australia have the best script writers!
Quite the field setting too. Five slips and three in a leg side trap
Looked like Bethell might have dropped him?
Yep, at first glance I didn't think it had carried. Turns out that it did (at least on a CricInfo check)
@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:
Australia opening the batting with Scott Boland.
So much potential for weirdness...
- golden duck to end first innings, then opens batting for the second...
- Could Tongue get a hat-trick, with two of the wickets being the same batsman? Has that been done before?
- can he get some wickets in second innings, and claim a 10-wicket haul plus credit as opening batsman?
@MN5 said in Ashes 2025/6:
@Virgil said in Ashes 2025/6:
Australia are going to bat again today aren’t they
No
Yup
@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:
Australia opening the batting with Scott Boland.
Great reward for bowling so well, having to bat again to make up for his top score order shitting the bed.
Cricket is a funny game.
Crazy day, will be over half way through day three I reckon
It's either a two day Test. Or the dramatic MCG script writers have tons to Smith and Buschange in a big partnership together in mind.
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2025/6:
It's either a two day Test. Or the dramatic MCG script writers have tons to Smith and Buschange in a big partnership together in mind.
And so, on day 1 of the Boxing Day test, Australia were put into bat and finished the day with a specialist bowler opening and 0 down...
@Kruse said in Ashes 2025/6:
@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:
Australia opening the batting with Scott Boland.
So much potential for weirdness...
- golden duck to end first innings, then opens batting for the second...
- Could Tongue get a hat-trick, with two of the wickets being the same batsman? Has that been done before?
- can he get some wickets in second innings, and claim a 10-wicket haul plus credit as opening batsman?
Conway and Latham proved there are still quite a few records and firsts out there still to be broken…..
The same batsman out twice in a hatrick has apparently happened once in first class cricket.
Just when this Ashes series wasn't enough of a farce, the MCG provides that pitch. Groundsman should be sacked.
Probably the only time Brookes batting approach was justified Get as many runs as you can before a ball with your name on it ends your innings.
@Virgil said in Ashes 2025/6:
Probably the only time Brookes batting approach was justified Get as many runs as you can before a ball with your name on it ends your innings.
He's disappointed this series but third behind Crawley ( ?!?! ) and Root in runs scored for England this series.
@antipodean said in Ashes 2025/6:
Just when this Ashes series wasn't enough of a farce, the MCG provides that pitch. Groundsman should be sacked.
Yep, from a shot of it this morning, my first reaction was they'd forgotten to mow it.