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Quote from: Sithara007 on December 11, 2021, 01:20:19 AM

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I do agree with you. I was of opinion that England will have upper hand in this Ashes as they have strong team compared to Aussies. Full credit to Cummins, he bowled well in his first test as captain. He was first fast bowler captain for Aussies in 70 years.

First test as the captain for Cummins. Let's see how it goes from here for him. England was perhaps a bit overconfident? They didn't played any warmup matches before the first test. The only match practice they had before the Brisbane test was the abandoned match between their A and B teams, which lasted for just 29 overs (two and half days out of three days washed out). Increasing number of COVID cases in Australia (as well as the ongoing BBL) means that they can't yet schedule any matches against the first class teams.

Now it's too late to discuss the warmup matches and why England did not opt for them. I do think that the England team, after this loss, will come back strong in the second test. They have the players and talent to turn the tables, therefore Australians can't relax and take things for granted even though they have won the first match.

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Quote from: og kush420 on December 11, 2021, 12:31:01 AM

I do agree with you. I was of opinion that England will have upper hand in this Ashes as they have strong team compared to Aussies. Full credit to Cummins, he bowled well in his first test as captain. He was first fast bowler captain for Aussies in 70 years.

First test as the captain for Cummins. Let's see how it goes from here for him. England was perhaps a bit overconfident? They didn't played any warmup matches before the first test. The only match practice they had before the Brisbane test was the abandoned match between their A and B teams, which lasted for just 29 overs (two and half days out of three days washed out). Increasing number of COVID cases in Australia (as well as the ongoing BBL) means that they can't yet schedule any matches against the first class teams.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on December 10, 2021, 09:56:24 PM

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Excellent batting display from the England, mammoth target of 20 runs. Australia is in big trouble. Grin

LOL... Before the start of the series, 90% of the users here were saying that England is going to whitewash Australia. And look at what happened. Australia very nearly pulled off an innings victory. BTW, I haven't seen too many posts congratulating Pat Cummins. We can't ignore his contribution here (both as the captain, and as the opening bowler). He made his test debut 10 years ago, at the age of 18 years. And this is very rare in Australia, where the selectors normally doesn't consider players for national team selection until they are 21-22 at least. And I guess he was the last teenager to make debut for them.

I do agree with you. I was of opinion that England will have upper hand in this Ashes as they have strong team compared to Aussies. Full credit to Cummins, he bowled well in his first test as captain. He was first fast bowler captain for Aussies in 70 years.

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Excellent batting display from the England, mammoth target of 20 runs. Australia is in big trouble. Grin

LOL... Before the start of the series, 90% of the users here were saying that England is going to whitewash Australia. And look at what happened. Australia very nearly pulled off an innings victory. BTW, I haven't seen too many posts congratulating Pat Cummins. We can't ignore his contribution here (both as the captain, and as the opening bowler). He made his test debut 10 years ago, at the age of 18 years. And this is very rare in Australia, where the selectors normally doesn't consider players for national team selection until they are 21-22 at least. And I guess he was the last teenager to make debut for them.

England batting again collapsed in the 2nd innings. When Dawid Malan and Joe Root were batting at 80+ each I thought they could turn the game around for England, but none of the remaining England batsmen were able to show any big performances and Australia easily won this test match.

After Root and Malan showed application on the third day, the English submitted their surrender. English crumbled once again with the new ball, giving a target of 20 runs is just incredible. All down to England's first innings surrender - a disappointing start to the series. This was a totally one-sided match. Australia put 500 on the board, the visitors struggled to score 300.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on December 10, 2021, 09:56:24 PM

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Excellent batting display from the England, mammoth target of 20 runs. Australia is in big trouble. Grin

LOL... Before the start of the series, 90% of the users here were saying that England is going to whitewash Australia. And look at what happened. Australia very nearly pulled off an innings victory. BTW, I haven't seen too many posts congratulating Pat Cummins. We can't ignore his contribution here (both as the captain, and as the opening bowler). He made his test debut 10 years ago, at the age of 18 years. And this is very rare in Australia, where the selectors normally doesn't consider players for national team selection until they are 21-22 at least. And I guess he was the last teenager to make debut for them.

England batting again collapsed in the 2nd innings. When Dawid Malan and Joe Root were batting at 80+ each I thought they could turn the game around for England, but none of the remaining England batsmen were able to show any big performances and Australia easily won this test match.

