There's a fine line between bravery & foolish audacity & stokes doesn't know that line....dec on a flat pitch is criminal especially when they cud hv easily added 50 runs more.... aus to score 550 on this pitch
Belter Goodrem 😅 absorbing day all over. It's summertime, the weather's fine, the Ashes are back, viva test cricket. Cheers both, keep up the great work as ever 🙌
Fantastic analysis fellas. What's Australia's best play now? Conjure their own version of bazball and start swinging at everything? Dig in and make a huge score? The pitch doesn't appear to be offering much so both would be possible. It's only been one day and this Ashes series already has us captivated. Fantastic stuff.
Here we are! Have to say I'd be ok with this total from 175-5 but Brook was unlucky, YJB left some out there, and it felt odd to declare rather than rattle as close to 450 as we could but... Wtf do I know!
As a Englishman I’m proud of the tempo and you can’t fault the entertainment. I don’t think the declaration was arrogant or disrespectful; but instead ballsy. I’m not sure I agreed with it, at the time and certainly in hindsight as there were runs left out there, but you have to stand by your decisions - if we’d (England) had picked up 1 or 2 wickets no one would have much to say other than fair play. If the tables were turned and we look back to the ‘90/‘00 era when Aus dominated world cricket and set the tone for test cricket; would you say they had an air of arrogance about them? Interesting to see if Aus continue being defensive when fielding, very unlike them. Game on lads. Cheers and enjoy Europe, I loved my time down in the Antipodes 🍺
I agree. Rain was forecast for Sunday and Monday about 90 mins before the Dec. I imagine, as England keep saying they'd rather lose than draw, understand that if Australia bats at normal pace, and there IS rain, its gonna be hard to avoid a draw. Anyway it's more interesting than not winning 17 out of 20.
Shocking day for my fantasy XII, duckett, brook and stokes no runs, Cummins and Boland hardly any wickets at a high cost. Moral of story is I'm available if West Indies, Pakistan or Sri Lanka need a national selector. Just call me
You may not like what England are doing. This type of cricket, will keep it alive. Quality in test cricket has dived in last 10 to 15 years. There are 5 test nations now, we need W Indies to be a power again
@jacobcarter3546 I batted and bowled, T20 has ruined test cricket. Michael Holding as said " it has damaged W Indies cricket. I'm old school, I remember when every test playing nation of the past had world class bowlers, mostly now they medium fast. How would today's bats go against the greats of the past, Akram, Marshall, Ambrose, I could keep going
Root to be completely honest has always been a batter who looks to score quickly, even before the Bazball era, root was scoring quickly, yes not the Kamikaze style of Hard hitting bondaries the way, Zak, Brooks, Stokes and Duckett do. He has always been a very entertaining test batter. conventional but aggressive with his singles and strike rotations.
Yeah but at least it's up and down. 2 wickets reared up out if nowhere and a few low ones. Trouble is there's been next to no rain for 5 weeks and 30 degrees for a week running into the game.
Absolute Flat Pitch.. Is this a good pitch? what is the point of test match. just play ODI or T20s. It can be redeemed only if it does something in 3rd & 4th innings.
Um, Eng, where it seams, has pace & bouce produces flat, dead, low bounce pitch to suit its "home advantage" of bazball. How is it any different to what India did ?
I’m sorry but the supposed England “take 20 wickets” strategy doesn’t make sense when they’ve prepared this pitch. If taking 20 wickets is the primary goal of bazball, then prepare a traditional green seamer and send the Aussies in. If you prepare a road, bat first, bat big and then use the time remaining to hopefully make the aussies follow on. You can’t prepare a wicket that is so bland as that one and then hope to run through a batting line up that contains the top 3 ranked test batsmen in the world. Geoff’s assessment was right - they’re taking the piss.
No, you don't have to bat last under Bazball. We've batted first under Bazball in Pakistan, and declared there too. Don't be silly, Geoff. Do a bit of research bud, and give the sidemouth a miss. It makes you look silly and petty. What you mean to say is that you predicted and assumed that we'd bat last, but you were totally wrong about it, because you misunderstood.
I said wed lose in 3 days... but with England batting 1st it will probably be before tea day 4! Warner lets the team down- i wish he would just drop the crap and stand down! He will NOT GET PAST 50 THIS SERIES! He wont aggregate 150 runs in this series... DROP HIM, even if another struggles atleast thevteam wont start each batting innings with a 100%certainty of being 1 down for bugger All
I have little reason to knock Bazzball and the entertainment it offers. But bowling is a different ballgame altogether. I'm not sure England has the attack to bowl Australia out 10 times in this series. Having said that: Come On England !!!
