I think it's going to be tough.Lunch and all out
20 runs to win
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Twelfth umm “man” Pats? - Patsy StoneFrom the guardian this morning.
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My England team for the next Test,” says William Vincent.
- Laurel
- Hardy
- Morecambe
- Root (c)
- Wise
- Little
- Large
- Marx G (w)
- Robinson
- Wood
- Anderson
“Except, of course, that Robinson, Wood and Anderson will be rested for the more important fifth test and replaced by Marx H, French and Saunders.”
Well yesSo will Boland be passed over for the fourth test because he is an MCG specialist?
Though if I were the Englishmen I might be tempted to go out and catch covid so we all had to go home.
Since then there’s been two significant changesMy worry is the usual over-hyping of this result against an ill prepared and fairly mediocre team. The results last year against a good, but not great, Indian side seem to have been whisked under the carpet by much of the media. Our batting is certainly suspect in a number of areas.
Since then there’s been two significant changes
I can see clearly now, T Paine is gone
P coughmins is Captain
Bowler rotation has taken place this year unlike last year where the coach griped “who would you have dropped?” We served up the same old same old last year and it’s why there were calls for the axing of Starc (wayward, he may be fast but accuracy was and is still terrible, but has gotten better this year, the ball that got stokes was a peach. The ball that got Root was so cough). And Lyons (spun his way to 56 wickets on Adelaide Oval in two less Tests than Shane Warne.
but it’s clear there’s more form amongst bowlers OUTSIDE the anointed 4 from NSW than inside them. And unless you turn over your Test team at the rate of 2 per year, unless someone is exceptional and goes on for a second lot of 6 years, you will plummet performance when they all age out.
As for England, with one selector / coach pfft some really bad decisions and inept batsmanship That would go well in F grade Turf cricket. Appalling
He spun a good yarn.David Boon has been diagnosed with Covid and will miss the next test as Match Referee. He is non-symptomatic.
However, I think he must have bribed the ABC journalist who wrote the story as Boon was described as "The former Test batter and off-spin bowler". His Test bowling figures of 36 balls for 0/14 and his 14 First Class wickets in 350 matches at around 50 certainly stretch the definition of an off-spin bowler. Definitely a bit of a gloss on his career.
Fourth Ashes Test impacted by COVID-19, Big Bash match cancelled
Australian cricket is thrown into chaos, with the fourth Ashes Test and a Big Bash game affected by COVID-19.www.abc.net.au
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