Now Starc gone too, England looking likely to be getting a bat before the close of play
Tongue on a hat trick for the next innings. Took a Michelle. Excellent stuff young fella.
Gonna make my standard "Brook to get a massive score" prediction. Like the old broken clock I'm sure I'll be right at some stage.
152 from Australia, probably 40-50 runs short on this. Can England's batsmen take advantage?
@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:
152 from Australia, probably 40-50 runs short on this. Can England's batsmen take advantage?
Like clockwork one of their openers goes early.
Duckett still pissed perhaps ?
Bethel hasn't got a first class century.
Falls 99 short today. Neser gets him
Root in. 8-2.
Commentators just referred to Root as the best English batsman of all time.
Comforting to know we have one even better than that
#lovekw
The wheels fall off England's top order batting again.
Theee wickets inside the first 26 balls of the innings.
@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:
The wheels fall off England's top order batting again.
Do they what ?
Top three gone with eight on the board. What the fuck is up with these guys ?
Brook trying to hit the first ball out of the park too.
@MN5 said in Ashes 2025/6:
@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:
The wheels fall off England's top order batting again.
What the fuck is up with these guys ?
Spending July and August playing the Mickey Mouse Hundred has destroyed these batsmen's technique and ability to cope with pressure.
@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:
Root's duck will do nothing to convince Australians that he is any sort of goat.
Walter Hammond is. Averaging 58 in Bradmans era will do for me.
@sparky said in Ashes 2025/6:
The wheels fall off England's top order batting again.
Theee wickets inside the first 26 balls of the innings.
The same as Baz's team at the MCG in the CWC final
Don't understand why teams get the opposition 9 down, then revert to bowling half track rubbish in the name of trying to bounce out the tail. Neser the latest after taking four wickets.
@MN5 said in Ashes 2025/6:
@Virgil said in Ashes 2025/6:
Australia are going to bat again today aren’t they
No
Goes to show what I don’t know.
One over apparently. What a niggly pain in the arse for Oz.
@Donsteppa In this day and age there's no excuse for any test team not having almost perfect information on how they should bowl on every pitch and at every batsman.
I honestly can't comprehend commentators being able to say that teams have bowled too short etc thoughout an innings when they've got specialist video analysts etc. What do those guys do for their money? Surely they're also listening to what the commentators are saying (and they usually sound right)?
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.