Nine wickets in a session. Excellent effort by the Australian seam attack. Pathetic in the circumstances by England.
Good bowling but some of the shot selection was mad.
@Cyclops said in Ashes 2025/6:
I honestly don't know how to judge a good score on this pitch. I feel like there's abaut even odds of a England winning by about 50-70 runs and Australia winning by 8 wickets, I just have no idea how tough it really is.
The Aussies will win. They've been brought up to fight.
Half decent batting in that innings and England could have put the game beyond Australia's reach.
They failed.
It will be tough going batting 4th on that pitch, but the Aussies will relish it.
@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:
@Cyclops said in Ashes 2025/6:
I honestly don't know how to judge a good score on this pitch. I feel like there's abaut even odds of a England winning by about 50-70 runs and Australia winning by 8 wickets, I just have no idea how tough it really is.
The Aussies will win. They've been brought up to fight.
who's getting runs?
Waj? Weatherald? marnus? It's going to be Steve + 1-2 others ... not a heap of experience.
HEad and Smith key
@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:
@nzzp 204 for the tie. 205 to win.
England need 10 wickets.
This isn't going to be a draw. This isn't going into Day 4 or Day 5.
Will it make Day 3?
This Aussie team is plenty flakey.
Get to and through Smith cheaply and they'll fall short.
Not putting any money anywhere.
Some English commentators are moaning about the Jamie Smith wicket and saying that Snicko didn't show enough for the Third Umpire to give it.
Clutching at straws.
England not finding anything too untoward in the pitch so far.
Weatherald survives a wrong decision.
Body language from the England team says it all. They know this one is slipping away from them.
Game well and truly going Australia's way. 19 runs off the last 10 balls.
Pressure now on Ben Stokes.
Travis Head is making this look easy. Beautiful batting.
27-0. Stokes has got nothing from his openers.
Australia off to a flyer. 39-0 off eight overs.
Incredible turn around in this game since lunch. Confident, clever Cricket by Australia.
It feels like England's only chance in this Test now is for Ben Stokes to come on and get two or three quick wickets to crack the game back open.
50 partnership up. Head going at more than a run a ball. Australia are striding towards the target.
@Cyclops said in Ashes 2025/6:
Head out bazballing the bazballers.
It's confident batting from Travis Head, but England were reckless
Australia now 1/9 favourites to take a 1-0 lead. What a turn around! A comeback for the ages!
England have blown this since they were 60-1. They look a ragged rabble.
All the momentum now with Australia.
@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:
England have blown this since they were 60-1. They look a ragged rabble.
Baz's British Bottlejobs
That ball to Marnus was the first one that looks to have done much all innings.
I was thinking the pitch had settled down - as per Atkinson and Carse doing well out there - but, maybe there's still a bit out there.
Will the English media claim the moral victory?
England need to get one of these two quickly.
House of cards later with the likes of Usman, but Bus Change looks like he's finally remembered what the purpose is of the bat in his hands.
Stokes being treated like the Tim Southee paced bowler that he is when he bowls a half tracker.
@MN5 said in Ashes 2025/6:
Travis Head must have a game of golf booked for tomorrow
A master class in aggressive, but controlled batting.