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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2021 11:26:03 GMT -5
I still expect Root and Malan to score centuries, followed by the rest of the team completely shitting the bed with maybe 50 runs between them.
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Post by jgtheone on Dec 10, 2021 22:41:34 GMT -5
Other than Root and Malan getting centuries you were bang on
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2021 12:53:59 GMT -5
It was an absolute shambles!
At least Perth has been stripped of the 5th test (where we are wank), and been replaced by a day/night test in Hobart (which should be similar to English conditions).
I think we will be more competitive in Adelaide, Melbourne and possibly win in Hobart. I think we will get destroyed in Sydney though.
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Post by Strewthless on Dec 11, 2021 12:58:29 GMT -5
5-0, I have no reason to doubt that. There just isn't enough runs in this batting lineup, which is the worst I've ever seen from an English team. Especially when this guy (who has had a test record 6 ducks this year) is opening the batting.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2021 13:04:29 GMT -5
We had a worse team in 2017 but they at least looked competitive at the Gabba, and for a couple of days in that test it looked like England would win.
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Post by Strewthless on Dec 11, 2021 13:13:43 GMT -5
A lot of people have been switching off because of the coverage on BT. It's an all-Aussie commentary team of Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist and Mark Waugh. Unashamedly biased and constantly gloating, difficult to listen to for any extended period of time.
Meanwhile I'm told Australian TV, Channel 7, has a good balance of Australian and English commentators.
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Post by jgtheone on Dec 11, 2021 17:27:22 GMT -5
A lot of people have been switching off because of the coverage on BT. It's an all-Aussie commentary team of Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist and Mark Waugh. Unashamedly biased and constantly gloating, difficult to listen to for any extended period of time. Meanwhile I'm told Australian TV, Channel 7, has a good balance of Australian and English commentators. BT must be using some of the Fox commentary? Shane Warne is a shit commentator, even most Australians hate him. Channel 7 has Isa Guha and Alison Mitchell who are pretty good, also Botham. Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke also do a good job and aren't as biased as those three you mentioned. However sometimes Warne comes on and ruins it |
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Post by Strewthless on Dec 11, 2021 17:32:43 GMT -5
A lot of people have been switching off because of the coverage on BT. It's an all-Aussie commentary team of Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist and Mark Waugh. Unashamedly biased and constantly gloating, difficult to listen to for any extended period of time. Meanwhile I'm told Australian TV, Channel 7, has a good balance of Australian and English commentators. BT must be using some of the Fox commentary? Shane Warne is a shit commentator, even most Australians hate him. Channel 7 has Isa Guha and Alison Mitchell who are pretty good, also Botham. Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke also do a good job and aren't as biased as those three you mentioned. However sometimes Warne comes on and ruins it Yeah, it's Fox commentary. Isa Guha gets the occasional 30 minutes, but that's it. I'm guessing Michael Vaughan would usually be commentating, but he's on the naughty step right now. |
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Post by Strewthless on Dec 13, 2021 8:38:41 GMT -5
We had a worse team in 2017 but they at least looked competitive at the Gabba, and for a couple of days in that test it looked like England would win. This team is much worse, at least in terms of batting. The gap between Root and the rest of the team is wider than the Grand Canyon. Some of these stats will make your teeth itch: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/59626553Recent times have produced many unexpected and unprecedented events around the world that few would or even could have predicted a few years ago.
A Test batsman scoring more than a thousand runs more than his next-most-productive team-mate might not be studied in quite as much depth as other bolts-from-the-blue that have shaken this renowned planet, but it has never happened before, and only once even come close to happening.
Root's tally for the year with two Tests remaining stands at 1,544, and Pakistan's Mohammad Yousuf's calendar-year record of 1,788 is within reach.
England's next highest scorer is Burns, with 492, meaning the skipper is set to obliterate the 45-year-old record for Biggest Margin Of Run Superiority By A Player Over His Next Highest-Scoring Team-Mate In A Calendar Year Of Test Cricket.
West Indian immortal Viv Richards outscored Roy Fredericks by 881 runs in 1976, the only other instance of a player exceeding the second most productive member of team by more than 700 runs.
Further numerical evidence of the astonishing chasm between Root and the rest of England's batting is that he has scored more than 3.14 times as many runs as Burns.
Of the 24 players other than Root who have played Tests for England in 2021, only one averages more than 30 - Dawid Malan
England's collective batting average this year is currently 23.6, with seven centuries in 13 Tests.
By nostalgic comparison, in 2011, which began with Andrew Strauss' team sealing a 3-1 series win at the SCG, England's most recent red-ball victory in either Australia (11 Tests) or New Zealand (7 Tests), England scored 16 hundreds in eight Tests and averaged 55.9.
That figure of 23.6 is England's fourth worst since the First World War, outskittled only by 1950 (21.3), 1972 (a year in which England retained the Ashes with a 2-2 draw despite not scoring a century and averaging 23.2), and the famous festival of ineptitude that was 1999, when England managed to squeeze in a collective batting average of 22.3 alongside elimination from a home World Cup before the team song had been released, and the worst ever start to a Test match by a batting team (2-4 in Johannesburg).
Even these startlingly grim numbers have been heavily prettified by Root, who has been papering over some tectonic faults in his team's batting.
If you take out his runs, England's other batters have averaged 18.9, which would be their fourth worst year-average ever, their worst since 1906, and their worst ever in a year containing more than five Tests. |
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Post by Noodleman556 on Dec 13, 2021 9:05:05 GMT -5
Usually listen to these guys over summer. Really quality banter about cricket and some occasional insight.
Their best video is their reaction to the gabba test and how the anglosphere should create a new bowling style for spinners:
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Post by Strewthless on Dec 16, 2021 7:51:47 GMT -5
Come on home, lads. You're embarrassing yourselves.
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Post by greysrigging on Dec 16, 2021 16:39:14 GMT -5
Butler couldn't catch Covid on a cruise liner.......
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Post by Noodleman556 on Dec 17, 2021 4:54:11 GMT -5
3, 95, 103, 93, 18, 2, 51, 39, 35, 9
I like these numbers a lot. Lovely wag of the tail
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Post by jgtheone on Dec 17, 2021 8:18:25 GMT -5
Brilliant second day. Marnus got his first century¹⁰.  |
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Post by Strewthless on Dec 17, 2021 9:29:32 GMT -5
I'm sure Root will come out after the match with his usual PR drivel, "lessons were learned", "there's plenty of positives", "we'll regroup".
Tit.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2021 12:15:40 GMT -5
I think this forum would beat England in a test match at the moment.
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Post by Strewthless on Dec 19, 2021 10:08:52 GMT -5
Hameed's duck was the 13th by an England opener this calendar year, the most by any team in Test history.
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Post by jgtheone on Dec 19, 2021 19:53:47 GMT -5
We're very lucky that Marcus Harris always makes about 3 before getting out, so we won't break that record.
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Post by greysrigging on Dec 20, 2021 4:54:23 GMT -5
As one has come to expect, the Poms, with their backs to the wall, have put up a fight on the 5th day. It's been hard work getting the wickets today. A day/night pink ball Test going into the last session on the 5th day.....thats a real tick of approval for the format. 38 wickets falling and a result....good stuff !
Bring on Boxing Day !
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Post by jgtheone on Dec 20, 2021 5:27:46 GMT -5
Yeah, brilliant innings from Buttler and also Woakes. Good to get the W but it didn't come easy.
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