rjw63 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Ton for Bairstow, well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Fair play to Bairstow. I'm really not a fan of the guy, but he's played well there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhatAboutTheFinish Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 37 minutes ago, rjw63 said: Strangely Wood just changed his gloves, and the female commentator said "every time I have seen a player change gloves mid innings they get out". Spooky premonition…but a weird comment to make in a game where Steve Smith is playing! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Four batsmen (includes Buttler) out for less than 10. Awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilS Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 England batting averages Player Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 0 4s 6s JM Bairstow 2* 3 1 143 103* 71.50 233 61.37 1 0 0 11 3 JE Root 4* 7 0 253 89 36.14 505 50.09 0 3 2 26 0 DJ Malan 4* 7 0 205 82 29.28 519 39.49 0 2 1 26 0 CR Woakes 2 4 0 105 44 26.25 208 50.48 0 0 0 18 0 BA Stokes 4* 7 0 167 66 23.85 412 40.53 0 1 0 21 3 SCJ Broad 2* 2 1 18 9* 18.00 48 37.50 0 0 0 1 1 JC Buttler 4* 7 1 96 39 16.00 352 27.27 0 0 2 12 0 RJ Burns 2 4 0 51 34 12.75 126 40.47 0 0 1 8 0 OJ Pope 2 4 0 48 35 12.00 111 43.24 0 0 0 5 0 MA Wood 3* 5 0 59 39 11.80 87 67.81 0 0 1 4 3 Z Crawley 2* 3 0 35 18 11.66 96 36.45 0 0 0 3 0 H Hameed 4* 7 0 71 27 10.14 227 31.27 0 0 2 9 0 MJ Leach 3* 5 3 19 13 9.50 44 43.18 0 0 1 1 1 OE Robinson 3 6 0 38 22 6.33 94 40.42 0 0 3 4 0 JM Anderson 3* 4 2 9 5* 4.50 26 34.61 0 0 0 1 0 England bowling averages Player Mat Inns Overs Mdns Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 5 10 Ct St JM Anderson 3* 4 92.0 35 153 8 4/33 4/33 19.12 1.66 69.0 0 0 0 0 DJ Malan 4* 2 9.0 0 48 2 2/33 2/33 24.00 5.33 27.0 0 0 1 0 OE Robinson 3 5 87.2 27 234 9 3/58 4/71 26.00 2.67 58.2 0 0 1 0 SCJ Broad 2* 3 65.0 14 201 7 5/101 5/101 28.71 3.09 55.7 1 0 2 0 JE Root 4* 4 40.0 3 164 5 2/27 3/99 32.80 4.10 48.0 0 0 4 0 MA Wood 3* 4 71.4 12 236 6 3/85 3/89 39.33 3.29 71.6 0 0 1 0 BA Stokes 4* 5 63.3 6 286 4 3/113 3/137 71.50 4.50 95.2 0 0 3 0 CR Woakes 2 4 62.4 17 228 3 2/76 2/79 76.00 3.63 125.3 0 0 0 0 MJ Leach 3* 3 52.0 2 237 2 1/46 1/46 118.50 4.55 156.0 0 0 0 0 JM Bairstow 2* - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 0 RJ Burns 2 - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 0 JC Buttler 4* - - - - - - - - - - - - 12 0 Z Crawley 2* - - - - - - - - - - - - 4 0 H Hameed 4* - - - - - - - - - - - - 3 0 OJ Pope 2 - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 0 Ashes 2021 England Averages Warning! These figures make for some painful reading. When only two of your batsmen average over 30 runs, none of the openers average above 15 runs, and Woakes is listed as our 4th best batsman, then serious questions need to be asked about the standard of player and the batting coaching. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 well that was a mixed day. Fundamentally, being a 160 runs behind with 3 wickets to go is never great, but we must take small mercies - very gusty partnership between Stokes and Bairstow. Fairplay to JB too. Giving us a decent chance of saving this test, coming away with a draw. Big thing tonight is to not lose the last 3 wickets for like 15 runs in 2 overs. Whatever we score, if we can just bat for an hour, force them to take the new ball and scrap, then that keeps the relative positive flow moving. If, we can get the deficit under a hundred runs, then that would represent a good finish in the circumstances. Much beyond that is probably far too optimistic against this attack and the new ball. But, for heaven's sake, just don't toss it away within the first 15 minutes please. No Stokes next time, another failure by Buttler... I'd consider a 5th test line up of Burns, Crawley, Malan, Root, Pope, Bairstow, Woakes, Wood, Broad Leach Anderson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 7, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 7, 2022 1 hour ago, Rodders said: well that was a mixed day. Fundamentally, being a 160 runs behind with 3 wickets to go is never great, but we must take small mercies - very gusty partnership between Stokes and Bairstow. Fairplay to JB too. Giving us a decent chance of saving this test, coming away with a draw. Big thing tonight is to not lose the last 3 wickets for like 15 runs in 2 overs. Whatever we score, if we can just bat for an hour, force them to take the new ball and scrap, then that keeps the relative positive flow moving. If, we can get the deficit under a hundred runs, then that would represent a good finish in the circumstances. Much beyond that is