Molehill
International Captain
None of the young seamers are getting a look in. How do we actually know if they're any good? At least the likes of Potts and Tongue have played some Tests now.Yeah that Boland chap was deadly
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*Official* Fifth Test (The Oval, London) 27-31 July
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RossTaylorsBox
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You'd think that in a sport where so much variance on the game is dependent on the ball itself that there would be pretty strict regulations surrounding it, but it seems pretty loose. There's not even a consistent brand used across the world.
flibbertyjibber
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Should get a Kookaduke
Andy19
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Cameron Bancroft
M. Harris
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Will pucovski
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The first thing every batsman worries about is getting off the mark but all you needed to do was get bat on ball
I wish that I had a $ for every single we gave away & find it really hard to believe that McGrath would have put up with it
Son Of Coco
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A Dukkake.
True about the openers but quicks aren’t an issueYeah that Boland chap was deadly
The worry with the batting is that the only decent looking one is concussion central.
Molehill
International Captain
I could see that getting sprayed all over the place!!
That happens when the incumbents have taken hundreds of test wickets
Richardson, Morris & Spencer Johnson have far more talent than Tongue & Potts
Their issue is fitness not talent
Molehill
International Captain
That's because he didn't set fields for his bad balls. That little nudge to point from Duckett and Crawley for a single would've done my head in if I was an Aussie.
Son Of Coco
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All the bowlers would be lining up to take their shot with it.
the big bambino
International Captain
Both sides have had injury problems but Archer is different imo. His injury problems have been compared to Pucovski (by PEWS) in terms their potential availability. Its almost got to a stage where neither side could claim the services of either. You get the best out of Wood playing him intermittently which suits his fitness record.I'm very much all there - thanks for asking mate
Just because Archer has been injured for a good while doesn't mean we should discount his absence. The same with Wood.
As for Leach - he was a really big miss. He's comfortably our best spinner.
Stokes is only 32, the same age as Hazlewood and younger than Mitch Starc, so he's hardly old for a bowler.
Injuries are part and parcel of the game. But my post was in response to the idea that Aus didn't win the series because Lyon was injured but our injuries were completely ignored.
On reflection I shouldn't have responded to the original post as it was obviously a wind up by a new poster.
Lyon was a bad loss for us and Haze hasn't been at his best. You can barter and banter on which team was most effected but both had reasons for regret. I think England got better output from replacements like Tongue, Woakes and Moeen though, than we did from say, Murphy. And of course we never ventured to try Neser or Abbott.
Son Of Coco
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Molehill
International Captain
Yes, if only England had had quicks who had taken hundreds of wickets filling up the spots.
Johnson is nearly 28 and has played 4 FC Matches. Morris has taken 63 FC wickets in 19 matches. Richardson seems somewhat injury prone. Is that really what you're counting on?
And it’s why I believe we need a clean out at the top
Smith should have known that it was wrong but he lives in a bubble
Ponting & Taylor were there and hammered the tactics but were ignored
McDonald has to go at the very least
As England currently hold both ODI World Cups, you'd have to agree that we're the best side in the world then.
The umpires made numerous strange decisions during the series that didn't even relate to dismissals.
1. Ollie Pope's injury - England were told if he didn't field, we'd have to field with 10 men. So out Pope went and inevitably made his injury worse.
2. The bowling of spinners at OT. Every commentatotor on both radio and TV was surprised at this, saying that it had been darker at other times. The Aussie batsmen had not even made any mention of the light.
3. The ball change at the Oval. Yes the ball had to be changed but the replacement ball was obviously significantly newer than the one it replaced.
4. Losing a review for the non Stokes catch at the Oval.
We all know the standard of umpiring on dismissals has been poor - God knows how many decisions were overturned this series.
But you'd expect even Wilson and Co to get the decisions I've referred to correct. They weren't in the heat of battle with marginal decisions to be made in a split second and yet they still got them wrong.
1. Ollie Pope's injury - England were told if he didn't field, we'd have to field with 10 men. So out Pope went and inevitably made his injury worse.
2. The bowling of spinners at OT. Every commentatotor on both radio and TV was surprised at this, saying that it had been darker at other times. The Aussie batsmen had not even made any mention of the light.
3. The ball change at the Oval. Yes the ball had to be changed but the replacement ball was obviously significantly newer than the one it replaced.
4. Losing a review for the non Stokes catch at the Oval.
We all know the standard of umpiring on dismissals has been poor - God knows how many decisions were overturned this series.
But you'd expect even Wilson and Co to get the decisions I've referred to correct. They weren't in the heat of battle with marginal decisions to be made in a split second and yet they still got them wrong.
Red_Ink_Squid
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I don't think this one was wrong tbf. Albeit it came about because Wilson somehow missed that it came off the glove.
There was also them miscalculating the number of overs remaining yesterday.
ripper868
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mackembhoy
International Debutant
I just glanced at that headline and was a bit confused as to "Ball Change Aids"
Ball Change Aids Australia's Swing Efforts | Ashes | Wisden Cricket
Australia gained significantly more assistance from a changed ball on the afternoon of day two, and accounted for two England batsman soon after the switch.wisden.com
"The first ball of the 61st over, delivered by James Pattinson, was a full toss which moved drastically on its way through to Tim Paine. The ball swung 6.43 degrees, over two degrees more than any other ball has moved in the air all Test match, and his first two overs with the ‘new’ ball contained seven of the eight balls with most swing in the Australian innings so far."
I was dead on.
Thought that was a tad inflammatory from Wisden