The Ashes 25/26

[gadj1976]

Day one stats- https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/ashe ... cg-1517128

Boland must be the first player to go from 11 to 1 and bat on the same day though, surely?

[LaughingKookaburra]

They just can’t get the drop in pitches at the MCG consistently right for a long time now. God knows who thought leaving more grass on it than a day/night pink ball test was a good idea. There’s more grass on that pitch than my 8mm front lawn. Absolutely stupid idea and even if Jamie and Steve Smith used their feet to those deliveries they would have been dead set plumb lbw. Pitch doing way too much.

[daysofourlives]

Should be a Royal commission into how and why curators around the country have started producing these type of wickets?
When was the last time 2 teams got 400 plus each in their 1st innings?
Its ******* up my time off, i wanted 5 days in front of the box sucking back WED's, what the **** am i going to do for the next 3 days.

This will send CA broke, theyre in the shit big time, might end the womens cricket debacle, theyll be in for a massive pay cut without the men subsidising them

[stan]

Oddly enough I thought Green and Nesser looked quite settled out there. In fact the run out brain fade looked to be the only way England were making that breakthrough.

Which us strange to say on a day that saw 20 wickets fall. I feel they left a good 40 - 50 runs still out there.

Looking at a few of the Aussie dismissals and some were just bad shots rather than good bowling.

Head - played on.
Weatherald feathers down the leg side.
Green runs himself out.
Carey flick to leg slip.
Starc straight at mid off.

Only a couple of Aussies got really good ones.

[LaughingKookaburra]

Should be a Royal commission into how and why curators around the country have started producing these type of wickets?
When was the last time 2 teams got 400 plus each in their 1st innings?
Its ******* up my time off, i wanted 5 days in front of the box sucking back WED's, what the **** am i going to do for the next 3 days.

This will send CA broke, theyre in the shit big time, might end the womens cricket debacle, theyll be in for a massive pay cut without the men subsidising them

Go back 10 years ago we were guilty of going too hard and creating roads. Australia’s results overseas struggled big time because of that. Upon reflection since our pitches have had a bit more zip in them our performances overseas have improved significantly- So much so we hold every test trophy on the planet within our reach aside from the Test Championship (we even held that 6 months ago). Pretty sure the last team to do that in the world was Australia in the mid 2000’s because England and South Africa never held them all and India definitely didn’t.

[mal]

Agree with the consensus
Going back about 10-15 years ago or so I often got bored coz there were 2 many roads in cricket
But now its the opposite 2 many minefields
Somewhere in between would be nice

Personally i prefer 1100 run games
First digs 300 each
2nd gigs 250 each
The games finish day 4, but 4 days of this is better that 5 day road-fests leading to draws

BAZBALL
Makes games more interesting FWIW

[Armchair expert]

Its a road

0/330 at stumps

[Brodlach]

Oddly enough I thought Green and Nesser looked quite settled out there. In fact the run out brain fade looked to be the only way England were making that breakthrough.

Which us strange to say on a day that saw 20 wickets fall. I feel they left a good 40 - 50 runs still out there.

Looking at a few of the Aussie dismissals and some were just bad shots rather than good bowling.

Head - played on.
Weatherald feathers down the leg side.
Green runs himself out.
Carey flick to leg slip.
Starc straight at mid off.

Only a couple of Aussies got really good ones.

Agree Stan, I thought a lot of the wickets were from ordinary shots on a day 1 pitch

[Brodlach]

Its a road

0/330 at stumps

And you have just robbed Boland of a century

[Jim05]

Its a road

0/330 at stumps

The groundskeeper apparently told Cook on BBC last night that today would be worse to bat on than yesterday

[dedja]

Its a road

0/330 at stumps

The groundskeeper apparently told Cook on BBC last night that today would be worse to bat on than yesterday

[Armchair expert]

Is it just me or is Weatherald way too crouched over when batting?

[Brodlach]

Is it just me or is Weatherald way too crouched over when batting?

I agree, that’s why he struggles with the full ball on middle/leg.

[LaughingKookaburra]

Its a road

0/330 at stumps

The groundskeeper apparently told Cook on BBC last night that today would be worse to bat on than yesterday

It’d be hard to take his opinion seriously given what was dished up yesterday. No grounds man on the planet would want 20 wickets falling on day 1 of a test.

[Armchair expert]

Renshaw must come in now surely

[Brodlach]

Poor from Weatherald.

[Jim05]

Poor from Weatherald.

Did he try to leave that?

[Brodlach]

Poor from Weatherald.

Did he try to leave that?

He did and just misjudged the line and length

Got a bat, use the ******* thing

[dedja]

Needs stump lines on the pitch

[DOC]

Yes he left it.