Cricket

Astonishing.

He has gone full Carlos Brathwaite.

Jesus fuck

Leach has to survive two from cummings

Lyon is the only one who looks like he can take a wicket.

Six, two to win!!

omg

jesus fucking wept, whatever performance enhancing drugs they are on...

hahahahahahahahaha

Oh my lord wtf

Unbelievable

scenes

Leach has got to face this over

And lol that was lbw

A single

Tied!

Four!!

I should probably take back everything I've said about them the last two and a half days

yeessssssssssssssss

amazing Ben Stokes for a knighthood!

Well now

That lbw was for Warne and McGrath ever existing

Looks like I picked the wrong day not to listen to the cricket.

same (but millennium tbrr)

This is even more impressive than Botham in '81, right?

hope so, hate that dude

Stokes is hardly Prince Charming either tbh.

I retrospectively realise I have always believed this https://t.co/5z0fMX9RZi

— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) August 25, 2019

anyone comedown yet

even better than the World Cup final!

if we do win the Ashes I might agree

I wonder what the Australian public just waking up will think after expecting to have retained the Ashes?

The players have been really magnanimous though. They accepted the LBW wrong call and admitted it was their own fault for wasting that review but I wonder how the press will accept it.

this was pretty good but of course they still can't resist the temptation to mention that Stokes was born in NZ https://www.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/we-can-all-die-happy-now-cricket-doesn-t-get-any-better-than-this-20190826-p52knk.html

Like the way everyone here just applauded how great Smith's been (comparing to Bradman) I think they will just stand back and admit it's one of he greatest innings ever.

Shame its not on council telly for everyone to watch

This must be the highest successful run chase ever for a team bowled out under 100. How on earth did England win after being bowled out for 67? It just doesn't happen. It only happens for other teams against England. Never happens for us. We better not to back to old habits though. Surely the players know they need to just grind out the runs and dont give up their wickets cheaply. Dont make me shout at them again!

Just checking if that really happened yesterday

just ask Glenn

The most remarkable of finishes, as seen in the TMS box.

Thank you so much for being there with us.#bbccricket #Ashes pic.twitter.com/qTG16XC79Z

— Test Match Special (@bbctms) August 25, 2019

bees.

just ask Glenn

🐦[The most remarkable of finishes, as seen in the TMS box.

Thank you so much for being there with us.#bbccricket🕸 #Ashes🕸 pic.twitter.com/qTG16XC79Z🕸
— Test Match Special (@bbctms) August 25, 2019🕸]🐦

rogue bees.

I've got 5 days at Old Trafford then a couple of days at the Oval, that could have been a dismal prospect, not any more!

"I just have to make sure they are clean every time they were facing up because I would really regret it if it had been smudged," he said, "and then they zoom in on the glasses and say 'he didn't clean his glasses'.

Getting beyond a joke now this England/Smith thing.

This would be a good Test to draw

it would be a miracle. They only happen once in a lifetime.
Can you see anything other than an England collapse? They got lucky in the last test which papered over the cracks.

They got lucky in the test before that you mean, when Smith got it in the neck.

hah

I just wish Joe Root could go out there and hit a triple century tomorrow

wow Root edged and neither Paine or Warner went for it. Lucky!

Root has found it so hard to convert 50s to 100s since becoming skipper. It's very worrying cuz we need a double ton from him.