Yeah I mean I'd say overall it's an average tail. Robbo's a solid player. Broads not the 170 battery he used to be but usually good fir a quick 20, then Moeen and Bairstow.
There is no place for such arrogance in cricket. If that's what they think Test cricket is gonna become, they are wrong. I will be happier than the Aussies to see England being thrashed 0-5.
@@josephrelph5235 I don't think so. T20 cricket doesn't make any difference to the hardcore Test cricket followers. What England are doing is not entertainment, it's madness. Australia 20 years ago used to play aggressive and entertaining cricket. Aggression and entertainment don't mean smashing it every ball, declaring it on day 1 just to prove the point that you are so very different and then saying we don't care about losing !! They need to be punished and I am sure Australia will do that. This Bazball madness will be cremated and the ashes will be taken to Australia, by the end of July!
For the first day’s play
my summary of 11 words in 10 seconds
“Stokes won the toss and declared: We will bat and bowl.”
There's a fine line between bravery & foolish audacity & stokes doesn't know that line....dec on a flat pitch is criminal especially when they cud hv easily added 50 runs more.... aus to score 550 on this pitch
Don't worry we shall compensate in third innings.
We dnt rely on shamis n bumrahs for late order runs
Yeah because you're a better captain than Stokes, huh?
5 match series … the declaration was just saying ‘we do what we want’
All about respect
England is now highly likely to enjoy at least 2 days in the field, and be batted out of the game. Great way to show ; “We do what we want”
It's the way England play, not about arrogance or stupidity. They are making test cricket entertaining, win lose or draw
Belter Goodrem 😅 absorbing day all over. It's summertime, the weather's fine, the Ashes are back, viva test cricket. Cheers both, keep up the great work as ever 🙌
He was so proud of that
Fantastic analysis fellas.
What's Australia's best play now? Conjure their own version of bazball and start swinging at everything? Dig in and make a huge score? The pitch doesn't appear to be offering much so both would be possible. It's only been one day and this Ashes series already has us captivated. Fantastic stuff.
Interesting to get the Australian view. Cheers
Here we are! Have to say I'd be ok with this total from 175-5 but Brook was unlucky, YJB left some out there, and it felt odd to declare rather than rattle as close to 450 as we could but... Wtf do I know!
YJB was striking it with.. that sound. When you hear that YJB sound.. its a fun time!
Thanks Mates, the summer has started.
Will England regret declaring early?
ABSOLUTELY!
It gives everyone a break from relentless and tedious football!!
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As a Englishman I’m proud of the tempo and you can’t fault the entertainment. I don’t think the declaration was arrogant or disrespectful; but instead ballsy. I’m not sure I agreed with it, at the time and certainly in hindsight as there were runs left out there, but you have to stand by your decisions - if we’d (England) had picked up 1 or 2 wickets no one would have much to say other than fair play. If the tables were turned and we look back to the ‘90/‘00 era when Aus dominated world cricket and set the tone for test cricket; would you say they had an air of arrogance about them?
Interesting to see if Aus continue being defensive when fielding, very unlike them. Game on lads. Cheers and enjoy Europe, I loved my time down in the Antipodes 🍺
I agree. Rain was forecast for Sunday and Monday about 90 mins before the Dec. I imagine, as England keep saying they'd rather lose than draw, understand that if Australia bats at normal pace, and there IS rain, its gonna be hard to avoid a draw.
Anyway it's more interesting than not winning 17 out of 20.
@@realMaverickBuckley the rain can piss off on Sunday as I’m there Mon/Tues 😁🤙
Shocking day for my fantasy XII, duckett, brook and stokes no runs, Cummins and Boland hardly any wickets at a high cost. Moral of story is I'm available if West Indies, Pakistan or Sri Lanka need a national selector. Just call me
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 had me rolling
Commentators need to stop applying traditional test thinking to this England team. Stokes in reinventing the game.
Will laugh if Aus are chasing 150 to win on day 5, instead of 300 - Stokes brain melt
Doubt Australia will bat again after 1st innings.
It will interesting how Jimmy goes. It is a good pitch but i think Anderson will get something out of it. He always does
You may not like what England are doing. This type of cricket, will keep it alive. Quality in test cricket has dived in last 10 to 15 years. There are 5 test nations now, we need W Indies to be a power again
You must be a batsman. Because pitches like this are terrible for anyone who wants a genuine contest between bat and ball
@jacobcarter3546 I batted and bowled, T20 has ruined test cricket.