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Quote from: JSRAW on December 10, 2021, 08:06:22 PM

Excellent batting display from the England, mammoth target of 20 runs. Australia is in big trouble. Grin

LOL... Before the start of the series, 90% of the users here were saying that England is going to whitewash Australia. And look at what happened. Australia very nearly pulled off an innings victory. BTW, I haven't seen too many posts congratulating Pat Cummins. We can't ignore his contribution here (both as the captain, and as the opening bowler). He made his test debut 10 years ago, at the age of 18 years. And this is very rare in Australia, where the selectors normally doesn't consider players for national team selection until they are 21-22 at least. And I guess he was the last teenager to make debut for them.

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Finally after 366 days Lyon gets his 400th wicket, very happy to see spin brigade ticking every checklist in recent times.

Ashwin doing what he does best.
Ajaz Patel did the impossible.
Sajid Khan spinning web.
Now GOAT hit the big milestone.

Gabba's 3rd day pitch was perfect to bat on and English batters did everything right, Malan rode his luck and was extremely lucky to survive on countless occasion including -bat & pad- call (no one appealed at all. Root is one man army for the England.

As of now Poms are struggling and they lost 4 more wickets of Malan, Root, Pope and Stokes and trailing 12 runs.

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Excellent batting display from the England, mammoth target of 20 runs. Australia is in big trouble. Grin

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Quote from: mm2543363580 on December 10, 2021, 01:18:03 PM

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This is beauty of test cricket, first 2 days Australia was in command and suddenly third day we have England is some better position and if Root and Malan stay some more time than surely we are going to have very entertaining end of this first of The Ashes test. Right now partnership is already 159, and now they need some more time on crease for having good hand in this match which was slipping very badly after two days play.

Currently, England trailing by 58 runs with 8 wickets in hand and two set batsmen on crease mean very good fight back from them, and it's very good for rest of this series.
Nathan Lyon's wait for his 400th wicket is getting late now it's more than 11 months, he stuck on 399 and becoming fourth player in Australian test history with 400+ wickets.

Full credit goes to Root and Malan for lifting England up in the second innings but damage done by Australian bowlers in the first innings is huge. Though England looks good but I think they are still not in full command. Favorite for this game is still Australia unless England set target of 400 which right now looks not possible.

Good comeback by the English team, they only trail by 49 runs. Root is still going strong and in this manner, he should reach his hundred. Malan is out for 89 and I was thinking that these two guys will continue and put on some runs lead. In my opinion, Root needs to stay on the wicket till England has a good lead.

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Quote from: mm2543363580 on December 10, 2021, 01:18:03 PM

Full credit goes to Root and Malan for lifting England up in the second innings but damage done by Australian bowlers in the first innings is huge. Though England looks good but I think they are still not in full command. Favorite for this game is still Australia unless England set target of 400 which right now looks not possible.

Agreed. Root and Malan are playing well at the moment, but these partnerships usually end pretty quickly after a break and I am not expecting much from the rest of the English lineup. They will probably give them a lead of around 100-150 runs.

It all comes down to how well Australia performs in the 2nd innings since the English bowling lineup shouldn't be underestimated.

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Quote from: doomloop on December 10, 2021, 12:42:05 PM

This is beauty of test cricket, first 2 days Australia was in command and suddenly third day we have England is some better position and if Root and Malan stay some more time than surely we are going to have very entertaining end of this first of The Ashes test. Right now partnership is already 159, and now they need some more time on crease for having good hand in this match which was slipping very badly after two days play.

Currently, England trailing by 58 runs with 8 wickets in hand and two set batsmen on crease mean very good fight back from them, and it's very good for rest of this series.
Nathan Lyon's wait for his 400th wicket is getting late now it's more than 11 months, he stuck on 399 and becoming fourth player in Australian test history with 400+ wickets.

Full credit goes to Root and Malan for lifting England up in the second innings but damage done by Australian bowlers in the first innings is huge. Though England looks good but I think they are still not in full command. Favorite for this game is still Australia unless England set target of 400 which right now looks not possible.

