5-0?
This was the banker wasn't it with their injuries?
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With the way we’re batting no chance of any draws.
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Imagine if you've travelled down there with tickets for day 3 and 4.
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Woke up around 4am. Checked the score. Laughed at Crawley's 11 ball pair - even though I didn't bet on a 1st over wicket this time around.
Went back to sleep with England 100 ahead and only 1 down.
Woke up around half 8. Checked the score. First fuck's sake of the day.
Oh well. I'm sure they'll take the positives, learn from this...and change relatively fuck all. -
Does anyone regard any test in Australia as “a banker”? Best chance, with Hazlewood and Cummins out, sure. And there’s a fair probability that, come the end of the series, requiring them to get the game’s highest score in the fourth innings, will have been our best chance.
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This is what annoys me. Having several years to plan, what they've come up with is keep doing the schoolyard de-skilled just throw your bat and hope for the best. Result: Humiliating 8 wicket loss inside two days. Series dead.
I say annoys me. It doesn't, because as soon as I saw that they weren't taking the game seriously I stopped watching. It's been years since I've given a fuck about cricket, because there's no form played that I enjoy.
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Well done England - you've properly Kented that.
20 wickets in 67 overs. -
Decent day yesterday, full on bumming today.
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More ducks (4), more brain dead batting and a wicketkeeper who would get pilloried on here were alas Smith called Jones.
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I think catches dropped are now beating ducks 5-4.
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What I don't understand is why there was so much optimism about England doing well?
Presume it was just to drive TV subscriptions.
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Mentally weak.
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Ok, we tried this approach, with the expected outcome. Can we try playing proper cricket for the next cycle?
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Turned on to find England 18-0 after just 3 overs. The first ball I watch sees Duckett smash one back at the bowler, who can't hold on.
Strap in - I've a feeling this won't be dull. -
I sincerely hope to be eating these words over the next two days.
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Not looking likely. I agree with them.
I mean I expect that it's nice to play in an environment that promises to back you, however much you abandon technique and judgement, and however badly that goes.
Unfortunately it's a rotten spectacle, mugs off the paying public, and will be the death of test Cricket.
