Ecko Posted July 20, 2023 Report Share Posted July 20, 2023 What a day to have hospitality tickets tomorrow 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Army 75 Posted July 20, 2023 Report Share Posted July 20, 2023 Brilliant innings. Fair play Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoystonFoote'snephew Posted July 20, 2023 Report Share Posted July 20, 2023 Magnificent innings from Crawley. Bothamesque in the pace of the innings and better driving than Lewis Hamilton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted July 20, 2023 Admin Report Share Posted July 20, 2023 Talk of a declaration this evening, that would be very interesting We're either going to have to get enough runs before lunch tomorrow and have two sessions at them to win. Or try and get them out and bat like T20 tomorrow evening to win Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted July 20, 2023 Report Share Posted July 20, 2023 Crawley and Root dismissals both keeping low won't do much for the Aussie batsmen's confidence. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B1ackbird Posted July 20, 2023 Report Share Posted July 20, 2023 Unplayable ball that got Root, hope it's a good sign for the Aussie innings... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew-T Posted July 20, 2023 Report Share Posted July 20, 2023 4 down now. If we can get to a 200 run lead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziderarmy Posted July 20, 2023 Report Share Posted July 20, 2023 What a day. Bat till lunch tomorrow with some aggression (wickets in hand) try and get 200 plus ahead and then have a go at them. Pitch staying low and cracking. Saturday looks a wash out b it Sunday is looking better. BARMY ARMY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colombo Robin Posted July 20, 2023 Report Share Posted July 20, 2023 5 minutes ago, Pearsonistheman said: What a day. Bat till lunch tomorrow with some aggression (wickets in hand) try and get 200 plus ahead and then have a go at them. Pitch staying low and cracking. Saturday looks a wash out b it Sunday is looking better. BARMY ARMY I see it doable only if the weather allows play on Sunday. Different weather apps saying different things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And Its Smith Posted July 20, 2023 Report Share Posted July 20, 2023 Cricket. Love it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tin Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 17 hours ago, Kid in the Riot said: Whisper it quietly but Crawley is having a very decent series. Averaging over 42, fourth most runs of any player, and third highest strike rate. Well in, Zak. Stats are all anyone will remember about his knock yesterday, but that was the luckiest innings I have ever seen from a top-order batsman. Five Chinese cuts, including the one that bowled him, at least a dozen play and misses. Fair play for cashing in, but he rode his luck. I’ve been to every Ashes Test at Old Trafford since 2005 (when Davis and I went up) and I’ve never seen us bowl so well as we did on day one, nor have I seen us get the rub of the green like we did with the bat yesterday. Everything went our way and it’ll be typical if the Aussies get away with a draw here. We should get 70 overs in today and I’d be looking at getting a lead of at least 150, ideally 200. Get them in this afternoon, tomorrow looks like an on-off type of day, and Sunday looks like another showery one. We can do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid in the Riot Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 1 hour ago, tin said: Stats are all anyone will remember about his knock yesterday, but that was the luckiest innings I have ever seen from a top-order batsman. Five Chinese cuts, including the one that bowled him, at least a dozen play and misses. Fair play for cashing in, but he rode his luck. We'll certainly agree to disagree here! That was one of the best innings by an opener in Ashes history. 189 at a strike rate of over 100?! It's quite literally never been done before. An epic innings that could well go a long way to winning England this match, and if we do, and go on and win the series it'll be remembered for a very long time. He's having a cracking series and certainly proving the doubters wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 1 hour ago, tin said: Stats are all anyone will remember about his knock yesterday, but that was the luckiest innings I have ever seen from a top-order batsman. Five Chinese cuts, including the one that bowled him, at least a dozen play and misses. Fair play for cashing in, but he rode his luck. I’ve been to every Ashes Test at Old Trafford since 2005 (when Davis and I went up) and I’ve never seen us bowl so well as we did on day one, nor have I seen us get the rub of the green like we did with the bat yesterday. Everything went our way and it’ll be typical if the Aussies get away with a draw here. We should get 70 overs in today and I’d be looking at getting a lead of at least 150, ideally 200. Get them in this afternoon, tomorrow looks like an on-off type of day, and Sunday looks like another showery one. We can do it. I do agree he rode his luck but some of those shots were text book. He earnt some good luck. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 I don't want to alarm anyone but I'm about 30 miles west/south-west of OT and it's been chucking it down for the last couple of hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tin Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 8 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said: We'll certainly agree to disagree here! That was one of the best innings by an opener in Ashes history. 189 at a strike rate of over 100?! It's quite literally never been done before. An epic innings that could well go a long way to winning England this match, and if we do, and go on and win the series it'll be remembered for a very long time. He's having a cracking series and certainly proving the doubters wrong He played some sublime shots, mate, but he had more lives that two or three cats! He cashed in, though, and I agree that it was “one of the best an opener in Ashes history” — on paper, at least! