The Ashes

[Newmarket]

It was a good comeback, however, I fear one early wicket and the rest will tumble.

You should be on the stage

[h69]

Burns out first ball of the series, 147 all out.

Start as you mean to continue chaps.



But you're dealing with racism in cricket which is all the public really care about.

I never even knew the Test series was happening Al .

That’s how irrelevant it’s become in the news nowadays.

There must be something more important going on.

I don’t believe a word of it.

If anyone makes a racist comment then they will start covering the ashes again wall to wall

Happy to help

[palerider]

Early breakthrough but Oz piling it on now to score a thousand.

Got 99 problems but the pitch ain't one.

[dorsetdano]

We keep dropping catches and that is costing us dear. Buttler is just not a good enough keeper in my opinion. Bairstow is also not a test standard keeper. Foulkes should have been the England test keeper for the last couple of years. He's an excellent keeper and a very solid batsman.

[palerider]

We keep dropping catches and that is costing us dear. Buttler is just not a good enough keeper in my opinion. Bairstow is also not a test standard keeper. Foulkes should have been the England test keeper for the last couple of years. He's an excellent keeper and a very solid batsman.

Agree but Foulkes is injured.

They need to rebuild with him in at 7 though. Where the rest of the decent test standard batsmen come from though I don't know.

[terrya1965]

We keep dropping catches and that is costing us dear. Buttler is just not a good enough keeper in my opinion. Bairstow is also not a test standard keeper. Foulkes should have been the England test keeper for the last couple of years. He's an excellent keeper and a very solid batsman.

Agree but Foulkes is injured.

They need to rebuild with him in at 7 though. Where the rest of the decent test standard batsmen come from though I don't know.

Another bloody disastrous day in Oz.

We just never seem to be able to compete out there,do we?

Maybe,our woke society has made our Sportsman less competitive? "It's all about taking part".

[jameskel]

The 80's was as unwoke as you could get. We got fucking hammered then

we rely on 2 bowlers, who in Australia, just struggle. We rely on Root to get 500 each time we play and Stokes to be the new Flintoff.

We are fucking light years behind the Aussies, on quick wickets. 5 - 0

[dorsetdano]

Most telling stat England have dropped 7 out of 18 potential catches so far. Aussies have poached 18 out of 18!!!!!!!!

Catches win matches as they say!

[terrya1965]

The 80's was as unwoke as you could get. We got fucking hammered then

we rely on 2 bowlers, who in Australia, just struggle. We rely on Root to get 500 each time we play and Stokes to be the new Flintoff.

We are fucking light years behind the Aussies, on quick wickets. 5 - 0

But we have a decent One Day and 20/20 Teams,who are up there with the very best.

The Aussies don't thrash everyone,apart from us..They have won 10 successive Test Matches against us on Aussie soil..Take out the 2011 series,we have won One Test Match this century.We have one series since 1986/87(35 YEARS).

TBF,they don't lose many series at home,but they always compete with us in England..Don't ever remember us white washing them in my lifetime(I'm 56),but they do it to us regularly.

[jameskel]

We just can't compete with pace. County cricket is full of Sunday cricketers made to look wordbeaters in our conditions.