Michael Holding as said " it has damaged W Indies cricket. I'm old school, I remember when every test playing nation of the past had world class bowlers, mostly now they medium fast. How would today's bats go against the greats of the past, Akram, Marshall, Ambrose, I could keep going
Root to be completely honest has always been a batter who looks to score quickly, even before the Bazball era, root was scoring quickly, yes not the Kamikaze style of Hard hitting bondaries the way, Zak, Brooks, Stokes and Duckett do. He has always been a very entertaining test batter. conventional but aggressive with his singles and strike rotations.
the pitch could have a little more help for swing and seam; disappointing to see it go barrel straight right from the beginning
Yeah but at least it's up and down. 2 wickets reared up out if nowhere and a few low ones.
Trouble is there's been next to no rain for 5 weeks and 30 degrees for a week running into the game.
Flat pitch, Smith will be licking his lips
Absolute Flat Pitch.. Is this a good pitch? what is the point of test match. just play ODI or T20s.
It can be redeemed only if it does something in 3rd & 4th innings.
Its a pretty dead pitch. Interesting to see how it goes.
Um, Eng, where it seams, has pace & bouce produces flat, dead, low bounce pitch to suit its "home advantage" of bazball. How is it any different to what India did ?
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Anderson n ollie Robinson shud fire in morning session
Told you there will be a lot of fours, both to the left and right of hollies. 😐
I’m sorry but the supposed England “take 20 wickets” strategy doesn’t make sense when they’ve prepared this pitch.
If taking 20 wickets is the primary goal of bazball, then prepare a traditional green seamer and send the Aussies in. If you prepare a road, bat first, bat big and then use the time remaining to hopefully make the aussies follow on.
You can’t prepare a wicket that is so bland as that one and then hope to run through a batting line up that contains the top 3 ranked test batsmen in the world.
Geoff’s assessment was right - they’re taking the piss.
No, you don't have to bat last under Bazball. We've batted first under Bazball in Pakistan, and declared there too. Don't be silly, Geoff. Do a bit of research bud, and give the sidemouth a miss. It makes you look silly and petty. What you mean to say is that you predicted and assumed that we'd bat last, but you were totally wrong about it, because you misunderstood.
Pakistan had a very ordinary batting line up excluding babar azam. Here Warner smith labu head all can score big tons!
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I said wed lose in 3 days... but with England batting 1st it will probably be before tea day 4! Warner lets the team down- i wish he would just drop the crap and stand down! He will NOT GET PAST 50 THIS SERIES! He wont aggregate 150 runs in this series... DROP HIM, even if another struggles atleast thevteam wont start each batting innings with a 100%certainty of being 1 down for bugger All
Geoff would rather die than ever admit England played well lol.
Im with Geoff.
😂😂😂
Worried of our bowling..
Jimmy is the key tomorrow
@@Nothing-kr5hn little worried but Jimmy is ther
@@damonclarke3741 remember virat's n pujara's wickets in chennai.
Wish that happens
I have little reason to knock Bazzball and the entertainment it offers.
But bowling is a different ballgame altogether.
I'm not sure England has the attack to bowl Australia out 10 times in this series.
Having said that:
Come On England !!!
Broad is at 9, Robinson at 10. Not a ‘long tail’ imo
Yeah I mean I'd say overall it's an average tail. Robbo's a solid player. Broads not the 170 battery he used to be but usually good fir a quick 20, then Moeen and Bairstow.
I really dont want test cricket to become OneDay like. England must be punished for introducing this crap.
If the Series is going to be played on Flat Pitches , then Eng can't win.
There is no place for such arrogance in cricket. If that's what they think Test cricket is gonna become, they are wrong. I will be happier than the Aussies to see England being thrashed 0-5.
It's not arrogance mate, they are doing it for test cricket. Test needs to be entertaining. T20 has ruined the game
@@josephrelph5235 I don't think so. T20 cricket doesn't make any difference to the hardcore Test cricket followers. What England are doing is not entertainment, it's madness. Australia 20 years ago used to play aggressive and entertaining cricket. Aggression and entertainment don't mean smashing it every ball, declaring it on day 1 just to prove the point that you are so very different and then saying we don't care about losing !!
They need to be punished and I am sure Australia will do that. This Bazball madness will be cremated and the ashes will be taken to Australia, by the end of July!
England getting too cute for their own good, stupid declaration
Id be very surprised now if Australia bat twice. Australia have time to burn now.
Intermittent rain Sunday Monday.
Just checked , rain now at Edgebaston(Saturday) rain tomorrow and rain all day Tuesday.
I guess we know why they declared now.
Us back in Australia are allowed a Opinion even if you don’t like it,,,, how arrogant