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.
Travis Head on course for the second-fastest ever Century in Ashes history. 92 off 62 balls.
That perennial reminder that you never give an Australian cricket team even a hint of a second chance.
Travis Head 100* (69).
@Donsteppa said in Ashes 2025/6:
you never give an Australian cricket team even a hint of a second chance.
They used to say exactly that about the All Blacks.
Sigh!
@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:
Only 53 runs needed for the win. Australia look intent on seeing this out inside two days.
23 overs left. They could damn well do it.
I thought they’d conserve wickets and cruise, turns out they’re Bazballing more than the original Bazballers !
@Young-Hamiltons And the context that was just after the 1970s when Test batting was slow.
@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:
@MN5 Beefy had a 86-ball century at Old Trafford in 1981 with six sixes which was the second fastest Ashes century in England at the time.
Some effort when boundaries were further back then.
Yeah very much tougher back in those days.
Head out for 123. But in the context sensational batting.
No one else got past 52 all match.
This arse raping will absolutely destroy England’s confidence for the rest of the series. About to be beaten in two days. Amazing.
And the England mental skills coach is................?
He'll have his work cracked out after this one.
@KiwiMurph said in Ashes 2025/6:
You have to wonder if Baz will be looking for a job in a few weeks
Given his one trick pony approach of the last few years, he'll need to pull something out of the bag fast.