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Flem's Verdict: Aussies will be galvanised to shut up England’s PR machine after washout kerfuffle
Flem's Verdict: Aussies will be galvanised to shut up England’s PR machine after washout kerfuffle
Flem's Verdict: Aussies will be galvanised to shut up England’s PR machine after washout kerfuffle
Run off Aussies !!! Keep the covers on all day
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
It’s verbal abuse whether it comes from the English or Australia
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
I can smell the rain from here . Umps are you looking?
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
Four days in the 80s would still have meant we were blown away by the Windies
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
The concept of a WTC final followed by five ASHES TESTS is worth a rethink. Six tests with some back to back are showing the effects in terms of mental stress , injuries, and players mentally exhausted playing shots they normally wouldn’t.
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
Three day delay will just be fine
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
Don they may only need to bat once! thought of that.
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
I’ll gladly go with 70%
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
Not the degree of contrast we have seen between the pitch between days One and two
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
The SCG and MCG members don’t abuse visiting players. They have a decorum the Long Room doesn’t
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
Because he’s also a batter Don, no 6 who has contributed little to nothing in this series with the bat and looks like he needs to go back to Shield cricket. Definitely should be dropped. Mitch Marsh stays, Green back to play Shield cricket.
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
Richie quick check 60% chance of rain today till 3pm. Let the rains begin
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
Yes when the crowd got aggressive in Sydney in the 1970-71 Ashes and John Snow was grabbed by a spectator on the boundary, Ray Illingworth took his team from the field . Maybe some more reaction from our players and administrators could have happened at the time of the Long Room debacle. Instead our administrators accepted that Lords would conduct an “ inquiry”. Ray Illingworth was a leader. One of the reasons the Poms won that series.
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
What happened in the Lords test match in particular the Long room typified the bitter spirit that has been directed at the Australians for much of the tour. It has hyped up the crowd and the ECB has a lot to answer for.
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
Richie if four day tests were to be implemented yes the very fabric of test cricket as we know it would change. To get results would force batting to evolve into Crawleys style.
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
Likely, but also likely that England with current momentum and good team balance and form will win the final test with another road of a wicket. Another series where we FAIL to win the Ashes. On the ropes saved by the rain. K’Od in the final test.
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
Never has a toss been so important to win as in this test. If Australia had bowled first I doubt any English batsman would have reached triple figures. Both captains said they would have bowled. But for a pitch to become a road on the second day was appalling. Crawley has a test average of 28. He is not a good test batsman. It was an innings filled with luck, French cuts, edges, edges over slips, playing and missing. It was technically flawed. Our bowling enabled his score to reach what it did. It was an ugly century that future readers of Wisden will marvel at. I hope that this does not typify Test cricket of the future. A hybrid test innings of T20 and ODI.
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
Stokes will declare with a 200 lead by lunch. He will believe that with momentum on his side he could knock Australia over in two sessions. It’s a test that has highlighted captaincy deficiencies, trying to manage a recovering Hazelwood that has failed and the risk averse decision of playing without a spinner. Whatever happens here, Hazelwood should not play in the final test. It’s clear Neser should have played this test. Neser comes in for the last test, Green is dropped and Murphy plays.
UK View: 'A stinker, total disintegration, bewildered, lost the plot' - Cummins cops it for captaincy calamities
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Flem's Verdict: How Aussies can finish Ashes mission by exploiting England's two main areas of vulnerability
“Teams needing 100 with the last four wickets can still be a bit optimistic of winning the match and that is where we can notice there isn’t that fear anymore.” Teams like India and England have caught the blueprint that you need BOWLERS WHO CAN BAT in positions 8-9-10 if possible. We haven’t and are getting run down because bowlers who believe they can bat like Woakes, Ashwin and Jadeja will run down remaining runs of 100-150. The days of the LONG TAIL are over.
Aussies struggling to capitalise on crucial Ashes opportunities - they lack ruthless edge of previous champion sides
D. k Lillee needed Ian Chappell as a Captain, not only as a tactician, but I’m not sure Dennis could have made the necessary calls to take himself off, if he had have been Captain. Dennis was a very strong personality. This is my concern with Pat. “ Collaborative style leadership” works to a point, but ultimately the Captain has the final say. Even to the point of “ I’ve got another over in me”.
Cummins’ captaincy far from perfect as Ashes hang in the balance but some critics need to woke up to themselves
Flem's Verdict: Aussies will be galvanised to shut up England’s PR machine after washout kerfuffle