Cricket

inarguable

the Bazballers have become the Bazballees

gotta say, even if pato's lot are the beneficiaries, seeing india's anti-cricket pitch preparation tactics backfire this hilariously is very gratifying

Matthew Kuhnemann, your time is now!

Kuhnemannia is real

turning into a bit of a thriller this

Well if the Windies didn't lose two wickets at the start, then sure

anyway replay that Steven Peter Devereux Smith catch please

a pair for Temba, he doesn't seem to have much luck does he

well australia can't fail to chase this

very funny

Well if the Windies didn't lose two wickets at the start, then sure

― cocaine bear say hi to me (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 2 March 2023 11:10 (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

you thought they'd get within 100 of that target?

travball travball travball

west indies DID get within 100. clean sweep for pato this week

xp his head is where it needs to be... scoring runs

Incredible end to NZ/Sri Lanka.

Was very happy about Justin Langer no longer coaching until he became an Official ICC Event Television Commentator.

he's fuckin unbearable eh

IF I HAD A SON A STRONG BRAVE AUSTRALIAN SON I'D TEACH THEM MARTIAL ARTS ofc I had 4 girls and that's different ofc everyone knows girls can't learn martial arts BUT I'VE BEEN BLESSED A HUNDRED TIMES OVER TO HAVE FOUR GIRLS I didn't keep trying to have a son oh no gosh no

I went to Day 2 btw, nice day's cricket it was too, Aussies didn't need to put any more foot on the throat so they contented themselves with maintaining a thoroughly winning position. There was a fantastic moment with Boland at the end being chucked about 30 garments to sign and getting through about, ooh, 12 of them?

Mexican waves need to be punishable with maiming tho

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Scotty Boland continues to be the best Top Bloke for a very long time.

He'll sit out the whole Ashes if he has to! (I'd pick him instead of Starc tbh)

and so it hath proven

England are far too cocky at the moment, I'm switching my allegiance to Aus.

declaring on day 1 it's like they read tom's comment and decided to raise the bar

on a flat pitch with a v uncertain spin bowling option and stokes carrying a niggle it seems foolhardy tbh, but i guess we will see today.

pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse, after all

For those wanting a taste of Bazball Done Well btw, check out the women's Ashes warmup scorecards. Aussie reign of terror helpless in its face. Alternatively, it is just a warmup

i guess we will see today.

Indeed.

more like Bagofshiteball

Bullshit aside, this is a brilliant test match.

bloody entertaining Test match but even more excited for this tbh

It's one thing to have a drama series on Shane Warne.

It's totally another thing, when Ch9 is bringing a show on the feud between Ian Chappell and Ian Botham.

In the preview, Ian Chappell called Botham a liar.#Ashes pic.twitter.com/MMQfxCO32j

— Vijay A (@VAAChandran) June 19, 2023

Cricket lovely cricket
It's the game with stumps and bails and wickets
In Birmingham on the fifth day the elements
Threaten to curtail the packed Ashes crowd's enjoyment
England prospered with their aggressive approach called Bazball
But sometimes they give away their wickets for practically nothing at all

<saxophone solo>

none of you deserve this

okay except Chinaski

happy for Pato and Australia if they finish this. absolutely no desire to hear any whinging English casuals 'oooh Bazball is shite mate' fuck off, you hate cricket

I can't take another six weeks of this

Bazbollocks

... will be a headline in the Daily Star tomorrow.

great test match. be v interesting to see how england respond. they’ve had so many great results over the last 14 or so tests, because they’ve been able to put their foot down on the accelerator, to give themselves runs and time to beat teams in the second innings. stokes and others were v capable of building an innings but they were also capable of accruing runs incredibly quickly. they bat deep, are an experienced team, and they’ve got great, disciplined bowlers capable of taking wickets in all conditions. mccullum himself i believe has banned use of “bazball” in the dressing room.

here they had several weak points in the team. spin, and recent injuries to anderson and stokes. bairstow, if you like. that extremely high pressure approach is more fragile to that sort of raggedness at the edges.

also, some things never change, you gotta take your chances.

fwiw didn’t mind the declaration, should have let root hit out or get out tho.

Fair play to the Aussies - did what they needed to, basically. Always that feeling that we'd never win like that over there (2011 was different altogether).

Agreed the team is a bit ragged around the edges, particularly Bairstow and Moeen. I wonder if they'll go Dawson for the next test, assuming Mo's finger won't heal? Wood for Anderson, who looked like he was struggling throughout?

from what anderson said he was just struggling to find his rhythm after a lay off from picking up a niggle, so he will back himself to improve over the series i’d imagine. i back him to have some pivotal moments!

more generally it was a fine, competitive test match and there’ll be a lot of crap written, but given the record of stokes, mccullum and team you back them to get to the right place. go again in two weeks’ time!

lol (entertaining) england

re: The Declaration - tbf to B. Stokes, how would he know that they wouldn't be able to get Nathan Lyon out?

Stokes said something in a post match interview about how England are not playing "results based cricket" and I thought the Aussies will love hearing that.

It's like my mother telling me how "taking part is what counts" after I entered a swimming race and finishing last was meant to make me feel better.

Look, after both teams had lost 18 wickets in total, England were ahead, so its a moral victory for me Clive

also Joe Root is back, back, back as best batsman in the world in the ICC Rankings sponsored by MRF Tyres, so who are the REAL winners here?

England were massive favourites with an hour to go. Needed two tailenders to play the innings of their lives. Had England their main spinner available, they'd have probably won. Unearthing a functional spinner is the priority before the remaining Tests