Cricket

[DarloRich]

There is Denly gone: Trying to drive. Edged. FFS. 45-5

Guess what: awful shot

 

[Esker-pades]

Let's hope Bairstow and Buttler can pull us out of this very big hole. I'm glad I've not been listening really.

 

[ainsworth74]

Look, just let me enjoy this moment before it all comes crashing down around my ears in a few hours when England are reduced to not very many for five or six wickets

Good lord I wasn't trying to give an instruction or be prophetic with this comment!

 

[DarloRich]

45-6. Shameful. Bairstow gone. A lovely day for batting and England fail utterly. Series thrown away in in one session.

The England team need to understand the following statement: Winning the world cup means nothing at all now. It is gone. Surrendering the ashes in such a brainless & cack handed fashion is what you will be judged on.

 

[Spamcan81]

Root's dismissal was to a peach of a delivery but the other five are down to woeful shot selection.

 

[DarloRich]

Root's dismissal was to a peach of a delivery but the other five are down to woeful shot selection.

it moved away a little and was in the right area but wasn't a jaffa.

 

[Esker-pades]

Let's hope Bairstow and Buttler can pull us out of this very big hole. I'm glad I've not been listening really.

Or not.

 

[Spamcan81]

it moved away a little and was in the right area but wasn't a jaffa.

i'm going by what the pundits on the BBC were saying.

 

[DarloRich]

i'm going by what the pundits on the BBC were saying.

only seen it on the web highlights - agreed it was the least worst shot of the morning session!

 

[Darandio]

Just noticed a comment on the BBC page, fairly made in my opinion. Both of these sides just aren't very good.

So many clueless people here. Australia loose 8 wickets for 40-odd and it's down to brilliant bowling. England lose 6 for 45 and it's awful batting. You can't have it both ways.

 

[DarloRich]

Just noticed a comment on the BBC page, fairly made in my opinion. Both of these sides just aren't very good.

The Aussies had to face much more testing conditions than England did this morning. Quite a clueless comment there by that correspondent

 

[DarloRich]

Great lunchtime interview on TMS with Mark Wood. What a decent bloke. ( North east you see.....................)

 

[DarloRich]

Woakes out first ball after lunch. Gloved to the keeper. 54-7

Anyone know what the follow on taget is?

 

[DarloRich]

56-8.

Lets just give up now. Rubbish. Total rubbish.

Burns c Paine b Cummins 9
Roy c Warner b Hazlewood 9
Root c Warner b Hazlewood 0
Denly c Paine b Pattinson 12
Stokes c Warner b Pattinson 8
Bairstow c Warner b Hazlewood 4
Buttler c Khawaja b Hazlewood 5
Woakes c Paine b Cummins 5

 

[DarloRich]

Archer out. Gloved to the keeper. 56 -9.

26 overs gone. The Ashes have gone with them.

 

[DarloRich]

England all out for 67.

112 runs behind. The Aussies will now bat and show how benign the condition are. Shameful, brainless and cowardly. Drop all 11 England players and replace them with blokes out of the park.

 

[Karl]

go and stand out in the middle and have a bloke chuck a small dark red ball at you at 90plus mph and then come back and tell me what you think about light. Personally I think with lights they shouldn't be going off but I understand why.

I appreciate your answer. Thank you. I've never played or been to a cricket match but it always baffled me when matches were called off for bad light or a drop of rain. I'm learning now. I'm enjoying cricket at the moment. I don't have a TV but love the radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live. The world cup win has perked my interest.

(Oops! As I type, England are all out for 67)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Only Denly (12) made a double figure score

Hazlewood 12.5 - 2 - 30 - 5.

 

[Busaholic]

I'll let you into a little secret - I've just spent 15 minutes trying to find out the lowest individual batsman score in a completed test innings, and it is 12, now shared jointly by Joe Denly, Morne Morkel and Kulkarni of India. Ben Stokes certainly played in the test against Morkel, cos he got him out.

 

[DarloRich]

I'm enjoying cricket at the moment. I don't have a TV but love the radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live. The world cup win has perked my interest.

Fantastic! it is a great game and each format is very different. TMS on BBC radio is superb. It is how I consume cricket. I love the way it is basically a conversation about almost anything into which cricket occasionally interjects!

On the light i honestly don't think it should apply under floodlights. The rain is more to do with the bowlers being able to safely bowl as they put so much effort into their bowling action that they could easily be injured.

 

[DarloRich]

Well hold on: The Cheat Warner gone LBW to Broad! Australia 10:1

We really need one of those fantastic bowling spells form Broad.

 

[Esker-pades]

What's the lowest score in a test innings England have managed? Can't be much worse than 67 all out.

 

[Darandio]

What's the lowest score in a test innings England have managed? Can't be much worse than 67 all out.

45 is our record. We've scored less than the total today many times.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Australia after 30 overs in their second innings are 89-3, a lead of 201 runs.

Anyone think the prepared wicket is in need of an enquiry?

 

[DarloRich]

No.

The batting performance of England might need an enquiry but the pitch is fine.

There was nothing in it today yet England through a lack of defensive technique and frankly shameful shot selection threw the game and the ashes away

 

[Busaholic]

Australia after 30 overs in their second innings are 89-3, a lead of 201 runs.

Anyone think the prepared wicket is in need of an enquiry?

I think the English batting should be the subject of an enquiry or, more pertinently, why the England selectors and manager persevered with an opener totally unfit for purpose, there being 'no concerns' about him after the Lords' test according to the latter (WHAT???), Joe Root openly disliking batting at no.3, now responding with two consecutive ducks, and Joe Denly being only the third best batsman in the Kent side, yet alone an England no. 3!

 

[ainsworth74]

I was hoping our resident Aussie would have some sort of comment to pass on todays performance! Where have they got to?

 

[Cowley]

This has all been very strange to watch as a non expert.
Every time there’s been a glimmer of hope we seem to have shot ourselves in both feet (and elbows).
God sport is great though isn’t it?

 

[stantheman]

What was that I said a week ago about Root , the most overrated batsman in the history of English cricket .

 

[stantheman]

God help us next time down under , you think this is bad