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordy62 Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 59 minutes ago, Northern Red said: I don't want to alarm anyone but I'm about 30 miles west/south-west of OT and it's been chucking it down for the last couple of hours. The rain is being exhausted before it gets there! Brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tin Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Super said: I do agree he rode his luck but some of those shots were text book. He earnt some good luck. Totally agree. Some of his shots were awesome, but I make that five Chinese cuts (four that went for four and another that went for three) on top of a dozen or so wild swipes. But, you make your own luck so hats off to him. I thought Mo batted really well yesterday and it was a gutter for Root, but that grubber offers us hope to possibly win - or take great strides towards winning - the game today. The cracks are pretty big so it’s going to get uneven. Edited July 21, 2023 by tin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChippenhamRed Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 The weather forecast tomorrow is absolutely dreadful, and barely better for Sunday. I think the most likely outcome right now is that Australia retain the Ashes by default purely because of rain, at a point when we were massively ahead in the game and 80%+ likely to win. Would be absolutely gutting for the Ashes to be decided like that with England clearly in the ascendency and a classic winner-takes-all decider at the Oval otherwise looking very likely. Incidentally - why can’t test cricket have a reserve day in the case of a total/near-total washout? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphindevon Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 Once again the Aussie bowlers looking jaded. Of course they’ve played one more test than us and bowled a lot more energy sapping short pitch bowling. Please don’t let the weather spoil this absolutely brilliant series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphindevon Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 2 minutes ago, TomF said: If the weather holds out for a result in this and the next test I reckon we can regain. Starc must be doubtful for next test, Lyon already out, Cummins looks spent, Boland not lived up to the hype.. Finger crossed. They’re already talking about how much tickets will change hands for at the Oval if it’s all square. It would take a large sum to persuade me to part with mine whatever the state of play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChippenhamRed Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 So let’s say they bowl 80 overs a day. 400 overs in the match. If the rain prevents all the overs being bowled, why not have reserve day to bowl however many short of 400 overs they are? You could set it at a minimum of, say, 20 overs remaining. So if they get to 380 overs it can still be a draw in five days. Would also help address the slow over rate problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tin Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 40 minutes ago, ChippenhamRed said: The weather forecast tomorrow is absolutely dreadful, and barely better for Sunday. I think the most likely outcome right now is that Australia retain the Ashes by default purely because of rain, at a point when we were massively ahead in the game and 80%+ likely to win. Would be absolutely gutting for the Ashes to be decided like that with England clearly in the ascendency and a classic winner-takes-all decider at the Oval otherwise looking very likely. Incidentally - why can’t test cricket have a reserve day in the case of a total/near-total washout? I was at Old Trafford on both days one and two. We lost 15 overs due to slow over rates across the two days and we could easily have made those up by playing until 7pm on both nights. We had the light and shadows weren’t a problem. There’s also no reason IMO why play can’t start before 11am. The authorities need to do something about lost overs when we have the conditions, they could prove crucial in this Test. The time wasting going on yesterday, from the Aussies, was so obvious and frustrating to all of us in the ground. England were equally culpable on day one, mind. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colombo Robin Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 Real shame that. If ever a game was set for some stokesy bazball fireworks. Think he was just about to really stick his foot down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelRobartes Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 Why did they need to look back at that for so long? It was clearly a good catch from Starc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And Its Smith Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 Might as well just declare at lunch. Need to bowl them out to win so whether we do that and win by an innings or need 100 to win doesn’t really matter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 1 minute ago, And Its Smith said: Might as well just declare at lunch. Need to bowl them out to win so whether we do that and win by an innings or need 100 to win doesn’t really matter Yeah, for the sake of another 10 runs or so it's hardly worth batting on. TMS have just said they don't need to decide to declare until 10 minutes before the restart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted July 21, 2023 Admin Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 2 minutes ago, Northern Red said: Yeah, for the sake of another 10 runs or so it's hardly worth batting on. TMS have just said they don't need to decide to declare until 10 minutes before the restart. Leave it until the last possible moment then let them know 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tin Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 Another six overs lost before lunch due to Aussie time wasting. Time to declare now IMO. Get two sessions at them before the rain arrives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoystonFoote'snephew Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 13 minutes ago, tin said: Another six overs lost before lunch due to Aussie time wasting. Time to declare now IMO. Get two sessions at them before the rain arrives. I hear what you say about over rates but over the course of the series England's over rate is lower than the Aussies, although they're both between 12-13 an hour. Personally I've always believed it a disgrace not to bowl 15 overs an hour. An over every 4 minutes should be a doddle. Trouble is there are no adequate in game sanctions to prevent time wasting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphindevon Posted July 21, 2023 Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 I’d give Bairstow another 2 or 3 overs of slogging just so their openers have less time to prepare and us a few more runs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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