*Official* 1st Test at the SWALEC Stadium

[Spikey]

"a nice little era of ashes cricket coming back" i mean

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Luckily no other such bowler exists.

yeah australia missed a trick by not making an offer to Ben Wheeler.

 

[Cabinet96]

wait hang on. What did Nicholas just say the capacity of this ground was?

53?

 

[aussie tragic]

He's shot, isn't he. At the risk of bandwaggoning, I'd rather see Bairstow given a run in the middle order, and I don't give a monkeys about his track record for England two to three years ago. Anyway, perhaps that's for another thread,

No, please leave Bell in the team

 

[Pothas]

Sod off, we'd have no batting left to retain the title with.

You can keep him, we will just take Jack Leaning instead.

 

[Burgey]

Couple of points from this sessionhazelwood is going to be a nightmare to try and get away.

Haddin is shot.

Starc is within a whisker of developing into a complete force of nature. This bloke could be anything. Putting it out there now. He'll end up being compared with Wasim Akram.

Lyon's wicket was quality.

 

[Gnske]

53?

Sounds like an average Gabba crowd.

 

[hendrix]

It's mostly due to him being Boult's bunny. One would assume another left arm swing bowler of similar quality would have him on toast.

As good as the Aussie bowlers are, I don't think any of the current ones quite have the accuracy in full length deliveries of Boult. Certainly not Starc, anyway.

 

[Spikey]

wait lunch is still at 1pm? LMS consequences here. reduced session could burn us

 

[Cabinet96]

Root needs to slow down or I could be in trouble. #LMS

 

[Cabinet96]

wait lunch is still at 1pm? LMS consequences here. reduced session could burn us

Yep. Huge taste for all the yes voters.

 

[Pothas]

Yep. Huge taste for all the yes voters.

Even more reason to hate the anthems.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

As good as the Aussie bowlers are, I don't think any of the current ones quite have the accuracy in full length deliveries of Boult. Certainly not Starc, anyway.

Yeah I thought Starc's extra pace might offset that but Ballance seems to be dealing with it well. Kinda surprised at Starc's issues with left handers tbh, the vast majority of left armers love bowling to lefties.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

You can keep him, we will just take Jack Leaning instead.

Sucks that the only county producing decent players is Yorkshire.

 

[Spikey]

wait lunch is still at 1pm? LMS consequences here. reduced session could burn us

as opposed to grave consequences

 

[wpdavid]

Sod off, we'd have no batting left to retain the title with.

All for the greater good - just lie back and think of England.

Anyway, your boys are so superior in the CC they'd still win it by a mile.

 

[Cabinet96]

Yeah I thought Starc's extra pace might offset that but Ballance seems to be dealing with it well. Kinda surprised at Starc's issues with left handers tbh, the vast majority of left armers love bowling to lefties.

Trying to work out why it is he has a problem. I think Holding was on to something when he was talking about how close to the stumps he gets. Means he can bowl a very attacking line to the right handers with everything hitting the stumps, but the opposite problem for the left handers. It's either magic balls or more likely drifting onto the pads or swinging from the hand outside off. What makes left armers like Boult so hard to face for LHBs is the angle in and then movement away, but Starc doesn't really get the same angle in.

 

[NUFAN]

England really need a QLD Origin like performance from one of their top 6. An excellent 40* inside 60 minutes is what they should be after.

 

[Primrose_D12]

Rain coming down now... hope it doesn't interrupt play.

 

[Spikey]

England really need a QLD Origin like performance from one of their top 6. An excellent 40* inside 60 minutes is what they should be after.

watson can be pearce but who is our ennis?