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Reply #1110 –
Cricket politics is truly toxic, listening to Taylor hang it on Boland as being too expensive and not taking enough wickets, at the time he had 10-0/49, but 21 of those runs come from outside or inside edges, four of them boundaries.

Taylor is all about getting his preferred back in the squad, probably Hazelwood, I usually like Taylor especially when he talks tactics, but I can't take him seriously at times.

In the meantime Cummins starts bowling short rubbish again, edges go to the boundary or fall into free space and Taylor states he is been unlucky.
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Reply #1111 –
A game we should have won. They better learn from their mistakes. My feeling is England will win the next game. They have the hope. They have confidence. They feel the next win coming. Our upper order is soft, and weak. Bowling today wasn’t exceptional. Field placement wasn’t great. Nothing was an indicator Australia would win. Poms did it easy in the end. Thank god Stokes didn’t get the final run. Wake up and work better. I like the English aggressive style to run chasing. I might back them in the next test.
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Reply #1112 –
Quote from: LP on
Cricket politics is truly toxic, listening to Taylor hang it on Boland as being too expensive and not taking enough wickets, at the time he had 10-0/49, but 21 of those runs come from outside or inside edges, four of them boundaries.

Taylor is all about getting his preferred back in the squad, probably Hazelwood, I usually like Taylor especially when he talks tactics, but I can't take him seriously at times.

Can't stand him myself - expresses an opinion (often biased) and then repeats it over and over and over and over ...

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Reply #1113 –
Quote from: Mantis on
A game we should have won. They better learn from their mistakes. My feeling is England will win the next game. They have the hope. They have confidence. They feel the next win coming. Our upper order is soft, and weak. Bowling today wasn’t exceptional. Field placement wasn’t great. Nothing was an indicator Australia would win. Poms did it easy in the end. Thank god Stokes didn’t get the final run. Wake up and work better. I like the English aggressive style to run chasing. I might back them in the next test.
They seem to have bowling attacks who can skittle our top order for low scores and then batsmen who can dig in.
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Reply #1114 –
The GOAT would have been handy but just not enough runs to defend.
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Reply #1115 –
There has never been an English team to come back from 2 - 0 deficit to win the ashes. I'm guessing this is where we're headed.  :'(

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Reply #1116 –
Quote from: Mantis on
A game we should have won. They better learn from their mistakes. My feeling is England will win the next game. They have the hope. They have confidence. They feel the next win coming. Our upper order is soft, and weak. Bowling today wasn’t exceptional. Field placement wasn’t great. Nothing was an indicator Australia would win. Poms did it easy in the end. Thank god Stokes didn’t get the final run. Wake up and work better. I like the English aggressive style to run chasing. I might back them in the next test.
Broad getting the winning runs would’ve been even worse!

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Reply #1117 –
Quote from: RiverRat on
Can't stand him myself - expresses an opinion (often biased) and then repeats it over and over and over and over ...
He is so tiresome to listen to - just prattles on for no reason.  Not every space needs to be filled!

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Reply #1118 –
Quote from: Gointocarlton on
They seem to have bowling attacks who can skittle our top order for low scores and then batsmen who can dig in.
Wood probably sparked England and Woakes added some stability with ball and bat. We got lucky Englands fielding has been substandard and they have dropped a lot of catches and that's been the difference but eventually they started hanging onto a few and the result went their way accordingly.
I'd drop Warner and open with Head but the boys club want to look after their mate and he will keep his place.

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Reply #1119 –
Re: Boland....suffers with Bazball as they are looking for an easier paced bowler to hit and all bat out of their crease  and treat him like a medium pacer. Also bowling bouncers every ball isn't his go, he builds pressure with accuracy and is looking to nick players off rather than have them caught on the boundary.
England producing flat one day tracks hasnt helped him either and Hazelwood will probably take his spot.

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Reply #1120 –
If be looking at Neser too, our tail is giving nothing with the bat and he is a strong all surfaces bowler.
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Reply #1121 –
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 on
Re: Boland....suffers with Bazball as they are looking for an easier paced bowler to hit and all bat out of their crease  and treat him like a medium pacer. Also bowling bouncers every ball isn't his go, he builds pressure with accuracy and is looking to nick players off rather than have them caught on the boundary.
England producing flat one day tracks hasnt helped him either and Hazelwood will probably take his spot.
@ElwoodBlues1 at one stage they had hit five(5) boundaries and a bunch of singles off Boland yesterday, four boundaries over or through slips, and one an inside edge to fine leg.

In the broadcast Taylor unloaded on Boland, in his last over Boland had Bairstow all over the place, Bairstow inside edged a ball just past leg stump for four, Taylor said Boland was too expensive and lacked control.

Cummins put himself on to replace Boland from that end the next over and Bairstow got pretty much the same inside edge onto the stumps, Taylor called it great bowling.

Rubbish commentary like that is straight out of an episode of The Twilight Zone, and it gets picked up by the media and parroted like it's a statement of fact!

I feel for Boland, he was probably our best bowler but just couldn't buy a wicket, the commentators labelled Boland as expensive but the other bowlers went for more runs off the middle of the bat! 20 of 49 runs Boland conceded came from completely uncontrolled edges.

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Reply #1122 –
Quote from: Professer E on
If be looking at Neser too, our tail is giving nothing with the bat and he is a strong all surfaces bowler.
I think Neser has been released to play with his county team, not sure for how long . I'd expect Hazlewood to play in the next two games.
Be interesting what they do with Green....

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Reply #1123 –
If we had openers that could survive more than one over maybe our bats could contribute a bit more, Marnus coming in a 1 for F all doesn't help. 

Not bowling well as a unit, just bowling as individuals.  Exceedingly unimpressed with Hazelwood, and he might have been unlucky but Boland needs wickets.

The bowling "plans" are very ordinary ATM.  I wonder if we need to chuck in a real wildcard like Morris to put the wind up 'em....maybe depends on the whether or not the ashes are live after next week
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Reply #1124 –
Quote from: Professer E on
If we had openers that could survive more than one over maybe our bats could contribute a bit more, Marnus coming in a 1 for F all doesn't help. 

Not bowling well as a unit, just bowling as individuals.  Exceedingly unimpressed with Hazelwood, and he might have been unlucky but Boland needs wickets.

The bowling "plans" are very ordinary ATM.  I wonder if we need to chuck in a real wildcard like Morris to put the wind up 'em....maybe depends on the whether or not the ashes are live after next week
Id like to see Neser play as he is a smart bowler who while lacking pace does more with the ball and is well suited to the English conditions and has been great at County level. I think Morris would have his moments but would also cop some bazball treatment and Im not a real fan of this every ball bouncer tactic which gets over done and now even the English tailenders are getting used to and you get players like Wood smashing our quicks around. Not sure after his whirlwind 20 odd in the first innings why we pounded him with bouncers again when runs were precious. Some of our bowling plans and field placings baffled me and also the actual personnel we used in important positions where we needed our best fielders.
The Fly slip bungle where Carey ran all the way to take the catch but just missed it and Boland had to only come in a short distance to catch the ball was farcical. Did Carey call him out? or did Boland not have confidence to take the catch?