Stupid cricket
Stupid cricket
I've seen 3 of the 4 wickets so far(missed Pope) and they've literally just given themselves over without fuss. The Root and Duckett ones especially infuriating as Jim says, they know Lyon is out of the day at least, perhaps test/series.
The ball is on the deck with that Root dismissal surely.
The shots I've seen since I got back in have, by and large, been very, very stupid, and the wickets have been stupid.
I think it's more modern elite sports thinking. Most players across most sports are now just programmed to go out and do something [as per instructions], not make decisions in the moment. That's obviously hyperbole, but it's definitely a feature of modern sport.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Stokes has been playing against his own mantra/or he literally is so unfit he can’t so a solid rebuild from him needed here to get to parity.
The question is, do we get to see Bairstow out after unsuccessful LBW review, tonight, or first thing?
What in the fuck is Harry Brook doing there?!
Analytics say YOU GO HARD.
Vaughan's absolutely seething again.
That's definitely the best aspect of the whole shebang. If they can make this work and out-macho Australia you just know that's going to hurt alpha-dickheads like 'Haydos' so much more.
I think there has been a massive overreaction to the England dismissals today. We are still in a good position and still will be even if we fall just short of Australia's total. Lyon is such a huge miss for them in the final innings.
Australia's own collapse in the first innings is HUGE.
It'll be a 5-0 defeat and "Yeah but look at how entertaining some of those games were!"
(I'm not really predicting 5-0, but it could be.)
Yeah, it was still a huge comeback day for us. It should have been Aus on the ropes, though.
I was listening to TMS in the car for the majority of the final session yesterday and at the time, completely baffled as to why we decided to throw those wickets away to the short ball. But listening to Vaughan seethe after the close of play was fucking ridiculous. If you'd have switched on after stumps, you would think we'd been bowled out 150 in arrears. And to be fair to Duckett, he made a pretty good point. Playing the short ball in that situation is akin to driving when they've got a packed slip cordon (something which he always does when you consider his ridiculously low leave percentage).
I'm obviously disappointed for us to not hammer home a dominant position but it HAS worked for us over the past year. And on replay, that Root dismissal looks very dodgy. Surprised that wasn't overturned.
From the angles available I think it was out. Smith is a bad cheat though so maybe another angle might have shown different.
Vaughan is an arsehole. He's decided to carve out a little pedestal for himself as the anti-Bazball analyst.
Sri Lanka 67/5 against the clog wearers, this could get dicey. Great tournament this.
Jesus Christ
surely you can be aggressive and seize the initiative without giving away your fucking wicket
You can't. It's smashing everything for four or Lord's will implode like that submarine.
Do we have to give them a first innings lead now Lyon is injured to “make a game of it” or something
Honestly can't believe having been 188/1 we're reduced to Stuart fucking Broad batting while 120 behind. Fucking braindead fucks.
Some junior cricket shit these dismissals.
This is so so dumb
Lads, it could be worse. For instance, think back to last spring...
That was pretty wank
The other way of looking at it is if we have the side above we'd be losing most games by an innings. All hail Bazball, making a bit of a game of it since 2022.
Reminding me of losing to India on this very ground with Ishant Sharma bouncing everyone out.
Obviously just fancy a decent 4th innings chase. Bantzball.
Slightly weird that what should have been an absolutely pivotal moment in the series in England's favour (Lyon injury) seems to have had the 100% opposite effect, and all the more galling in the way it came about. Still, if the pitch flattens out we can chase anything, right?
Not if they continue to bowl long hops. We seem to have difficulty against that.
It's not like they even bowled menacing bodyline stuff, it was pretty average and we just consistently plinked it.
I think it's more that we have absolutely no idea how to counteract their defensive shithouse tactics. They've clearly come here and thought the only way to stop Bazball is to pile everyone on the boundary ropes, which is about correct in my view - and we just don't seem to have imagined that they would do such a thing or had any idea how to cope with it. The answer of how to cope with it is just pat singles endlessly into the gaping gaps and leave literally every bouncer, but BAZ would rather impale himself on Old Father Time than do that.
What’s frustrating is that yesterday afternoon was a perfect point for the elevation of this “strategy” into something really really good. Because they did go hard early on, they were marching along at 5 an over despite defensive fields. It was a time to soak up the bouncers from a depleted attack and then go hard again when they would be forced to change tactics.
No-one is saying rip it all up and get Dom Sibley in - there just needs to be a degree of game management. Which again they have actually shown in this past year I think the nature of this huge series and all eyes on it have made them lose touch with reality
As much as the batting this morning was absolutely shocking, no one can deny we have been extremely unlucky today. The amount of times the Australian batsmen played and missed before Warner was dismissed was ridiculous and Labuschagne was just outside the line there whereas every mistake we made resulted in a wicket.
As the narrative shifts, it would be hilarious if they just go and chase 500 now.
If we could actually bring ourselves to actually take a few wickets in a row at some point, we're still well in this, thanks to the anti-Bazball of them grinding along at 2.5 an over.
Fucking Stokes never wants to review anything. Always has to be talked into it by Broad and other nutcases.
Another play and miss from a rash shot followed by an lbw that would have been out had we referred it.
Shaheen Afridi casually took 4 wickets in his 1st over tonight. 1st wicket looker a ridiculous call mind
Still look like they may lose as well
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Windies 20/2 early doors against the jocks, I know that could end up anywhere given the way modern scoring goes, but why are they so shite now? Is this some kind of composite effect of all the talent drain [US sports, franchise cricket leagues] or are they just reverting to what you'd expect of a disparate alliance of micro-states?
26/3
There is still loads of talent. It just isn't playing any format other than T20, and the highly motivated teams below have caught up.
Surrey-Somerset was a riot last night. This Somerset side is the best I've seen in 20 years of watching T20.
Moar bouncers please
Turns out stupidity is infectious.
I think it was Ponting that said yesterday or the day before, the short bowling from Australia was essentially a challenge to the ego of some of the English batters. Trying to lull them into that mindset of I know what you're doing, but I'm going to beat you at it.
I dare say he's right with it too. Steve Smith is exactly the kind of tit that would fall into that trap too.
Rishi's tethering himself to BazBall.
RIP the good times.
If we can somehow escape this game without losing I think we might have broken their minds.
Scotland
They were absolutely smashing the last time I checked, did it carry on in that vein?
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