Root out second ball of the day. England in big trouble now on 68/4.
Ffs
87/5
A most ill advised swipe from Johnny Butterfingers.
1 Like
The ashes in England rarely fails to deliver.
101/5
131/6
Stokes still there.
The Aussies will be petrified as long as heâs still in.
Woakes is out
7/142
Stokes still there at lunch on 142/7 but heâs clearly hampered by injury. Heâll have to come out swinging after lunch now anyway as theyâre properly into the tail now and with England trailing by 120 still, the Ashes is close to gone on them now.
All told, a truly dismal effort from England this morning.
I only watched the last ten mins, but they have cowered in the face of some hostile bowling. None of them got out to a ball that would have hit the stumps or even close. Not officer class.
1 Like
The winning and losing of this series has been in the field. Australia batting hasnât been overly hectic and England havenât bowled all that badly. If Bairstow with the gloves and the slip catchers hadnât dropped so many routine catches, Australia batting would have been decidedly average. Case in point yesterday, Root drops an absolute dolly of a catch on Marsh when he was on 7, I think it was and he makes 118. After ripping through the top order and reducing them to 85/4, England then drop Marsh on 7 and Head on 13 and Australia get to 263 when they really should have been skittled out for 130/140.
Australia have barely dropped a catch all series and Carey with the gloves is a top quality specialist wicketkeeper while the Bazballers continue to ignore and not select their best wicketkeeper Ben Foakes and persist with a club standard, part time wicketkeeper in Johnny Butterfingers.
Catches win matches.
1 Like
England have only three problems. Canât bat, canât bowl, canât field.
1 Like
The old cliche that was trotted out before the 1986/87 series in Australia by the Australian press before Mike Gattingâs charges went out and won the series.
Englandâs big problem is theyâre such slaves to this Bazball system and psyche that they canât vary it or come up with a Plan B. England have been in positions in each of the 3 tests now where they were on top but have blown it each time, through a combination of lack of killer instinct and inability to adapt.
16 off the first three deliveries after lunch from Mark Wood to move England from 142/7 to 158/7.
This wonât last long but would be handy if he knocked out a few more 6âs.
Weather?
Another 6 from Woody to start the second over after lunch. 166/7.
And the fun is over.
167/8. Wood skies one and is out with a useful 24 off 8 deliveries. Stokes will cut loose now.
Whatâs left? Broad &