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Quote from: RealMalatesta on December 10, 2021, 08:05:24 AM

Day's first session will be challenging hence I will not be surprised if I need to see that England to be losing all their remaining 8 wickets in two sessions. Still, if Australia need to chase anything beyond 250 runs then I guess England will get chances to take the lead of this Ashes series. I guess playing like counter attack will help any batsman for better scoring and we have already seen Head cracked a century that way. I guess we can expect expect a cameo from Ben Stokes to turn this match on England favour but Australia will not give up that easily hence we can expect more exciting test cricket days for next 2 days if weather allows.

This is beauty of test cricket, first 2 days Australia was in command and suddenly third day we have England is some better position and if Root and Malan stay some more time than surely we are going to have very entertaining end of this first of The Ashes test. Right now partnership is already 159, and now they need some more time on crease for having good hand in this match which was slipping very badly after two days play.

Currently, England trailing by 58 runs with 8 wickets in hand and two set batsmen on crease mean very good fight back from them, and it's very good for rest of this series.
Nathan Lyon's wait for his 400th wicket is getting late now it's more than 11 months, he stuck on 399 and becoming fourth player in Australian test history with 400+ wickets.

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Quote from: RealMalatesta on December 10, 2021, 08:05:24 AM

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Although the two openers did not play well, Malan and Root's extraordinary batting skills helped England collect 204 runs, losing only 2 wickets. Although they are still 74 runs behind.

Day's first session will be challenging hence I will not be surprised if I need to see that England to be losing all their remaining 8 wickets in two sessions. Still, if Australia need to chase anything beyond 250 runs then I guess England will get chances to take the lead of this Ashes series. I guess playing like counter attack will help any batsman for better scoring and we have already seen Head cracked a century that way. I guess we can expect expect a cameo from Ben Stokes to turn this match on England favour but Australia will not give up that easily hence we can expect more exciting test cricket days for next 2 days if weather allows.

England must play well in the first session tomorrow. If England do not lose a wicket in the first session, they will be able to take control of the match. England will lose a few more wickets very quickly if the two batsmen at the crease are out in the first session. If England are able to deliver more than 250 targets tomorrow then both the teams will have a good chance to win on the fifth day.

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Quote from: LittleBitFunny on December 10, 2021, 02:00:24 AM

Although the two openers did not play well, Malan and Root's extraordinary batting skills helped England collect 204 runs, losing only 2 wickets. Although they are still 74 runs behind.

Day's first session will be challenging hence I will not be surprised if I need to see that England to be losing all their remaining 8 wickets in two sessions. Still, if Australia need to chase anything beyond 250 runs then I guess England will get chances to take the lead of this Ashes series. I guess playing like counter attack will help any batsman for better scoring and we have already seen Head cracked a century that way. I guess we can expect expect a cameo from Ben Stokes to turn this match on England favour but Australia will not give up that easily hence we can expect more exciting test cricket days for next 2 days if weather allows.

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Australia finished their innings with 425 runs and they were leading by 278 runs. England are surprising everyone in their performance in the second innings. Although the two openers did not play well, Malan and Root's extraordinary batting skills helped England collect 204 runs, losing only 2 wickets. Although they are still 74 runs behind. The match will be competitive till the last innings if they can continue batting so well. Now the game of season 3 is going on on the third day.

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Yeah, this info came out later and i was watching live. Guess Channel 7 broke the 14 no ball news to everyone. For some weird reasons no broadcaster bothered to share single no ball footage on live feed except the 2, which got caught by naked eyes.

May be the third umpire was sleeping or he was not having the footage to call the no ball, the third umpire is responsible for these front foot no ball i believe.

Australia is in a good position and David Warner once again missed his century but he played well but Travis Head surprised me as he was playing as it is an T20 or ODI striking at over 120 and he is still in the crease and by morning they will be having a 200 runs lead and it is going to be a difficult match for England to recover in this match.

Just checked the highlights of this test match. Australia is in a good position at the moment. They have a lead of 197 runs and they will try to take it to 300 if possible as not too many wickets left now. Still better than the English team, what pathetic batting from them they could not even score 150.

Travis Head pitched a brilliant inning. The man is simply outstanding. Travis Head passes the 150 mark in Tests for the second time in his career! As a result, Australia posted a 400+ total and led by 278 runs. Australia retaliate with Malan and Root after losing 2 wickets in the afternoon session. Dawid Malan and Joe Root must both bat well. Despite Australia's strong chances of winning, anything can happen.

