Cricket

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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.

Root now injured after being struck on the back leg (Australia reviewed for LBW but it was missing)

How's the weather forecast for tomorrow?

One of my heroes Abdul Qadir died. :( He was a genius with the ball

He was, that's sad

Well England are having a "go"

well its 0-2

and root will remain captain, his batting will stink because of it and nothing much will change over the next few years as the ECB prefer the money from One Day and T20 games and this silly new competition

Anybody think England will bat out the draw?

Without those two wickets there might have been a chance, but now it looks beyond them.

God has to intervene.

I don't think Stokes is God tbh

Nor do I.

But it's ok the ECB made a ton of cash who gives a shit.

that's pretty much it innit, that's all they care about

its like having the Celtic FC board and their biscuit tin running cricket.

Bairstow out

it looks awfully dark there to me

Root has to stand down or be sacked as captain. Hi batting has been affected badly and he's not a good captain and his Ashes record as skipper is appalling. He's lost 2 series.

But the buck mustn't stop there.

Just watch the ECB do nothing and watch it all happen over and over again

Congrats to steve smith for single-handedly winning the Ashes