The ashes 2023

[Lionator]

Forecast is looking pretty grim for Sunday as well now unfortunately.

 

Manchester (Greater Manchester) weather - Met Office

[purpleronnie]

19 hours ago, Itsthejoeker said:

I still don’t understand why there’s even a “minimum overs” when play stops at 1830 regardless. 
 

the over rate has been absolutely atrocious this series. 

Declare now and hope for a miracle today.

[trabuch]

1 minute ago, Lionator said:

Forecast is looking pretty grim for Sunday as well now unfortunately.

 

Manchester (Greater Manchester) weather - Met Office

Oh bloody hell it does. Two sessions to bowl them out then. 

[leicsmac]

1 minute ago, trabuch said:

Oh bloody hell it does. Two sessions to bowl them out then. 

Seems to be that way, perhaps there might, just might, be 10-20 overs on Sunday we can use, but we can't assume that.

 

Declare immediately.

[foxfanazer]

Let JB get his 50 and then declare 

[kingkisnorbo]

Seen Cummins do nothing but wave his arms in the air for three days. 

[HighPeakFox]

Looks to me like we're making them bowl us out.

[foxfanazer]

1 minute ago, HighPeakFox said:

Looks to me like we're making them bowl us out.

Let's hope we don't regret it 

[kingkisnorbo]

Just get them back in. We've effectively got until about 6:30pm to save the Ashes. 

[HighPeakFox]

1 minute ago, foxfanazer said:

Let's hope we don't regret it 

I fancy it's an attempt to do their heads in entirely.

[foxfanazer]

That's it.

 

GERRUMIN!

[EastAnglianFox]

Surely we get no more than 20 overs in during Saturday and Sunday the way its looking.....seriously lads now get them in

[trabuch]

Boom.

[Sparrowhawk]

4 minutes ago, kingkisnorbo said:

Seen Cummins do nothing but wave his arms in the air for three days. 

Some of that will be setting the field, it's what captains do.

The rest will probably have been what they call 'bowling.'

[foxfanazer]

Bairstow to get a double ton. You heard it here first

[HighPeakFox]

Just now, foxfanazer said:

Bairstow to get a double ton. You heard it here first

Much money down ?

[EastAnglianFox]

With how protected Bairstow is they're probably happy to forget about the Ashes as long as Jonny can get his century and silence some doubters 

[deejdeej]

Getting to the stage where I want the aussies to get a wicket...

[Lako42]

16 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

I fancy it's an attempt to do their heads in entirely.

I suspect that they wont mind that when they retain the Ashes because there isn't enough play left. 

 

 

Just declare 

[HighPeakFox]

Just now, Lako42 said:

I suspect that they wont mind that when they retain the Ashes because there isn't enough play left. 

 

 

Just declare 

I think they might know what they're doing, old bean.

[Lako42]

Just now, HighPeakFox said:

I think they might know what they're doing, old bean.

Yep, no team in history has ever made a poor tactical decision, old bean. 

[foxile5]

Declaration after a Bairstow tonne would be showboating to the point that it would eliminate Australian egos.

[HighPeakFox]

1 minute ago, Lako42 said:

Yep, no team in history has ever made a poor tactical decision, old bean. 

I am sure you're always right. 

[Lako42]

1 minute ago, HighPeakFox said:

I am sure you're always right. 

Not at all, it's called having an opinion on a game of cricket and expressing it on a forum. 

 

Try to be a little less condescending 

[HighPeakFox]

Just now, Lako42 said:

Not at all, it's called having an opinion on a game of cricket and expressing it on a forum. 

 

Try to be a little less condescending 

You do know that I was (drum roll) also expressing an opinion, right?

 

Try to be a little less sensitive.