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Only a casual union fan, so please be gentle. But can someone explain why France and NZ have been put together in one pool, and Ireland and South Africa paired in another group? You guarantee that two of the world’s best teams won’t make the knockouts, yet second-tier sides such as Wales, Argentina, England, Australia (ok, third-tier) etc are guaranteed two teams in the quarter-finals.
The horror five minutes that put Wallabies' World Cup on life support as Eddie's huge 10 call falls flat
Haha! The lack of self-consciousness is hilarious
'I'd have shaken your arm off for 2-2': The Pommy and the Aussie on ties, moral victories and who'll be left in 2025-26
You’re obviously not old enough to remember any Ashes series in Australia and how England have been treated.
'I'd have shaken your arm off for 2-2': The Pommy and the Aussie on ties, moral victories and who'll be left in 2025-26
Yet somehow it was Australia who choked
'I'd have shaken your arm off for 2-2': The Pommy and the Aussie on ties, moral victories and who'll be left in 2025-26
Calm down, dear
'I'd have shaken your arm off for 2-2': The Pommy and the Aussie on ties, moral victories and who'll be left in 2025-26
You’ll recover. Maybe. But this was the biggest choke in Australian sporting history and you could see the panic in the clueless captaincy, the Bambi
on Ice bowling — wasn’t this supposed to be the greatest Australian attack ever? — and some of the worst Test batting I’ve seen. That applies to the England batsmen too but at least they got out trying something new. In any properly run cricket administration (although no such thing has ever existed) this would be a career-ending tour for several coaches, players and selectors. And there would be a bonfire of the blazers who let it get to this
'I'd have shaken your arm off for 2-2': The Pommy and the Aussie on ties, moral victories and who'll be left in 2025-26
Never seen an Australian cricket team so visibly frightened. If not for rain this would have been a thrashing of biblical proportions
'I'd have shaken your arm off for 2-2': The Pommy and the Aussie on ties, moral victories and who'll be left in 2025-26
The biggest choke in Australian sporting history
'I'd have shaken your arm off for 2-2': The Pommy and the Aussie on ties, moral victories and who'll be left in 2025-26
Hey, ignore me. I’m just a loudmouth on the internet hiding beneath a fake name, thinking my opinion means something.
Apologies for being rude. You’re right, I’m not as clever as I think I am, and trying to be smart is no excuse for acting like an idiot. Sorry.
Weather they like it or not, England only have themselves to blame for Australia being raining Ashes champs
I wasn’t the one playing the “you don’t understand it” card.
You were the one playing the “I don’t understand it” card.
Almost sounds as though you don’t want me to help you understand.
Weather they like it or not, England only have themselves to blame for Australia being raining Ashes champs
Oh dear. It’s funny when you explain to them, and their brows furrow. “What, so they get two innings each – does that mean they bat for 40 overs?”
And then their eyes light up. “Oh wait, so if one side passes the other side’s runs, then the other side has to go in again and pass the first side’s runs. But only if there is enough time. Gosh, it’s complicated. I think I’d better stick to proper T20 cricket.”
It’s quite sweet, really. But I can’t spend all day explaining to them how Test cricket works.
Weather they like it or not, England only have themselves to blame for Australia being raining Ashes champs
Aaaand there’s another one.
Weather they like it or not, England only have themselves to blame for Australia being raining Ashes champs
Hmmm. Define “win”.
Weather they like it or not, England only have themselves to blame for Australia being raining Ashes champs
So Many People on this site displaying how little they know about Test cricket. I blame T20
Weather they like it or not, England only have themselves to blame for Australia being raining Ashes champs
All these people brought up on T20 cricket, then criticising the Stokes declaration. You do realise this is Test cricket???
Weather they like it or not, England only have themselves to blame for Australia being raining Ashes champs
Not sure if this is satire or not. You realise this is a cricket site?
Weather they like it or not, England only have themselves to blame for Australia being raining Ashes champs
Stokes is right. A lot of people on this site are proving how little they know about Test cricket with their comments on the declaration
Weather they like it or not, England only have themselves to blame for Australia being raining Ashes champs
Well, agreed. But have you posted before on Australian abuse of the England team?
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
Lost item: 1 Ashes urn
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
Not quite sure why telling opposition players what you think of them is such a crime. Besides, I’m not sure MCG and SCG members have such close access to the players. If you think what you have done on the field is right, constructive criticism should be welcomed
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
I can’t understand all the people saying Moeen shouldn’t be at first drop. As everyone points out, he’s a stop-gap cricketer but he Stops The Gaps. Stroke of minor genius to send him in No 3 at Leeds, then a stroke of major genius to put him there in Manchester.
“Oh but you have to have your best batsman at No 3” … No you don’t. You need the man who can do the job, even if only for a Test or two. It wasn’t even weakening a strength to strengthen a weakness, just an example of England’s more flexible thinking. It wouldn’t even have occurred to Australia. They have been one step behind all series.
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
It worked at Lord’s
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
Jeez, because England never cop it when they tour Australia? Some very fragile flowers posting on here
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
Hmmm. They had the under hand at Lord’s, sure. Not q-u-i-t-e so certain they have the upper hand here.
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
What’s the fuss? Khawaja wore a black armband all through the World Cup in memory of the October 7 victims, didn’t he? Well, didn’t he?
'Double standards': Khawaja savages ICC hypocrisy in Instagram post as Cummins defends 'pretty vanilla' protest