The fact this is not on sky sports makes it irrelevant
Paddy Crickix.
If it’s not on Sky Sports, it doesn’t count.
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Like a lot of sports, if it goes onto any pay per view other than SKY it’s a waste of time.
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No better sight in cricket than the baggy greens on boxing day. Would be fitting for alright sort David Warner to drive on now for a century on his 100th test.
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A pitiful crowd at the MCG for the Boxing Day test. The Melbourne and Victorian public losing interest. Test cricket is in big trouble.
The paying public don’t have the attention span or patience for the 5 day slog of a Test Match. It’s all pyjama cricket now
Lord Botham was the guest presenter on Today this morning. He had David Gower reading the sportsnews
He’s a purple faced bigoted Tory cunt
The lefties on Today must have been told to put him on.
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Double century for Warner 
South Africa batting is just pathetic now. There’s no Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis, Hashim Amla or AB de Villiers in the ranks. They posted just one innings total over 200 in their 3 test tour of England in the summer and have been dismissed in each of their three innings in Australia for under 200
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They are in a very lean spell. Their entire squad looks modest enough .
Test cricket not in a good place at the moment. Windies still hopeless, South Africa as you say very weak, Pakistan pretty shit as well if England can go over to Pakistan and whitewash them 3-0. New Zealand on the wane too after a strong showing over last few years and Sri Lanka poor too.
The fact that England are 3rd in the test rankings and South Africa 4th tells its own tale.
Australia India England and the rest a good bit off I’d say at the minute. The ashes should be good but I’d not spend money on a day 4 ticket of the weather is set fair. I think the Aussies will have too much unless archer and wood are fit and then England have 3 90mph quicks plus Anderson and broad. Squeeze the young spinner in as an all rounder maybe and youve a very strong attack.
It’s a big year for Australia. They have a 4 test series in India coming up in February and a 5 test Ashes series in England this summer.
Australia may statistically be the Number 1 test team but India have won the last 3 test series against Australia, the two most recent in Australia and the 2004 test series win in India is the only test series win in India, Australia have recorded in their last 10 visits since 1969.
Australia will be favourites for the Ashes and it really is their’s to lose. As against that they haven’t won a test series in England since 2001. The likes of David Warner have never really performed in England. The age profile of the team is pushing on significantly too. By the time they make it to England in June, Warner will be 36, Khawaja 36, Sandpaper Smith 34, Carey 31, Starc 33, Cummins 30, Hazelwood 32, Boland 34, Lyon 35
Aussies didn’t lift a leg in the last series after they retained the Ashes. You are correct that they are old and their batting lineup will get skittled out easily in England.
England would surely have won the second test at Lord’s in 2019 if the weather hadn’t intervened and wiped out all of Day 1 and a bit more besides. As it was, England only fell 4 wickets short of forcing the win on Day 5 after making a very aggressive declaration.
Sandpaper everyone.
Labuschagne and Sandpaper will still be significant obstacles for the England attack batting at 3 and 4 and Travis Head is a very destructive middle order batsman, who can take a match away from you very quickly. It is a very old age profile they have though. Not too many signs of it so far, but the quicks are breaking down a lot more, particularly Hazelwood.
Should be a good contest anyway. Coach Baz has reinvigorated test cricket.