probably far too optimistic against this attack and the new ball. But, for heaven's sake, just don't toss it away within the first 15 minutes please. No Stokes next time, another failure by Buttler... I'd consider a 5th test line up of Burns, Crawley, Malan, Root, Pope, Bairstow, Woakes, Wood, Broad Leach Anderson. Yes, that knocked the wind out of their sails 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 13 minutes ago, sidcow said: Yes, that knocked the wind out of their sails 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 7, 2022 Moderator Share Posted January 7, 2022 A bit of surprise batting from Bairstow and co. I dropped off just before they really got going, so it's nice to see we've managed to put together a couple of partnerships. With the weather report for tonight and tomorrow - this could be enough. Onwards to glory! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Playing well after the Ashes have gone is a bit like playing some decent football at 5-0 down. It's worthless. Garbage time as they call it in the NFL. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robby b Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 As things stand I think it's like playing some decent football at 3-0 down. But... faced with the fact that we could still easily lose 5-0. I don't think it's worthless because I'd much rather lose the series 3-0 than 5-0. At least it would be an improvement in the result, which will be there in the records forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robby b Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 I think we've managed to confuse Australia. They're thinking 'Hey! What is this? Six of their players into double figures in one innings?!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Shame for Bairstow to get out so meekly but a great knock, can’t see Anderson/Broad fancying facing this new ball in a couple of overs’ time so I suspect we’ll be bowling very soon again. As an aside, it’s only just dawned on me that BT Sport seem to have finally decided to put together their own commentary team instead of piggybacking off the local audio…..blatantly just watching it on a tv together somewhere in London but still less excruciating than having to listen to the gloating Aussies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robby b Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Oh ffs ! Still no 300 this tour ! I don't have BT Sport anymore, I'm following with the BBC livetext, like I do with football. Right, time to check the weather forecast again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 8, 2022 Moderator Share Posted January 8, 2022 If we assume we're going to lose a fair bit of tomorrow, if not all of it, to the weather - and we assume that Australia will want to win this series 5-0, then how long do they bat here and how many do they look to put on? If I were them, I'd have gone full T20 by now - a quick 150 or so will put them 300 ahead and in with a chance of bowling us out by the end of the day - slowly put another 250 on and they're giving up the win and the whitewash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robby b Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 6 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: If we assume we're going to lose a fair bit of tomorrow, if not all of it, to the weather - and we assume that Australia will want to win this series 5-0, then how long do they bat here and how many do they look to put on? If I were them, I'd have gone full T20 by now - a quick 150 or so will put them 300 ahead and in with a chance of bowling us out by the end of the day - slowly put another 250 on and they're giving up the win and the whitewash. I hope we lose a lot of tomorrow to rain but I don't know, the BBC forecast for tomorrow is only "light" rain. And hey, where's this thunderstorm that we're supposed to have today? That's what I want to know! (And where's Sidcow with his rain dance gifs?! Come on man!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 8, 2022 Moderator Share Posted January 8, 2022 Lead of 212, four wickets down and less than a day and a half to go. I can't see Australia wanting to bat after tea - but they don't seem to be in a mad rush to put runs on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Ollie Pope is keeping admirably to be fair to him. Not kept since that test in NZ. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Cummins with the cowardly declaration to avoid having to face a Leach hat trick ball there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Nicely done, Hameed and Crawley! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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