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Quote from: eaLiTy on December 09, 2021, 02:14:50 PM

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Yeah, this info came out later and i was watching live. Guess Channel 7 broke the 14 no ball news to everyone. For some weird reasons no broadcaster bothered to share single no ball footage on live feed except the 2, which got caught by naked eyes.

May be the third umpire was sleeping or he was not having the footage to call the no ball, the third umpire is responsible for these front foot no ball i believe.

Australia is in a good position and David Warner once again missed his century but he played well but Travis Head surprised me as he was playing as it is an T20 or ODI striking at over 120 and he is still in the crease and by morning they will be having a 200 runs lead and it is going to be a difficult match for England to recover in this match.

Just checked the highlights of this test match. Australia is in a good position at the moment. They have a lead of 197 runs and they will try to take it to 300 if possible as not too many wickets left now. Still better than the English team, what pathetic batting from them they could not even score 150.

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Quote from: eaLiTy on December 09, 2021, 02:14:50 PM

May be the third umpire was sleeping or he was not having the footage to call the no ball, the third umpire is responsible for these front foot no ball i believe.

Australia is in a good position and David Warner once again missed his century but he played well but Travis Head surprised me as he was playing as it is an T20 or ODI striking at over 120 and he is still in the crease and by morning they will be having a 200 runs lead and it is going to be a difficult match for England to recover in this match.

Third empire was sleeping or not good thing it's all happening in Australia and match between Australia vs England so media will also not highlight and ICC and relative Boards will also quite because it's all about failure of technology. If this can have any link with Sub-Continent specially with Pakistan then surely it's going to be spot fixing case and all guns start firing against Pakistan because it's the easiest victim for them.

Now it's all in control of Australia their batting done some better job, and they have 197 lead with 3 wickets still in hand and Head is on crease so if they will take 55 to 60 more runs than it's going to be very difficult for England to avoid inning defeat because their batting line up is very bad for this series, and they can't handle quality bowling of Australia with Cummins, Start and Hazelwood all on fire.

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Quote from: JSRAW on December 09, 2021, 10:44:25 AM

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Yeah, this info came out later and i was watching live. Guess Channel 7 broke the 14 no ball news to everyone. For some weird reasons no broadcaster bothered to share single no ball footage on live feed except the 2, which got caught by naked eyes.

May be the third umpire was sleeping or he was not having the footage to call the no ball, the third umpire is responsible for these front foot no ball i believe.

Australia is in a good position and David Warner once again missed his century but he played well but Travis Head surprised me as he was playing as it is an T20 or ODI striking at over 120 and he is still in the crease and by morning they will be having a 200 runs lead and it is going to be a difficult match for England to recover in this match.

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Yeah, this info came out later and i was watching live. Guess Channel 7 broke the 14 no ball news to everyone. For some weird reasons no broadcaster bothered to share single no ball footage on live feed except the 2, which got caught by naked eyes.

What's the use of this modern technology when you still cannot be accurate in your decisions, these small things affect the matches so much these days, especially in the t20s. If third umpire is too occupied with other things, they should just have one extra person looking for no balls.

They clarified by saying that tech was not working at all and they went to old era technique which is on field umpires call but sounds bizarre clarification considering it took them 14 frigging no balls to act. Now imagine same scenario if it was any subcontinent country. There was big possibility of most of the cricketing world especially SENA countries reaction would be at spot fixing allegation and nonsense demands for bowler's head, including match officials integrity and spirit of the game.

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Quote from: kro55 on December 09, 2021, 10:29:14 AM

As long as Travis Head stays at the crease, Australia's collection will continue to grow. If he is out, other batsmen will not be able to stay in the crease for long. With the exception of Warner, Labuschange and Head, no other batsman has been able to collect more than 12. Australia will win this match. I don't think England's players will make a big splash in the second innings.

English batting line up is completely crap just alone Root can't survive every time, and we have some good hype about Stokes return, but all forget he is coming into test cricket after very long gape, so he needs some good practice before doing any good thing.

Right now, Australian batting is also having not special but still Warner, Labuschange and Head are on target for them which is very good and positive after watching first English and then Australian batting now I am feeling Australia can whitewash them without any big trouble just rain can give them some room, otherwise they have nothing bad this time in the Ashes. Or may be rain is second option for having something better.

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