@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...
@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.
Gus Atkinson has done his hamstring and won't bowl again in the match or the series. Opportunity for Australia to post a big score now.
Somewhat ironically, it's the sort of game where Bazball is the most likely of the 4th innings tactics to have a chance.
Five down. Khawaja on ball two. Seemed surprised by the bounce, but a very half hearted shot.
Carse gets another! Six down - I was thinking Carey and Smith are Australia's two most obdurate batsmen, but they 're quickly parted.
Bounce is all over the shop. Batting looks hard as fuck.
Head faced 50-odd balls and never looked comfortable.
Beautiful day at the G too. Glad I'm in the shade for the rest of the day
Love the shade on cricinfo, ‘welcome back hope you are all making other plans for tomorrow’
Random unrelated observations ...
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Carse bowls a no ball and thought it was over ... nup, re-bowl that. So Starc gives first slip catching practice.
Smith abdicating responsibility to Richardson was cowardice.
30 wickets in 4 and a bit sessions?
@mariner4life said in Ashes 2025/6:
Smith abdicating responsibility to Richardson was cowardice.
30 wickets in 4 and a bit sessions?
The strike rate for wickets in this test to date is a wicket every 21.93 balls
@Virgil said in Ashes 2025/6:
@mariner4life said in Ashes 2025/6:
Smith abdicating responsibility to Richardson was cowardice.
30 wickets in 4 and a bit sessions?
The strike rate for wickets in this test to date is a wicket every 21.93 balls
Wow, that would be elite in ordinary stats, especially for fast bowlers.
Billion dollar stadium, Ashes Boxing Day Test, thousands travelling halfway around the world, and a two dollar groundsman.
Looking at the score board from the 1st test in Perth given it’s so similar at the moment.
England’s 2nd innings there only lasted 34.4 overs
Aussies 2nd innings just now lasted 34.3 overs
