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Post by ssmith on Dec 6, 2021 17:53:53 GMT 1
..The first test starts our time around 11.00 pm tomorrow and it will be a very hard task to win the Ashes down under for sure...betting for the series is around Aussies 10/11...England 8/1...the draw 9/2...for the first test Aussies 1/1...England 4/1...the draw 2/1...the odds will slightly vary up to the start,,but we can only give it our best shot..!! K.R.O
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Post by ssmith on Dec 8, 2021 10:09:43 GMT 1
England win the toss and elect to bat ,,,er...well for a bit anyway.!..Burns out first ball of the test.. !, and it didn't improve a lot ..four out the first five batsmen contributed just eleven runs..! ..and it was a pathetic all out for just 147 ..Buttler top score with 39 ..will the rain save England ?..can anybody or anything save England...??,,,we are going to have bowl ,field and bat again very well if we can avoid defeat..so what will day two bring..?? K.R.O.
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Post by ssmith on Dec 9, 2021 10:09:19 GMT 1
Day two was a grim one for England....the Aussies 343 for 7 off just 84 overs,,,over four an over,,,Head went into one day mode 112 not out off just 95 balls..!...Leach 1 for 95 off just 11 overs...Stokes 0 for 50 off 9 overs...the rest did OK and full marks to Robinson 3 for 48 off 18 0vers..some of the media have questioned why was Leach bowled so much at such a cost ??..should they have left both Broad and Anderson out ..??,,but hindsight is a wonderful thing !..it could be that England maybe be looking at 250 or so to avoid an innings defeat...and surely they can't bat no worse than they did in the first innings ...?? we will find out later ! K.R.O.
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Post by ssmith on Dec 10, 2021 16:16:27 GMT 1
Is the fightback on..??...end of day3..England 220 for 2 ..,Malan 80 no .Root 86 no..58 behind,,a good century from both and maybe another on on the cards a few hours rain and who knows...least England have got back a bit of credibility !!...day 4 could be a criical one ..?? K.R.O.
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Post by ssmith on Dec 11, 2021 9:43:22 GMT 1
It turned out to be a false dawn..Malan 82 Root 89...then came the all too familiar batting collapse,, ...we lost the last 8 wickets for a pitiful 77 runs.. .the Aussies wrapping victory up inside four days by nine wickets...if ...??..we are to regain the Ashes and its a 'big if'..there is very little room for error ,we have to be better in all departments without question !!..so on to Thursday's test .. K.R.O.
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Post by ssmith on Dec 11, 2021 11:58:27 GMT 1
It turned out to be a false dawn..Malan 82 Root 89...then came the all too familiar batting collapse,, ...we lost the last 8 wickets for a pitiful 77 runs.. .the Aussies wrapping victory up inside four days by nine wickets...if ...??..we are to regain the Ashes and its a 'big if'..there is very little room for error ,we have to be better in all departments without question !!..so on to Thursday's test .. K.R.O. A bit of Ashes trivia.!! since 1894 there have only been 4 cases of players being bowled out first ball in the first innings of a Ashes test match,,,,Rory Burns becoming the fourth recently ...the time before that was in 1936..!! England's Stan Worthington being bowled by Ernie McCormick the first ball of the series in Brisbane... K.R.O.
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Post by ssmith on Dec 16, 2021 10:00:11 GMT 1
The Aussies won the toss and batted ,its tea they are 129 for 1 off 53 overs, Broad grabbed the early wicket but England have bowled quite well and beat the bat a fair bit and probably unlucky to have only got one wicket ,maybe that will improve for the last session ? K.R.O.
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Post by ssmith on Dec 16, 2021 15:44:24 GMT 1
The Aussies won the toss and batted ,its tea they are 129 for 1 off 53 overs, Broad grabbed the early wicket but England have bowled quite well and beat the bat a fair bit and probably unlucky to have only got one wicket ,maybe that will improve for the last session ? K.R.O. 221 for 2 a frustrating day for England !!.. deserved to get a couple or more wickets at least..!, but it wasn't be at least we kept the scoring down, Butler took good catch but dropped an easier one..!..much will depend on how we bat...we simply cannot afford ''another batting collapse'' the Aussies would probably be looking at 400 ??, so England need to put 350 minimum on the board when we go in..! K.R.O.
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Post by ssmith on Dec 17, 2021 14:29:11 GMT 1
The Aussies stepped the scoring rate up late on Neser 35 off 24, Stark39 off 39 ,then declared 437 for 9 ,England went in and both openers flopped and at the end we are 17 for 2.!! we can't win this test ,but can we save it ??..lets hope no more batsmen flop ,if we can get to 350 + and bat all day tomorrow and maybe up to a session more ! we may have a chance of saving it ..but... K.R.O.
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Post by ssmith on Dec 18, 2021 11:58:51 GMT 1
..yet ANOTHER shambolic batting performance all out for a misery 236..!!Hameed ,Burns, Pope and Butler all flopped getting just 15..!! between them ..it happens far too often..Malan and Root did fine and Stokes and Woakes give it a go ...the way we are going a 'whitewash' could be on the cards...100/1 for England to win now but they could put another '0' on the end to be honest...will it be another poor batting display from England when they bat again..or 'rain dance' for a day or so anybody ..?? K.R.O.
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Post by ssmith on Dec 19, 2021 10:18:19 GMT 1
Into the final session of the day England 32 for 1 ,,needing another 436 to win... K.R.O.
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Post by ssmith on Dec 19, 2021 21:26:55 GMT 1
Into the final session of the day England 32 for 1 ,,needing another 436 to win... K.R.O. mm...82 for 4...as the collapse started..??..will we get to 200 ??..will we still be batting at tea ...??...will it rain most of the day .??....it would be a nigh on a miracle if we were still batting at the close (rain assisted !! )...well we'll find out tomorrow ..!! K.R.O.
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Post by ssmith on Dec 20, 2021 14:36:56 GMT 1
...alas it wasn't to be..going down to another heavy defeat, 2.0 down never in the history of the Ashes have England come back from being two down to win a series !!..but we have been beaten by the better side...our batting has been has well below par with too many batsmen under scoring, plus our fielding has been a bit careless at times with too many chances dropped ,but the bowling has been reasonable most of the time, so on to Christmas Day then ...mm..will England get past 350 when they bat .. ?..lets hope so and give us a chance of WINNING the third test ! K.R.O.
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Post by ssmith on Dec 24, 2021 14:22:00 GMT 1
Ben Stokes in the press today ..''Too many repeated mistakes by too many players....but we've cleared the air and its now or never'' ...mm...well of course we all know talk is cheap ...so lets all hope for a much better performance all round for the third test ..? K.R.O.
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Post by ssmith on Dec 26, 2021 10:44:05 GMT 1
Ben Stokes in the press today ..''Too many repeated mistakes by too many players....but we've cleared the air and its now or never'' ...mm...well of course we all know talk is cheap ...so lets all hope for a much better performance all round for the third test ..? K.R.O. ... ..Yes...talk IS cheap ..and England flop yet again ...!!...185 ALL OUT ..its become embarrassing now..the first three batsmen Hameed Crawley and Malan contributed just 26 between them of almost 17 overs...at least Root got a decent score.,,.but will the chance of regaining the Ashes have gone completely by this time tomorrow..?? K.R.O.
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